Women Authors

A New York Times Notable BookA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Boston Globe and LitHub Best Book of the YearWhen "The Fourth State of Matter," her now famous piece about a workplace massacre at the University of Iowa was published in The New...

Lyrical and unforgettable, part elegy and part memoir, we present a previously unpublished masterpiece from the Beat Generation icon. Simultaneously released with an expanded edition of di Prima's classic Revolutionary Letters on the one-year anniversary...

'Beautifully written and both heartbreaking and heartwarming' Jessica Redland WINNER OF THE RNA CONTEMPORARY ROMANTIC NOVEL AWARD 2023Cottage Two, Bracken Ridge Farm sits at the end of a pitted track, with the glorious Yorkshire moors stretching behind...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473559748Author Pat BackleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Pat BackleyPublisher Pat BackleyWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061670923Author Professor of English Terry CastleFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593132685Author Gloria SteinemFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375098274Author Mary RobinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 290Imprint Gale Ncco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ncco, Print EditionsWeight(grams)...

'The moment I got my job at Virago in 1978 I knew it would be a long time before I would leave. I certainly wouldn't have had the brazen hope then-only twenty-five and very recently new to Britain-that I would ever become the Publisher, but I did know...

'I was fascinated, moved and entertained by every page. This is the kind of book the world needs right now' DONAL RYAN_______________'My dictionary's first two definitions of 'comrade' are:A close companion.An intimate associate or friend.The third one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156027786Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams)...

A meditation on the private and public fault lines which divide American society.In Civil Wars, June Jordan's battleground is the intersection of private and public reality, which she explores through a blending of personal reflection and political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583943724Author Lenore KandelFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

To double-track is to be both: counter-cultural and establishment, rich and poor, a bum with the keys to a country retreat, an exotic addition to the dinner table who still knows how to find their way around the silverware. In the 1970s Tom Wolfe...

Reading George Eliot's work was described by one Victorian critic as 'the feeling of entering the confessional in which she sees and hears all the secrets of human psychology--that roar which lies on the other side of silence'. This new biography of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358727111Author Bano QudsiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Taemeer PublicationsPublisher Taemeer Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525562146Author Radhika JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609455583Author Elena FerranteFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Europa EditionsPublisher Europa Editions

It has been decades since women of color first turned feminism upside down, exposing the feminist movement as exclusive, white, and unaware of the concerns and issues of women of color from around the globe. Since then, key social movements have risen,...

From the author of THE COLOR PURPLE, a unique collection of essays about her life and her activism'The passion of lyricism that Alice Walker put to such good use in her novel The Color Purple is here in this collection of essays' Fay Weldon, Mail on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780916379957Author Ofelia AlayetoFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint Scripta HumanisticaPublisher Scripta HumanisticaWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636141169Author Joyce Carol OatesFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.

Since the publication of her groundbreaking collection, The Boys of My Youth, Jo Ann Beard has been heralded as a master of the autobiographical essay, a form that has recently gained popularity with the works of Leslie Jamison, Eula Biss, Esme Weijun...

The things I've learned from taxi drivers would be enough to fill a book. They know a lot: they really do get around. I may know a lot about Antonioni that they don't know. Or maybe they do even when they don't. There are various ways of knowing by...

'I was fascinated, moved and entertained by every page. This is the kind of book the world needs right now' DONAL RYAN_______________'My dictionary's first two definitions of 'comrade' are:A close companion.An intimate associate or friend.The third one...

Jane Austen's Little Book of Wisdom offers more than 300 bite-size quotes of inspiration and wisdom from one of the greatest females writers in the English language. Jane Austen is one of the most celebrated female writers in history, best...

Spanning time, styles, and traditions, a dazzling collection of essential works from 140 Latine writers, scholars, and activists from across the world—from warrior poet Audre Lorde to novelist Edwidge Danticat and performer and author Elizabeth Acevedo...

Real Stories from Wildly Creative Women"If you need an extra boost of bravery, read this book! If you want to simply feel more positive about the world, read this book!" -Sherry Richert Belul, founder of Simply Celebrate and author of Say It Now#1 New...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Hugo Award (Related Book) 2018.Book InformationISBN 9781328661593Author Ursula K. Le GuinFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611457971Author Natalia GinzburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm)...

Available for the first time and collected in one volume, the letters of one of America's most beloved authors, Laura Ingalls Wilder-a treasure trove that offers new and unexpected understanding of her life and work. The Selected Letters of Laura...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590170601Author Mavis GallantFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

A Sword of Bronze and Ashes combines the fierce beauty of Celtic myth with grimdark battle violence. It's a lyrical, folk horror high fantasy. Kanda has a good life until shadows from her past return threatening everything she loves. And Kanda, like any...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646220113Author Margot KahnFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint CatapultPublisher Catapult

Sleeping in the Courtyard shines a light on works by a group of diverse contemporary Kurdish women and nonbinary writers living in Kurdistan and in diaspora. Featuring poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and graphic work by both emerging and well-established...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781965622049Author Judith KeimFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint Wild Quail PublishingPublisher Wild Quail PublishingWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218269166Author Faye Rapoport DespresFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Huntsville Independent PressPublisher Huntsville Independent...

This beautifully illustrated book charts the life, works and legacy of one of the world's most beloved authors, offering a seasonal guide to Jane Austen's life through the objects that surrounded her, the personal letters and manuscripts that she...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524732950Author Mason CurreyFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 465gDimensions(mm) 192mm * 134mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Grand Prix du Livre de Montreal 2020.Book InformationISBN 9781772016024Author Martine DelvauxFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Talon Books,CanadaPublisher...

From one of top after-school programs in the nation, Girls Write Now, comes the next installment in the organization's award-winning anthology series: a stunning collection of poetry and prose written by young women and their mentors in exploration of...