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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 113 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Just Sayin
    Just Sayin': My Life In Words - by Malorie Blackman

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529118698 | ISBN 10: 1529118697

    'It's very candid, and movingly so.... Not only in Blackman a grafter- even more, and in the face of more, than we already knew. She's someone with whom you do not mess. Good on her. She's earned it' The Telegraph  Malorie Blackman is one of Brit ... more

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  • Cover image of book Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves by Glory Edim
    Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves - by Glory Edim

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781409189282 | ISBN 10: 1409189287

    Remember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? That feeling of belonging remains with readers the rest of their lives – but not everyone regularly sees themselves reflected on the pages of a book. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Women Writers at Work by Claudia Tate (Editor)
    Black Women Writers at Work - by Claudia Tate (Editor)

    £19.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781642598407 | ISBN 10: 1642598402

    “Black women writers and critics are acting on the old adage that one must speak for oneself if one wishes to be heard.” — Claudia Tate, from the introduction  Long out of print, Black Women Writers at Work is a vital contribution to Bl ... more

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  • 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 New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent by Margaret Busby (Editor)
    New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent - by Margaret Busby (Editor)

    £20.00   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780241997000 | ISBN 10: 0241997003

    Showcasing the work of more than 200 women writers of African descent, this major international collection celebrates their contributions to literature and international culture.  Twenty-five years ago, Margaret Busby’s groundbreaking anthology ... more

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  • Cover image of book Slug by Hollie McNish
    Slug - by Hollie McNish

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780349726366 | ISBN 10: 0349726361

    "An intoxicating mixture of poetry and prose, Slug is a taboo-busting delight"(Scotsman) "She writes with honesty, conviction, humour and love"(Kae Tempest) The new collection of poetry and prose from the Ted Hughes Award-winning author of Nobo ... more

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  • Cover image of book After Agatha: Women Write Crime by Sally Cline
    After Agatha: Women Write Crime - by Sally Cline

    £16.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780857302328 | ISBN 10: 0857302329

    From Agatha Christie and Patricia Highsmith to Val McDermid and JK Rowling, After Agatha is an indispensable guide to women's crime writing over the last century and an exploration of why women read crime.  Spanning the 1930s to present day, Afte ... more

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  • Cover image of book Loud Black Girls : 20 Black Women Writers Ask: What
    Loud Black Girls : 20 Black Women Writers Ask: What's Next? - by Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinene (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780008342654 | ISBN 10: 0008342652

    An important and timely anthology of black British writing, edited and curated by the authors of the highly acclaimed, ground-breaking Slay In Your Lane.   Slay in Your Lane Presents: Loud Black Girls features essays from the diverse voices of tw ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Gift of Music and Song: Interviews with Jamaican Women Writers by Jacqueline Bishop
    The Gift of Music and Song: Interviews with Jamaican Women Writers - by Jacqueline Bishop

    £19.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781845234768 | ISBN 10: 1845234766

    In this collection of interviews, Jacqueline Bishop is in conversation with eighteen female Jamaican writers, some of whom have emigrated from the island. This deeply intimate and personal encounter between the writer and artist, Bishop, and those sh ... more

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  • Cover image of book Love Letters: Vita and Virginia by Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
    Love Letters: Vita and Virginia - by Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781784876722 | ISBN 10: 1784876720

    'I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone. I just miss you...'  At a dinner party in 1922, Virginia Woolf met the renowned author, arist ... more

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  • Cover image of book Our Women on the Ground: Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World by Zahra Hankir (Editor)
    Our Women on the Ground: Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World - by Zahra Hankir (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529111675 | ISBN 10: 1529111676

    Nineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it's like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection.  A growing number of intrepid Arab and Middle Eastern sahafiyat - female journalists - are working t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Letters from Tove by Tove Jansson, translated by Sarah Death
    Letters from Tove - by Tove Jansson, translated by Sarah Death

    £12.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781908745842 | ISBN 10: 1908745843

    Out of the thousands of letters Tove Jansson wrote a cache remains that she addressed to her family, her dearest confidantes, and her lovers, male and female. Into these she spilled her innermost thoughts, defended her ideals and revealed her heart. ... 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 Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep
    Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee - by Casey Cep

