The realms of fantasy and sci-fi have been ,until recently, overwhelming masculine genres of fiction ,despite the impact of those like Le Guin and Atwood, as well as genres […]
Category: Book Reviews
Ethyl Smith’s Story Café Specials: A List of 5 Great Women’s Historical Fiction
As part of Bookweek Scotland 2016, we will welcome Ethyl Smith into the Women’s Library on Thursday 24th November from 12:30-2:30, where she will host the next anticipated edition of […]
A Review of The Novel The Color Purple In the Lead Up To ‘Celebrating Black on Screen Talent’
“I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ast. And that in wondering bout the big things and asting bout the big things, you learn about the little […]
‘The Writer’s Key’ – A Book Review
The following book review has very kindly been contributed by an anonymous participant at the Glasgow Women’s Library ‘Blogging for the Terrified’ workshop for women as part of the Harpies, […]
Jean Armour, A Scottish Feminist Heroine: A review of The Jewel by Catherine Czerkawska and the Story Café event
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 […]
Don’t Miss This Week: Sharon Hayes In Conversation
This Saturday 8th October, starting 2pm, we at the Women’s Library are delighted to welcome renowned American artist Sharon Hayes and her latest commission In My Little Corner of the […]
I Don’t Think Little Big Girls Should Go Walking in These Spooky Old Woods Alone: Carter’s The Company of Wolves
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. […]
The Time In Between:A Memoir of Hunger and Hope by Nancy Tucker.
The Time In Between: A Memoir of Hunger and Hope is an amazing personal account by the author, Nancy Tucker, about their experiences during their youth as someone with […]
Trans/Forming Feminisms:Trans-Feminist Voices Speak Out edited by Krista Scott-Dixon
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.
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. […]