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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 88 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book The Witches of Vardo by Anya Bergman
    The Witches of Vardo - by Anya Bergman

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781786581952 | ISBN 10: 1786581957

    They will have justice. They will show their power. They will not burn.   'Three women's fight for survival in a time of madness' Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Mercies   Norway, 1662. A dangerous time to be a woman, when even dancing ... more

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  • Cover image of book After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz
    After Sappho - by Selby Wynn Schwartz

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781913111397 | ISBN 10: 1913111393

    LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022  “What did we want? To begin with, we wanted what half the population had got by just being born.”   It's 1895. Amid laundry and bruises, Rina Pierangeli Faccio gives birth to the child of the man who ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes
    Stone Blind - by Natalie Haynes

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529061512 | ISBN 10: 1529061512

    Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023.  In Stone Blind, the instant Sunday Times bestseller, Natalie Haynes brings the infamous Medusa to life as you have never seen her before.  'Witty, gripping, ruthless' – Margaret Atwood via ... more

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  • Cover image of book Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi
    Diary of a Void - by Emi Yagi

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529114812 | ISBN 10: 1529114810

    A hilarious, feminist debut novel from a new star of Japanese fiction.   'One of the most intriguing new novels of the summer.' Independent   For the sake of women everywhere, Ms Shibata is going to pull off the mother of all deceptions...   ... more

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  • Cover image of book Now She is Witch by Kirsty Logan
    Now She is Witch - by Kirsty Logan

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529116113 | ISBN 10: 1529116112

    She dug her mother's grave in the poison garden so it would stay hidden...  From the snowy winter woods to the bright midnight sun; from lost and powerless to finding your path, Now She is Witch conjures a world of violence and beauty - a world w ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Seawomen by Chloe Timms
    The Seawomen - by Chloe Timms

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529369601 | ISBN 10: 1529369606

    ‘An allegorical love story with echoes of fairytales’ KATE SAWYER ‘A gripping tale of love and bravery’ SOPHIE WARD ‘Unsettling and lushly written’ KIRSTY LOGAN ‘A powerful, enchanting novel’ ANNA BAILEY ‘Mesmerising and moving ... more

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  • Cover image of book Cat Brushing by Jane Campbell
    Cat Brushing - by Jane Campbell

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529421699 | ISBN 10: 1529421691

    "Sensual, spiky, tender and utterly original"(Pandora Sykes) "A fierce and fascinating debut"(Lily King) I was told of an older woman who was asked by her granddaughter, 'Granny, when was the happiest time of your life?''I don't know,' she repl ... more

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  • Cover image of book Elektra by Jennifer Saint
    Elektra - by Jennifer Saint

    £8.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781472273956 | ISBN 10: 1472273958

    **The spellbinding new retelling of the Trojan War drawn from the perspective of the fearless women at the heart of it all.**  ‘The story and its characters swept me up and engulfed me, I could not put this one down’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ R ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Power (TV tie-in cover) by Naomi Alderman
    The Power (TV tie-in cover) - by Naomi Alderman

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780241547953 | ISBN 10: 0241547954

    WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION  THE ICONIC BESTSELLING NOVEL, WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE, AND NOW AMAZON TV SERIES STARRING TONI COLLETTE AND AULI'I CRAVALHO  'She throws her head back and pushes her chest forward and lets go a huge ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Sisterhood by Katherine Bradley
    The Sisterhood - by Katherine Bradley

    £16.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781398519114 | ISBN 10: 1398519111

    ‘Frightening and timely, Bradley’s The Sisterhood is the book everyone should read this year. If you thought it ended with Orwell, think again...' CHRISTINA DALCHER  Vox meets The Handmaid’s Tale in this feminist reimagining of 1984.&nb ... more

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  • Cover image of book Furies: Stories of the Wicked, Wild and Untamed by Various authors
    Furies: Stories of the Wicked, Wild and Untamed - by Various authors

    £16.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780349017143 | ISBN 10: 034901714x