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780099510598 | ISBN 10: 0099510596

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION A BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEAR A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YE ... more

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  • Cover image of book Recollections Of My Non-Existence by Rebecca Solnit
    Recollections Of My Non-Existence - by Rebecca Solnit

    £16.99   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781783785445 | ISBN 10: 1783785446

    In 1981, Rebecca Solnit rented a studio apartment in San Francisco that would be her home for the next twenty-five years. There, she began to come to terms with the epidemic of violence against women around her, the street harassment that unsettled h ... more

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  • Cover image of book Europa28: Writing by Women on the Future of Europe by Sophie Hughes & Sarah Cleave (Editors)
    Europa28: Writing by Women on the Future of Europe - by Sophie Hughes & Sarah Cleave (Editors)

    £12.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781912697298 | ISBN 10: 1912697297

    Featuring Asja Bakić, Zsófia Bán, Annelies Beck, Silvia Bencivelli, Hilary Cottam, Lisa Dwan, Yvonne Hofstetter, Nora Ikstena, Maarja Kangro, Kapka Kassabova, Sofia Kouvelaki, Carine Krecké, Caroline Muscat, Nora Nadjarian, Ioana Nicolaie, Bronka ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wild Geese: A Collection of Nan Shepherd
    Wild Geese: A Collection of Nan Shepherd's Writing - by Nan Shepherd

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781912916108 | ISBN 10: 191291610x

    Nan Shepherd (1893 - 1981) published three novels between 1928 and 1933: The Quarry Wood, The Weatherhouse and A Pass in the Grampians – as well as a collection of poems: In the Cairngorms.  Her reputation grew exponentially with the 1977 publi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Notes to Self: Essays by Emilie Pine
    Notes to Self: Essays - by Emilie Pine

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780241986226 | ISBN 10: 0241986222

    THE EXTRAORDINARY #1 BESTSELLER - a word-of-mouth literary phenomenon.   'I am afraid of being the disruptive woman. And of not being disruptive enough. I am afraid. But I am doing it anyway.'  In this dazzling debut, Emilie Pine speak ... 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 Rebel Writers: The Accidental Feminists by Celia Brayfield
    Rebel Writers: The Accidental Feminists - by Celia Brayfield

    £19.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781448217496 | ISBN 10: 1448217490

    Shelagh Delaney • Edna O’Brien • Lynne Reid-Banks • Charlotte Bingham • Nell Dunn • Virginia Ironside • Margaret Forster   In London in 1958, a play by a 19-year-old redefined women's writing in Britain. It also began a movement ... more

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  • Cover image of book Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry by Adrienne Rich
    Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry - by Adrienne Rich

    £21.00   hardback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780393652369 | ISBN 10: 039365236x

    A career-spanning selection of the lucid, courageous and boldly political prose of National Book Award winner Adrienne Rich.   The Essential Essays gathers twenty-five of Adrienne Rich’s most renowned essays, demonstrating the lasting brilli ... more

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  • Cover image of book How to Suppress Women
    How to Suppress Women's Writing - by Joanna Russ

    £15.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781477316252 | ISBN 10: 1477316256

    A landmark feminist critique with a new foreword by Jessa Crispin, author of Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto, this provocative book surveys the forces that work against women who dare to write.   Are women able to achieve anythin ... 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 The Pen is Mightier Than the Penis: Words for the Wise from the World by Various authors
    The Pen is Mightier Than the Penis: Words for the Wise from the World - by Various authors

    £7.99   hardback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781787131866 | ISBN 10: 1787131866

    For nasty women everywhere, The Pen is Mightier than the Penis is a feminist quote book celebrating female writers throughout the centuries, from Sappho to Margaret Atwood.   Find the perfect comeback for those infuriating 'you're not a feminist, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Forgotten Women: The Writers by Zing Tsjeng
    Forgotten Women: The Writers - by Zing Tsjeng

    £15.00   hardback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781788400183 | ISBN 10: 1788400186

    The women who shaped and were erased from our history.   Forgotten Women is a new series of books that uncover the lost herstories of influential women who have refused over hundreds of years to accept the hand they've been dealt and, as a res ... 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 Feminist Freedom Warriors by Linda E. Carty and Chandra Talpade Mohanty (Editors)
    Feminist Freedom Warriors - by Linda E. Carty and Chandra Talpade Mohanty (Editors)

