London Lies Beneath

Literature & Fiction

Duffy, Stella

Literary

London: Virago

Physical description; 236 p : ill., facsims. ; 25 cm. Subject; World War, 1939-1945 - Women.

BOMBERS & MASH

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Minns, Raynes

Cooking Education & Reference

SO LONG A LETTER

Winner of the Noma Award for publishing in Africa, this novel paints a portrait of a woman who, with courage and dignity, refuses to accept a polygamous life. Though her husband's action is sanctioned by Islam, to her it is a brutal denial of their years together.

Bâ, Mariama

Contemporary

SAWDUST & WHITE SPIRIT

Pixner, Stef

History & Criticism

Physical description: xvii. 477 p. Notes: Includes bibliography. Subjects: English poetry, Early modern, 1500-1700. Women and literature, Great Britain, 17th century. Women poets.

Kissing the Rod: an Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Women's Verse.

Arts & Photography

Greer, Germaine. Medoff, Jeslyn

Marilynne Robinson's long-awaited second novel is named after the town in which it is set: Gilead, Iowa. The time is the 1950s, and John Ames, the town's beloved pastor, is dying of heart disease. Widowed early but recently remarried, John has a very young son. The novel is a final act of love: a letter to the boy, in which

Gilead

Robinson, Marilynne

The Little Stranger

WATERS, Sarah

MOVING TOWARDS HOME

JORDAN, JUNE

United States

The Colorist

A multi-layered novel in which the line between prostituting one's art and selling one's body is disturbingly thin. It is the story of Julie, an artist who makes her living filling in the panels of a comic book; of Electra, a genetically engineered "Wonder Woman" type and Julie's elusive lover.

DAITCH, SUSAN

Revenge

Saunders, Kate (1960-)

Short Stories & Anthologies

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