lifetime achievement" 2017: World Fantasy Award "for lifetime achievement" 2022: Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour, for services to the humanities. Publications The Dragon Empress: Life and Times of Tz'u-hsi 1835–1908 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1972) Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1976) In a Dark Wood (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1977) Queen Victoria Sketch Book (Macmillan, 1979) The Crack in the Tea-Cup: Britain in the 20th Century (André Deutsch, 1979) Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981) The Impossible Day (Methuen, 1981) The Impossible Night (Methuen, 1981) The Impossible Bath (Methuen, 1982) The Impossible Rocket (Methuen, 1982) The Skating Party (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1982) The Wobbly Tooth (André Deutsch, 1984) Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1985) The Lost Father (Chatto & Windus, 1988) Into the Dangerous World (Chatto & Windus, 1989) Imagining a Democratic Culture (Charter 88, 1991) Indigo (Chatto & Windus, 1992) L'Atalante (British Film Institute, 1993) Mermaids in the Basement (Chatto & Windus, 1993) Richard Wentworth (Thames & Hudson, 1993) From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers (Chatto & Windus, 1994) Managing Monsters: Six Myths of Our Time (Reith Lectures) (Vintage, 1994) Wonder Tales: Six Stories of Enchantment (editor) (Chatto & Windus, 1994) Six Myths Of Our Time: Little Angels, Little Monsters, Beautiful Beasts, and More (New York: Vintage, 1995) Donkey Business Donkey Work: Magic and Metamorphoses in Contemporary Opera (University of Wales, 1996) The Inner Eye: Art beyond the Visible (National Touring Exhibitions, 1996) No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock (Chatto & Windus, 1998) The Leto Bundle (Chatto & Windus, 2001) Long listed for the Man Booker Prize. Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds (Oxford University Press, 2002) Murderers I Have Known and Other Stories (Chatto & Windus, 2002) Collected Poems by Sally Purcell – preface (Anvil, 2002) Signs & Wonders: Essays on Literature and Culture (Chatto & Windus, 2003) Phantasmagoria (Oxford University Press, 2006)Stranger Magic: Charmed States & The Arabian Nights (Chatto & Windus, 2011)Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale (Oxford University Press, 2014)Fly Away Home (Salt Publishing, 2015)Fairy Tale: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2018)Forms of Enchantment: Writings on Art and Artists (Thames & Hudson, 2018)Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir (Collins, 2021) References External links