I’ve read the entire Penelope series by Claire North. Feminist, comic, engaging, and insightful, the retelling of Penelope focuses on her queenhood on Ithaca and female solidarity. This final book…
Now, I love Rachel Cusk and have hoovered up a lot of her work. This one is more of a memoir than some of the other Rachel Cusk stuff I’ve…
This was good, but it’s hard to say much about it as there’s some essential things that you find out during the story that change things! So I don’t want…
A random pick from the library, this short French novel is about the sexual awakening of a young man on his honeymoon to Tunisia. For its time it was a…
Two beautiful stories in one! What a great double bill. These tender stories are about grief, love, and connection. The first one is about a woman’s meditative and supernatural night…
This is the second book in the series, and I definitely loved this as much as previous one, The Satsuma Complex🍊 I’m not even usually a big comic writing fan,…
First of all, I need to see this in performance! I can really see how the text would come alive with dialogue and physical drama. This play is a very…
Funny, powerful, tragic, visceral, intelligent, lively…. Just some of the words I’d use to describe these poems. Of House on Mango Street fame, Cisneros is a versatile poet and storyteller,…
This was actually a bit of fun! A novella/short story by Atwood about the funny yet sinister suburban mum who is documented through her daughter’s eyes. It’s great to see…
This was a bit of a revelation! In the intro they make the point that Wilcox perhaps never attained the same reputation as his contemporaries writing about similar social issues…