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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!
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'I have bought more copies of this book to give to people, in a frenzy of enthusiasm, than any other . . . Heartburn is the perfect, bittersweet, sobbingly funny, all-too-true confessional novel' Nigella Lawson Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel discovers that her husband is in love with another wo ...Show more
Heating and Cooling 52 Micro-Memoirs by Fennelly Beth Ann
$22.95 AUD
Category: Essays
The 52 micro-memoirs in genre-defying Heating & Cooling offer bright glimpses into a richly lived life, combining the compression of poetry with the truth-telling of nonfiction into one heartfelt, celebratory book. Ranging from childhood recollections to quirky cultural observations, these micro-mem ...Show more
Hex by Rebecca Dinerstein Knight
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Wise, funny, suspenseful' JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER'Reads like a botanist's cross-breeding of The Secret History and Department of Speculation' EMMA STRAUB'Hex is some dark and joyous witchery' LAUREN GROFFNell Barber, an expelled PhD candidate in Biological Science, is exploring the fine line between poiso ...Show more
How Do We Know We're Doing It Right? Essays on Modern Life by Pandora Sykes
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays
'Pandora is my personal guru on all things relating to the zeitgeist. How lucky you are that she can now be yours too.' - Dolly Alderton Modern life is full of choices. We're told that happiness lies within and we can be whoever we want to be. But with endless possibility comes a feeling of restlessnes ...Show more
How To Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie
$29.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
Cosmopolitan's best books of 2021 Grazia's best books of 2021 ‘Funny and furious and strangely uplifting. Grace is a bitter and beguiling anti-hero with a keen eye for social analysis – even in her most grisly deeds, you never stop rooting for her' PANDORA SYKES I have killed several people (some bru ...Show more
How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The New York Times bestselling author hailed as "the UK's answer to Tina Fey, Chelsea Handler, and Lena Dunham all rolled into one" (Marie Claire) makes her fiction debut with a hilarious yet deeply moving coming of age novel. What do you do in your teenage years when you realize what your parents taugh ...Show more
How to be Famous by Caitlin Moran
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Life is always better backstage, isn't it?The Sunday Times Number One bestseller about a young woman making it in a world where men hold all the power.I'm Johanna Morrigan, and I live in London in 1995, at the epicentre of Britpop. I might only be nineteen, but I'm wise enough to know that everyone arou ...Show more
Killing It (Lex Tyler #1) by Asia Mackay
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
Move over, James Bond - meet Lex Tyler - an assassin just back from maternity leave. As dextrous with a breast pump as she is with a gun, here is one badass heroine you won't forget.
Little Weirds by Jenny Slate
$22.99 AUD
Category: Essays
One of Vanity Fair's Great Quarantine Reads: Step into Jenny Slate's wild imagination in this "magical" (Mindy Kaling), "delicious" (Amy Sedaris), and "poignant" (John Mulaney) New York Times bestseller about love, heartbreak, and being alive -- "this book is something new and wonderful" (George Saunder ...Show more
Magic for Liars - A Novel by Sarah Gailey
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fantasy & Sci-Fi
GOODREADS: The Hottest Books of Summer 2019OMNIVORACIOUS: 10 Most Anticipated SF and Fantasy Books of SummerEW: Books to Read in JunePOPSUGAR: 21 New Books You Need to ReadGOODREADS: Meet the Rising Stars of Science Fiction and FantasyLITHUB: Ultimate Summer Books PreviewREFINERY 29: The Best Books of J ...Show more
Meaty: Essays by Samantha Irby
$22.99 AUD
Category: Essays
'This is an unforgettable book, the kind where the author unapologetically bares her heart and asks you to hold it tenderly, with care.' Roxane Gay Meditations on the terror of love; tips for getting your disgusting meat carcass ready for some new, hot sex; a frank self-evaluation upon the occasion of o ...Show more
Men Explain Things to Me - And Other Essays by Rebecca Solnit
$24.99 AUD
Category: Essays
In her comic, scathing essay "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit takes on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She writes about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, air ...Show more