Category: Book Reviews

Jean Armour, A Scottish Feminist Heroine: A review of The Jewel by Catherine Czerkawska and the Story Café event

Published on by Eilidh

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The Living Mountain author, Nan Shepard is going to be the first woman on a Scottish bank note which is awesome but if I was to suggest someone from history […]

I Don’t Think Little Big Girls Should Go Walking in These Spooky Old Woods Alone: Carter’s The Company of Wolves

Published on by Kyla McDowall

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Angela Carter is one of my all-time favourite writers, but, I shamefully admit, I had never read perhaps her greatest work – The Bloody Chamber, a collection of short stories. […]

Trans/Forming Feminisms:Trans-Feminist Voices Speak Out edited by Krista Scott-Dixon

Published on by Jessica S

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      Trans/Forming Feminisms: Trans-Feminist Voices Speak Out is a new anthology of works overseen by the editor Krista Scott-Dixon ,a feminist women’s studies scholar who has a PhD […]

By The Time You Read This I’ll Be Dead by Julie Anne Peters.

Published on by Jessica S

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  The award-winning YA novel By The Time You Read This I’ll Be Dead by Julie Anne Peters is a fantastic book and for me personally almost a bit scary. […]

Lucy’s Story:Autism and Other Adventures by Lucy Blackman.

Published on by Jessica S

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Lucy’s Story:Autism and Other Adventures by Lucy Blackman is an incredible memoir which charts the aforementioned author’s life as someone with autism who had an inability to communicate well for […]

Go Your Crohn Way:A Gutsy Guide To Living With Crohns Disease by Kathleen Nicholls.

Published on by Jessica S

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Go your Crohn Way is, in the Scottish author Kathleen Nicholls words, a gutsy guide to living with Crohns disease and aims to ease those diagnosed with, or expected to […]

Join us this Thursday for a special Story Café with Catherine Czerkawska!

Published on by Kyla McDowall

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Pop in to the Women’s Library this Thursday 11th August from 12:30pm for another special Story Café as versatile author and playwright Catherine Czerkawska joins us to talk about her […]

Kirsty Logan and the Women’s Folktale Café.

Published on by Gabrielle

This post was published 9 years ago. You can explore more recent posts through the categories and tags.

Join us between 12:30 and 2:30pm this Thursday 9th June as Scottish author Kirsty Logan whisks us away on an exploration of the myths, fairy-tales and national folklore that inspire her award winning prose. An afternoon not to be missed…