The Time Traveler's Wife

Audrey Niffenegger is a visual artist and writer who lives mostly in Chicago and occasionally in London. She has published six books, including the novels The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry. She helped to found the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts. Her art has been exhibited by Printworks Gallery in Chicago since 1986. She is a Professor in the Fiction Department of Columbia College. Her recent projects include a ballet, Raven Girl, in collaboration with Wayne McGregor for the Royal Opera House Ballet.

A SPECIAL COLLECTOR'S EDITION OF ONE OF THE GREAT MODERN LOVE STORIES 
 
Henry and Clare meet, fall in love, and build a life together. Just not in that order. 
 
Henry is a dashing, adventurous librarian who travels helplessly through time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity from his own past and future. Clare is an artist whose life moves forwards like the rest of us, one day to the next. 
 
As they try to anchor their passionate affair in the here and now, Henry’s constant disappearances and sudden arrivals leave Clare realising there can be nothing normal about their relationship. But what they build instead is one of the most intensely moving and enduring love stories of our time. 
 
PRAISE FOR The Time Traveler's Wife, the international bestselling novel of a time-altering love. 
 
‘An old-fashioned love story. A terrific book’ Observer 
‘An elegy to love and loss’ Independent 
‘One of those books that makes you want to eat it up from start to finish’ Guardian 
‘Moving but worth the heartbreak’ Daily Express 
‘Truly original’ Vogue 
‘Magical - memorable...poignant’ Mail on Sunday

Her Fearful Symmetry

Dive into the depraved, delectable depths of weird fiction with nine books by nine pioneering female authors.

'A ghostly love story and a lovely ghost story' - Tatler 
 
When Elspeth Noblin dies she leaves her beautiful flat overlooking Highgate Cemetery to her twin nieces, Julia and Valentina. But until the solicitor's letter falls through the door of their suburban American home, neither twin knew their aunt existed. 
 
As Julia and Valentina begin to unravel their aunt's the secrets, aided by her msysterious lover, it becomes clear that she might not be quite ready to leave the flat, even after death. 
 
The Vintage Classics Weird Girls series: Dive into the depraved, delectable depths of weird fiction with nine books by nine pioneering female authors. Bold, disruptive, chilling and enchanting, these tales of the weird are strange enough to get lost in.

What is really satisfying about this novel, like The Time Traveler's Wife, is its depiction of relationships: the process of grief, the transforming power of love

An original, outrageous, and thoroughly enjoyable ghost story

There may be ghosts, but it's the human stories that glitter

A ghostly love story and a lovely ghost story

The novel's representation of London rings completely true... The universe of Her Fearful Symmetry is solid and familiar...

It's been worth the wait... Niffenegger's books are fabulously left field, striking an unlikely balance between romance and fantasy. A brilliantly beautiful book

There's no mistaking Niffenegger's originality or her own commitment to her imagined world. She's a real rarity: at once a good writer and a genuine obsessive

[Niffenegger] has a knack for taking the romantic into the realm of creepiness, and she constructs a taut mystery around the secret to be found in Elspeth's diaries...It's no small achievement that the revelations are both organic and completely unexpected

Many readers will adore this sort of plot

Delicious prose...she lays out her story in delectable, textual pictures...a powerful, beautifully written ghost story

The depiction of Highgate Cemetery and its inhabitants is haunting...and meticulously researched

A multi-layered, absorbingly nuanced love story... Beautifully constructed and unfurling with exquisite tragedy, Niffenegger proves The Time Traveler's Wife was not a one-off

Niffenegger's story is written with a lightness of touch and with a great eye for the oddities of human behaviour

Niffenegger rarely reverts to stereotypes when creating her characters...they are always interesting... Niffenegger's writing...becomes beautifully simple and poignant...an emotional depth rarely found in ghost stories

A ghost story which is as much about the living as it is the dead

Niffenegger's quirky characters and her depiction of tourist-fantasy London - with its Tube rides, shopping trips in Knightsbridge and cucumber sandwiches for tea - it's charming and inventive

There's enough off-beat characterisation to keep Niffeneger safely on the bestsellers list

A powerful and beautiful exploration of the relationships between the living and the dead... Niffenegger's writing has lost none of its emotional power

Stop Press. This is it. A hot contender for Book of the Year

Reminiscent of the expert plotting of The Time Traveler's Wife... Those who favour tales of ghosts, strange twins and dark love affairs will find that this is their book

Her Fearful Symmetry glows all over with an addictive, crowd-pleasing charm... A witty ghost story

A bad thing about dying is that I'm starting to feel as though I'm being erased. 
 