    ‘Wonderful... all killer, no filler’ Red Magazine  A FUN AND FEARLESS ANTHOLOGY OF FEMINIST TALES, to celebrate Virago’s 50th birthday.  Featuring NEW AND ORIGINAL STORIES by Margaret Atwood, Susie Boyt, Eleanor Crewes, Emma Don ... more

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  • Cover image of book Medusa by Jessie Burton
    Medusa - by Jessie Burton

    £8.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781526662408 | ISBN 10: 152666240x

    'A beautiful and profound retelling' - Madeline Miller, author of The Song of Achilles and Circe 'Gives the serpent-headed monster of myth a powerful and haunting humanity' - Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne and Elektra   If I told you tha ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
    Lessons in Chemistry - by Bonnie Garmus

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781804990926 | ISBN 10: 1804990922

    THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER and NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE OBSERVER'S 'TEN DEBUT NOVELISTS OF 2022' A STEVE WRIGHT BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB CHOICE  'Sparky, rip-roaring, funny, with big-hearte ... more

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  • Cover image of book Constant Maud
    Constant Maud's No Surrender: A Graphic Novel - by Scarlett and Sophie Rickard

    £18.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781914224065 | ISBN 10: 191422406x

    Constance Maud was at the heart of the British campaign for women’s votes. Her novel No Surrender was published at the height of that struggle and used as a persuasive tool by suffragists. Hailed by Emily Wilding-Davison as “a book which breathes ... more

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  • Cover image of book Daughters of Sparta by Claire Heywood
    Daughters of Sparta - by Claire Heywood

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529333695 | ISBN 10: 1529333695

    ‘Required reading for fans of Circe... a remarkable, thrilling debut‘ – Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue   Two sisters parted. Two women blamed. Two stories reclaimed.   For millennia, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Horse of Selene by Juanita Casey
    The Horse of Selene - by Juanita Casey

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781915290007 | ISBN 10: 1915290007

    ‘A remarkable first novel by a remarkable woman.’ The New York Times  ‘Extraordinary... The Horse of Selene is at once irreverently comic, philosophical and lyrical.’ The Irish Times  Holy Mother who knows so much. Help me for I’m d ... more

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  • Cover image of book Body of Stars by Laura Maylene Walter
    Body of Stars - by Laura Maylene Walter

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529349214 | ISBN 10: 1529349214

    ‘We have a new The Handmaid’s Tale... an exciting new literary voice with a dazzling imagination’ EMMA KENNEDY ‘Compelling, menacing and ultimately uplifting, I fell headlong into the world of Body of Stars‘ SARAH WARD ‘Rapturously writ ... more

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  • Cover image of book Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata
    Life Ceremony - by Sayaka Murata

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781783787371 | ISBN 10: 1783787376

    From the author of international bestseller Convenience Store Woman comes a collection of short fiction: weird, out of this world and like nothing you’ve read before.  An engaged couple falls out over the husband’s dislike of clothes and ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam
    The Startup Wife - by Tahmima Anam

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781838852528 | ISBN 10: 1838852522

    ‘Poignant as well as savagely witty’ Observer ‘Stylish and funny’ Sunday Times ‘Hits every note perfectly’ Kamila Shamsie   A life-changing app. The woman who created it. And the man who took the credit.  When Asha starts work ... more

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  • Cover image of book Cwen by Alice Albinia
    Cwen - by Alice Albinia

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781788166614 | ISBN 10: 1788166612

    'Fantastic - a wonderful book' Lily Cole 'Magical, rich and magnificent' Maxine Peake 'A wild ride! She sees Graves' White Goddess and raises 50 with female magic and transformations' Margaret Atwood 'A rare book, bold and powerful' Xiaolu Guo 'W ... more

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  • Cover image of book Widowland by C J Carey
    Widowland - by C J Carey

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529412000 | ISBN 10: 1529412005

    ‘READING THIS TERRIFIC, ORWELLIAN NOVEL YOU ALMOST HOLD YOUR BREATH’ Bel Mooney  An alternative history with a strong feminist twist, perfect for fans of Robert Harris’ Fatherland, Christina Dalcher’s Vox and the dystopian novels of Marga ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Mad Girls Of New York by Maya Rodale
    The Mad Girls Of New York - by Maya Rodale

