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A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx

A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx

Elaine Showalter

Fascinating, incisive, intelligent and never afraid of being controversial, Elaine Showalter introduces us to more than 250 writers. Here are the famous and expected names, including Harriet...

Paperback: £8.99

A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx

A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx

Elaine Showalter

Fascinating, incisive, intelligent and never afraid of being controversial, Elaine Showalter introduces us to more than 250 writers. Here are the famous and expected names, including Harriet...

Hardback: £22.50

A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing

A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing

Elaine Showalter

When first published in 1982, A LITERATURE OF THEIR OWN quickly set the stage for the creative explosion of feminist literary studies that transformed the field in the 1980s. Launching a major new...

Paperback: £13.99

Essays on the Art of Angela Carter: Flesh and the Mirror

Essays on the Art of Angela Carter: Flesh and the Mirror

ed Lorna Sage Introduction by Ali Smith

'Go out and get Carter. Get all her fiction, all her fact.' Ali Smith

Paperback: £9.99

The Daphne du Maurier Companion

The Daphne du Maurier Companion

ed: Helen Taylor

Daphne du Maurier is one of Britain’s best-loved authors, her writing capturing the imagination in a way that few have been able to equal. Rebecca, her most famous novel, was a huge success on...

Paperback: £10.99

Strange Things

Strange Things

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood's witty and informative book focuses on the imaginative mystique of the wilderness of the Canadian North. She discusses the 'Grey Owl Syndrome' of white writers going native; the...

Paperback: £7.99

Negotiating With the Dead: A Writer on Writing

Negotiating With the Dead: A Writer on Writing

Margaret Atwood

What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and the development of her writing career, Margaret Atwood...

Paperback: £8.99

A View From the Bed and Other Observations

A View From the Bed and Other Observations

Jenny Diski

‘As a general rule I try to maintain a balanced and realistic approach to life. I’m convinced that the best place for a rabbit’s foot is at the end of a rabbit’s leg. And if there are fairies at...

Paperback: £16.00

Melt And Pour Soapmaking

Melt And Pour Soapmaking

Marie Browning

Soaps fragrant with oils of spices, fizzing up the bath, or moulded into perfect petals to place in a pretty jar beside the sink. Ones with guardian angels or good luck coins tucked inside. Such...

Paperback

Art of Basketry

Art of Basketry

Kari Lonning

Illustrated in colour throughout.

Paperback

Creative Mosaics

Creative Mosaics

Chiara Di Pinto, Monica Cresci

Illustrated in colour throughout.

Paperback

Trompe L'Oeil Stencilling

Trompe L'Oeil Stencilling

Jocelyn Kerr Holding

Through the play of shadow and light, a stencilled painting can look almost real ¿ with texture, gradations of colour and a three-dimensional quality that fools the eye. Unlike freehand...

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