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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 30 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Black and Female by Tsitsi Dangarembga
    Black and Female - by Tsitsi Dangarembga

    £9.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571373192 | ISBN 10: 0571373194

    A short, staggering collection of essays from ‘one of the most remarkable people the Booker Prize has ever celebrated’ (New Statesman).   ‘A woman’s defiant fight to write.‘ Observer  Being categorised as black and female ... more

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  • Cover image of book Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
    Three Women - by Lisa Taddeo

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781526611642 | ISBN 10: 1526611643

    All Lina wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn't touch her?  All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a relationship with her teacher and then in court, a hated ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sontag: Her Life by Benjamin Moser
    Sontag: Her Life - by Benjamin Moser

    £18.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780141977898 | ISBN 10: 0141977892

    WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY  Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by the SPECTATOR, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN and FINANCIAL TIMES   The definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century's most towering figures: her ... more

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  • Cover image of book Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith
    Feel Free: Essays - by Zadie Smith

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780241971024 | ISBN 10: 0241971020

    The one and only Zadie Smith, prize-winning, bestselling author of Swing Time and White Teeth, is back with a second unmissable collection of essays   No subject is too fringe or too mainstream for the unstoppable Zadie Smith. From social media to ... more

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  • Cover image of book In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein by Fiona Sampson
    In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein - by Fiona Sampson

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781781255292 | ISBN 10: 1781255296

    Mary Shelley was brought up by her father in a house filled with radical thinkers, poets, philosophers and writers of the day. Aged sixteen, she eloped with Percy Bysshe Shelley, embarking on a relationship that was lived on the move across Britain a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Secret Sisterhood: The Hidden Friendships of Austen, Bronte, Eliot and Woolf by Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney
    Secret Sisterhood: The Hidden Friendships of Austen, Bronte, Eliot and Woolf - by Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781781317860 | ISBN 10: 1781317860

    In their first book together, Midorikawa and Sweeney resurrect four literary collaborations, which were sometimes illicit, scandalous and volatile; sometimes supportive, radical or inspiring; but always, until now, tantalisingly consigned to the shad ... more

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  • Cover image of book After Kathy Acker: A Biography by Chris Kraus
    After Kathy Acker: A Biography - by Chris Kraus

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780141986654 | ISBN 10: 0141986654

    Rich girl, street punk, lost girl and icon ... scholar, stripper, victim and media-whore: The late Kathy Acker's legend and writings are wrapped in mythologies, created mostly by Acker herself. The media storm that surrounded Kathy Acker's books was ... more

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  • Cover image of book Frantumaglia: An Author
    Frantumaglia: An Author's Journey Told Through Letters, Interviews, and Occasional Writings - by Elena Ferrante

    £16.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781609452926 | ISBN 10: 1609452925

    From the author of My Brilliant Friend.   This book invites readers into Elena Ferrante’s workshop. It offers a glimpse into the drawers of her writing desk, those drawers from which emerged her three early standalone novels and the four ins ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Life, My Body by Marge Piercy
    My Life, My Body - by Marge Piercy

    £11.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781629631059 | ISBN 10: 1629631051

    In a candid and intimate new collection of essays, poems, memoirs, reviews, rants, and railleries, Piercy discusses her own development as a working-class feminist, the highs and lows of TV culture, the ego-dances of a writer's life, the homeless and ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
    The Faraway Nearby - by Rebecca Solnit

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781847085122 | ISBN 10: 1847085121

    Gifts come in many guises.   One summer, Rebecca Solnit was bequeathed three boxes of ripening apricots, which lay, mountainous, on her bedroom floor - a windfall, a riddle, an emergency to be dealt with. The fruit came from a neglected tree ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shaking a Leg: Collected Journalism and Writings by Angela Carter
    Shaking a Leg: Collected Journalism and Writings - by Angela Carter

    £12.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780099583073 | ISBN 10: 0099583070

    Forthright, funny, unpredictable: Carter is capable of illuminating any topic with the brilliance of her prose.   With a new introduction by Rachel Cooke.   Reading Shaking a Leg is like spending time with the funniest, wisest friend yo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Moranthology by Caitlin Moran
    Moranthology - by Caitlin Moran

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780091940898 | ISBN 10: 0091940893

    Possibly the only drawback about the bestselling How To Be A Woman was that its author, Caitlin Moran, was limited to pretty much one subject: being a woman.   Moranthology is proof that Caitlin can actually be ‘quite chatty’ about many other thing ... more

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  • Cover image of book Why be Happy When You Could be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
    Why be Happy When You Could be Normal? - by Jeanette Winterson

    £12.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099556091 | ISBN 10: 009955609x

    The shocking, heart-breaking - and often very funny - true story behind Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.   In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published. It tells the story of a young girl adopted b ... more

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  • Cover image of book And The Bridge Is Love by Faye Moskowitz
    And The Bridge Is Love - by Faye Moskowitz

    £11.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781558617704 | ISBN 10: 1558617701

    FP brings back into print a literary gem.   Personal essays by a great Jewish American writer. "Bridges the gap between humor and despair, past and present, Jew and gentile, to reveal its author’s simple humanity, deeply rooted in her u ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Animal Life by Maggie Gee
    My Animal Life - by Maggie Gee

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781846590900 | ISBN 10: 1846590906

    Our lives are so short, a breath, half a breath,  And each of us has a journey to make...   Maggie Gee's journey started in a small family in post-war Britain, when love, ambition and good behaviour looked very different.  At ... more

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  • Cover image of book Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008 by Nadine Gordimer
    Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008 - by Nadine Gordimer

    £12.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781408800966 | ISBN 10: 1408800969