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780593436752 | ISBN 10: 059343675x

    An exciting novel based on the fearless reporter Nellie Bly, who would stop at nothing to expose injustices against women in 19th century New York, even at the risk of her own life and freedom.  In 1887 New York City, Nellie Bly has ambitions ... more

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  • Cover image of book Girl: A Novel by Camille Laurens
    Girl: A Novel - by Camille Laurens

    £14.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781635421019 | ISBN 10: 1635421012

    From the acclaimed author of Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, a deeply personal and insightful account of being a girl, woman, and mother in a world that sees the feminine as less than.  Born in 1959 to a middle-class family, Laurence Barraqué g ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Wonders by Elena Medel
    The Wonders - by Elena Medel

    £14.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781782276586 | ISBN 10: 1782276580

    "A poet’s novel, delicate but strong"(Hilary Mantel) María and her granddaughter Alicia have never met. Decades apart, both make the same journey to Madrid in search of work and independence. María, scraping together a living as a cleaner and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Madam by Phoebe Wynne
    Madam - by Phoebe Wynne

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529408768 | ISBN 10: 1529408768

    A contemporary gothic debut with a feminist edge, for fans of Naomi Alderman and Madeline Miller.  For 150 years, Caldonbrae Hall has loomed high above the Scottish cliffs as a beacon of excellence in the ancestral castle of Lord William Hope ... more

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  • Cover image of book Cunning Women by Elizabeth Lee
    Cunning Women - by Elizabeth Lee

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529156805 | ISBN 10: 1529156807

    ONE OF GRAZIA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2021   Lancashire, 1620. Young Sarah Haworth and her family live as outcasts. They are 'cunning folk', feared by the local villagers by day, but called upon under cover of darkness for healing balms and spells. & ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Coven by Lizzie Fry
    The Coven - by Lizzie Fry

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780751577945 | ISBN 10: 0751577944

    Let me repeat myself, so we can be very clear. Women are not the enemy. We must protect them from themselves, just as much as we must protect ourselves.  Imagine a world in which witchcraft is real. In which mothers hand down power to the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Goldilocks by Laura Lam
    Goldilocks - by Laura Lam

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781472267634 | ISBN 10: 147226763x

    "Bold, feminist sci-fi from a singular, visionary talent".(Waterstones Online) Despite increasing restrictions on the freedoms of women on Earth, Valerie Black is spearheading the first all-female mission to a planet in the Goldilocks Zone, w ... more

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  • Cover image of book The First Woman by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
    The First Woman - by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781786078582 | ISBN 10: 1786078589

    * A SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, DAILY MAIL, BBC CULTURE & IRISH INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR * A WATERSTONES BEST FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR * OPRAH MAGAZINE BEST OF 2020 * A TIME MAGAZINE MUST-READ BOOK OF 2020 * A GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BOOK OF THE MONTH ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
    The Dictionary of Lost Words - by Pip Williams

    £14.99   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781784743864 | ISBN 10: 1784743860

    Discover the internationally bestselling debut, Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.   In 1901, the word 'bondmaid' was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole i ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
    The Book of Longings - by Sue Monk Kidd

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781472232519 | ISBN 10: 1472232518

    The New York Times Bestseller.  An inspiring story set in the first century AD about a woman who finds her voice and her destiny, from author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of Wings.  Ana is born in Galilee at a time whe ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
    The Once and Future Witches - by Alix E. Harrow

    £14.99   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780356512471 | ISBN 10: 0356512479

    In 1893, there's no such thing as witches.  There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Gender Swapped Fairy Tales by Karrie Fransman and Jonathan Plackett
    Gender Swapped Fairy Tales - by Karrie Fransman and Jonathan Plackett

    £20.00   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780571360185 | ISBN 10: 0571360181

