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  • A View From The Bed And Other Observations by Jenny Diski 9781844080984 [USED COPY]

    A View From The Bed And Other Observations by Jenny Diski 9781844080984 [USED COPY]

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    As a general rule I try to maintain a balanced and realistic approach to life. I'm convinced that the best place for a rabbit's foot is at the end of a rabbit's leg. And if there are fairies at the...
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  • Desert Dawn by Waris Dirie 9781860499623 [USED COPY]

    Desert Dawn by Waris Dirie 9781860499623 [USED COPY]

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    Fashion model, UN ambassador and courageous spirit, Waris Dirie is a remarkable woman, born into a traditional family of tribal desert nomads in Somalia. She told her story - enduring, at five years...
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  • The Virago Book of Women Gardeners by Deborah Kellaway 9781860491535 [USED COPY]

    The Virago Book of Women Gardeners by Deborah Kellaway 9781860491535 [USED COPY]

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    From diggers and weeders, to artists and colourists, writers and dreamers to trend-setters, plantswomen to landscape designers, women have contributed to the world of gardening and gardens. Here...
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  • Couples: How We Make Love Last by Kate Figes 9781844084678 [USED COPY]

    Couples: How We Make Love Last by Kate Figes 9781844084678 [USED COPY]

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    These days, many of us enjoy unrivalled freedom and equality when it comes to choosing and building a relationship. Yet new myths about how to live and love compromise that happiness. Kate Figes...
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  • Climbing The Bookshelves: The autobiography of Shirley Williams by Shirley Williams 9781844084753 [USED COPY]

    Climbing The Bookshelves: The autobiography of Shirley Williams by Shirley Williams 9781844084753 [USED COPY]

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    The role of women in our society has changed out of all recognition. But it has changed least in the House of Commons. I want to describe those changes and the resistances to them through the...
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  • The Virago Book Of Twins And Doubles: An Autobiographical Anthology by Penelope Farmer 9781860492716 [USED COPY]

    The Virago Book Of Twins And Doubles: An Autobiographical Anthology by Penelope Farmer 9781860492716 [USED COPY]

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    Penelope Farmer, a twin herself, bravely and beautifully uses her own story to introduce and define a collection from over 250 authors. She draws on popular myth, poetry, fiction, psychology and...
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  • Alek: The extraordinary life of a Sudanese Refugee by Alek Wek 9781844084425 [USED COPY]

    Alek: The extraordinary life of a Sudanese Refugee by Alek Wek 9781844084425 [USED COPY]

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    Alek Wek grew up in the Sudan in the midst of the vicious civil war. Now, at age 28, she is one of the most sought-after supermodels in the world, and has single-handedly changed the traditional...
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  • Me And Mine by Anna May Mangan 9781844086726 [USED COPY]

    Me And Mine by Anna May Mangan 9781844086726 [USED COPY]

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    ME AND MINE tells the story of an Irish immigrant family who left rural Ireland in the 1950s to find work and a better way of life in England. From aunts who claimed their current hair shade as...
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  • Aquamarine by Carol Anshaw 9781853816253 [USED COPY]

    Aquamarine by Carol Anshaw 9781853816253 [USED COPY]

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    Imagine how different your life might be if you had taken another path at a crucial turning point in the past. Aquamarine explores the intricate ways early choices reverbarate through a life. Shown...
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  • Climbing The Bookshelves: The autobiography of Shirley Williams Shirley Williams 9781844084753

    Climbing The Bookshelves: The autobiography of Shirley Williams Shirley Williams 9781844084753

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    The role of women in our society has changed out of all recognition. But it has changed least in the House of Commons. I want to describe those changes and the resistances to them through the...
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  • Strong At The Broken Places: Overcoming the Trauma of Childhood Abuse by Linda T. Sanford

    Strong At The Broken Places: Overcoming the Trauma of Childhood Abuse by Linda T. Sanford

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    In this moving and authoritative work which combines dedicated research and interviews with victims of childhood abuse and neglect, psychotherapist Linda Sanford passionately refutes the received...
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  • The Door Margaret Atwood 9781844084951

    The Door Margaret Atwood 9781844084951

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    By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace THE DOOR is Margaret Atwood's first book of poetry since the 1995 MORNING IN THE BURNED HOUSE. Its lucid yet urgent poems range in tone from...
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  • The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard 9781844080571

    The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard 9781844080571

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    The Great Fire is Shirley Hazzard's first novel since The Transit of Venus, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981. The conflagration of her title is the Second World War. In...
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  • Riding In Cars With Boys: Confessions of a Bad Girl Who Makes Good by Beverly Donofrio 9781860499470

