I could call the story of Maya Angelou’s life ‘uplifting’ but that would do her so little justice. She explains it best in the titles she chose for herself: hers is a story that begins with a caged bird singing and ends in song, free, flung toward the skies.
Author: Wendy Kirk
Hood
…it is a window into lesbianism; it is a study of grief; it is proof that death, and love, follow no script.
Betrayed
A very bold account of a marriage from a 19th century woman writer.
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
An illuminating examination of the points at which an Eastern and a Western culture intersect.
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams
If you thought Sylvia Plath was just poetry and The Bell Jar, think again and investigate this collection.
The Women’s Room
Essential reading for any woman, or man, with an interest in ridding the world of patriarchy
Whom Dykes Divide
A novel telling the history of women and children coal bearers and miners in Craigmillar and Newcraighall.
Mad, Bad and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors
It seems strange to recommend a book about the history of madness as a ‘page-turner’ but Lisa Appignanesi’s exploration of this subject covering the last two centuries and relating it to women in particular was a very absorbing and accessible read.
Jackie Kay and Suzanne Bonnar bring the house down again
We were lucky enough to have Jackie Kay and Suzanne Bonnar at the library last night. Jackie was launching her new book Red Dust Road, and entertained about 100 of […]
Sudden Collapses in Public Places, Apologies for Absence and The Poetry Cure
Darling envisioned new ways of understanding illness, a patient administered poetic cure