    Discover a collection of fairy tales unlike the ones you've read before...  Once upon a time, in the middle of winter, a King sat at a window and sewed. As he sewed and gazed out onto the landscape, he pricked his finger with the needle, and ... more

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  • Cover image of book The House Without Windows by Barbara Newhall Follett, illustrated and introduced by Jackie Morris
    The House Without Windows - by Barbara Newhall Follett, illustrated and introduced by Jackie Morris

    £7.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780241986073 | ISBN 10: 0241986079

    Discover a dazzling lost classic of nature writing and a visionary work of feminist empowerment - written almost a century ago by a twelve-year-old child...   Eepersip is a girl with the wild in her heart. She does not want to live locked up ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
    A Thousand Ships - by Natalie Haynes

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781509836215 | ISBN 10: 1509836217

    Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 One of the Guardian's and TLS's 'Best Books of 2019'   In A Thousand Ships, broadcaster and classicist Natalie Haynes retells the story of the Trojan War from an all-female perspective, for fan ... more

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  • Cover image of book Things We Say in the Dark by Kirsty Logan
    Things We Say in the Dark - by Kirsty Logan

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529111286 | ISBN 10: 1529111285

    So here we go, into the dark.  Some things can’t be spoken about in the light of day. But we can visit our fears at night, in the dark. We can turn them over and weigh them in our hands and maybe that will protect us from them. But maybe not.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
    The Testaments - by Margaret Atwood

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781784708214 | ISBN 10: 1784708216

    Margaret Atwood’s dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid’s Tale, is a modern classic. Now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel.  More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale, the theoc ... more

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  • Cover image of book Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
    Girl, Woman, Other - by Bernardine Evaristo

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780241984994 | ISBN 10: 0241984998

    ***JOINT WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019***   Bernardine Evaristo is one of those writers who should be read by everyone, everywhere. Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters.  Mostly women, black and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dragon Bike: Fantastical Stories of Bicycling, Feminism & Dragons by Elly Blue (Editor)
    Dragon Bike: Fantastical Stories of Bicycling, Feminism & Dragons - by Elly Blue (Editor)

    £10.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781621060475 | ISBN 10: 1621060470

    From the great, winged, fire-breathing lizards of the west to the wise, flying serpents of the east, dragons play a powerful role in our myths and imaginations.  In these fourteen stories and one comic, bicyclists encounter a diversity of dragon ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley
    The Mere Wife - by Maria Dahvana Headley

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781911617631 | ISBN 10: 191161763x

    A New Statesman Book of the Year.  A fierce, feminist retelling of the classic tale Beowulf.  Gren and his mother, Dana, a war veteran, live on the side of a mountain, next to Herot Hall, a pristine gated community ruled over by Willa and her s ... more

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  • Cover image of book Circe by Madeline Miller
    Circe - by Madeline Miller

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781408890042 | ISBN 10: 1408890046

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2019   Woman. Witch. Myth. Mortal. Outcast. Lover. Destroyer. Survivor. CIRCE.   In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. Circe is a strange ch ... more

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  • Cover image of book Women Talking by Miriam Toews
    Women Talking - by Miriam Toews

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780571340330 | ISBN 10: 0571340334

    Between 2005 and 2009, in a remote religious Mennonite colony, over a hundred girls and women were knocked unconscious and raped, often repeatedly, by what many thought were ghosts or demons, as a punishment for their sins. As the women tentatively b ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror by Daniel Mallory Ortberg
    The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror - by Daniel Mallory Ortberg

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781472154125 | ISBN 10: 1472154126

    A collection of darkly mischievous stories based on classic fairy tales. Sinister and inviting, familiar and alien all at the same time, The Merry Spinster updates traditional children’s stories and fairy tales with elements of psychological horror ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Red Word by Sarah Henstra
    The Red Word - by Sarah Henstra

    £12.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781999700874 | ISBN 10: 1999700872

    The myths don’t have a clue what to do with women. They have nothing to say about us whatsoever. We need to build our own fucking mythology.   The battle of the sexes goes to college in this smart, thrilling debut by university English pro ... more