    Riding In Cars With Boys: Confessions of a Bad Girl Who Makes Good by Beverly Donofrio 9781860499470

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    Trouble began in 1963. I'm not blaming it on President Kennedy's assassination or its being the beginning of the sixties or the Vietnam War or The Beatles...The trouble I'm talking about was my first...
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  • The Clothes On Their Backs by Linda Grant

    The Clothes On Their Backs by Linda Grant

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    SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEIn a red brick mansion block off the Marylebone Road, Vivien, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from both past and present by her timid refugee parents...
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  • Keeping Hope Alive: How One Somali Woman Changed 90,000 Lives Dr. Hawa Abdi 9781844087884

    Keeping Hope Alive: How One Somali Woman Changed 90,000 Lives Dr. Hawa Abdi 9781844087884

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    For the last twenty years, Dr Hawa Abdi and her daughters have run a refugee camp on their family farm not far from Mogadishu which has grown to shelter 90,000 displaced Somalis: men, women, and...
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  • Daughters Of Decadence: Stories by Women Writers of the Fin-de-Siecle Elaine Showalter 9781853815904

    Daughters Of Decadence: Stories by Women Writers of the Fin-de-Siecle Elaine Showalter 9781853815904

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    At the turn of the century, short stories by- and often about- 'New Women' flooded the pages of English and American magazines like The Yellow Book, The Savoy, Atlantic Monthly and Harpers. This...
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  • Rebel Girls: How votes for women changed Edwardian lives Jill Liddington 9781844081684

    Rebel Girls: How votes for women changed Edwardian lives Jill Liddington 9781844081684

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    Rejecting the deadening conventions of their Victorian elders, the rebel girls demanded new freedoms and new rights. They took their suffrage message out to the remotest Yorkshire dales and fishing...
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  • The Lifeboat Charlotte Rogan 9781844087549

    The Lifeboat Charlotte Rogan 9781844087549

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    I was to stand trial for my life. I was twenty-two years old. I had been married for ten weeks and a widow for six.It is 1914 and Europe is on the brink of war. When a magnificent ocean liner suffers...
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  • Expecting: Everything You Need to Know about Pregnancy, Labour and Birth Anna McGrail 9781844087730

    Expecting: Everything You Need to Know about Pregnancy, Labour and Birth Anna McGrail 9781844087730

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    Anna and Daphne have combined their many years of experience, producing an interesting and well written book based on fact rather than opinion, covering conception to postnatal. Most expecting...
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  • The Night Watch Sarah Waters 9780349018522

    The Night Watch Sarah Waters 9780349018522

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    The number one bestseller, a tender and tragic story set against the turbulence of wartime LondonThe Night Watch us the extraordinary story of four Londoners: Kay, who wanders the streets in mannish...
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  • Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country Gillian Slovo 9781844085996

    Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country Gillian Slovo 9781844085996

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    A passionate witness to the colossal upheaval that has transformed her native South Africa, Gillian Slovo has written a memoir that is far more than a story of her own life. For she is the daughter...
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  • Valaida Candace Allen 9781844081721

    Valaida Candace Allen 9781844081721

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    Valaida listened hard. After the melody's intro and Earl's left-hand-to-right-hand cascades of piano sound, her space opened, and Valaida jumped in. She blew. She entered the music, saw the...
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  • Suddenly by Bonnie Burnard

    Suddenly by Bonnie Burnard

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    A phone call in the night, an unexpected diagnosis, a shocking revelation - suddenly life can change forever.'It's been here, in this bedroom, with Jack and without him, that she has found her only...
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  • A Mighty Heart - The Daniel Pearl Story Mariane Pearl 9781844084593

    A Mighty Heart - The Daniel Pearl Story Mariane Pearl 9781844084593

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    The tragic murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is well known. Why he was in Karachi; how he saw his role as an international journalist; why he was singled out for kidnapping; and...
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  • On the Wilder Shores of Love: A Bohemian Life Lesley Blanch 9780349005461

    On the Wilder Shores of Love: A Bohemian Life Lesley Blanch 9780349005461

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    Most famous for The Wilder Shores of Love, her book about four women travellers, Lesley Blanch was a scholarly romantic and a bold writer. Her lifelong passion was for Russia, the Balkans and the...
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  • These Wonderful Rumours!: A Young Schoolteacher's Wartime Diaries 1939-1945 May Smith 9781844088119