    Nadine Gordimer’s life reflects the true spirit of the writer as moral activist, political visionary and literary icon. Telling Times collects together all her non-fiction for the first time, spanning more than half a century, from the twilight of co ... more

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  • Cover image of book Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays by Zadie Smith
    Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays - by Zadie Smith

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780141019468 | ISBN 10: 0141019468

    How did George Eliot's love life affect her prose? Why did Kafka write at three in the morning? In what ways is Barack Obama like Eliza Doolittle? Can you be over-dressed for the Oscars? What is Italian Feminism? If Roland Barthes killed the Author, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Selected Letters by Charlotte Brontë - edited by Margaret Smith and Janet Gezari
    Selected Letters - by Charlotte Brontë - edited by Margaret Smith and Janet Gezari

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780199576968 | ISBN 10: 0199576963

    Charlotte Brontë is one of the most popular English novelists, and her letters offer a fascinating insight into her life as a writer, her personal life, and the society in which she lived.   The only available edition, this selection is derived fr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Constructing Incest Stories: Black Women
    Constructing Incest Stories: Black Women's Voices in Fact and Fiction - by Dorothy L. Hurley and E. Anthony Hurley

    £21.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781592217113 | ISBN 10: 1592217117

    Constructing Incest Stories: Black Women’s Voices in Fact and Fiction provides a highly original perspective on incest by an illuminating fusion of social science research and literary analysis.   The analysis of the process of the constructi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rosa Luxemburg: Selected Political and Literary Writings by Rosa Luxemburg, edited by Mike Jones
    Rosa Luxemburg: Selected Political and Literary Writings - by Rosa Luxemburg, edited by Mike Jones

    £14.95   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780850366938 | ISBN 10: 0850366933

    Rosa Luxemburg, perhaps the most remarkable and original figure among German Marxist thinkers and activists, was one of the earliest victims of fascism, murdered in Berlin, in 1919. This volume presents selected political essays, writings previously ... more

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  • Cover image of book On Cats by Doris Lessing
    On Cats - by Doris Lessing

    £6.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780007285518 | ISBN 10: 0007285515

    The cats that have shared Doris Lessing's life have characters as vivid as any person: ragbag, Rufus, beautiful Charles, the unequaled El Magnifico. First intrigued by the wild creatures on the African farm where she grew up, Lessing's fascination wi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Selected Writings by Mai Ghoussoub
    Selected Writings - by Mai Ghoussoub

    £12.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780863566424 | ISBN 10: 0863566421

    Mai Ghoussoub was a woman who lived with one foot in the East and one in the West, who embodied cosmopolitanism, and who was deeply committed to freedom of expression. Drawing on her own extraordinary experiences as well as political and histori ... more

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  • Cover image of book Curious Pursuits: Occasional Writing by Margaret Atwood
    Curious Pursuits: Occasional Writing - by Margaret Atwood

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781844081509 | ISBN 10: 1844081508

    '"Curious" describes both my habitual state of mind - a less kind word would be "nosy" - as well as the subject matter of some of these writings. Though perhaps "curious" as a word carries too light a weight: my curiosities are (I hope) not idle ones ... more

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  • Cover image of book Giving Up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel
    Giving Up the Ghost - by Hilary Mantel

    £8.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780007142729 | ISBN 10: 0007142722

    From one of Britain's finest authors, a wry, shocking and beautifully-written memoir of childhood, ghosts (real and metaphorical), illness and family.   Giving up the Ghost is award-winning novelist Hilary Mantel's uniquely unusual five-part ... more

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  • Cover image of book Opening the Gates; An Anthology of Arab Feminist Writing by Margot Badran & Miriam Cooke
    Opening the Gates; An Anthology of Arab Feminist Writing - by Margot Badran & Miriam Cooke

    £23.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780253217035 | ISBN 10: 0253217032

    Themes that figure in the new edition include sexuality and the body, war and violence, relationships, breaking through glass ceilings, cyber networking, migration, and the expanded use of Islamic discourse by Arab women.  "An impressive coll ... more

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  • Cover image of book Demand My Writing: Joanna Russ, Feminism, Science Fiction by Jean Cortiel
    Demand My Writing: Joanna Russ, Feminism, Science Fiction - by Jean Cortiel

    £20.00   paperback   (1999) - ISBN 13: 9780853236245 | ISBN 10: 0853236240

    In this major study of the work of Joanna Russ, Jeanne Cortiel gives a clear introduction to the major feminist issues relevant to Russ’s work and assesses its development. The book will be especially valuable for students of SF and feminist SF, espe ... more

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  • Cover image of book Women Voice Men: Gender in European Culture by Maya Slater (editor)
    Women Voice Men: Gender in European Culture - by Maya Slater (editor)

    £16.00   paperback   (1997) - ISBN 13: 9781871516937 | ISBN 10: 1871516935

    A selection of lively, scholarly pieces that presents a view of men given by women. Some of the contributors write directly about men and how men see women; others view men at a distance, as a woman looking at men through the eyes of a female writer, ... more

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  • Cover image of book From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers by Marina Warner
    From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers - by Marina Warner

    £25.00   paperback   (1995) - ISBN 13: 9780099479512 | ISBN 10: 0099479516

    This brilliant and timely study looks beyond the Freudian interpretation of fairy tales, to the tellers of the tales, and to the social and cutural contexts in which the tales are told and re-told through the centuries, from the ancient sibyls to the ... more

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  • Cover image of book From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers by Marina Warner
    From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers - by Marina Warner

    £25.00   paperback   (0000) - ISBN 13: 9781847080509 | ISBN 10: 1847080502

    This brilliant and timely study looks beyond the Freudian interpretation of fairy tales, to the tellers of the tales, and to the social and cutural contexts in which the tales are told and re-told through the centuries, from the ancient sibyls to the ... more

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