Hysterical: Exploding the Myth of Gendered Emotions
By: Pragya Agarwal
3.44
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Emotions can be difficult things to define, yet we all recognise them when we feel them or see them…
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1. Little Bones (Cathy Connolly, #1)
By: Sam Blake
3.82
Format: 400 pages, ebook
Twenty-four-year-old Garda Cathy Connolly might be a fearless kick-boxing champion but when she dis… read more
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2. The Child in Time
By: Ian McEwan
4.06
Format: 663 pages, Paperback
Stephen Lewis, a successful writer of children's books, is confronted with the unthinkable: his onl… read more
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3. Fix the System, Not the Women
By: Laura Bates
4.52
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Too often, we blame women. For walking home alone at night. For not demanding a seat at the table. … read more
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"So how do we fix it? The short answer is that we don't. We have wasted decades telling women and girls how to fix things. How to fix themselves. How to stay safe. It hasn't worked. Because women were…"-Laura Bates, Fix the System, Not the Women
4. Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out
By: Ryan Love
3.78
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
When 79-year-old Arthur Edwards gathers his family together to share some important news, no one is… read more
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5. After Sappho
By: Selby Wynn Schwartz
3.51
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
What did we want? To begin with, we wanted what half the population had got by just being born. … read more
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"The death of a child makes a barbaric sound, even in print."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
"We were going to be sappho, but how did Sappho begin to become herself? P.40"-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
"But some of us have always seen the modern world as a sea meant to drown us."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
"There is always this risk, in life, that we have our parts in a tragedy and we do not know it."-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho
6. Wild Houses
By: Colin Barrett
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more
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"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
7. 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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"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
8. Strong Female Character
By: Fern Brady
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more
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"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
9. Evenings and Weekends
By: Oisín McKenna
3.96
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more
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10. 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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11. The Story of Art Without Men
By: Katy Hessel
4.31
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before th… read more
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12. Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World
By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
4.53
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Expanding on the popular podcast of the same name from On Being Studios, Poetry Unbound offers imme… read more
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13. Mask Off: Masculinity Redefined (Outspoken by Pluto)
By: J.J. Bola
3.94
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
What is masculinity? Dominating the world around us, from Trump's twitter outbursts to deadly gun v… read more
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"Often the weight of patriarchy is heavy, but when you've been carrying the weight for so long, you forget what it feels like to be without that weight. You start then think that carrying that weight …"-J.J. Bola, Mask Off: Masculinity Redefined (Outspoken by Pluto)
"Patriarchy can seem ubiquitous. It can feel all consuming, all encompassing; controlling every part of your life, from the way you see yourself to the way you see others, from your relationships and …"-J.J. Bola, Mask Off: Masculinity Redefined (Outspoken by Pluto)
14. How to Be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity
By: Jill Burke
3.94
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Beauty, make up, power: plunge into the intimate history of cosmetics *A Waterstones Best Book o… read more
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15. Bodies
By: Christine Anne Foley
3.81
Format: 195 pages, Kindle Edition
You were everything I ever wanted. Johnny was my first. I was seventeen and I was only brave enough… read more
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16. Clara Reads Proust
By: Stéphane Carlier
3.59
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A tender and witty coming-of-age story about the power of literature to inspire new beginnings, pep… read more
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17. The Amendments
By: Niamh Mulvey
3.84
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Delving into the lives of three generations of women, The Amendments is an extraordinary novel abou… read more
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18. Queen B: The Story of Anne Boleyn, Witch Queen (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #0.5)
By: Juno Dawson
3.76
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The next enchanting instalment of the sensational #1 SUNDAY TIMES bestselling HER MAJESTY’S ROYAL C… read more
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19. Hysterical: Exploding the Myth of Gendered Emotions
By: Pragya Agarwal
3.44
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Emotions can be difficult things to define, yet we all recognise them when we feel them or see them… read more
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20. Sluts: Anthology
By: Michelle Tea
3.87
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
What it means to be sexually promiscuous in contemporary American culture, edited by cult-favorite … read more
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21. Tiger Work
By: Ben Okri
3.92
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
'Both a work of lyrical imagination and a warning about the dangers we will face unless we take imm… read more
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