    £15.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781608468973 | ISBN 10: 1608468976

    A collection of compelling narratives highlighting the struggles of feminist warriors whose voices are too often marginalized.   Feminist Freedom Warriors tells the stories of women of color from the Global South, weaving together cross-generation ... 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 A Daughter of Isis: The Early Life of Nawal El Saadawi by Nawal El Saadawi
    A Daughter of Isis: The Early Life of Nawal El Saadawi - by Nawal El Saadawi

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786993069 | ISBN 10: 1786993066

    Nawal El Saadawi has been pilloried, censored, imprisoned and exiled for her refusal to accept the oppressions imposed on women by gender and class. For her, writing and action have been inseperable and this is reflected in some of the most evocative ... more

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  • Cover image of book Conundrum by Jan Morris
    Conundrum - by Jan Morris

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571341139 | ISBN 10: 0571341136

    As one of Britain's best and most loved travel writers, Jan Morris has led an extraordinary life. Perhaps her most remarkable work is this grippingly honest account of her ten-year transition from man to woman - its pains and joys, its frustrations a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beryl Bainbridge: Love by All Sorts of Means: A Biography by Brendan King
    Beryl Bainbridge: Love by All Sorts of Means: A Biography - by Brendan King

    £10.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781472947338 | ISBN 10: 1472947339

    Dame Beryl Bainbridge was one of the most popular and recognisable English novelists of her generation. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, and her critically acclaimed novels The Dressmaker (1973), The Bottle Factory Outing (1974), ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography by Edmund Gordon
    The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography - by Edmund Gordon

    £10.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780099575726 | ISBN 10: 0099575728

    WINNER OF THE SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD   Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in The Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Financial Times, Spectator and Observer   Angela Carter’s life was as unconventional as anything in her fiction ... more

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  • Cover image of book Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems by Audre Lorde
    Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems - by Audre Lorde

    £12.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780995716223 | ISBN 10: 0995716226

    Audre Lorde (1934-1992) described herself as 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet'. Born in New York, she had her first poem published while still at school and her last the year she died of cancer. Her extraordinary belief in the power of language ... more

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  • Cover image of book Patti Smith: American Artist by Frank Stefanko
    Patti Smith: American Artist - by Frank Stefanko

    £14.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781683830153 | ISBN 10: 1683830156

    "There I was sitting in a booth at the co-op of Glassboro State College, a bucolic school in the farmlands of South Jersey... Suddenly, the double doors of the co-op swung open and standing there in the vacuum created was an incredible apparition, a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers by Various writers, edited by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates
    The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers - by Various writers, edited by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates

    £16.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780143105992 | ISBN 10: 014310599x

    A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century.   The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers is the most comprehensive ant ... more

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  • Cover image of book Jane Austen, The Secret Radical by Helena Kelly
    Jane Austen, The Secret Radical - by Helena Kelly

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781785781889 | ISBN 10: 178578188x

    "A sublime piece of literary detective work that shows us once and for all how to be precisely the sort of reader that Austen deserves."(Caroline Criado-Perez, Guardian) Almost everything we think we know about Jane Austen is wrong. Her novels do ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pistols and Petticoats: 175 Years of Lady Detectives in Fact and Fiction by Erika Janik
    Pistols and Petticoats: 175 Years of Lady Detectives in Fact and Fiction - by Erika Janik

    £14.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780807047880 | ISBN 10: 0807047880

    A lively exploration of the struggles faced by women in law enforcement and mystery fiction for the past 175 years.   In 1910, Alice Wells took the oath to join the all-male Los Angeles Police Department. She wore no uniform, carried no weapon ... more

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  • Cover image of book In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri
    In Other Words - by Jhumpa Lahiri

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781408866139 | ISBN 10: 1408866137

    In Other Words is a revelation. It is at heart a love story of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession: that of a writer for another language. For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love was for Italian, which first captivat ... more

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

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780091949068 | ISBN 10: 0091949068