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  • Cover image of book Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen by Alix Kates Shulman
    Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen - by Alix Kates Shulman

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781788163408 | ISBN 10: 1788163400

    The cult classic that defined a generation - first UK publication in 47 years.  Sasha Davis has everything a girl in 1950s suburbia could want: beauty, intelligence and an all-star sports captain boyfriend. All she needs to succeed is to keep ... more

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  • Cover image of book Plastic Emotions by Shiromi Pinto
    Plastic Emotions - by Shiromi Pinto

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781910312315 | ISBN 10: 1910312312

    “We architects must be idealists. We construct not just individual buildings, but whole cities. We plan cities, and in doing so, change lives.”  Plastic Emotions is inspired by the life of Minnette de Silva – a forgotten feminist icon and ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
    The Silence of the Girls - by Pat Barker

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780241983201 | ISBN 10: 0241983207

    "A very good, very raw rendition of the Trojan war from the point of view of the women."(Kate Atkinson) There was a woman at the heart of the Trojan war whose voice has been silent - till now.  Briseis was a queen until her city was destroyed. ... more

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  • Cover image of book XX by Angela Chadwick
    XX - by Angela Chadwick

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780349700267 | ISBN 10: 0349700265

    A stunning debut novel imagining a world where women can have children without men.  How far would you go for a child of your own?  When Rosie and Jules discover a ground-breaking clinical trial that enables two women to have a female baby, t ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Faculty of Dreams by Sara Stridsberg
    The Faculty of Dreams - by Sara Stridsberg

    £13.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780857054722 | ISBN 10: 0857054724

    Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019   In April 1988, Valerie Solanas – the writer, radical feminist and would-be assassin of Andy Warhol – was discovered dead in her hotel room, in a grimy corner of San Francisco. She wa ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Handmaid
    The Handmaid's Tale (Graphic novel) - by Margaret Atwood, illustrated by Renee Nault

    £20.00   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780224101936 | ISBN 10: 0224101935

    Everything Handmaids wear is red: the colour of blood, which defines us.   Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships. She serves in the household of the Comm ... more

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  • Cover image of book VOX by Christina Dalcher
    VOX - by Christina Dalcher

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780008300678 | ISBN 10: 0008300674

    Silence can be deafening.   Jean McClellan spends her time in almost complete silence, limited to just one hundred words a day. Any more, and a thousand volts of electricity will course through her veins.  Now the new government is in ... more

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  • Cover image of book Old Baggage by Lissa Evans
    Old Baggage - by Lissa Evans

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784161217 | ISBN 10: 1784161217

    What do you do next, after you’ve changed the world?  It is 1928. Matilda Simpkin, rooting through a cupboard, comes across a small wooden club – an old possession of hers, unseen for more than a decade.  Mattie is a woman with a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fierce Fairytales & Other Stories to Stir Your Soul by Nikita Gill
    Fierce Fairytales & Other Stories to Stir Your Soul - by Nikita Gill

    £12.99   hardback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781409181590 | ISBN 10: 1409181596

    Beautifully illustrated feminist fairytales for young and old.   Reimagining traditional tales, this empowering collection of stories, poems and beautiful hand-drawn illustrations gives Once Upon a Time a much-needed modern makeover.  Gone ... more

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  • Cover image of book Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories In Extreme Futures by Elly Blue
    Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories In Extreme Futures - by Elly Blue

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781621062066 | ISBN 10: 1621062066

    In a world with an uncertain future, do you imagine for the best or for the worst case scenario?   Twelve writers tackle extreme solarpunk utopias and apocalyptic or political dystopias — and the grey areas in between — in Biketopia, the ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Power by Naomi Alderman
    The Power - by Naomi Alderman

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780670919963 | ISBN 10: 0670919969

    WINNER OF THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 ORWELL PRIZE   What if the power to hurt were in women's hands?   Suddenly - tomorrow or the day after - teenage girls find that with a flick of their fingers, they ... more