    These Wonderful Rumours!: A Young Schoolteacher's Wartime Diaries 1939-1945 May Smith 9781844088119

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    May Smith is twenty-four at the outbreak of World War Two; at night, the sirens wail, and the young men of the village leave to fight. But still, ordinary life goes on: May goes shopping, plays...
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  • Who Was Sophie?: The Two Lives of My Grandmother: Poet and Stranger Celia Robertson 9781844081882

    Who Was Sophie?: The Two Lives of My Grandmother: Poet and Stranger Celia Robertson 9781844081882

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    By the end of her life, Sophie Curly was essentially a bag lady you might have walked past on a park bench, or ignored, as she looked for something over and over again in her handbag. She was blown...
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  • The Virago Book of Women and the Great War Joyce Marlow 9781860495595

    The Virago Book of Women and the Great War Joyce Marlow 9781860495595

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    Joyce Marlow presents a fascinating and varied collection of women's writing on the Great War drawn from diaries, newspapers, letters and memoirs from across Europe and the States. Starting with...
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  • The Woman Upstairs Claire Messud 9781844087334

    The Woman Upstairs Claire Messud 9781844087334

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    Nora Eldridge has always been a good girl: a good daughter, colleague, friend, employee. She teaches at an elementary school where the children and the parents adore her; but her real passion is her...
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  • Under The Hawthorn Tree Ai Mi 9781844087037

    Under The Hawthorn Tree Ai Mi 9781844087037

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    Jingqiu, an innocent young woman from a politically questionable family in the city, is selected as one of a small group of students to be sent to the countryside to work on a project that will...
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  • Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee 9781853812781 [USED COPY]

    Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee 9781853812781 [USED COPY]

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    When Jasmine Vijh is suddenly widowed at seventeen, she seems fated to a future of quiet isolation in a small Indian village. But, voracious for life, she flees to America. Six years on she has...
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  • William by E.H. Young 9780860688556 [USED COPY]

    William by E.H. Young 9780860688556 [USED COPY]

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    He was in the presence of stranger...some one hard and inflexible, who surely had not borne his lovely daughter. For years William and Kate have made a ritual of her birthday. Yet now that their...
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  • Brilliant Careers: The Virago Book of 20th Century Fiction Ali Smith 9781860498428

    Brilliant Careers: The Virago Book of 20th Century Fiction Ali Smith 9781860498428

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    A seminal fiction collection that stretches from Gertrude Stein to Grace Paley, from Edith Wharton to Angela Carter, from Mae West to Margaret Atwood, from Zora Neale Hurston to Joyce Carol Oates. ...
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  • Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Marriages in Literary London 1910 -1939 by Katie Roiphe 9781844082711

    Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Marriages in Literary London 1910 -1939 by Katie Roiphe 9781844082711

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    Drawing on the memoirs, letters and diaries of a group of British intellectuals writing between 1910 and the Second World War, UNCOMMON ARRANGEMENTS paints a witty and insightful portrait of seven...
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  • Invisible Thread by Maree Giles 9780349004433

    Invisible Thread by Maree Giles 9780349004433

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    Fourteen-year-old Ellen Russell runs away from home, from her nagging mother and mean stepfather, and goes and lives with her boyfriend, Robbie. Robbie is mean too, but it's still more fun than home...
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  • All The Nice Girls by Joan Bakewell 9781844085316

    All The Nice Girls by Joan Bakewell 9781844085316

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    It is 1942 and the war is not going well. As part of the war effort the Ashworth Grammar School for Girls signs up for the Merchant Navy's Ship Adoption Scheme. The headmistress, the lovely,...
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  • Friendship by Emily Gould 9780349004419

    Friendship by Emily Gould 9780349004419

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    Bev and Amy are best friends but, at thirty, they have reached a crossroads. Bev is stuck in circumstances that would barely have passed muster in her twenties: temping, living in a shared house,...
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  • One Of Ours by Willa Cather 9781844084258

    One Of Ours by Willa Cather 9781844084258

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    Since childhood, Claude Wheeler has believed that 'something splendid' would restore the faith he had lost in modern life and the personal compromises and materialism that it brings. The calls of the...
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  • Trials of Passion: Crimes in the Name of Love and Madness by Lisa Appignanesi

    Trials of Passion: Crimes in the Name of Love and Madness by Lisa Appignanesi

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    This book journeys into the heart of dark passions and the crimes they impel. When passion is in the picture, what is criminal, what sane, what mad or simply bad?Brighton, 1870: A well-respected...
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