    �I�ve lived through ten iOS upgrades on my Mac � and that�s just something I use to muck about on Twitter. Surely capitalism is due an upgrade or two?�   When Caitlin Moran sat down to choose her favourite pieces for her new book she ... more

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  • Cover image of book Not Just Jane: Rediscovering Seven Amazing Women Writers Who Transformed British Literature by Shelley DeWees
    Not Just Jane: Rediscovering Seven Amazing Women Writers Who Transformed British Literature - by Shelley DeWees

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780062394620 | ISBN 10: 0062394622

    Jane Austen and the Brontës endure as British literature’s leading ladies (and for good reason)— but were these reclusive parsons’ daughters really the only writing women of their day? A feminist history of literary Britain, this witty, fascin ... 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 Tove Jansson: Work and Love by Tuula Karjalainen
    Tove Jansson: Work and Love - by Tuula Karjalainen

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780141978826 | ISBN 10: 0141978821

    The definitive illustrated biography of one of the most unique and beloved children's authors of the 20th century, the creator of the Moomins.   Tove Jansson (1914-2001) led a long, colourful and productive life, impacting significantly the politi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon
    Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley - by Charlotte Gordon

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099592396 | ISBN 10: 0099592398

    ***AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4*** "A gripping account of the heartbreaks and triumphs of two of history's most formidable female intellectuals, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. Gordon has reunited mother and daughter through biography, beautifully ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beryl Bainbridge: Love by All Sorts of Means: A Biography by Brendan King
    Beryl Bainbridge: Love by All Sorts of Means: A Biography - by Brendan King

    £25.00   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781472908537 | ISBN 10: 1472908538

    Dame Beryl Bainbridge was one of the most popular and recognisable English novelists of her generation. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, and her critically acclaimed novels The Dressmaker (1973), The Bottle Factory Outing (1974), ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography by Claire Harman
    Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography - by Claire Harman

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241964439 | ISBN 10: 0241964431

    Winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize "One of the most shamefully under-read great British authors of the past 100 years"(Sarah Waters) The poet Sylvia Townsend Warner rose to sudden fame with the publication of her classic feminist novel Lol ... more

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

    £10.99   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 Everything is Teeth by Evie Wyld and Joe Sumner
    Everything is Teeth - by Evie Wyld and Joe Sumner

    £16.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780224099714 | ISBN 10: 022409971x

    An intimate and unique visual memoir by the multi-prizewinning Evie Wyld.  Evie Wyld was a girl obsessed with sharks. Spending summers in the brutal heat of coastal New South Wales, she fell for the creatures. Their teeth, their skin, their eye ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee by Marja Mills
    The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee - by Marja Mills

    £12.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780143127666 | ISBN 10: 0143127667

    To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the best loved novels of the twentieth century. Yet for the last fifty years, the novels celebrated author, Harper Lee, known to her friends as Nelle, has said almost nothing on the record.   But in 2001, Nell ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Greatest Need: The Creative Life and Troubled Times of Lily Tobias by Jasmine Donahaye
    The Greatest Need: The Creative Life and Troubled Times of Lily Tobias - by Jasmine Donahaye

    £10.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781909983236 | ISBN 10: 1909983233

    he first full biography of Lily Tobias (1887-1984) a Jewish writer from Wales: a courageous, idealistic woman who wrote compellingly about Jewish life and experience in the 20th century.   Daughter of Polish immigrant parents, Lily Tobias grew ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dreams of the Good Life: The Life of Flora Thompson and the Creation of Lark Rise to Candleford by Richard Mabey
    Dreams of the Good Life: The Life of Flora Thompson and the Creation of Lark Rise to Candleford - by Richard Mabey

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780141044811 | ISBN 10: 0141044810

    While the Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy, Flora Thompson's much-loved portrait of life in the English countryside, has inspired a hit television series, relatively little is known about the author herself.   In this highly original book, b ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History by Emma L.E. Rees
    The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History - by Emma L.E. Rees

    £13.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781628922127 | ISBN 10: 1628922125

    From South Park to Kathy Acker, from Lars Von Trier to Sex and the City, women's sexual organs are demonized. In The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History, Emma L.E. Rees investigates the evolution of this demonization: she considers how writers, a ... more