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  • Cover image of book Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia E. Butler, adapted by Damian Duffy and John Jennings
    Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation - by Octavia E. Butler, adapted by Damian Duffy and John Jennings

    £15.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781419709470 | ISBN 10: 141970947x

    Octavia E. Butler’s bestselling literary science-fiction masterpiece, Kindred, now in graphic novel format.  More than 35 years after its release, Kindred continues to draw in new readers with its deep exploration of the violence and loss o ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tatterhood: Feminist Folktales from Around the World by Ethel Johnston Phelps (Editor), illustrated by Suki Boynton
    Tatterhood: Feminist Folktales from Around the World - by Ethel Johnston Phelps (Editor), illustrated by Suki Boynton

    £12.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781558619296 | ISBN 10: 1558619291

    With tales from Japan, Norway, Scotland, and Sudan, Tatterhood brings readers twelve folk tales — and twelve women whose cunning, hard work, and physical strength are at the center of the story.  Three women teach a strong man how to wrestle, a gi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
    Woman on the Edge of Time - by Marge Piercy

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781785033780 | ISBN 10: 1785033786

    Hailed as a classic of speculative science fiction, Marge Piercy’s landmark novel is a transformative vision of two futures. Harrowing and prescient, Woman on the Edge of Time will speak to a new generation on whom these choices weigh more heavily ... more

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  • Cover image of book Swastika Night by Murray Constantine
    Swastika Night - by Murray Constantine

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781473214668 | ISBN 10: 1473214661

    A classic of feminist predictive fiction finally returns to the light. 700 years after Hitler personally won the war, one man discovers the truth about his god. This remarkably prescient novel of the future under Nazism was published in 1937.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book Walking the Lights by Deborah Andrews
    Walking the Lights - by Deborah Andrews

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781910449882 | ISBN 10: 1910449881

    A feminist Withnail and I. Recently graduated, young actor Maddie lives the slacker life in mid-90s Glasgow with deadbeat boyfriend Mike. Estranged from her mother due to a violent step-dad, most of the young couple's meagre resources go on drin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Angela Carter
    Angela Carter's Book of Wayward Girls and Wicked Women - by Various authors, edited by Angela Carter

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780349008462 | ISBN 10: 0349008469

    This bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners. Here are subversive tales - by Ama Ata Aidoo, Jane Bowles, Angela Carter, Colette, Bessie Head, Jamaica Kincaid and Kather ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dietland by Sarai Walker
    Dietland - by Sarai Walker

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781782399292 | ISBN 10: 1782399291

    The wickedly funny feminist revenge fantasy debut novel we've all been waiting for. "A call to arms. Devious, subversive, delightful"(Alice Sebold) Plum Kettle does her best not to be noticed, because when you're fat, to be noticed is to be ju ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Awakening by Kate Chopin
    The Awakening - by Kate Chopin

    £6.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781782117131 | ISBN 10: 178211713x

    Over one long, languid summer Edna Pontellier, fettered by marriage and motherhood, becomes acquainted with Robert Lebrun. As the days shorten and the temperature begins to drop Edna succumbs to Robert's devotion. But in the thrall of this ever-stren ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sisters of the Revolution: A Femimist Speculative Fiction Anthology by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (Editors)
    Sisters of the Revolution: A Femimist Speculative Fiction Anthology - by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (Editors)

    £16.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781629630359 | ISBN 10: 1629630357

    Sisters of the Revolution gathers a highly curated selection of feminist speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, horror, and more) chosen by one of the most respected editorial teams in speculative literature today, the award-winning Ann and J ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pedal Zombies: Thirteen Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories by E. Blue, A. Greenhall, J. Kwak, G. Lair, M. Spencer and E. J. Street
    Pedal Zombies: Thirteen Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories - by E. Blue, A. Greenhall, J. Kwak, G. Lair, M. Spencer and E. J. Street

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781621065623 | ISBN 10: 1621065626

    In the not-so-distant future, when gasoline is no longer available, humans turn to two-wheeled vehicles to transport goods, seek glory, and defend their remaining communities. In another version of the future, those with the zombie virus are able to ... more

