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Redback  by Howard Jacobson (Black Swan)  - I struggled with The Finkler Question , so thought it was worth giving Howard Jacobson another g...

Four people who have met as part of an on-line book group take a month to go to a cottage in the Blue Mountains to talk about books – what b...

A Clear Conscience  by Frances Fyfield Corgi Pp. 284 Helen West is a prosecutor in domestic violence cases, and this is her fifth outing in ...

Inferior  by Angela Saini 4th Estate Pp. 237 Angela Saini contends that the so-called science which has labelled women as ‘the weaker sex’ i...

The Mercies  by Kiran Millwood Hargrave Picador Pp.  336 With echoes of The Crucible , The Handmaid’s Tale and My Antonia , this is a fasci...

Circe  by Madeline Miller Bloomsbury Pp. 333 The retelling of classical stories and myths from the female perspective is currently all the r...

  A Matter of Grave Concern  by Brenda Novak Montlake Romance Pp.325 Brenda Novak has written over 50 novels and is a New York Times Bestse...

Pain and Prejudice  by Gabrielle Jackson Allen & Unwin Pp. 321 Subtitled ‘A Call to Arms for Women and Their Bodies’, this book focuses ...

Finding Baba Yaga  by Jane Yolen Tom Doherty  Associates Pp. 131 This contemporary retelling of an iconic myth is written entirely in blank ...

I like cross-stitch. I have posted many images of my work here. I particularly like subversive images that challenge expectations. Last year...