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ALEXY. |
THE
MEZUZAH in the MADONNA'S FOOT: |
Harper |
£4.50 |
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Trudi, |
Marranos
and Other secret Jews. A Woman discovers her spiritual
heritage.
Acclaimed
in the Progressive's 'Best Reading of 1993', these thrilling
and harrowing firsthand stories of survivors and their
rescuers vividly reveal the secret history of the Jews
who found asylum from Hitler's Final Solution under Franco's
Fascist regime.
"A
woman discovering her Jewish roots... (and) the Jewsish past of Spain
viscerally brings home the complex layers of history. Alexy cracks open
historical events to reveal Spanish efforts on behalf of Jewish refugees...
while at the same time discovering the still fearful heart of the Marranos,
remnants of another persecution". Lilly Rivlin.
Trudi
Alexy and her family fled Prague at the outbreak of World War II. They
lived in SPain as secret Jews until 1941, when they immigrated to the
US. |
Fair /
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1994
RRP £10.99
ISBN: 0-06-060340-2
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ALLISON. |
TWO
OR THREE THINGS I KNOW FOR SURE. |
Dutton |
£3.75 |
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Dorothy, |
The
story of the Gibson women - sisters, cousins, daughters and aunts - and
the men who loved them, often abused them, and, nonetheless, shared their
destinies.
With
luminous clarity, Allison explores how desire surprises and what power
feels like to a young girl as she confronts abuse.
A
probing look at her families history to give us this lyrical, complex
memoir that explores how the gossip of one generation can becomes legends
of the next. |
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1995
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ALLISON
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BEYOND
THE LIMITS. |
Warner |
£3.95 |
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Stacy
& Peter, |
A
Woman's Triumph on Everest.
In
1988 Stacy Allison became the first American woman ever
to reach the summit of Everest. Beyond the
limits describes, in her own words, the long road to this triumphant moment,
relating in the process her struggle to be accepted in
mountaineering circles, her exhausting conquest of the world's highest
peak, and vividly re-creating what it feels like to cling to the side
of a mountain-face by your fingertips.
But
this rare insight into the idiosyncratic world of the climbing elite is
only half of Stacy's story. Abused by her husband, she
had tp draw on the same reserves of courage and detrmination
that enabled her to climb Everest in order to face the sham of her marriage,
and walk out on the man who no longer deserved her love.
For
anyone who has faced an impossible mountain - whether physical or metaphorical
- and reached for its summit, Beyond the Limits thrillingly shows that
it can be done. |
Fair
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1995
ISBN:
0-7515-1181-1 |
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AMROUCHE. |
MY
LIFE STORY |
Women's
Press |
£3.00 |
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Fadhma,
Translated
by Dorothy S Blair. |
The
Autobiography of a Berber Woman.
Fadhma
Amrouche was a singer and a poet, a woman who embodied
in her life and her person that confrontation between colonist
and colonised, Christian and Muslim,
Berber and Arab that is the inheritance
of her present-day North Africa.
She
was born in Kabylia, a mountianous region far from the
colonised coast, the 'illigitimate' daughter of a widow. The 'code of
honor' among the men of her Berber village was often violently enforced,
so the young mother walked six days to entrust her daughter to the care
of French nuns.
Fadhma
married at 16, and moved first to Tunis and eventually
to Paris, where her two surviving children settles. There
she was to become famous as a singer of the wild and plaintive songs of
her beloved Kabylia.
My
Life Story was completed in 1962 when the author was eighty years old.
It is recognised as a classic in tis original French, and is now translated
into English for the first time by DOrothy Blair.
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Fair
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1988
ISBN:
0-7043-4093-3 |
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ANDREWS. |
MEDICINE WOMAN. |
Arkana |
£3.50 |
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Lynne V, |
The intriguing
story of a white woman's quest among the Heyoka Indians.
Lynne's journey took her to the wilds of
Canada, where she became apprenticed to Agnes Whistling Elk, a medicine
woman. There she learnt the mysticism and wisdom of the tribe and became
a huntress and a warrior.
Auto/biography, religion, mythology, spirituality. |
Fair
1988 |
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ANGELOU. |
EVEN
THE STARS LOOK LONESOME. |
Virago |
£3.95 |
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Maya, |
Reflections
on the people and places she has known. Hardback.
OUT
OF STOCK AT PRESENT - SORRY!! |
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1998 |
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ANGELOU. |
GATHER
TOGETHER in MY NAME. |
Virago |
£3.50 |
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Maya, |
Vol
2:
In this moving sequel to her bestselling 'I
Know Why the Caged Bord Sings', the war is over
and Maya has given birth to a son.
Unemployed,
isolated, she embarks on a series of brief lonely affairs and transient
jobs - in shops, restaurants and nightclubs.
Finally
she turns to prostitution and the world of narcotics.
