BOOK REVIEW: Stroppy Old Women
The wonderful Kiwi women featured in Stroppy Old Women will open your eyes, make you think and provide ample evidence that there is absolutely nothing wrong with being old and stroppy.
BOOK REVIEW: The Anchoress
The Anchoress is a fascinating glimpse into another world and another time – when women were so powerless that being locked away in a tiny cell until you died was preferable to being a plaything of men.
BOOK REVIEW: The Secret Life of Luke Livingstone
Charity Norman's latest novel, The Secret Life of Luke Livingstone, deals with the topical the issue of transgender men and women.
BOOK REVIEW: The Bletchley Girls
The Bletchley Girls tells the tale of the team behind the cracking of the Enigma code. It's an intimate look at what it meant to be a woman in wartime in the 1940s.
BOOK REVIEW: Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League
During the America’s Civil Rights movement, two women discover that they have more in common than they think.
BOOK REVIEW: Girl Runner
Inspired by the Canadian women’s track and field team, who participated in the 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games, this novel by Carrie Snyder is the story of Aganetha Smart, the “Girl Runner” of the title.
BOOK REVIEW: Burnt Paper Sky
It’s every parent’s worst nightmare. You let your child out of your sight for a minute – and they’re gone. Gilly MacMillan explores this terrifying scenario in her powerful page-turner, Burnt Paper Sky.
BOOK REVIEW: The Nightingale
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah is the story of two French sisters, whose father has, to all intents and purposes, abandoned them after the death of their mother.
BOOK REVIEW: The Girl in the Photograph
This is a real page turner and a wonderfully atmospheric novel, highlighting the dreadful lot of women who lived in a time when they had no rights over themselves or their children under law.