Women Authors

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An intoxicating mixture of poetry and prose, Slug is a taboo-busting delight' SCOTSMAN 'One of the best poets we have' MATT HAIG 'She writes with honesty, conviction, humour and love' KAE TEMPESTThe bestselling collection of...

'A brilliant psychogeography of grief, moving as it does between place, history and memory... The White Book is a mysterious text, perhaps in part a secular prayer book' Deborah Levy, Guardian SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE From...

THE NO 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERI WISH I KNEW - new in paperback on 29th Feb 2024'Beautiful and uplifting' Davina McCall'So inspiring, so heartfelt ... the way Donna writes is beyond beautiful.' Lisa Snowdon'Some people have the Bible by their bed...

The late feminist icon and author of over twenty books, including her classic New York Times bestseller All About Love, bell hooks reminds us of the good and bad moments we spend in love through her inspiring poetry.Written from the heart, When Angels...

*Donna Ashworth's new book Wild Hope is out September 2023*FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF I WISH I KNEWFor those cast adrift in the lonely sea of grief, this collection offers solace for when the water gets rough.Donna Ashworth's poetry...

'Brianna Pastor is by far one of my favourite new writers. If you want to feel seen and deeply moved, read Good Grief. Let the power of her writing guide you to a better life.' Yung Pueblo, #1 New York Times bestselling authorAn expanded edition with...

My heart has made its mind upAnd I'm afraid it's you.The Orange provides the perfect introduction to Wendy Cope, one of Britain's wittiest, best-selling and best-loved poets.In poems that can turn from laugh-out-loud funny to deeply moving, Wendy Cope...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807068779Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 227mm * 152mm * 21mm

A stunning gift book containing 150 bold, brave and beautiful poems by women - from classic, well loved poets to innovative and bold modern voices. From suffragettes to school girls, from spoken word superstars to civil rights activists, from...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A glimpse to the person behind the glamour and drama . . . you get a real sense of the beating soul of Megan Fox' Glamour'A wry and moody meditation on sadness and heartbreak' Vogue'[Fox] opens up in poetic detail and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739516147Author Ariana ReinesFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Divided PublishingPublisher Divided Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143125839Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 142gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 127mm *...

"I wrote poetry before I wrote anything else," says Susan Abulhawa, esteemed Palestinian-American author and social activist, in the introduction to her first book of poems, My Voice Sought the Wind. This new work followed her highly acclaimed novel,...

'Brilliant poems of complex, haunting power... Averno may be Gluck's masterpiece' The New York Times Book ReviewAn acclaimed collection from the Nobel prize-winning poetThis startlingly original reworking of the Persephone myth takes us to the icy shores...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807068816Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 235mm * 8mm

No Worries If Not is a funny, relatable coming-of-age story, that explores comedian, Soph Galustian's, experiences of poverty, queerness, love, grief and community. She recounts her life from childhood, to teens, into adulthood through a mixture of short...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781869714871Author Jessica UrlichsFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Little MoaPublisher Hachette Aotearoa New ZealandWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)...

*WINNER OF THE WRITERS' PRIZE - BOOK OF THE YEAR*Inspired by a true story, The Home Child is a beautiful novel-in-verse about a child far from home'Ground-breaking' Benjamin Zephaniah'Beautifully crafted' Guardian'Extraordinary' Hannah LoweIn 1908, Eliza...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781725177Author Anne-Marie FyfeFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

From her reflections on African American life and hardship in Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie to her revolutionary celebrations of womanhood in Phenomenal Woman and Still I Rise, and her elegant tributes to dignitaries Bill Clinton and...

Kae Tempest is one of the most exciting and innovative performers to have emerged in spoken-word poetry in many years; their dramatic poem Brand New Ancients won the prestigious Ted Hughes Prize for innovation in poetry. Tempest's wholly unique blend of...

If you think often about the past or battle with overthinking and self-esteem, girl made of glass is for you. This collection is about finding yourself, forgiving yourself, and loving yourself. It explores the many ways our past haunts us, but will leave...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807068878Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912779901Author Laura Ding-EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint That Guy's HousePublisher That Guy's HouseWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316650007Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 77Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm)...

On a Grey Thread is the groundbreaking poetry collection of Elsa Gidlow - the first in North American history to openly express lesbian desire.Both personal and political, Gidlow's poems express the poet's complex feelings as a young woman whose...

'Bright Dead Things buoyed me in this dismal year. I'm thankful for this collection, for its wisdom and generosity, for its insistence on holding tight to beauty even as we face disintegration and destruction.' Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never...

I have been womanfor a long timebeware my smileI am treacherous with old magicFilled with rage and tenderness, Audre Lorde's most acclaimed poetry collection speaks of mothers and children, female strength and vulnerability, renewal and revenge,...

With both pen and camera lens, Orion Carloto captures the dreamlike beauty of memory.Film for Her is a story book of people, places, and memories captured on film. Through photographs, poetry, prose, and a short story, Orion Carloto invites readers to...

Malkin is a vivid evocation of the trials of the Pendle Witches in 1612. The sequence of poems is delivered in the form of epitaphic monologues, with the accused men and women eerily addressing the reader with their confessions and pleas. Strikingly,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681373997Author Denise RileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807069141Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 130gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 159mm * 7mm

Brief poems describe nature, mortality, a missing child, the lives of animals, and the beauty of the seasons.Book InformationISBN 9780316650045Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown &...

More or less 150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is present Turkey. Little remains today of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some...

#1 New York Times bestseller Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose...

In Feminine Gospels, Carol Ann Duffy draws on the historical, the archetypal, the biblical and the fantastical to create various visions - and revisions - of female identity. Simultaneously stripping women bare and revealing them in all their guises and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578828381Author Patience Tamarra DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Patience DavisPublisher Patience DavisWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618083435Author Anne SextonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 455g

In her prize-winning fourth collection, Mean Time, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy dramatizes scenes from childhood, adolescence and adulthood, finding moments of grace or consolation in memory, love and language amid the complexities of life. These are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807068793Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 159mm * 9mm