At the Coalface: The Memoir of a Pit Nurse
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A heart-warming story of a woman who devoted her life to helping others. This is the memoir of Joan,...
The Victorian Verse-Novel: Aspiring to Life
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The Victorian Verse-Novel: Aspiring to Life considers the rise of a hybrid generic form, the...
Wide Sargasso Sea
Angela Smith, Jean Rhys and Andrea Ashworth
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Her grand attempt to tell what she felt was the story of "Jane Eyre's" 'madwoman in the attic',...
Barkskins: Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017
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Read our exclusive interview with Annie Proulx LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR...
The Pursuit of Love
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Nancy Mitford's "The Pursuit of Love" is one of the funniest, sharpest novels about love and growing...
Margaret the First
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'I am as Ambitious as ever any of my Sex was, is, or can be; though I cannot be Henry the Fifth, or...
Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated Legendary: Caraval Book 2 in Books
Jun 17, 2020
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Legendary ( Caraval book 2)
By Stephanie Garber
A heart to protect. A debt to repay. A game to win.
After being swept up in the magical world of Caraval, Donatella Dragna has finally escaped her father and saved her sister Scarlett from a disastrous arranged marriage. The girls should be celebrating, but Tella isn’t yet free. She made a desperate bargain with a mysterious criminal, and what Tella owes him no one has ever been able to deliver: Caraval Master Legend’s true name.
The only chance of uncovering Legend’s identity is to win Caraval, so Tella throws herself into the legendary competition once more—and into the path of the murderous heir to the throne, a doomed love story, and a web of secrets…including her sister's. Caraval has always demanded bravery, cunning, and sacrifice. But now the game is asking for more. If Tella can’t fulfill her bargain and deliver Legend’s name, she’ll lose everything she cares about—maybe even her life. But if she wins, Legend and Caraval will be destroyed forever.
Welcome, welcome to Caraval...the games have only just begun.
Another great book from Stephanie Garber! This time game became real and it brought with it so much more than the first one. Think most people would have guessed who legend was half way through the book. We are also playing from Tella’s perspective instead of Scarlets. The fates are so intriguing I love their stories and can’t wait to see them and legend develop! Also how with their mother be after being stuck in a card for so long.
Contestations Over Gender in Asia
Lyn Parker, Laura Dales and Chie Ikeya
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This book brings together the work of scholars from around the world in a consideration of how...
Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music
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In this sweeping history of popular music in the United States, NPR's acclaimed music critic...
ClareR (5869 KP) rated The Pull of the Stars in Books
Nov 8, 2020
Nurse Julia Power is unmarried at 30 and seems to be happy with that, as she sees women whose bodies are worn out from giving birth so many times and so closely together, women who have been abused by their fathers and forced to bear their children, women who have conceived their babies outside of marriage and will be forced to give them up - as well as young women who have been institutionalised from birth and forced to give up their lives to repay the nuns who raised them through free labour (Magdalene laundries). Like I said, this was no time to be a woman. The abuse and poor treatment of the women on the ward is alluded to, but never explicit.
Whilst most of the story takes place on the quarantined labour ward, we do get a glimpse in to the home life of Nurse Power, and it was interesting to see how the war had impacted on and affected her brother.
This is a beautifully told story packed full of heart. It may not have been my best move to read it during a pandemic, but nevertheless, I absolutely loved it.