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Desperate spring : lives of Algerian women [Buy Direct]

by Fettouma Touati
Translated by Ros Schwartz
Original title: Printemps dâesespâerâe.

We sinful women : contemporary Urdu feminist poetry [Buy Direct]

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My Aunt Is a Pilot Whale (1990) [Buy Direct]

by Anne Provoost
Translated by Ria Bleumer
Original title: Mijn tante is een grindewal

Shame Is over, the: A Political Life Story (1976)

by Anja Meulenbelt
Translated by Ann Oosthuizen
Original title: De schaamte voorbij

February Shadows

by Elizabeth Reichart
Translated by D Hoffmeister
Original title: Februar-Schatten

Relatively few Austrian authors have delved into Austria’s Nazi legacy and even fewer women writers have addressed the theme. In her debut novel February Shadows, for which she was awarded the Austrian prize for literature in 1993, (more...)

The Evening Star [Buy Direct]

by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Translated by D Le Vay
Original title: L’Étoile vesper

Across the Acheron

by Monique Wittig
Translated by D Le Vay
Original title: Virgile, non

In Across the Acheron Monique Wittig mines Dante’s Divine Comedy to present, in a series of short tableaux, a dystopian vision of a world in which women are ruled by rapacious men. Mixing science fiction with autobiography and ideological polemic, (more...)

The Story of Omaya [Buy Direct]

by Nancy Huston
Original title: Histoire d’Omaya

The Words to Say It [Buy Direct]

by Marie Cardinal
Translated by P Goodheart
Original title: Les Mots pour dire

Devotion and Disorder

by Marie Cardinal
Translated by Karin Montin
Original title: Les Grands d’esordres

A book which is very good on two things; the psychology & subcultures of hard drug users and the forlorn intensities and confusions of mother-daughter love (and over-identification). While Marie Cardinal is not exactly a great writer, being too facile and sometimes too compromising in her reach, (more...)

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