But even in great adversity, Maya invests life with the remarkable sense
of richness that has won her such an enormous following. |
Fair
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1986
ISBN:
0-86068-685-X |
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ANGELOU. |
I
KNOW WHY the CAGED BIRD SINGS. |
Virago |
£3.50 |
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Maya, |
Vol
1:
Moving and beautifully written biography of growing up in the
South in the 1920s is deservedly a besteseller in the US.
Maya
and her brother Bailey, who nicknames her Maya ('mine'), live
with their stern and rock-like grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. Her store
is the centre of the Black community, frequented by exhausted cotton-pickers,
by Reverend Thomas who 'laughed like a hog with colic', by crippled
Uncle Willy. But over all lies the brooding presence of the 'whitefolks'
who rule from the other side of town.
A
visit to St Louis and their adored mother ends in tragedy: Maya is raped
by her mother's lover. For years afterwards she refuses to speak,
except to Bailey. And in those years she learnt that 'it was awful
to be a Negro' ...brutal to be young and already trained to sit
quitely and listen to charges brought against my color'.
Moving
to California meant the joy of living with her mother,
the rich pleasure of learning drama and dance, challenging a white world
that refused 'coloreds' a job. And just weeks after her school
graduation, with her hard-won independence and the sustaining
love of her remarkable mother, she gave birth to, and kept, a treasured
son. |
Fair
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1984
ISBN:
0-86068-511-X |
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ANGELOU. |
SINGIN'
& SWINGIN' and Getting Merry Like Christmas. |
Virago |
£3.75 |
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Maya, |
Vol
3:
At twenty-one Maya's life has a double focus - music and her son.
Working
in a record store to support both, she is on the edge of new worlds: marriage,
show business and, in 1954, a triumphant tour of Europe
and North Africa as feature dancer with Porgy and
Bess.
There
are setbacks and disappointments, but energy and a profound confidence
in her ability to survive keep Maya buoyant. A joyful celebration
of music and dance, travel and friendship. |
Fair
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1985
ISBN:
0-86068-673-6 |
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APPLEMAN-JURMAN. |
ALICIA. |
Bantam |
£3.25 |
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Alicia, |
Memoirs
of a Survivor: War heroine.
Alicia
did more than survive. She triumphed. When Alicia Jurman was thirteen,
she fled the Nazis through the forests and fields of
Poland. Despite her youth, she rescued other
Jews from the grip of the Gestapo.
At
the end of the war, Alicia, whose parents and four brothers had perished
in the Holocaust, risked her life again, leading other survivors
from Poland to Palestine through an underground
route. Her capacity for heroism in the face of brutality and evil shines
through, and her story cannot easily be forgotten. |
Fair
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1990
ISBN:
0-553-17551-3 |
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AZADI
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OUT
OF IRAN. |
Futura |
£1.75 |
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Sousan
with Angela, |
One
Womans Escape From The Ayatollahs.
Born
into the wealthy, westernised elite of the Shah's Iran,
Sousan Azadi grew up in luxury. In her privileged circles the thunder
of approaching revolution was easy to ignore. Then the Shah fell and in
the terrifying new fundamentalist regime of Ayatollah Khomeini
Sousan ans her friends were branded taghoutiI, devil's followers.
They were hunted, their children brainwashed, their property
confiscated.
Alone
with her son after the death of her husband, Sousan became an easy target.
She was flung into jail, where she witnessed terrible
suffering inflicted in the name of 'immodest behaviour'
and 'indecency'. Only when she caught the eye of a Mullah,
who clearly expected sexual favours in return, did she escape.
But
real freedom still lay beyond the snow-capped Zagros mountains,
in Turkey - a hazardous route for a woman and child to
take. |
Fair
1988
Ex-Lib
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0-7088-3926-6 |
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BAUMAN. |
A
DREAM OF BELONGING |
Virago |
£2.95 |
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Janina, |
My
years in post war Poland.
SOLD
- OUT OF STOCK - AT PRESENT! |
Good
1988 |
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BECKER. |
THE
ANGEL OF MOSTAR. |
Hutchinson |
£3.95 |
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Sally, |
One
Womans Fight to Rescue Children in Bosnia.
Sally
Becker's successful attempts to evacuate the sick and
injured, Croat and Muslim alike, from the horrors of
war in Bosnia are now famous.
Shocked
by the pictures of suffering she saw in the news and determined to do
something about it, Sally set off for Bosnia hoping to help disturbed
shell shocked children through art therapy.
She
soon realised that there were many children who needed more than just
therapy, wounded children who might die unless given
immediate medical attention outside of the war zone.
She
began to organise her own evacuations of sick and wounded
women and children. There are many children alive today
to testify to her courage and determination, causing the press to name
her 'The Angel of Mostar'.
