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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 37 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki: Conversations with My Psychiatrist by Baek Sehee, translated by Anton Hur
    I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki: Conversations with My Psychiatrist - by Baek Sehee, translated by Anton Hur

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781526648099 | ISBN 10: 1526648091

    THE PHENOMENAL KOREAN BESTSELLER, OVER 100,000 COPIES SOLD IN HARDBACK   TRANSLATED BY INTERNATIONAL BOOKER SHORTLISTEE ANTON HUR   'Will strike a chord with anyone who feels that their public life is at odds with how they really feel inside.' ... more

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  • Cover image of book We Are Still Here: Afghan Women on Courage, Freedom and the Fight to be Heard by Nahid Shahalimi (Editor) with a Foreword by Margaret Atwood
    We Are Still Here: Afghan Women on Courage, Freedom and the Fight to be Heard - by Nahid Shahalimi (Editor) with a Foreword by Margaret Atwood

    £16.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780735246003 | ISBN 10: 0735246009

    A collection of first-hand accounts from courageous Afghan women who refuse to be silenced in the face of the Taliban, to be published for the first anniversary of the US leaving Afghanistan.  After decades of significant progress, the prospects ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nine Paths: A Year in the Life of an Indian Village by Lexi Stadlen
    Nine Paths: A Year in the Life of an Indian Village - by Lexi Stadlen

    £14.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781784744106 | ISBN 10: 1784744107

    On an island at the eastern edge of India, rural, remote and dense with jungle, is a Muslim village. In an ever-shifting landscape of mangroves and rivers, the women here dwell among contradictions, constrictions and change in a place where one's nei ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dancing in the Mosque: An Afghan Mother
    Dancing in the Mosque: An Afghan Mother's Letter to Her Son - by Homeira Qaderi

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780008375317 | ISBN 10: 0008375313

    An exquisite and inspiring memoir about one mother’s unimaginable choice in the face of oppression and abuse in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.   How far would you go to protect yourself? Your dignity? Your family?   In the days befor ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Wisdom of Tea: Life Lessons from the Japanese Tea Ceremony by Noriko Morishita
    The Wisdom of Tea: Life Lessons from the Japanese Tea Ceremony - by Noriko Morishita

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781911630647 | ISBN 10: 1911630644

    For more than 25 years Noriko Morishita has studied and practised the intricate rules of the famous Japanese Tea Ceremony, trying to master its complexities in order to find inner peace.   In this vivid account of her experience of the univer ... more

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  • Cover image of book Distant Sunflower Fields by Li Juan
    Distant Sunflower Fields - by Li Juan

    £10.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781838905064 | ISBN 10: 1838905065

    ‘The earth’s most powerful force is not its quake, but rather its ability to be home for myriad creatures to grow’   An iron-willed mother, an ageing grandmother, a pair of mismatched dogs and 90 mu of less-than-ideal farmland: thes ... more

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  • Cover image of book Kurdish Women
    Kurdish Women's Stories - by Houzan Mahmoud (Editor)

    £16.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780745341149 | ISBN 10: 0745341144

    Kurdistan has had a tumultuous history, and the women who lived there have experienced a life like no other. From Saddam Hussein's reign of terror beginning in the 1960s, to the fight against ISIS today, violence, revolution and questions around iden ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul by Taran Khan
    Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul - by Taran Khan

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781784708023 | ISBN 10: 178470802x

    One of the first things I was told when I arrived in Kabul was never to walk...   When journalist Taran Khan arrives in Kabul, she uncovers a place that defies her expectations.   Her wanderings with other Kabulis reveal a fragile cit ... more

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  • Cover image of book Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up by Xiaolu Guo
    Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up - by Xiaolu Guo

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784702946 | ISBN 10: 1784702943

    *Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award 2017* *Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2017* *Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2018* *Selected as a 2017 Book of the Year in the Sunday Times*   Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lady and the Generals: Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma
    The Lady and the Generals: Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle for Freedom - by Peter Popham

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781846043734 | ISBN 10: 1846043735

    Nobel Peace Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, is a symbol of supreme courage in the face of tyranny. Released from house arrest in 2010, she led her party to a dramatic victory in Burma’s first free general election in a generation.   Acclaime ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
    The Woman Warrior - by Maxine Hong Kingston

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781447275220 | ISBN 10: 1447275225

    With an introduction by Xiaolu Guo   A classic memoir set during the Chinese revolution of the 1940s and inspired by folklore, providing a unique insight into the life of an immigrant in America.   When we Chinese girls listened to the ... more

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  • Cover image of book In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl
    In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom - by Yeonmi Park

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780241973035 | ISBN 10: 0241973031

    'I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.'   Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew ... more

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  • Cover image of book Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture by Gaiutra Bahadur
    Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture - by Gaiutra Bahadur

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781849046602 | ISBN 10: 1849046603

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2014   In 1903 a Brahmin woman sailed from India to Guyana as a ‘coolie’, the name the British gave to the million indentured labourers they recruited for sugar plantations worldwide after slavery ended. The woman, ... more

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  • Cover image of book I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb
    I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban - by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781474602112 | ISBN 10: 1474602118