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  • Cover image of book How to be a Heroine: Or, What I
    How to be a Heroine: Or, What I've Learned from Reading Too Much - by Samantha Ellis

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099575566 | ISBN 10: 0099575566

    Cathy Earnshaw or Jane Eyre? Petrova or Posy? Scarlett or Melanie? Lace or Valley of the Dolls? On a pilgrimage to Wuthering Heights, Samantha Ellis found herself arguing with her best friend about which heroine was best: Jane Eyre or Cathy Ea ... more

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  • Cover image of book Unbought and Unbossed: Transgressive Black Women, Sexuality, and Representation by Trimiko Melancon
    Unbought and Unbossed: Transgressive Black Women, Sexuality, and Representation - by Trimiko Melancon

    £18.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781439911464 | ISBN 10: 1439911460

    Unbought and Unbossed examines black womens literary and cultural production of the 1970s and early 1980s. Considering texts in the socio-cultural and historical moments of their production, Trimiko Melancon analyzes representations of black women t ... 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 Mad Girl
    Mad Girl's Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted - by Andrew Wilson

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780857205896 | ISBN 10: 0857205897

    On 25 February 1956, twenty-three-year-old Sylvia Plath walked into a party and immediately spotted Ted Hughes. The sensational aspects of the Plath-Hughes relationship have dominated the cultural landscape to such an extent that their story has take ... more

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  • Cover image of book Susan Sontag: The Complete Rolling Stone Interview by Jonathan Cott
    Susan Sontag: The Complete Rolling Stone Interview - by Jonathan Cott

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780300199024 | ISBN 10: 0300199023

    One of Brain Pickings's Best Books of 2013, selected by Maria Popova. One of my oldest crusades is against the distinction between thought and feeling, which is really the basis of all anti-intellectual views: the heart and the head, thinking an ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mom and Me and Mom by Maya Angelou
    Mom and Me and Mom - by Maya Angelou

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781844089154 | ISBN 10: 1844089150

    For the first time, Maya Angelou - one of America's most celebrated memoirists and poets - shares the deepest personal story of her life: the story of her relationship with her mother.  'In the first decade of the twentieth century, it was no ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Warrior Women of Islam: Female Empowerment in Arabic Popular Literature by Remke Kruk
    The Warrior Women of Islam: Female Empowerment in Arabic Popular Literature - by Remke Kruk

    £16.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781848859272 | ISBN 10: 1848859279

    Colloquial Arabic storytelling is most commonly associated with the Arabian Nights. But few people are aware of a much larger corpus of narrative texts known as popular epic. These heroic romantic tales, originating in the Middle Ages, form vast cycl ... 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 Virginia Woolf by Alexandra Harris
    Virginia Woolf - by Alexandra Harris

    £9.95   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780500290866 | ISBN 10: 0500290865

    This gripping new account offers an ideal introduction to both the life and work of Virginia Woolf. It considers each of Woolfs novels in context, traces the contentious course of her afterlife, and shows why, seventy years after her death, Virgin ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Trials of Radclyffe Hall by Diana Souhami
    The Trials of Radclyffe Hall - by Diana Souhami

    £14.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781780878782 | ISBN 10: 1780878788

    Radclyffe Hall was born in 1880 in Bournemouth in a house inappropriately named Sunny Lawn. Her mother drank gin in an attempt to terminate the pregnancy, and her father fled the family home.  At the mercy of a violent mother and sexually a ... 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 The Necessary Aptitude: A Memoir by Pam Ayres
    The Necessary Aptitude: A Memoir - by Pam Ayres

    £7.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780091940492 | ISBN 10: 0091940494

    'Next, I applied to work in the accounts department, a sealed room where women operated clattering machines like enormous typewriters. After I had catastrophically and erroneously applied all the wrong information to several trolley loads of document ... more

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  • Cover image of book Instead of a Book: Letters to a Friend by Diana Athill
    Instead of a Book: Letters to a Friend - by Diana Athill

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781847084149 | ISBN 10: 1847084141

    Diana Athill has corresponded with the American poet Edward Field for over thirty years, freely sharing jokes, pleasures and pains with her old friend, and writing with an intimacy and spontaneity even more revealing than the candour of her celebrate ... 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

