Author: Louise O'Neill (twitter) UK Publisher: Scholastic Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult Buy now: ebook | hardcover | paperback Deep beneath the sea, off the cold Irish coast, Gaia is a young mermaid who dreams of freedom from her controlling father. On her first swim to the surface, she is drawn towards a human boy. She longs to … Continue reading REVIEW: The Surface Breaks – Louise O’Neill
Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman UK Publisher: This is now public domain, so it can be got for free from Project Gutenberg. There are also various editions available from different publishers, but I found the kindle edition from Project Gutenberg very readable. Genre: Speculative fiction, feminist literature, classics I can't even remember how I heard about … Continue reading REVIEW: Herland – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Author: Juno Dawson (twitter / website) UK Publisher: Two Roads Genre: Non-fiction, autobiography, gender studies Buy Now: ebook | hardcover | paperback I was lucky enough to find this book as a proof going spare whilst I was interning last summer. It was not necessarily a book I would have bought myself, but I have … Continue reading REVIEW: The Gender Games – Juno Dawson
Author: Naomi Alderman (twitter / website) UK Publisher: Penguin Genre: Science fiction, feminism, literary fiction Buy now: ebook | paperback All over the world women are discovering they have the power. With a flick of the fingers they can inflict terrible pain - even death. Suddenly, every man on the planet finds they've lost control. … Continue reading REVIEW: The Power – Naomi Alderman
Author: Roxane Gay (website / twitter) UK Publisher: Corsair Genre: short stories, literary fiction, magic realism Buy now: ebook | paperback The women in these stories live lives of privilege and of poverty, are in marriages both loving and haunted by past crimes or emotional blackmail. A pair of sisters, grown now, have been inseparable … Continue reading REVIEW: Difficult Women – Roxane Gay
Author: Mary Beard UK Publisher: Profile Genre: Non-fiction, feminism, gender theory Buy now: ebook | hardcover To anyone who has been a woman in society in the last ten years, a lot of the topics covered in Mary Beard’s book will not come as a surprise. Women and Power are the collected texts of two lectures she … Continue reading REVIEW: Women and Power – Mary Beard