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  • Cover image of book Three by Annemarie Monahan
    Three - by Annemarie Monahan

    £14.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781604866315 | ISBN 10: 1604866314

    As a radical feminist, Antonia has never believed in band-aid political solutions. After years of planning, she and her lover the charismatic and bipolar Josephine found an independent nation for women on an abandoned oil rig. At first, they thri ... more

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  • Cover image of book Floating Worlds by Cecelia Holland
    Floating Worlds - by Cecelia Holland

    £10.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780575108233 | ISBN 10: 0575108231

    A seminal feminist SF novel of the highest literary quality, comparable to the works of Joanna Russ and Ursula K. LeGuin.   The Styths, a powerful and aggressive mutant race from the Gas Planets, Uranus and Saturn, have been launching pira ... more

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  • Cover image of book Heroes and Villains by Angela Carter
    Heroes and Villains - by Angela Carter

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780141192383 | ISBN 10: 0141192380

    Sharp-eyed Marianne lives in a white tower made of steel and concrete with her father and the other Professors. Outside, where the land is thickly wooded and wild beasts roam, live the Barbarians, who raid and pillage in order to survive. Marianne is ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman by Angela Carter
    The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman - by Angela Carter

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780141192390 | ISBN 10: 0141192399

    Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious machines, has fallen in love with Albertina, the Doctor's daughter. But Albertina, a beautiful woman made of glass, seems only to appear to him in his ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Beekeeper
    The Beekeeper's Apprentice - by Laurie R King

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780749008529 | ISBN 10: 0749008520

    The long-awaited reissue of the very first book in the New York Times bestselling Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series.   In 1915, Sherlock Holmes is retired and quietly engaged in the study of honeybees when a young woman literally stumbles in ... more

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  • Cover image of book Revenge by Taslima Nasrin, translated by Honor Moore
    Revenge - by Taslima Nasrin, translated by Honor Moore

    £14.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781558616592 | ISBN 10: 1558616594

    Revenge is a delicious novel about getting even, from one of the most controversial and internationally acclaimed writers of her generation.  In modern Bangladesh, Jhumur marries for love and imagines life with her husband, Haroon, will conti ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Yellow Wall-paper, Herland, and Selected Writings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    The Yellow Wall-paper, Herland, and Selected Writings - by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780143105855 | ISBN 10: 014310585x

    Wonderfully sardonic and slyly humorous, the writings of landmark American feminist and socialist thinker Charlotte Perkins Gilman were penned in response to her frustrations with the gender-based double standard that prevailed in America as the twen ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Love Children by Marilyn French
    The Love Children - by Marilyn French

    £14.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781558616066 | ISBN 10: 1558616063

    Marilyn French's 1977 novel The Women's Room epitomized the feminist movement and became one of the most influential books of our time. Now she has captured the complexities of life for the daughters of The Women's Room generation in her highly antic ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Circling Song by Nawal El Saadawi
    The Circling Song - by Nawal El Saadawi

    £18.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781848132269 | ISBN 10: 1848132263

    Hamida and Hamido are twins, grown from a single embryo inside one womb. Violently parted, they search the city in the darkening circles of a dream, only to find, lose and again find each other, each time as if it were the first. Their journey - terr ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Yellow Wallpaper and Selected Writings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    The Yellow Wallpaper and Selected Writings - by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781844085583 | ISBN 10: 1844085589

    'It is stripped off - the paper - in great patches ...The colour is repellent ...In the places where it isn't faded and where the sun is just so - I can see a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to skulk about...' Based on the ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall
    The Carhullan Army - by Sarah Hall

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780571236602 | ISBN 10: 057123660x

    Set in the part of England once known as The Lake District, "The Carhullan Army" is narrated by a young woman who has adopted the name Sister. Britain after its union with the United States and numerous unsuccessful foreign wars, has found itself in ... more

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  • Cover image of book Crooked Pieces by Sarah Grazebrook
    Crooked Pieces - by Sarah Grazebrook