    £9.99   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 How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
    How to Be a Woman - by Caitlin Moran

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780091940744 | ISBN 10: 0091940745

    1913 Suffragette throws herself under the Kings horse. 1969 Feminists storm Miss World. NOW Caitlin Moran rewrites The Female Eunuch from a bar stool and demands to know why pants are getting smaller. Theres never be ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Chicken Chronicles: A Memoir by Alice Walker
    The Chicken Chronicles: A Memoir - by Alice Walker

    £12.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781780220062 | ISBN 10: 1780220065

    When Alice Walker grew up in the deep south of America, her family always kept chickens - for meat and for eggs - and her job was to chase down the Sunday dinner! In later life, when she settled in Mexico and was growing her own food, she realised ho ... 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 authors 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 A Life in Motion by Florence Howe
    A Life in Motion - by Florence Howe

    £21.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781558616974 | ISBN 10: 1558616977

    Florence Howe has led an audacious life: she created a freedom school during the civil rights movement, refused to bow to academic heavyweights who were opposed to sharing power with women, and founded a feminist publishing house at a time when books ... 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 Gordimers 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 The Brontes by Juliet Barker
    The Brontes - by Juliet Barker

    £16.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780349122427 | ISBN 10: 0349122423

    The story of the tragic Bronte family is familiar to everyone: we all know about the half-mad, repressive father, the drunken, drug-addicted wastrel of a brother, wild romantic Emily, unrequited Anne and 'poor Charlotte'. Or do we? These stereotypes ... more

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  • Cover image of book Life Class: The Selected Memoirs of Diana Athill by Diana Athill
    Life Class: The Selected Memoirs of Diana Athill - by Diana Athill

    £12.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781847081469 | ISBN 10: 1847081460

    Diana Athill, born in 1917, made her reputation as a writer with the candour of her memoirs; through her commitment, in her words, 'to understand, to be aware, to touch the truth'.   In a celebration of her life and writing, Life Class brings ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx by Elaine Showalter
    A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx - by Elaine Showalter

    £14.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781844080809 | ISBN 10: 1844080803

    Fascinating, incisive, intelligent and never afraid of being controversial, Elaine Showalter introduces us to more than 250 writers. Here are the famous and expected names, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Willa Cather, Dorothy Parker, Flannery O'Co ... more

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  • Cover image of book Contact! A Book of Glimpses by Jan Morris
    Contact! A Book of Glimpses - by Jan Morris

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780571250691 | ISBN 10: 0571250696

    Jan Morris has been a travel writer for over half a century, known for her ability to capture places and atmospheres. But what about the many people she has encountered along the way?   In Contact! she turns her brilliantly observant eye to t ... more

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

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

    Charlotte Bront 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 Between the Sheets: The Literary Liaisons of Nine 20th-Century Women Writers by Lesley McDowell
    Between the Sheets: The Literary Liaisons of Nine 20th-Century Women Writers - by Lesley McDowell

    £16.99   hardback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780715639092 | ISBN 10: 0715639099

    Why did a gifted writer like Sylvia Plath stumble into a marriage that drove her to suicide? Why did Hilda Doolittle want to marry Ezra Pound when she was attracted to women? Why did Simone De Beauvoir pimp for Jean-Paul Satre? The list of the damage ... more

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  • Cover image of book An Angel at My Table by Janet Frame
    An Angel at My Table - by Janet Frame

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781844086238 | ISBN 10: 1844086232

    After being misdiagnosed with schizophrenia as a young woman, Janet Frame spent several years in psychiatric institutions. She escaped undergoing a lobotomy when it was discovered that she had just won a national literary prize. She then went on to b ... more

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  • Cover image of book Things I
    Things I've Been Silent About: Memories of a Prodigal Daughter - by Azar Nafisi

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099487128 | ISBN 10: 0099487128

    Azar Nafisi, author of the international bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, now gives us a stunning personal story of growing up in Iran, memories of her life lived in thrall to a powerful and complex mother, against the background of a country's p ... more

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  • Cover image of book Excising the Spirit: A Literary Analysis of Female Circumcision by Linda Strong-Leek
    Excising the Spirit: A Literary Analysis of Female Circumcision - by Linda Strong-Leek

