Historical fiction for feminists
The Madonna of the Mountains
Maria faces a stony path, but one she will surely climb to the summit. In this sumptuous and elegant novel you will taste the bigoli co l'arna, touch the mulberry leaves cut finer than organdie, and feel the strain of one woman...
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She Be Damned
A unique who-done-it that puts a modern spin on a classic style of mystery writing.
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The Color Purple
The classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel with a new introductory letter from Alice Walker. NAMED ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD
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The Strays
On her first day at a new school, Lily befriends one of the daughters of infamous avant - garde painter Evan Trentham. He and his wife are trying to escape the stifling conservatism of 1930s Australia by inviting other like -...
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Burial Rites
Based on a true story, Burial Rites is a deeply moving novel about freedom and the ways we will risk everything for love. In beautiful, cut-glass prose, Hannah Kent portrays Iceland's formidable landscape, and...
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My Brilliant Friend (The Neapolitan Novels, Book 1)
My Brilliant Friend is a modern masterpiece, the work of one of Italy's great storytellers.
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Skylarking
'A brave, beautiful and richly textured book that delicately explores the fault lines in love and friendship.' --Lucy Treloar A spellbinding tale of friendship and desire, memory and truth, which questions what it is to remember...
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Stolen Beauty: A Novel
An exhilarating novel of love, art, war, and family gives voice to two extraordinary women and brings to life the true story behind Gustav Klimt's most remarkable paintings.
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See What I Have Done
'Eerie and compelling' Paula Hawkins - See What I Have Done is a haunting retelling of the infamous Lizzie Borden murders from a dazzling debut novelist
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The Book of Night Women
A startling, hard-edged dissection of slavery and a tour de force of both voice and storytelling
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The Miniaturist
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Dark fires shall burn
Inspired by the true events of an unsolved murder.
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Remarkable Creatures
A stunning novel of female friendship, forbidden love and evolution from the bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring.
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Year of Wonders
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'March' and 'People of the Book'. A young woman's struggle to save her family and her soul during the extraordinary year of 1666, when plague suddenly struck a small Derbyshire...
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The Signature of All Things
For use in schools and libraries only. Traces the multi-generational saga of the Whittaker family, whose progenitor makes a fortune in the quinine trade before his daughter, a gifted botanist, researches the mysteries of evolution...
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Mazin Grace
Growing up on the Mission isn't easy for clever Grace Oldman. When her classmates tease her for not having a father, she doesn't know what to say. Pappa Neddy says her dad is the Lord God in Heaven, but that doesn't help when the...
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Alias Grace
A crime novel set in Canada in the nineteenth century, where an up-and-coming psychiatrist conducts a series of interviews with a young woman who was imprisoned for the murder of her employer and his lover.
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The Paying Guests
The extraordinary bestselling author, who wrote three astonishing Victorian novels before moving to the 1940s with The Night Watch and The Little Stranger, now turns to the 1920s.
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