When Elspeth Noblin dies she leaves her beautiful flat overlooking Highgate Cemetery to her twin nieces, Julia and Valentina Poole, on the condition that their mother is never allowed to cross the threshold. But until the solicitor's letter falls through the door of their suburban American home, either Julia nor Valentina knew their aunt existed. 
 
The twins hope that in London their own, separate, lives can finally begin but they have no idea that they've been summoned into a tangle of fraying lives, from the obsessive-compulsive crossword setter who lives above them to their aunt's mysterious and elusive lover who lives below them and works in the cemetery itself. 
 
As the twins unravel the secrets of their aunt, who doesn't seem quite ready to leave her flat, even after death, Niffenegger weaves together a delicious and deadly ghost story about love, loss and identity. 
 
'A ghostly love story and a lovely ghost story' - Tatler 
 
The Vintage Classics Weird Girls series: Dive into the depraved, delectable depths of weird fiction with nine books by nine pioneering female authors. Bold, disruptive, chilling and enchanting, these tales of the weird are strange enough to get lost in.

A Collection of Ghost Stories

Ghostly

Audrey Niffenegger, international bestselling author of The Time Traveler's Wife, invites you to creep through haunted houses and commune with the undead in this anthology of all things ghostly

Here lies the magic of the genre; it allows you to dip your toe into an adrenaline-pumping world, while in the safety of your own armchair... It's Niffenegger's eclectic edit of stories from the past 200 years that really left us reeling

There are shivers aplenty in this collection of ghostly tales by a variety of authors, chosen by Niffenegger, from the eerie and uncanny to the delightfully odd. Each story, creepy as it is, has a sense of loss and curtailment at its heart

The action takes place in a classic creepy house - a motif that also appears in Audrey Niffenegger's short story "Secret Life With Cats", a standout in Ghostly, an anthology of tales intended to cause shudders

Niffenegger is a prolific graphic novelist and her monochrome illustrations… really bring the stories to life

A beautiful hardback, the sort of thing you’ll keep for years. Lucky really, as you’ll probably only be able to manage a couple of stories per year. For example, Edith Wharton’s 1931 entry, The Pomegranate Seed, is heart-stopping

Audrey Niffenegger, bestselling author of The Time Traveler's Wife, invites you to creep through haunted houses and commune with the undead in this anthology of all things ghostly. 
 
 
Haunted houses, spectral chills, and of course, the odd cat. . . 
 
In this volume, Audrey Niffenegger has brought together her selection of the very creepiest, weirdest and wittiest ghost stories around. 
 
Scare yourself silly with old favourites by Edgar Allan Poe and M. R. James. Entertain the unnerving with tales from Neil Gaiman, Kelly Link and Audrey Niffenegger herself. And as bedtime nears, allay your fears with funny new writing from Amy Giacalone and the classic wit of Saki. 
 
 
When the nights draw in and the fire burns low, enjoy the eeriness, the dread and the comedy of all things ghostly.

Bizarre Romance

In a mixture of comic strips and illustrated prose, newlyweds Audrey Niffenegger and Eddie Campbell team up to explore the bizarre nature of romance and relationships.

A captivating set of short stories… most appealing… meanders down some quirky byways, full of thwarted fairies, unusual fantasy realms and plenty of cats.

In Bizarre Romance art and love have combined in person and on the page… Niffenegger is very much a child of Angela Carter. But there’s a lightness to Niffenegger’s writing that rubs off here on her husband… in its combination of pictures and words it has an elusive thrill to it… beautiful.

From gentle whimsy, through to magical realism and disturbing horror, Niffenegger and Campbell shepherd us through a series of off-kilter settings in which the ordinary rubs up against the surreal… Campbell’s images perfectly capture the juxtaposition of the everyday with the extraordinary.

