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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 17 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Walking Distance by Lizzy Stewart
    Walking Distance - by Lizzy Stewart

    £9.99   paperback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781910395813 | ISBN 10: 1910395811

    A hybrid prose and comics-format essay on the experience of being a woman out walking.  Merging the personal and the political, observation and contemplation, the author examines what her life is and wonders what it should be; what is expecte ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Invisible Painting: My Memoir of Leonora Carrington by Gabriel Weisz Carrington
    The Invisible Painting: My Memoir of Leonora Carrington - by Gabriel Weisz Carrington

    £12.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781526169648 | ISBN 10: 1526169649

    Since her death in 2011, the legendary Surrealist Leonora Carrington has been reconstructed and reinvented many times over. In this book, Gabriel Weisz Carrington draws on remembered conversations and events to demythologise his mother, revealing the ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Long Thread: Women of Color on Craft, Community, and Connection by Jen Hewett
    This Long Thread: Women of Color on Craft, Community, and Connection - by Jen Hewett

    £19.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781611808247 | ISBN 10: 1611808243

    Weaving together interviews, first-person essays, and artist profiles, This Long Thread explores the work and contributions of women of color across the fiber arts and crafts community. These conversations explore materials, belonging, identity, cult ... more

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  • Cover image of book Golem Girl: A Memoir by Riva Lehrer
    Golem Girl: A Memoir - by Riva Lehrer

    £20.00   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780349014814 | ISBN 10: 0349014817

    ***WINNER OF THE BARBELLION PRIZE*** ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD***  In 1958, amongst the children born with spina bifida is Riva Lehrer. At the time, most such children are not expected to survive. Her parents ... more

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  • Cover image of book Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians by JEB
    Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians - by JEB

    £25.00   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781944860370 | ISBN 10: 1944860371

    In 1979, JEB (Joan E. Biren) self-published her first book, Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians. Revolutionary at that time, JEB made photographs of lesbians from different ages and backgrounds in their everyday lives - working, playing, raising famil ... more

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  • Cover image of book Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview - and Other Conversations by Frida Kahlo
    Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview - and Other Conversations - by Frida Kahlo

    £12.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781612198750 | ISBN 10: 1612198759

    Frida Kahlo’s legacy continues to grow in the public imagination in the nearly fifty years since her ”discovery” in the 1970s. This collection of conversations over the course of her brief career allows a peek at the woman behind the hype. And ... more

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  • Cover image of book Strength: Featuring Frida Kahlo by Frida Kahlo
    Strength: Featuring Frida Kahlo - by Frida Kahlo

    £9.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781787556799 | ISBN 10: 1787556794

    Officially Licensed Frida Kahlo Corporation Product.   Strength, featuring the sensibility of Frida Kahlo, offers a paean to the determined independence of the remarkable artist and activist.   A new series of gift books from Flame Tree, Thoug ... more

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  • Cover image of book Womanhood: The Bare Reality by Laura Dodsworth
    Womanhood: The Bare Reality - by Laura Dodsworth

    £20.00   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781780664651 | ISBN 10: 1780664656

    100 women bare all in an empowering collection of photographs and interviews about Womanhood.  Vagina, vulva, lady garden, pussy, beaver, cunt, fanny… whatever you call it most women have no idea what’s ‘down there’. Culturally and pe ... more

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

    £15.00   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781788400176 | ISBN 10: 1788400178

    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 Pocket Frida Kahlo Wisdom: Inspirational quotes and wise words from a legendary icon by Frida Kahlo
    Pocket Frida Kahlo Wisdom: Inspirational quotes and wise words from a legendary icon - by Frida Kahlo

    £5.99   hardback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784881801 | ISBN 10: 1784881805

    Frida Kahlo is undoubtedly one of the most innovative and influential painters of the 20th century and is widely considered a style icon thanks to her eclectic taste and love for colour, print and hauls of jewellery. From a young age, Kahlo forged he ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind by Siri Hustvedt
    A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind - by Siri Hustvedt

    £10.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781473638907 | ISBN 10: 1473638909

    A trailblazing and inspiring collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology by the internationally bestselling novelist Siri Hustvedt.  Internationally acclaimed as a novelist, Siri Hustvedt is also highly regarded as a write ... more

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  • Cover image of book Barbara Hepworth: The Sculptor in the Studio by Sophie Bowness
    Barbara Hepworth: The Sculptor in the Studio - by Sophie Bowness

    £16.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781849765268 | ISBN 10: 184976526x

    Barbara Hepworth: The Sculptor in the Studio explores the enormous impact that Trewyn Studio and garden had on Hepworth’s art and life.   A history and a portrait of a unique place, the book illuminates the ways in which the place and the wo ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen: Awesome Female Characters from Comic Book History by Hope Nicholson
    The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen: Awesome Female Characters from Comic Book History - by Hope Nicholson

    £19.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781594749483 | ISBN 10: 1594749485

    Think comic books can’t feature strong female protagonists? Think again!  In The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen you’ll meet the most fascinating exemplars of the powerful, compelling, entertaining, and heroic female characters who ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington by Joanna Moorhead
    The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington - by Joanna Moorhead

    £20.00   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780349008776 | ISBN 10: 0349008779

    A personal biography of Leonora Carrington, the debutante who ran away to Mexico and became one of the world's most significant surrealist artists.   In 2006 journalist Joanna Moorhead discovered that her father's cousin, Prim, who had disappe ... more

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  • Cover image of book 30 Cakes to Eat Naked by Beryl Cook
    30 Cakes to Eat Naked - by Beryl Cook

    £7.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780711237377 | ISBN 10: 0711237379

    Beryl Cook began to paint during the 1960s and became a local phenomenon in Cornwall, England where she lived with her family, but it wasnt until 1975 that she first exhibited her work. Her appeal was classless and she rapidly became Britains most ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lady Screever - Alice Colman: The World
    Lady Screever - Alice Colman: The World's First Female Pavement Artist - by Philip Battle

    £12.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780993379604 | ISBN 10: 0993379605

    Lady Screever is the story of Alice Coleman, the world's first female pavement artist. At the end of the 19th century, Alice endured inclement weather, overzealous policing, sexism, physical threats and marriage proposals to support her family by ill ... more

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  • Cover image of book Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo and Me by Ellen Forney
    Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo and Me - by Ellen Forney

    £13.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781472106896 | ISBN 10: 147210689x

    A humorous, insightful and occasionally outrageous graphic memoir of an artist suffering from (but enjoying) bipolar disorder. Shortly before her thirtieth birthday, Forney was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Suffering from (but enjoying) extreme ma ... more

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