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£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 TelegraphÂ
Malorie Blackman is one of Brit ... more
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£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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£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.Â
Twenty-five years ago, Margaret Busby’s groundbreaking anthology ... more
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£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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£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.Â
Spanning the 1930s to present day, Afte ... more
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£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. Â
Slay in Your Lane Presents: Loud Black Girls features essays from the diverse voices of tw ... more
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£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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£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?Â
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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£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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£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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£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
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No subject is too fringe or too mainstream for the unstoppable Zadie Smith. From social media to ... more
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£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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£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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£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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£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.
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Find the perfect comeback for those infuriating 'you're not a feminist, ... more
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£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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£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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£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.
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Feminist Freedom Warriors tells the stories of women of color from the Global South, weaving together cross-generation ... more
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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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.
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Tove Jansson (1914-2001) led a long, colourful and productive life, impacting significantly the politi ... more
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£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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£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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£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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£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 novel’s 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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£8.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780091940744 | ISBN 10: 0091940745
1913 – Suffragette throws herself under the King’s 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.
There’s never be ... more
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£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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£11.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781558617704 | ISBN 10: 1558617701
FP brings back into print a literary gem.
Personal essays by a great Jewish American writer.
"Bridges the gap between humor and despair, past and present, Jew and gentile, to reveal its author’s simple humanity, deeply rooted in her u ... more
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£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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£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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£12.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781408800966 | ISBN 10: 1408800969
Nadine Gordimer’s life reflects the true spirit of the writer as moral activist, political visionary and literary icon. Telling Times collects together all her non-fiction for the first time, spanning more than half a century, from the twilight of co ... more
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£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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£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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£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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£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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£9.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780199576968 | ISBN 10: 0199576963
Charlotte Brontë is one of the most popular English novelists, and her letters offer a fascinating insight into her life as a writer, her personal life, and the society in which she lived.
The only available edition, this selection is derived fr ... more
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£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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£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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£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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£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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£21.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781592217113 | ISBN 10: 1592217117
Constructing Incest Stories: Black Women’s Voices in Fact and Fiction provides a highly original perspective on incest by an illuminating fusion of social science research and literary analysis.
The analysis of the process of the constructi ... more
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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£20.00 paperback (1999) - ISBN 13: 9780853236245 | ISBN 10: 0853236240
In this major study of the work of Joanna Russ, Jeanne Cortiel gives a clear introduction to the major feminist issues relevant to Russ’s work and assesses its development. The book will be especially valuable for students of SF and feminist SF, espe ... more
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£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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