    £21.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781592216758 | ISBN 10: 1592216757

    Excising the Spirit: A Literary Analysis of Female Circumcision delves into one of the most complex issues of the modern era, female circumcision, or female genital mutilation. The issue of female circumcision catapulted into the mainstream after the ... 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 Womens 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 Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho by Sappho
    Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho - by Sappho

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780140455571 | ISBN 10: 0140455574

    More or less 150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is present Turkey. Little remains today of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria ... 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 Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son
    Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir - by David Rieff

    £7.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781847080752 | ISBN 10: 1847080758

    Susan Sontag had fought off two previous bouts of cancer when, in 2004, she was diagnosed with an incurable form of leukaemia. In this beautifully written memoir, her son David Rieff recounts their time together during the last months of Sontag' ... 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 Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill
    Somewhere Towards the End - by Diana Athill

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781847080691 | ISBN 10: 1847080693

    Diana Athill will be ninety in December, 2007. Somewhere Towards the End tells the story of what it means to be old: how the pleasure of sex ebbs, how the joy of gardening grows, how much there is to remember, to forget, to regret, to forgive - and h ... more

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  • Cover image of book Walking through Fire: The Later Years of Nawal El Saadawi by Nawal El Saadawi
    Walking through Fire: The Later Years of Nawal El Saadawi - by Nawal El Saadawi

    £13.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781848132290 | ISBN 10: 1848132298

    In A Daughter of Isis, Nawal El Saadawi painted a beautifully textured portrait of the childhood that moulded her into a novelist and fighter for freedom and the rights of women. Walking Through Fire takes up the story of Saadawis extraordinary life ... 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 In Her Element: Women and the Landscape - An Anthology by Edited by Jane Macnamee
    In Her Element: Women and the Landscape - An Anthology - by Edited by Jane Macnamee

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781870206969 | ISBN 10: 1870206967

    Mountaineers, amblers, star-gazers, river-watchers, cavers, climbers, farmers, artists, sailors and ecologists - all these writers explore the elemental forces of the Welsh landscapes which have shaped their lives. They all share a deep, personal ... more

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  • Cover image of book Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie by Rachel Corrie
    Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie - by Rachel Corrie

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781847080509 | ISBN 10: 1847080502

    Rachel Corrie was a young American activist killed on March 16th 2003, as she tried to block the demolition of a Palestinian family's home in the Gaza strip. She was twenty-three years old. Let Me Stand Alone reveals Corrie's striking gifts as a poe ... 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 Baghdad Burning: Volume 2 by Riverbend
    Baghdad Burning: Volume 2 - by Riverbend

    £7.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780714531335 | ISBN 10: 0714531332

    'Suddenly, the house was filled with strange men, yelling out orders and stomping into rooms. It was chaotic. We could see flashing lights in the garden and lights coming from the hallways. I could hear Ammoo S. talking loudly outside telling them hi ... more

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  • Cover image of book What the Chinese Don
    What the Chinese Don't Eat - by Xinran

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780099501527 | ISBN 10: 009950152x

    In June 2003 Xinran began writing about China for her weekly column in the Guardian. She has covered a vast range of topics from food to sex education, and from the experiences of British mothers who have adopted Chinese daughters, to whether Chinese ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wild Women and Books: Bibliophiles, Bluestockings, and Prolific Pens by Brenda Knight
    Wild Women and Books: Bibliophiles, Bluestockings, and Prolific Pens - by Brenda Knight

    £14.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781573242714 | ISBN 10: 1573242713

    Wild Women and Books is a celebration of perhaps the most revered and radical women writers of history. Beginning with the first recorded writer of either gender to date, Enheduanna of Sumeria, and ending with acclaimed authors of today, including To ... 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 The People on the Street: A Writer
    The People on the Street: A Writer's View of Israel - by Linda Grant

    £11.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781844082544 | ISBN 10: 1844082547

    One block of a Tel Aviv street is the starting point for this highly acclaimed writer's exploration of the inner dynamics of Israelis - not the government and its policies, but the people themselves, in all their variety. Iraqi shopkeepers, teenage s ... more

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  • Cover image of book In Search of Our Mother
    In Search of Our Mother's Gardens - by Alice Walker

