Yellowface – Rebecca F. Kuang
Athena Liu is a literary darling and June Hayward is literally nobody. When Athena dies in a freak accident, June steals her manuscript and publishes it as her own under the name Juniper Song. But as evidence threatens June’s stolen success, she discovers exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves.
Fantastic Female Adventurers – Lily Dyu
Follow fourteen inspirational women on their incredible journeys around the world. Ski to the North Pole with Ann Daniels while watching out for the polar bears and lethal cracks in the ice. Sail the oceans with Ellen MacArthur, the girl who saved up her lunch money to buy her first boat. You’ll even fly into space with Britain’s first astronaut, Helen Sharman. Fantastic Female Adventurers will leave you thinking: I can do that, too!
Writing Menopause: An anthology of Fiction, Poetry and Creative Non-Fiction – Jane Cawthorne and E.D Morin
This unique offering reflects the varied experience of menopause and shatters common stereotypes. Enjoy over fifty works of fiction, creative non-fiction poetry, interviews and cross-genre pieces that break new ground in portraying menopause in literature. The authors neither celebrate nor demonise menopause. These are diverse depictions, sometimes light-hearted, but just as often dark and scary. Some voices embrace the prospect of change, others dread it.
The strange affair of Madeline Smith: Victorian Scotland’s trial of the century – Douglas MacGowan
It was a case that rocked Victorian society. Emile L’Angelier was a working-class immigrant from the Channel Islands who began a clandestine affair with prominent Glasgow socialite Madeleine Smith. Six weeks after Emile threatened to show Madeleine’s father their passionate letters, on 23 March 1857, he was found dead from arsenic poisoning. The evidence against Madeleine seemed overwhelming as she went to trial for murdering her lover. Macgowan produces contemporary sources, the trial testimony, and the infamous correspondence between Madeline and Emile.
Women of Means: The Fascinating Biographies of Royals, Heiresses, Eccentrics and Other Poor Little Rich Girls – Marlene Wagman-Geller
Can money really buy happiness? Find out from some of the world’s wealthiest women! This is a collection of biographies of the women who were slated from birth – or marriage – to great privilege, only to endure lives which were the stuff that tragic Russian heroines are made of. Read about: the real-life counterpart to Lady Cora of Downtown Abbey – Almira Herbert, Liliane Bettencourt, whose father created L’Oréal…and was a Nazi Collaborator, and Nina Rothschild, who traded her gilded life to become the Baroness of Bebop.
Forbidden Notebook – Alba De Céspedes
The story of an Italian woman’s slow rebellion against her bourgeois family life. Valeria Cossati gives in to a sudden impulse – she buys a black shiny notebook. She starts keeping a diary in secret, recording her concerns about family and home life. With each entry Valeria plunges deeper into her interior life, uncovering profound dissatisfaction and restlessness. As she finds her own voice, the roles that have come to define her as wife, as mother, as daughter, begin to break apart.
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