    The highly anticipated memoir of Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl from Pakistan's Swat region who stood up to the Taliban.  I come from a country which was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday.   When the Taliban to ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary by Anita Anand
    Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary - by Anita Anand

    £14.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408835470 | ISBN 10: 1408835479

    In 1876 Sophia Duleep Singh was born into royalty. Her father, Maharajah Duleep Singh, was heir to the Kingdom of the Sikhs, a realm that stretched from the lush Kashmir Valley to the craggy foothills of the Khyber Pass and included the mighty cities ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Strength to Say No: One Girl
    The Strength to Say No: One Girl's Fight Against Forced Marriage - by Rekha Kalindi with Mouhssine Ennaimi

    £10.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780720617924 | ISBN 10: 0720617928

    An inspiring true-life story that will resonate among those who decry the oppression of women, Rekha Kalindi’s book has been a publishing sensation in France and is now published in English for the first time. Kalindi’s story and her advocacy of the ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Favored Daughter: One Woman
    The Favored Daughter: One Woman's Fight to Lead Afghanistan into the Future - by Fawzia Koofi and Nadene Ghouri

    £10.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780230342026 | ISBN 10: 0230342027

    As America prepares to draw down its forces in Afghanistan, this story of survival and hope from avoice of the country's most oppressed group could not be more timely.  Born to the second of her father's seven wives in rural Afghanistan, Fawzia ... more

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  • Cover image of book New South Asian Feminisms: Paradoxes and Possibilities by Srila Roy (Editor)
    New South Asian Feminisms: Paradoxes and Possibilities - by Srila Roy (Editor)

    £20.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781780321899 | ISBN 10: 1780321899

    South Asian Feminism is in crisis. Under constant attack from right-wing nationalism and religious fundamentalism and co-opted by 'NGO-ization' and neoliberal state agendas, once autonomous and radical forms of feminist mobilization have been ideolog ... more

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  • Cover image of book Blasphemy: The True, Heartbreaking Story of the Woman Sentenced to Death Over a Cup of Water by Asia Bibi
    Blasphemy: The True, Heartbreaking Story of the Woman Sentenced to Death Over a Cup of Water - by Asia Bibi

    £10.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781844088881 | ISBN 10: 184408888x

    Punjab, Pakistan, June 2009.   The temperature is 45 - and Asia has been out picking fruit for several hours. It's exhausting, sweaty work, but Asia and her husband have five children to feed. At midday she goes to the nearest well, picks up ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dear Zari: Hidden Stories from Women of Afghanistan by Zarghuna Kargar
    Dear Zari: Hidden Stories from Women of Afghanistan - by Zarghuna Kargar

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099542186 | ISBN 10: 0099542188

    Compelling, enlightening, heart-breaking - Dear Zari is a collection of true stories from women in Afghanistan...   Dear Zari gives voice to the secret lives of women across Afghanistan and allows them to tell their stories in their own words: ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Honey Gatherers by Mimlu Sen
    The Honey Gatherers - by Mimlu Sen

    £12.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781846041891 | ISBN 10: 1846041899

    Mimlu Sen is living a bohemian life in Paris when she witnesses an electrifying performance by three wandering minstrels from rural India. They wear flowing, multicoloured robes and play frenetic rhythms on strange instruments made of wood and clay, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Raising My Voice: The Extraordinary Story of the Afghan Woman Who Dares to Speak Out by Malalai Joya
    Raising My Voice: The Extraordinary Story of the Afghan Woman Who Dares to Speak Out - by Malalai Joya

    £12.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781846041501 | ISBN 10: 1846041503

    Malalai Joya is the youngest and most famous female MP in Afghanistan, whose bravery and vision have won her an international following. She made world headlines with her very first speech, in which she courageously denounced the presence of warlords ... more

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  • Cover image of book Freedom From Fear by Aung San Suu Kyi
    Freedom From Fear - by Aung San Suu Kyi

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141039497 | ISBN 10: 0141039493

    Aung San Suu Kyi, human-rights activist and leader of Burma's National League for Democracy, was detained in 1989 by SLORC, the ruling military junta. In 1995 she was freed from six years' house arrest in Ragoon, where she was held as a prisoner of c ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Year in Tibet by Sun Shuyun
    A Year in Tibet - by Sun Shuyun

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780007265121 | ISBN 10: 0007265123

    Sun Shuyun grew up in China and has always been fascinated by Tibet and by Buddhism. Accompanied by a television crew, she spent a year in a remote town in the Tibetan mountain area and recorded what life is like for the people there.  Despit ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Voice of Hope: Conversations with Alan Clements by Aung San Suu Kyi
    The Voice of Hope: Conversations with Alan Clements - by Aung San Suu Kyi

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781846041433 | ISBN 10: 1846041430

    "Aung San Suu Kyi is a remarkable and courageous human being. Listen to her voice and be inspired... Burma is the next South Africa."(Archbishop Desmond Tutu) Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi stands alongside Mahatma Gandhi, the Dalai Lam ... more

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  • Cover image of book Miss Bangkok: Memoirs of a Thai Prostitute by Bua Boonmee, with Nicola Pierce
    Miss Bangkok: Memoirs of a Thai Prostitute - by Bua Boonmee, with Nicola Pierce

