Elaine recommends: The Kashmir Shawl by Rosie Thomas The discovery of her grandmother’s shawl amongst family belongings starts a quest, by Mair, to discover its history – which […]
Every short story in Judith Hermann’s collection The Summer House, Later will leave you with a large range of emotions: melancholy, surprise, and also loneliness. It is almost impossible to just read this book, put it away and go on.
Red Dust Road is autobiographical; Jackie Kay takes you as the reader by the hand and leads you on a journey from a wee cottage in the Highlands of Scotland to the red dust roads of Nigeria.
By collecting individual stories instead of giving only figures and facts about self-defence the editors have achieved their aims: women are given the experience of survival.
This book is about those young women who married Canadian soldiers, sailors and airmen and went to live with them in New Brunswick.
Tells the story of two girls of Nigerian heritage born in the 1980s in England and their struggle towards self love and womanhood.
Her poetry is about humankind and its sufferings, about how wonderful the universe is.
Uses literature by and for women in the 18th and 19th centuries as evidence of how their lives really were.
A very bold account of a marriage from a 19th century woman writer.
If you thought Sylvia Plath was just poetry and The Bell Jar, think again and investigate this collection.