I would recommend taking your time with Bizarre Romance, give yourself the chance to luxuriate in each piece in turn. Nifenegger’s prose is straightforward and magical - just the right mix of the two, but knowing this is a collaborative work between a married couple brings an extra edge of magic to the stories. They are far from schmaltzy, but rather bittersweet, pragmatic and tender. Both creators have a playful but thorough grasp of the potential of the comic book form.

Audrey Niffenegger (Author) Audrey Niffenegger is a visual artist and writer who lives mostly in Chicago and occasionally in London. She has published six books, including the novels The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry. She helped to found the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts. Her art has been exhibited by Printworks Gallery in Chicago since 1986. She is a Professor in the Fiction Department of Columbia College. Her recent projects include a ballet, Raven Girl, in collaboration with Wayne McGregor for the Royal Opera House Ballet. Eddie Campbell (Author) Eddie Campbell is a Scottish comics artist, probably best known as the illustrator and publisher of From Hell (written by Alan Moore). Campbell is also the creator of the semi-autobiographical Alec stories collected in Alec: The Years Have Pants, and Bacchus (aka Deadface), a wry adventure series about the few Greek gods who have survived to the present day.

Internationally bestselling author Audrey Niffenegger and her husband, graphic artist Eddie Campbell, collaborate on this quirky, irreverent collection that celebrates and satirises love of all kinds. With thirteen different vignettes about love, loss, fairies, misbehaviour, regret, wanton wrongheadedness, cats, supernatural exterminators, spies, ghosts, more cats, more fairies, and a handful of ex-boyfriends, Bizarre Romance runs the gamut when it comes to relationships. It explores the good, the bad, the ugly and the just plain weird – with Niffenegger's sharp, imaginative prose and Campbell's diverse comic styles, always with a sense of humour and cosmic justice.

The Art of Audrey Niffenegger

Awake in the Dream World

A magnificent large-format book collecting all Audrey Niffenegger’s paintings and drawings

Spare, fable-like narratives featuring betrayals and metamorphoses, with touches of Aubrey Beardsley and Egon Schiele… As well as strange self-portraits and recent drawings on the themes of birth, death and books.

Otherworldly, provocative, and strange, Audrey Niffenegger’s art is a vital a part of her vision as her bestselling novels The Time Traveler’s Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry. Awake in the Dream World is a mid-career retrospective of Nifffenegger’s work, reflecting her talent for cultivating a captivating narrative exclusively through pictures and her own confrontations with life, mortality, and magic. 
 
Niffenegger's fantastical body of work is reminiscent of renowned pen and ink predecessors such as Edward Gorey, Aubrey Beardsley, Egon Schiele, Edward Dulac, and Horst Janssen, but with a brutally honest and unapologetically strange female perspective that touches upon the universal trials of life - death and decay, love, jealousy, redemption, and the inevitability of change. Her works on paper, lithographs, and aquatints reflect the often surreal narratives of her artist's books. Through self-portraiture, Niffenegger reveals her own self-assurance and whimsy alongside anxiety and loneliness, probing darker corners of the human heart and mind, often exploring the hopeless struggle with what Shakespeare called 'this bloody tyrant, Time'. 
 
Essays by Audrey Niffenegger, National Museum of Women in the Arts Curator of Book Arts Krystyna Wasserman, and Art Institute of Chicago Curator and School of the Art Institute Professor Mark Pascale explore the artist's influences and work. 
 
Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts

The Night Bookmobile

A haunting tale both of transcendence and the passion for books which features the evocative full-colour, pen-and-ink work of one of the world's most beloved storytellers.

The New York Times bestselling author of The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry, Audrey Niffenegger, has crafted her first graphic novel after the success of her critically acclaimed novels-in-pictures The Three Incestuous Sisters and The Adventuress. First serialised as a weekly column the Guardian, The Night Bookmobile tells the story of a wistful woman who one night encounters a mysterious disappearing library on wheels which includes every book she has ever read. In seeing her history and her most intimate self in this library, she embarks on a search for the bookmobile. But over time, her search turns into an obsession as she longs to be reunited with her own collection and her memories. 
The Night Bookmobile is a haunting tale both of transcendence and the passion for books which features the evocative full-colour, pen-and-ink work of one of the world's most beloved storytellers.