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781905379439 | ISBN 10: 1905379439

    'Sometimes I wonder was I born to be unfortunate; is this my life my destiny? I pray to Biddha that this not be the case. My life seems to be that of a country girl who has spent her days escaping from a tiger, only to be eaten by a crocodile. Mine i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Daughter of the East: An Autobiography by Benazir Bhutto
    Daughter of the East: An Autobiography - by Benazir Bhutto

    £16.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781847390851 | ISBN 10: 1847390854

    Beautiful and charismatic, the daughter of one of Pakistan's most popular leaders - Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, hanged by General Zia in 1979 - Benazir Bhutto is not only the first woman to lead a post-colonial Muslim state, she achieved a status approachin ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Long March by Sun Shuyun
    The Long March - by Sun Shuyun

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780007194803 | ISBN 10: 0007194803

    Every nation has its founding myth, and for modern China it is the Long March.  In 1934, the fledgling Communist Party and its 200,000 strong armies were forced out of their bases by Chiang Kaishek and his National troops. Walking more than 1 ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Violence of Normal Times: Essays on Women
    The Violence of Normal Times: Essays on Women's Lived Realities - by Kalpana Kannabiran

    £45.00   hardback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9788188965069 | ISBN 10: 8188965065

    This volume attempts to look at the experience and articulation of violence against women in relation to feminist debates and organising on the issue, and the positive/ negative responses to that articulation, particularly from the standpoint of law ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dreams, Questions, Struggles: South Asian Women in Britain by Amrit Wilson
    Dreams, Questions, Struggles: South Asian Women in Britain - by Amrit Wilson

    £22.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780745318479 | ISBN 10: 0745318479

    This book testifies to a multiplicity of struggles, individual and collective, through which South Asian women, across divisions of class, community, age and religion, are seeking to take control of their lives.  It looks at the role of the British s ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sky Burial by Xinran
    Sky Burial - by Xinran

    £8.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780099461937 | ISBN 10: 0099461935

    As a young girl in China Xinran heard a rumour about a soldier in Tibet who had been brutally fed to the vultures in a ritual known as a sky burial: the tale frightened and fascinated her. Several decades later Xinran met Shu Wen, a Chinese woman who ... more

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  • Cover image of book Autobiography of a Geisha by Sayo Masuda
    Autobiography of a Geisha - by Sayo Masuda

    £12.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780099462040 | ISBN 10: 0099462044

    The glamourous world of Kyoto's geisha is familiar to many readers, but Sayo Masuda's tale tells a different story. Masuda was a geisha at a rural hot-springs resort where the realities of sex for sale were unadorned by the trappings of wealth and po ... more

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  • Cover image of book Down the Rat Hole: Adventures Underground on Burma
    Down the Rat Hole: Adventures Underground on Burma's Frontiers - by Edith Miranted

    £17.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9789745240506 | ISBN 10: 9745240508

    A new memoir of the author's journeys among the brave indegenous peoples of some of Asia's most remote and violent regions. Knowledgably obsessed with Burma's struggle for freedom, American artist/activist Mirante breaks laws and infiltrates borders, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ten Thousand Miles Without a Cloud by Sun Shuyun
    Ten Thousand Miles Without a Cloud - by Sun Shuyun

    £14.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780007129744 | ISBN 10: 0007129742

    Sun Shuyun grew up in China during the Cultural Revoultion. Each night she listened to her grandmother's forbidden Buddhist prayers. Each day she lived the tenets of her Communist father, an army veteran. But as the Revolution failed even her father' ... more

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  • Cover image of book Violence Against Women in Asian Societies by Linda Rae Bennett & Lenore Manderson
    Violence Against Women in Asian Societies - by Linda Rae Bennett & Lenore Manderson

    £37.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780700717422 | ISBN 10: 0700717420

    Violence against women is a violation of women's human rights and a priority public health issue. It is endemic worldwide. While much has been written about it in industrialized societies, there has been relatively little attention given to such viol ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Power to Choose: Bangladeshi Women and Labour Market Decisions in London and Dhaka by Naila Kabeer
    The Power to Choose: Bangladeshi Women and Labour Market Decisions in London and Dhaka - by Naila Kabeer

    £27.99   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9781859842065 | ISBN 10: 1859842062

    In this path-breaking study, social economist Naila Kabeer examines the lives of Bangladeshi garment workers in Bangladesh and Britain to shed light on the question of what constitutes 'fair' competition in international trade.  She argues that if th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Even the Women Must Fight: Memories of War from North Vietnam by Karen Gottschang Turner with Phan Thanh Hao
    Even the Women Must Fight: Memories of War from North Vietnam - by Karen Gottschang Turner with Phan Thanh Hao

    £12.99   paperback   (1999) - ISBN 13: 9780471327233 | ISBN 10: 0471327239

    A searing chronicle of wartime experiences, Even the Women must Fight probes the cultural legacy of North Vietnam's American War. Unflinching in its portrayal of hardship, valor, and personal sacrifice, this wrenching account is nothing short of a re ... more

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