Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding
By: Joanna Wolfarth
4.32
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When Joanna Wolfarth was pregnant with her first child, she assumed she would breastfeed, as her mo…
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1. Ina May's Guide to Childbirth
By: Ina May Gaskin
4.36
Format: 348 pages, Paperback
What you need to know to have the best birth experience for you. Drawing upon her thirty-plus year… read more
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- nonfiction
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"It is important to keep in mind that our bodies must work pretty well, or their wouldn't be so many humans on the planet."-Ina May Gaskin, Ina May's Guide to Childbirth
"Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body."-Ina May Gaskin, Ina May's Guide to Childbirth
"It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physic…"-Ina May Gaskin, Ina May's Guide to Childbirth
"Gardeners know that you must nourish the soil if you want healthy plants. You must water the plants adequately, especially when seeds are germinating and sprouting, and they should be planted in a nu…"-Ina May Gaskin, Ina May's Guide to Childbirth
2. Nobody Told Me: Poetry and Parenthood
By: Hollie McNish
4.42
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
A memoir of parenthood by poet Hollie McNish. There were many things that Hollie McNish didn't k… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- parenting
3. Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife
By: Peggy Vincent
3.70
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
An inspiring collection of birth stories by a charming midwife. Each time she knelt to "catch" anot… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
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- feminism
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5. Girls in Love (Girls, #1)
By: Jacqueline Wilson
3.00
Format: 508 pages, Paperback
Magda is tall and glamorous, Nadine is willowy and 'gothic' and Ellie, well, Ellie thinks she is un… read more
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6. Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
By: Shaun Whiteside , Norman Ohler
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler investigates the murky, chaotic… read more
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7. Poor Things
By: Alasdair Gray
3.94
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
One of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenste… read more
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"Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
"She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
"Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her. Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
"You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
8. Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began
By: Leah Hazard
4.10
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking, triumphant investigation of the uterus--from birth to death, in sickness and in h… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
9. The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World
By: Tim Marshall
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries’ GDP. People on Mars … read more
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- nonfiction
10. Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood
By: Lucy Jones
4.54
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
A radical new examination of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind, brain and … read more
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- parenting
11. How to Build a Boat
By: Elaine Feeney
3.78
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
This is the story of a remarkable boy and his search for his mother, told with warmth, tenderness a… read more
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"To some, the world is filled with threats. To others, opportunities."-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"That's dedication and if life's taught me anything, we go to what we love, eventually - we mightn't find it straight away, but we get there."-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"...[W]hile language came readily to Tess when dealing with herself alone, having one-way conversations over all of her choices on her long walks in the woods, or on her way to school, now she no long…"-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"How can I miss someone I have never met? Jamie said. Grief was profoundly different for both humans. One felt an intense anger he had never recovered from, the other knew something was missing, a vac…"-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
12. 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
13. Twelve Moons: A Year Under a Shared Sky
By: Caro Giles
4.31
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
TWELVE MOONS follows a year spent caught between the wild sea and the changing moon of the wide Nor… read more
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14. 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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- feminism
- nonfiction
"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
15. Cursed Bread
By: Sophie Mackintosh
3.28
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Man Booker-nominated author of The Water Cure comes an elegant and hypnotic new novel of o… read more
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"Pain becomes an animal, walking at your side. Pain becomes a home you can carry with you."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"The world is only ever one breach away from being unpeeled entirely, one tragedy, one glimpse behind the curtain."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"I've been looked at in pity and in fear and I've learned that the only way to really be seen is through desire. To be looked at and found whole. Found alive."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"I don't want a book, I don't want the trouble of it, he said. I don't want to get involved, I just want to watch what's going on. I know what's going to happen and then it happens, and I can go outsi…"-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
16. 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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- feminism
- nonfiction
17. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
18. The Second Chance Store
By: Lauren Bravo
3.61
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
If clothes can get a second chance, why can’t we? Brimming with life, love, and the stories bound u… read more
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19. Don't Laugh, It'll Only Encourage Her
By: Daisy May Cooper
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Life hasn't always been straightforward for Daisy May Cooper: growing up in rural poverty in Glouce… read more
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- nonfiction
20. Jog On: How Running Saved My Life
By: Bella Mackie
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Divorced and struggling with deep-rooted mental health problems, Bella Mackie ended her twenties in… read more
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21. Indelicacy
By: Amina Cain
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
In "a strangely ageless world somewhere between Emily Dickinson and David Lynch" (Blake Butler), a … read more
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- feminism
"I hated March more than any other month, with its promises of warmth that never came"-Amina Cain, Indelicacy
"I would listen to a bird cry, or the cat and the dog scratching around. In those moments I felt like a giant ear."-Amina Cain, Indelicacy
"In books I found even more strongly my desire to write, to write back to them and their jagged, perfect words. I found life that ran close to my own"-Amina Cain, Indelicacy
"Why is empty space a comfort and a relief? It's not because I project myself there; it's because I can't. It shows me my projections, but they haven't left my mind. Empty space remains empty, always.…"-Amina Cain, Indelicacy
22. A Ghost in the Throat
By: Doireann Ní Ghríofa
4.04
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
A true original. In this stunningly unusual prose debut, Doireann Ni Ghriofa sculpts essay and auto… read more
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"Swift, the twist from ordinary to catastrophe."-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat
"Instead, I'll think of new words, and then I'll follow them."-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat
"We cannot know from whose mouths the echoes of our lives will chime."-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat
"We cannot permit reason to intrude upon this moment. Do not deny us this."-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat
23. Milk: On Motherhood and Madness
By: Alice Kinsella
3.82
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
A map of motherhood, Milk is at once a gentle and meditative story of one woman’s experience of new… read more
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24. Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival
By: Alice Vincent
3.84
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
Women have always gardened, but our stories have been buried with our work. Alice Vincent is on a q… read more
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- nonfiction
25. The Animals in That Country
By: Laura Jean McKay
3.42
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Out on the road, no one speaks, everything talks. Hard-drinking, foul-mouthed, and allergic to b… read more
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26. Reclaiming Childbirth as a Rite of Passage: Weaving Ancient Wisdom With Modern Knowledge
By: Rachel Reed
4.56
Format: 373 pages, Paperback
It’s time for a childbirth revolution. The modern approach to maternity care fails women, families … read more
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- parenting
27. Autumn Chills: Tales of Intrigue from the Queen of Crime
By: Agatha Christie
3.90
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
An all-new collection of autumn-themed mysteries from the master of the genre.Autumn is the season … read more
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28. Tennis Lessons
By: Susannah Dickey
3.43
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
You know you're strange and wrong. You've known it from the beginning. This is the voice that r… read more
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29. Holding the Baby
By: Nell Frizzell
3.84
Format: None pages, Hardcover
'My favourite person on the politics of parenthood' Pandora Sykes'Exhilarating, infuriating, urgent… read more
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- parenting
30. Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding
By: Joanna Wolfarth
4.32
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When Joanna Wolfarth was pregnant with her first child, she assumed she would breastfeed, as her mo… read more
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31. After the Storm: Postnatal Depression and the Utter Weirdness of New Motherhood
By: Emma Jane Unsworth
4.41
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
'Brave and important ... beautiful, hilarious, clever ... I loved this book' Clover Stroud 'Funny,… read more
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- nonfiction
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