Why Stories Matter

What if telling a story could keep you alive?In 'One Aladdin, Two Lamps', Jeanette Winterson cracks open the tale of Shahrazad from 'One Thousand and One Nights', who each night tells stories to postpone her execution, asking urgent questions about power, love and truth.Drawing on her own working-class beginnings and a lifetime of reading and writing, Winterson explores why story telling always mattered, and why, in uncertain times, it still does.A dizzying tale of survival and transformation from the beloved author of 'Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit' and 'Sexing the Cherry'.