From Ted Hughes to HG Wells: Jeanette Winterson picks the best books about the moon

Fifty years since Apollo 11 landed, the novelist shares her favourite books and poems about Earth's mysterious satellite

There she is, 239,000 miles from Earth. A lover's moon, a poet's moon, a painted moon, made of green cheese, home to the Man in the Moon, visible above the lights of Moscow and Manhattan, Tokyo and London. Hanging as the silent guardian of rivers and woods. Symbol of the mystery of the universe.

None of this has changed since Apollo 11 landed on that broken silent surface 50 years ago. The moon is just as familiar and just as remote. The mythical and magical moon, the lunatic moon that drives men mad, Earth's moon, lifting tides and raising sap.