Tag: Female Author
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9th Jan 2024 – Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
WINNER OF THE WOMEN’S PRIZE 2021 and SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has. In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder…
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12th Dec 2023 – Christmas Is Murder by Val McDermid
A collection of atmospheric short stories from the international bestseller Val McDermid. She is a master of the dark and sinister story, and these powers are in full force in Christmas is Murder, a festive collection of chilling tales. From an irresponsible baron whose body is discovered beneath a silver birch tree, to a classic detective…
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14th Nov 2023 – My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley
**Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2022** A Book of the Year in the Observer, the Daily Telegraph, the Irish Times, the Guardian, the White Review, the Evening Standard, the Big Issue, the TLS, the Week and the New Statesman. Helen Grant has always been a mystery to her daughter. Twice-divorced, with few friends, her…
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12th September 2023 – Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit OR/AND Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
Read one or both! ORANGES… ‘At that time I could not imagine what would become of me, and I didn’t care. It was not judgement day, but another morning’ This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by working-class evangelists in the North of England to be one of God’s elect. Passionate, headstrong…
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13th June 2023 – Under The Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does. Born before independence, she is eleven when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Sent away to safety, she meets another displaced child and they, star-crossed, fall in love. They are from different ethnic communities. They are also both girls. But when their love…
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11th April 2023 – That Green Eyed Girl by Julie Owen Moylan *AUTHOR IN ATTENDANCE*
Sometimes, when the world around us behaves as weirdly as it does, we worry the prescience of some of the books we schedule may be somewhat unerring. Never moreso than this one!
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8th November 2022 – Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Sometimes, when the world around us behaves as weirdly as it does, we worry the prescience of some of the books we schedule may be somewhat unerring. Never moreso than this one!
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13th September 2022 – The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed
Sometimes, when the world around us behaves as weirdly as it does, we worry the prescience of some of the books we schedule may be somewhat unerring. Never moreso than this one!
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9th August 2022 – The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey
Sometimes, when the world around us behaves as weirdly as it does, we worry the prescience of some of the books we schedule may be somewhat unerring. Never moreso than this one!
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12th July 2022 – Return: A Palestinian Memoir by Ghada Karmi
Sometimes, when the world around us behaves as weirdly as it does, we worry the prescience of some of the books we schedule may be somewhat unerring. Never moreso than this one!
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14th June 2022 – The Transgender Issue by Shon Faye
Sometimes, when the world around us behaves as weirdly as it does, we worry the prescience of some of the books we schedule may be somewhat unerring. Never moreso than this one!
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12th April 2022 – The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
Sometimes, when the world around us behaves as weirdly as it does, we worry the prescience of some of the books we schedule may be somewhat unerring. Never moreso than this one!
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