Audrey Niffenegger's two novels, The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry, have made her one of the most popular writers in the world. She is also the author of two extraordinary novels-in-pictures, The Three Incestuous Sisters and The Adventuress. Now, with The Night Bookmobile, she has written her first graphic novel. 
 
First serialised in the Guardian, The Night Bookmobile tells the story of a young woman who one night encounters a mysterious disappearing mobile library that happens to stock every book she has ever read. Seeing her history and her most intimate self in this library, she embarks on a search for the bookmobile. Over time, her search turns into an obsession as she longs to be reunited with her own collection and her memories.

Audrey Niffenegger

A graceful, complicated, satisfying metafiction, it takes on the biggest issues of our times without a flinch

A wonderfully enigmatic reading experience

This is a marvel of a book - ambitious, melancholy and beautifully written. An intricate and unexpected tale about time travel, but that also captures the future as well as the now, in all its chaos and wonder, beauty and fear; it left me reeling with questions and answers, but also filled me with heartache and hope. Sometimes a novel is more than a book, and just like the original, this is one of those times. It’s a journey. An adventure. Something I won’t stop thinking about. Henry and Clare never left me, and I know Alba, Zach and Oliver won’t, either. (Or Beck, or Isadora!) What an extraordinary feat of storytelling

Can a novel be both intimate and epic? Utopian and dystopian? Old fashioned in the best way and utterly contemporary? In the case of Audrey Niffenegger’s Life Out of Order, the answer is yes, yes, yes. She engages with the large questions of our anthropocene era yet her characters, tumbling through time, are so real, I’m hoping they’ll appear in my kitchen. I can’t stop thinking about this marvellous novel

Life Out of Order is fiction with a pulse - urgent, atmospheric, unforgettable. Exploring how we persist when the present is never guaranteed, Niffenegger offers fans a deeper, soaring continuation of her iconic world. It's a fiercely imaginative feat of world-building, a rare sequel that doesn't just revisit the past, it redefines our understanding of what it means to belong to time itself

The Time Traveler's Wife was a lovely orchid, but Life Out of Order is a whole riotous garden of wildflowers. The ending of Life Out of Order made me cry, for page after page. A love story that understands that time is made out of love and loss, this novel stuck in my mind for days after I finished reading. This is a book for anyone who feels as though time is not on their side and wishes they could make it otherwise

Two great loves. A world in chaos. And a life that never lands in order. Discover the long-awaited sequel to the bestselling phenomenon, The Time Traveler’s Wife. 
 
Alba DeTamble is a time traveler, slipping unpredictably through decades like her father before her. But the hardest thing she carries isn’t the burden of futures she can’t understand, or pasts she cannot change – it’s a secret: she is in love with two different people. 
 
Each of them offers a different life. Zach lives in the present and can’t follow her when she disappears. Oliver can travel through time, just like she can. 
 
As Alba careens from time to time, moving from the riot-torn Chicago streets of her present to the eerie, timeless Yellow House, and into the digital corridors of the Museum of Lost Souls and a flooded future London, she must face a question she can no longer avoid: how is it possible to love, and live a meaningful life, in an increasingly troubled, fractured world? 
 
Intimate and expansive, Life Out of Order is a kaleidoscopic story of love, resilience and hope when time is running out.

Audrey Niffenegger

Praise for Life Out of Order

A graceful, complicated, satisfying metafiction, it takes on the biggest issues of our times without a flinch

A wonderfully enigmatic reading experience

This is a marvel of a book - ambitious, melancholy and beautifully written. An intricate and unexpected tale about time travel, but that also captures the future as well as the now, in all its chaos and wonde ...

A graceful, complicated, satisfying metafiction, it takes on the biggest issues of our times without a flinch

A wonderfully enigmatic reading experience

This is a marvel of a book - ambitious, melancholy and beautifully written. An intricate and unexpected tale about time travel, but that also captures the future as well as the now, in all its chaos and wonde ...

A graceful, complicated, satisfying metafiction, it takes on the biggest issues of our times without a flinch

A wonderfully enigmatic reading experience

This is a marvel of a book - ambitious, melancholy and beautifully written. An intricate and unexpected tale about time travel, but that also captures the future as well as the now, in all its chaos and wonde ...

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