Edith Wharton first published: 1920 {USA} ★★★ Synopsis Edith Wharton's novel reworks the eternal triangle of two women and a man in a strikingly original manner. When about to marry the beautiful and conventional May Welland, Newland Archer falls in love with her very unconventional cousin, the Countess Olenska. The consequent drama, set in New …
Blood on Snow
Jo Nesbo first published: 2014 {Norway} ★★★★ Synopsis Olav lives the lonely life of a fixer.When you 'fix' people for a living - terminally - it’s hard to get close to anyone.Now he’s finally met the woman of his dreams.But there are two problems.She’s his boss’s wife.And Olav’s just been hired to kill her. We …
Medieval Women
A social history of women in England 450 - 1500 Henrietta Leyser first published: 1995 ★★ Synopsis Medieval Women looks at a thousand years of English history, as it affected - and was made by - women. Henrietta Leder considers the problems and attitudes fundamental to every women of the time: medieval views on sex, …
Polenta e Liberdade
Arlindo Itacir Battistel first published: 1998 ★★★★ Synopsis Polenta e Liberdade (Polenta and Freedom) tells stories about Italian immigrants who moved to Brazil. The author, after completing his research, aimed to recreate how those people lived in Italy: the environment, their thoughts, feelings, hopes, sorrows and their motivation to migrate to America. This saga is …
Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo first published: 2019 ★★★★★ Synopsis This is Britain as you've never read it. This is Britain as it has never been told. From the top of the country to the bottom, across more than a century of change and growth and struggle and life, Girl, Woman, Other follows twelve very different characters on …
Thoughts of One's Own 