It’s Not About the Burqa: Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race
£9.99It’s Not About the Burqa is an anthology of essays by Muslim women.
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Great Goddesses: Life lessons from myths and monsters
£12.99Empowering life lessons from myths and monsters. Encounter rebel goddesses, stories of complex love and the mythical might of women as Nikita Gill takes readers on a magical journey of empowerment. Inspired by ancient Greek mythology, discover the power and glory of the greatest goddesses. From the potent venom of Medusa and transformative sorcery of Circe to the rising up of Athena over Olympus, these are the mothers, warriors, creators, survivors and destroyers that shook the world. Accompanied by beautiful hand-drawn illustrations, Nikita’s poems and stories weave old and forgotten tales of might, fury and love into something new – a timely feminist inspiration for modern women.
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Rebel Writers: The Accidental Feminists: Shelagh Delaney * Edna O’Brien * Lynne
£19.99In London in 1958 a play by a 19-year-old redefined women’s writing in Britain. It also began a movement that would change women’s lives forever. The play was ‘A Taste of Honey’ and the author, Shelagh Delaney, was the first of a succession of very young women who wrote about their lives with an honesty that dazzled the world. They rebelled against sexism, inequality and prejudice and in doing so rejected masculine definitions of what writing and a writer should be. After Delaney came Edna O’Brien, Lynne Reid Banks, Virginia Ironside, Charlotte Bingham, Margaret Forster and Nell Dunn, each challenging traditional concepts of womanhood in novels, films, television, essays and journalism. Not since the Brontës have a group of young women been so determined to tell the truth about what it is like to be a girl and proposed new ways to live and love in the future.
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Women, Equality, Power: Selected Speeches from a Life of Leadership
£20.00Helen Clark has been a political leader for more than 40 years, since first running in local elections in the 1970s. She entered the New Zealand parliament as a 31-year-old in 1981, led the Labour Party to victory in 1999 and was Prime Minister of New Zealand for nine years. She then took on a critical international role as Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme in New York. One of her key focuses throughout this time has been the empowerment of women, and she has paved the way for other women to step up and lead. With a foreword by the Rt Hon. Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand, this is a timely and important celebration of Helen Clark’s career.
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Noble Savages: The Olivier Sisters
£25.00The four Olivier sisters were emancipated, determined and wild in an age when society punished women for being so. Margery and Daphne studied at Cambridge at a time when education was still thought to be damaging to ovaries. There they met Rupert Brooke and formed the Neo Pagans, initiating a web of entanglements that would challenge even the sisters’ unbreakable bond. Daphne later became a pioneering educationalist, and set up Britain’s first Steiner school, and Noel joined a tiny minority of female doctors before the First World War.
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Notes To Self
£9.99In this dazzling debut, Emilie Pine speaks to the business of living as a woman in the 21st century – its extraordinary pain and its extraordinary joy. Courageous, humane and uncompromising, she writes with radical honesty on birth and death, on the grief of infertility, on caring for her alcoholic father, on taboos around female bodies and female pain, on sexual violence and violence against the self. Devastatingly poignant and profoundly wise – and joyful against the odds – ‘Notes to Self’ offers a portrait not just of its author but of a whole generation.
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Period Power: Harness Your Hormones and Get Your Cycle Working For You
£14.99‘Period Power’ is a profound but practical blueprint for aligning daily life with the menstrual cycle, to give women a no-nonsense explanation of what the hell happens to them every month and how they can use each phase to its full advantage.
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Everything I Know About Love
£10.99A spot-on, wildly funny and sometimes heart-breaking book about growing up, growing older and navigating all kinds of love along the way. When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming a grown up, journalist and former Sunday Times dating columnist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, wrestling with self-sabotage, finding a job, throwing a socially disastrous Rod Stewart-themed house party, getting drunk, getting dumped, realising that Ivan from the corner shop is the only man you’ve ever been able to rely on, and finding that that your mates are always there at the end of every messy night out.
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Cost Of Living
£10.99Following the acclaimed ‘Things I Don’t Want to Know’, Deborah Levy returns to the subject of her life in letters. ‘The Cost of Living’ reveals a writer in radical flux, considering what it means to live with value and meaning and pleasure.
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Work Like A Woman
£12.99Women today are working in a man’s culture – and it’s holding them back. In ‘Work Like A Woman’, Mary Portas examines the world of employment, how it works against women and what needs to change, as she tells the story of her career – and learning to rewrite the rules.
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Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls
£14.99What if the princess did not marry Prince Charming but instead went on to be an astronaut or an activist? What if the jealous step sisters were supportive and kind? And what if the queen was the one really in charge of the kingdom? ‘Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls’ introduces us to 100 remarkable women and their extraordinary lives. From Marie Curie to Malala, Ada Lovelace to Zaha Hadid, it brings together the stories of scientists, artists, politicians, pirates and spies.
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Your No Guilt Pregnancy Plan
£14.99Pregnancy is an incredibly exciting time, but with so many decisions to make and so much information to take in, it can also be an anxious one. Nobody knows this better than Rebecca Schiller, who during her time as a doula has supported scores of women through pregnancy and childbirth. Not only does she know everything there is to know about antenatal classes and morning sickness, but she understands that every pregnancy is different. Now she shares her wealth of wisdom to help you take ownership of your body, and have your baby your way. This is a concise and honest guide to breaking down the jargon and cutting through the nonsense. In its pages you will find easy-to-follow summaries of the choices available to you through every step of pregnancy and childbirth, equipping you with the knowledge and the confidence to be at the heart of every decision.