Disobedient Bodies: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty
By: Emma Dabiri
4.06
Format: 94 pages, Kindle Edition
An unmissable essay from Emma Dabiri, Sunday Times bestselling author of Don't Touch My Hair and Wh…
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1. Close to Home
By: Michael Magee
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does everything he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more
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- irish literature
- audiobook
2. So Late in the Day
By: Claire Keegan
4.00
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more
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- feminism
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3. Soldier Sailor
By: Claire Kilroy
4.10
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more
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- feminism
- irish literature
- audiobook
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
4. Ordinary Human Failings
By: Megan Nolan
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more
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- irish literature
- audiobook
"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings
"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings
5. Minor Detail
By: Adania Shibli
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more
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- audiobook
"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
6. A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
By: Noreen Masud
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A surprising and lyrical journey—part memoir, part nature book—meditating on the meaning of "flatne… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"We tell stories to make them visible. Or we tell stories so that we don’t have to look at them any longer."-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
"Supposedly trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is th…"-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
"Supposedly, trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does, and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is …"-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
"I was held captive by this unyielding, silent space, and I began to understand two things. The flatness wasn’t an absence - not in the way we might assume it is - but something strong and original an…"-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
7. Breakdown
By: Cathy Sweeney
3.81
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
One winter morning, in contemporary Dublin, a middle-class woman wakes up next to her husband in he… read more
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- irish literature
- audiobook
8. The List
By: Yomi Adegoke
3.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life in o… read more
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- audiobook
"...but she refused for love to be something that she endured. Something that took from her and made her smaller."-Yomi Adegoke, The List
9. Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief
By: Katriona O'Sullivan
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan mak… read more
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- nonfiction
- irish literature
- audiobook
10. Hässlichkeit
By: Moshtari Hilal
4.46
Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition
Vom Sehen und Gesehenwerden, von Selbstbildern und Selbstzweifeln – Moshtari Hilal schreibt über Hä… read more
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- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- essays
- womens
11. Disobedient Bodies: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty
By: Emma Dabiri
4.06
Format: 94 pages, Kindle Edition
An unmissable essay from Emma Dabiri, Sunday Times bestselling author of Don't Touch My Hair and Wh… read more
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- health
- theory
- feminism
- politics
- gender
- nonfiction
- essays
- womens
- irish literature
- audiobook
12. Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto)
By: Micha Frazer-Carroll
4.40
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
‘A radical antidote to the constraints of our current conceptualisation of mental health’ Dazed ‘E… read more
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- theory
- politics
- nonfiction
13. Arrangements in Blue
By: Amy Key
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by—and for—oneself. Inspired by Jon… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
14. This Is How You Remember It
By: Catherine Prasifka
4.11
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
You're nine when you get your first computer. Your favourite thing is a virtual pet website; you sp… read more
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15. Radical Intimacy
By: Sophie K. Rosa
4.23
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
An impassioned discussion about the alternative ways to form relationships and resist capitalism. … read more
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- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
16. Hagstone
By: Sinéad Gleeson
3.63
Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition
The sea is steady for now. The land readies itself. What can be done with the woman on the cliff? … read more
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- audiobook
17. Revolutionary Acts: Love and Brotherhood in Black Gay Britain
By: Jason Okundaye
4.45
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Announcing the arrival of a major new talent, an astonishing work of social history which captures … read more
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- audiobook
18. Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women
By: Ellen Atlanta
4.35
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An up-close and striking look at modern beauty culture―from Botox and Instagram filters to lip flip… read more
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- health
- feminism
- gender
- nonfiction
- womens
- audiobook
"We invited each other into our spaces when parents would allow – girls only in these altars of beauty. We were christened into girlhood, not by holy water or the consumption of Christ’s body and bloo…"-Ellen Atlanta, Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women
19. Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition
By: Munroe Bergdorf
4.08
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The wise, life-changing, ground-breaking book from writer and activist Munroe Bergdorf. Transitioni… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Everything is an attempt to flee if you can't love who you are."-Munroe Bergdorf, Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition
"You can't run away from yourself. The destination will always be you. I only stopped running away when I made myself into the home I no longer wanted to run away from. I wish I'd come to that realisa…"-Munroe Bergdorf, Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition
"Being conscious of our trauma, and recognising how it unavoidably manifests itself within our approach to romantic and platonic relations, skies is to strategise our connections. It helps us to it he…"-Munroe Bergdorf, Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition
"We all transition. It's what binds us, not what separates us. Be it through moving from childhood into adolescence, our sexuality, our gender, in our relationship with love, our racial identity or in…"-Munroe Bergdorf, Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition
20. Decolonising My Body: A Radical Exploration of Rituals and Beauty
By: Afua Hirsch
3.86
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
How do we determine what is beautiful? Whose standards are we trying to meet when we spend our hard… read more
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- gender
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21. Private Rites
By: Julia Armfield
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more
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"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"-Julia Armfield, Private Rites
