Virago
Apology For The Woman Writing
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France in the 16th century. Marie de Gournay is a self-educated “difficult” child whose life is centred in her dead father’s library ...Read Review
Black Orchids
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The first ninety pages and the last thirty of this profound novel are arresting, sensual, initially in 1946 Ceylon, later 1972 Sri Lanka. The book ...Read Review
Scapegallows
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A ‘scapegallows’ is one who deserves and has narrowly escaped hanging. One such is Margaret Catchpole, born in Suffolk, who lived a double ...Read Review
Beyond These Walls – Escaping the Warsaw Ghetto
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This is the vivid and compelling autobiography of Janina Bauman, a young Jewish girl (the same age as Anne Frank) from a professional ...Read Review
The Girl from Hockley: Growing Up in Working-Class Birmingham
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Kathleen Dayus was born in 1903, and this new edition combines several of her works into a volume telling the story of her life ...Read Review
Valaida
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Based on the life of Valaida Snow, one of the first female jazz trumpeters, this lyrical novel pulses with the heartbeat of black ...Read Review
Life Mask
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In her latest novel, Emma Donahue (Slammerkin) lifts all her characters from the pages of history and draws obvious parallels between that age ...Read Review
Gilead
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John Ames, a third-generation preacher, is dying of heart disease. It is 1956, and he decides to write a journal of his life for ...Read Review
Pharos: A Ghost Story
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On Jacob’s Rock, a remote lighthouse on the coast of Scotland, a young woman is washed up on shore in the early 19...Read Review
The Bondwoman’s Narrative
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Allegedly the first publication of a novelized account of her life by a slave named Hannah Crafts, The Bondwoman’s Narrative is an ...Read Review
