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Sophie Lewis
From the author of Abolish the Family, a provocative compendium of the feminisms we love to dismiss and making the case for the bold, liberatory feminist politics we'll need to…
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Sophie Anne Lewis
What if family were not the only place you might hope to feel safe, loved, cared for and accepted?
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Patricia Melo
From bestselling novelist Patricia Melo comes a masterful thriller set in the far west of Brazil that is by turns poetic, inspiring, humorous and harrowing.
To escape an overprotective family…
Josephine Baker
"A gorgeous, captivating gem of a memoir...Josephine Baker's as enthralling on the page as she was on the stage." -Abbott Kahler, New York Times bestselling author of Eden Undone and…
Overview volume of contemporary art practices examining problems, beliefs and contradictions that the family as an institution embodies
The family is a rare topic in contemporary art. Burning Down the…
Annie Ernaux
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
A stunningly visual celebration of Annie Ernaux's work-featuring collected writing by critics, journalists, and 24 previously unpublished pieces by the Nobel Prize…
Leila Slimani
From the prize winning and bestselling author of Lullaby and Adele: a fascinating and witty collection of essays on the lives of women grappling with sexual politics in a deeply…
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Claire Berest
A spellbinding literary thriller set in contemporary Paris - full of mystery, dark humour and tragedy - about a police officer whose world begins to unravel when strange art installations…
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Claire Lebourg
Mousse receives an unexpected visit--and forms an unlikely friendship--in a new series for early readers.
Noemi Lefebvre
An irreverent semiotic fever dream that weighs meaning and meaning-making against idea and ideology.
--We have read Proust but we're not sure
--Who has really read Proust
--Besides a few…
A mother bird recalls the arrival of her new baby and the months that follow, charmingly illustrated by one of France's rising stars.
Victor Heringer
Equal parts postmodern, tender and satirical, Gloria follows Benjamin, Daniel and Abel, three brothers from a family in which every member has died of the same cause - acute melancholy…
Francoise Sagan
From the internationally bestselling author of Bonjour Tristesse comes the surprise publication of a novel she never finished - and a story that evokes her greatest works.
French literary star…
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Mona Chollet
A short feminist polemic that argues that the afterlife of the witch hunts continues today: the same reasons for which women were demonized in the past - being single, ageing…
Diane di Prima
By turns a handbook of countercultural living, a manual for street protest, and a feminist broadside against the repressive state apparatus, Revolutionary Letters is a modern classic, as relevant today…
J. Patrick Lewis,Jane Yolen
This collection pairs poems and pictures in a salute to the many twins among us.
In order to become ethically acceptable, surrogacy must change beyond recognition - but we need more surrogacy, not less!
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Colette Fellous
In this rich and timely work, Fellous writes in a style reminiscent of her teacher, Roland Barthes, of her complicated Jewish childhood, her recent friend’s death, and of feeling she…
In this new novel by the acclaimed author of Blue Self-Portrait, a poet-narrator existing on a diet of cannabis, bananas and books on oppression under the Third Reich muddles through…
Jaw-dropping … Inspiring … A haunting and beautifully composed book … It blew my mind. –Lisa Taddeo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Three Women
A fearless expose of…
A darkly comic exploration of the push to be employed and the pull to write.
Leila Slimani gives voice to Moroccan women who are grappling with a conservative Arab culture that at once condemns and commodifies sex. Sex and Lies is an essential encounter with…
From best-selling Brazilian novelist Patricia Melo comes a genre-defying tale of women in the Amazon and their reckoning with brutal oppression-by turns poetic, humorous, dark, and inspiring.
The Simple Art…
Olivia Rosenthal
A woman challenges biology and convention in her struggle for freedom: a multi-voiced enquiry into the frontier between humans and animals.
Sophie C. Lewis
This book offers a critical exploration of first-hand experiences of practicing climate science.
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On the night following the terrorist massacre on the beach of Sousse, Tunisia, a woman writes an adieu to her homeland, which she feels forced to leave forever.
Sheyla Smanioto
First translation into English of Desesterro, the multiple prize-winning novel by Sheyla Smanioto first published in Brazil, 2015
Bini Adamczak
Communism, capitalism, work, crisis, and the market, described in simple storybook terms and illustrated by drawings of adorable little revolutionaries.
A contemporary novel of angst and high farce, Blue Self-Portrait unfolds among Berlin’s cultural institutions but is more truly located in the mid-air flux between contrary impulses to remember and…
Violette Leduc
Censored for half a century, this hidden classic follows the obsessive pleasures and repressed secrets of two schoolgirls in love.
A short, feminist polemic that argues that the afterlife of the witch hunts continues today: the same reasons for which women were demonized in the past - being single, ageing…
Nastassja Martin,Sophie R. Lewis
After enduring a vicious bear attack in the Russian Far East’s Kamchatka Peninsula, a French anthropologist undergoes a physical and spiritual transformation that forces her to confront the tenuous distinction…
Stormi D Lewis
Sophie Lee Harris was chosen to be the keeper of the key without any choice. Designed to survive anything thrown at her, it’s a challenge she’s able to keep. The…
James, Tina, and Ben are on the run until the end with Sophie, because she’s family. Psychopaths, assassins, ghosts, and all. However, the man with the cane is getting a…
Elizabeth Wallace Nancy
This is Pay It Forward meets the #BeKind movement, as seen through a Jewish principle.
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Marcel Ayme (Author)
A fantastical and darky humorous collection of stories, by one of the greatest French writers of the twentieth century
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Sabine Hark,Paula-Irene Villa
How feminism is used to attack immigration in Europe.
It’s time to stop Algos at any cost, but Sophie’s trapped in her own mind with no idea of how to escape. The longer she remains, the more she forgets…
Sophie Piper
This retelling of the great Bible stories is appealing and accessible to children who love reading and learning.
Suzi Lewis-Barned
Grandpa Forgets is a beautifully simple story about caring for an elderly relative affected by dementia. It will resonate with anyone familiar with this condition and also looks at the…
ELL.LU.SIEVE
Man Online is a quirky book written by ELL.LU.SIEVE. She has based this book from chatting to people online and experiencing disastrous dates for over a decade. Everyone who has…