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780749080945 | ISBN 10: 0749080949

    Beautifully written and evocative, Crooked Pieces brings the past magically to life...  London, 1905. Maggie's new position as a maid lifts her from East End poverty and brings her into the world of the suffragettes, in particular the Pankhur ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Queen is in the Garbage by Lila Karp
    The Queen is in the Garbage - by Lila Karp

    £14.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781558615380 | ISBN 10: 1558615385

    This is a startling stream-of-consciousness novel that engages questions of feminism which are as relevant today as when the novel was first published in 1969. Shifting beautifully between past and present, consciousness and dreams, Lila Karp explor ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
    The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories - by Angela Carter

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780099588115 | ISBN 10: 0099588110

    From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves - Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories. "Angela Carter has extended the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Amina by Mohammed Umar
    Amina - by Mohammed Umar

    £17.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781592214044 | ISBN 10: 1592214045

    This dramatic story of the efforts of the heroine and her friends to bring about change in the social conditions of women in Nigeria addresses pressing political issues which rarely appear in fiction - the legal status of Muslim women, the limitation ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sex Wars by Marge Piercy
    Sex Wars - by Marge Piercy

    £17.00   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780749936334 | ISBN 10: 0749936339

    Post-Civil War New York City is the battleground of the American dream: an era of vast fortunes and crushing poverty. Though life is hard, the promise of change is in the air. Women are agitating for the vote and other civil rights. Immigrants are po ... more

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  • Cover image of book Angela Carter
    Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales - by Angela Carter

    £12.99   hardback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781844081738 | ISBN 10: 1844081737

    Once upon a time fairy tales weren't meant just for children, and neither is Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales. This stunning collection contains lyrical tales, bloody tales and hilariously funny and ripely bawdy stories from countries all around t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Two Women in One by Nawal El-Saadawi
    Two Women in One - by Nawal El-Saadawi

    £7.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780863565625 | ISBN 10: 086356562x

    Bahiah Shaheen, an 18-year old medical student and daughter of a prominent Egyptian public official, finds the male students in her class coarse and alien. Her father, too, seems to belong to a race apart. Frustrated by her hard-working, well-behav ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fairy Tales and Feminism: New Approaches by Donald Haase
    Fairy Tales and Feminism: New Approaches - by Donald Haase

    £32.95   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780814330302 | ISBN 10: 0814330304

    In the 1970s, feminists focused critical attention on fairy tales and broke the spell that had enchanted readers for centuries. By exposing the role of fairy tales in the cultural struggle over gender, feminism transformed fairy-tale studies and spar ... more

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  • Cover image of book Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    Herland - by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    £6.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780704347007 | ISBN 10: 0704347008

    Written in 1915, this text is about three male explorers and the utopian female society they stumble upon. This is a community where war, famine and other "man-made" disasters do not exist. An early feminist classic. ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Awakening by Kate Chopin
    The Awakening - by Kate Chopin

    £2.99   paperback   (1994) - ISBN 13: 9780486277868 | ISBN 10: 0486277860

    First published in 1899, this novel shocked readers with its open sensuality and uninhibited treatment of marital infidelity.   Poignant and lyrical, it tells the story of a New Orleans wife who attempts to find love outside a stifling marria ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter
    The Passion of New Eve - by Angela Carter

    £8.99   paperback   (1992) - ISBN 13: 9780860683414 | ISBN 10: 0860683419

    'I know nothing. I am a tabula erasa, a blank sheet of paper, an unhatched egg. I have not yet become a woman, although I possess a woman's shape. Not a woman, no: both more and less than a real woman. Now I am a being as mythic and monstrous as Moth ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
    The Left Hand of Darkness - by Ursula K. Le Guin

    £7.99   paperback   (1981) - ISBN 13: 9781857230741 | ISBN 10: 1857230744

    Winter is an Earth-like planet with two major differences: conditions are semi arctic even at the warmest time of the year, and the inhabitants are all of the same sex. Tucked away in a remote corner of the universe, they have no knowledge of space t ... more

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