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If it's written by a woman, narrated by a woman, and explores themes intrinsic to womanhood with a healthy measure of humour and heart, then you can pretty much guarantee I'll be into it. These stories are audacious, exciting, emotional, and often hilarious, and they span genres and age groups—sass for all!
Normal Women by Ainslie Hogarth
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In this hilarious and horrific take on motherhood and womanhood, a young mother becomes embroiled in drama and danger when a local sex worker goes missing. New mother Dani has a lot going on. She's worried that her seemingly healthy husband, Clark, might drop dead, leaving her and her baby, Lotte, desti ...Show more
Behind The Scenes At The Museum by Kate Atkinson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A deeply moving family story of happiness and heartbreak, Behind the Scenes at the Museum is bestselling author Kate Atkinson's award-winning literary debut. National BestsellerWinner of the Whitbread Book of the YearRuby Lennox begins narrating her life at the moment of conception, and from there takes ...Show more
Boys Will Be Boys - Power, patriarchy and the toxic bonds of mateship by Clementine Ford
$22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Studies
Clementine Ford reports that one of the questions she is most asked in person and online is 'how do I raise my son to be a feminist? How do I make sure he's a supporter rather than a perpetrator?' That is a question that many parents with sons are haunted by. Now that Clem is mother to a baby boy of her ...Show more
Case Histories: (Jackson Brodie) by Kate Atkinson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Jackson Brodie
Cambridge is sweltering, during an unusually hot summer. To Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, the world consists of one accounting sheet - Lost on the left, Found on the right - and the two never seem to balance. Jackson has never felt at home in Cambridge, and has a f ...Show more
Everything I Know About Love: Now a Major BBC One Series by Dolly Alderton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming a grown up, journalist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, wrestling with self-sabotage, finding a job, throwing a socially disastrous Rod-Stewart themed house party, getting drunk, getting du ...Show more
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: The\Finlay Donovan Ser.
When struggling crime writer Finlay Donovan takes on a life of crime normally reserved for her characters, she finds herself entangled in a real-life murder investigation. Witty and fast-paced, this murder mystery is perfect for fans of Janet Evanovich and Maria Semple.'Proves you only need to get mista ...Show more
Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize, Hot Milk moves "gracefully among pathos, danger, and humor" (The New York Times).I have been sleuthing my mother's symptoms for as long as I can remember. If I see myself as an unwilling detective with a desire for jus ...Show more
How To Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The New York Times bestseller, now available in paperback--"Half memoir, half polemic, and entirely necessary," (Elle UK) Caitlin Moran's debut--an instant runaway bestseller in the UK--puts a new face on feminism, cutting to the heart of issues with an irreverent, transcendent, and hilarious touch. "Ca ...Show more
In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES and GLOBE AND MAIL BESTSELLERWhat should be a cozy and fun-filled weekend deep in the English countryside takes a sinister turn in Ruth Ware's suspenseful, compulsive, and darkly twisted psychological thriller.Sometimes the only thing to fear...is yourself.Leonora (Lee to some, ...Show more
Madame Badobedah (#1) (HB) by Sophie Dahl
$26.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Mabel lives with her parents in The Mermaid Hotel, by the sea. Mabel likes to keep an eye on the comings and goings of all the guests. Then one day a particularly in-ter-est-ing old lady comes to stay. There is something very suspicious about her, with her growly voice and her heavy trunks and her beady ...Show more
My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: #1
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter in this extraordinary novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post * The N ...Show more
Older Not Wiser (Bad Nana #1) by Sophy Henn
$14.99 AUD
Category: Early Readers | Series: Bad Nana
A wickedly funny new series for ages six and up from the creator of Where Bear?, Pass It On and the Pom Pom series, with colour illustrations throughout. (This ebook is optimised for Kindle tablets and the Kindle App. It is not suitable for e-Ink kindle devices, such as the PaperWhite. We recommend you ...Show more