Presenting a selection of her writing, Angela Carter covers more than a decade of her thought, which ranges over a diversity of subjects giving a measure of the focus of her interests.

Features: a person whose breadth of interest ranges from food to feminism to science fiction, and everything in between; a person with an entirely unpredictable train of thought but whose exuberance, knowledge and insight sweeps you along on.

From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves, the author has created a collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories.

This is the comic tale of two theatrical families, the Hazards and the Chances. The novel is populated with as many sets of twins, and mistaken identities as any Shakespeare comedy, and celebrates the magic of over a century of show business.

Our most beloved fairy tales retold for a modern audience by Angela Carter, including 'Cinderella', 'Little Red Riding Hood' and 'Sleeping Beauty'.

Angela Carter's 'The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman' was first published in 1972, and is a magical, satirical adventure.

Melanie walks in the midnight garden, wearing her mother's wedding dress. Omens of disaster transport her from rural comfort to London, to the Magic Toyshop, the dancing Finn and the mysterious ruins of the pleasure garden.

It's 1899 and the world crackles with possibilities. Swinging above them all is a showbiz sensation; a fierce, vulgar, pant-droppingly sexy trapeze artist called Fevvers. This story charts her unlikely love affair with Walser, a world-weary journalist on a mission to expose her as a fake.

Angela Carter's pick of Mother Goose's feathers. A collection of fairy tales for children and adults alike.

Sexuality is power' - so says the Marquis de Sade, philosopher and pornographer extraordinaire. His virtuous Justine keeps to the rules laid down by men, her reward rape and humiliation; his Juliette, Justine's triumphantly monstrous antithesis, viciously exploits her sexuality. In a world where all tenderness is false, all beds are minefields.
But now Sade has met his match.
With invention and genius, Angela Carter takes on these outrageous figments of his extreme imagination, and transforms them into symbols of our time - the Hollywood sex goddesses, mothers and daughters,...