    £9.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780753819609 | ISBN 10: 0753819600

    The first collection of Alice Walker's non-fiction spanning fifteen years in the career of this remarkable writer.  This collection of essays is a celebration of the legacy of creativity - especially the rich vein of women's stories and spiritu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Consorting With Angels: Essays on Modern Women Poets by Deryn Rees-Jones
    Consorting With Angels: Essays on Modern Women Poets - by Deryn Rees-Jones

    £10.95   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781852243920 | ISBN 10: 1852243929

    Until recently, womens poetry has been at best sidelined and at worst forgotten. In this pioneering study, Deryn Rees-Jones argues that the poetic traditions of the past hundred years must be radically rethought in the light of the formal and themat ... 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 A Room of One
    A Room of One's Own - by Virginia Woolf

    £4.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780141018980 | ISBN 10: 0141018984

    Woolf's blazing polemic on female creativity, the role of the writer, and the silent fate of Shakespeare's imaginary sister remains a powerful reminder of a woman's need for financial independence and intellectual freedom. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 by Vera Brittain
    Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 - by Vera Brittain

    £14.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780860680352 | ISBN 10: 0860680355

    In 1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen and, as war was declared, she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that was unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era. Testament o ... 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 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
    84 Charing Cross Road - by Helene Hanff

    £8.99   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9781860498503 | ISBN 10: 1860498507

    The true story of the 20-year correspondence between Helene Hanff, an American writer living in New York, and Frank Doel, the Manager of Messrs Marks and Co., a bookshop in London's Charing Cross Road. The story is told in the couple's letters. "This ... more

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  • Cover image of book Communities of the Heart: The Rhetoric of Myth in the Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin by Warren Rochelle
    Communities of the Heart: The Rhetoric of Myth in the Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin - by Warren Rochelle

    £20.00   paperback   (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780853238867 | ISBN 10: 0853238863

    This book explores the use of imaginative literature as persuasion, focusing on the science fiction of Ursula Le Guin and her rhetorical use of myth. The author concludes that Le Guin (like Emerson, Peirce, Thoreau, Whitman, and Dewey) is a romantic/ ... more

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  • Cover image of book Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
    Girl, Interrupted - by Susanna Kaysen

    £8.99   paperback   (2000) - ISBN 13: 9781860497926 | ISBN 10: 1860497926

    In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital to be treated for depression. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psyc ... 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 Russs 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 Moving Beyond Words by Gloria Steinem
    Moving Beyond Words - by Gloria Steinem

    £10.99   paperback   (1995) - ISBN 13: 9780747520214 | ISBN 10: 0747520216

    A selection of essays from the feminist author of Revolution from Within. The topics featured include economic empowerment, the advance of women in politics, the terrorism of anti-abortion activists, the joy of diversity, and the new ceremonies for ... more

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  • Cover image of book Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia with Selected Writings by Carole Farley Kessler
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia with Selected Writings - by Carole Farley Kessler

    £20.00   paperback   (1995) - ISBN 13: 9780853234999 | ISBN 10: 085323499X

    The focus of this work is how Charlotte Perkins Gilman developed as a writer and how she imagined a full-blown utopia for women. It offers a fresh reading of Gilmans fiction and fills a void in Gilman scholarship, in feminist utopian scholarship and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Female Rule in Chinese and English Literary Utopias by Qingyun Wu
    Female Rule in Chinese and English Literary Utopias - by Qingyun Wu

    £18.50   paperback   (1995) - ISBN 13: 9780853235804 | ISBN 10: 0853235805

    Qingyun Wus work is a unique discovery in literary studies in the West: Chinese utopian literature paired with its English counterparts form an original and valuable contribution to world literature. In widely varying historical and cultural texts t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sappho: Poems and Fragments by Balmer, Josephine. (translator)
    Sappho: Poems and Fragments - by Balmer, Josephine. (translator)

    £9.95   paperback   (1984) - ISBN 13: 9781852242015 | ISBN 10: 1852242019

    The Greek poet Sappho was one of the greatest poets in classical literature. Her lyric poetry is among the finest ever written, and although little of her work has survived and little is known about her, she is regarded not just as one of the greates ... more

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