New!

One Aladdin two lamps

Winterson, Jeanette, 1959-2025

Books, Manuscripts

Find it!
Remove One Aladdin two lamps from your current list Save One Aladdin two lamps to your current list

Total copies: 1

Available: 0

Availability by location

Place reservation

Holding details

Location	Collection	Call number	Status/Desc
RYDE	ADULT NON-FICTION	828.91 WINTArts & Literature	Onloan - Due: 14 Apr 2026

One of the most daring and inventive writers of our time" (Elle) weaves together memoir, manifesto, and a feminist reimagining of One Thousand and One Nights in this impassioned exploration of the power of reading. I can change the story because I am the story. A woman is filibustering for her life. Every night she tells a story. Every morning, she lives one more day. One Aladdin Two Lamps cracks open the legendary story of Shahrazad in One Thousand and One Nights to reveal new questions and answers we are still thinking about today. Who should we trust? Is love the most important thing in the world? Does it matter whether you are honest? What makes us happy? In her guise as Aladdin--the orphan who changes his world--Jeanette Winterson asks us to reread what we think we know. To look again. Especially to look again at how fiction works in our lives, giving us the courage to change our own narratives and alter endings we wish to subvert. As a young working-class woman, with no obvious future beyond factory work or marriage, Winterson realises through the power of books that she can read herself as fiction as well as a fact: "I can change the story because I am the story. An alluring blend of the ancient and the contemporary, One Aladdin Two Lamps ingeniously explores stories and their vital role in our lives. Weaving together fiction, magic, and memoir, Winterson's newest is a tribute to the age-old tradition of storytelling and a radical step into the future-an invitation to look closer at our stories, and thereby ourselves, to imagine the world anew.