Yet
despite the danger and hardship that she and the volunteers who helped
her endured, her efforts have generated a surprising amount of criticism
from the UN and from other major aid agencies. Her robust reply of 'If
they can do it without Sally Becker, that's fine. But why don't they bloody
well do it?' is typical of a woman who has acted while others merely
talked.
This
is her story. Moving and simply told, it describes the long nightmare
of a country torn apart by war, and one person's attempt to make a difference. |
Good
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1994
Hardback.
ISBN:
0-09-178927-3 |
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BELL. |
JUST
TAKE YOUR FROCK OFF. |
Ourstory |
£4.25 |
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Barbara, |
A
Lesbian Life.
The
daughter of a mill worker in Lancashire, Barbara Bell had her lesbian
'initiation' the year after Radcliffe Hall's 'The Well of
Loneliness' (1928). Since then, she has never had the time to be
lonely.
Her
uncle Jack was the first in a long line of gay men who befriended her
- one workmate even taught her about French kissing in
the lunchbreaks. But always Barbara was on the lookout for women like
herself.
She
found them in Girl Guide camps, Paris clubs, Park Lane tea rooms, Hitler's
Germany, London in the blitz, a Watford approved school and a Nigerian
village.
She
had two lesbian 'marriages' but also illicit and delicious 'flutters'.
She was a butch in tailored suits and femme
in crocheted lace. In a silent world she learned to be discreet but she
never turned her back on love.
Living
in Brighton in the early sixties, Barbara zoomed round the countryside
in a sportscar, counselling heartbroken lesbians. Gay liberation
ushered in a world of more freedom than she could ever have imagined when
she was young. In her seventies she started 'buddying' men and
women with AIDS and wore a red hat to their funerals.
Familiar
to viewers of BBC2's 'It's Not Unusual', Barbara
Bell here talls the full story of her extraordinary life and times.
Lesbian
Biography, Lesbian History, Women's Studies. |
Good /
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1999
ISBN: 0-9535880-0-9
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BERNHARD. |
CONFESSIONS
of a PRETTY LADY. |
Flamingo |
£3.25 |
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Sandra, |
Welcome
to the extraordinary world of Sandra Bernhard.
Sophisticated,
sardonic and witty, nothing escapes her acute eye and sharp tongue. With
the pitch-perfect sense of style and humour, Bernhard has written a brilliant
memoir of growing up, describing the thrill of emerency
vehicles, why she moved back to suburbia, a traumatic abortion, dreams
of Madonna, family car trips through the midwest, the art of manicures
and her experiences of Jews who celebrate Christmas.
Confessions
of a pretty woman captures perfectly the strong and subversive
humour that is well known to those who are familiar with Sandra's
film and TV appearances and recent one-woman show, 'Without You I'm
Nothing'.
Her
unique blend of caustic wit and fragile irony
proves her to be as compulsively readable on paper as she is dazzlingly
charismatic on stage. |
Fair
/ Good
1993
ISBN:
0-586-21782-7 |
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BIELENBERG. |
THE
ROAD AHEAD. |
Corgi |
£3.00 |
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Christabel, |
Sequel
to 'The Past is Myself':
Biography of her life up to the 1960's.
Following
the extraordinary success of her wartime memoirs, 'The Past is Myself',
Christabel Bielenberg received thousands of letters from
readers begging her to describe what happened next. The Road Ahead
takes up the story at the moment the first volume left off - with the
outbreak of peace.
Germany
was devastated by war and its aftermath, while Britain
seemed grey and exhausted to Christabel. She was soon appointed the Observer's
special correspondent in Germany, and, reunited with her husband,
Peter (techincally an enemy alien), she joined the struggle for
reconciliation with, and the rebuilding of, a defeated nation.
It
was Peter's near-fatal accident and her own illness which decided the
young couple to turn their backs on England and Germany and make a new
start farming in Ireland.
Life
was harsh at first, but predictably Christabel found humour in the accidents
of poverty and the many mishaps of country life. The
beautiful scenery of the Wicklow Mountains provided a haven
for the family and for the hosts of young people from all over the world
who joined them each summer.
Christabel
became involved with the Peace Women of Northern Ireland
and learned as much as hse could about the adopted country she had grown
to love so passionately.
Taking
her seventieth birthday as a stopping point for a life that even now,
some fourteen years further on, is as rich and full as it ever was, she
looks back with characteristic modesty and gratitude. Her readers will
be enchanted by this second volume of memoirs, as clear-sighted
and generous, as honest, funny, touching and brave as The Past is
Myself. |
Good
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1993
ISBN:
0-552-99469-3
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BOWEN. |
RETURN
TO LAUGHTER. |
Gollancz |
£3.00 |
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Elenore
Smith, |
The
experience of the author, and the African tribe she lived with and how
they all affected each other. Hardback
OUT
OF STOCK AT PRESENT - SORRY!!! |
Fair
(1st)
1956 |
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BOWERS. |
GERTRUDE
STEIN. |
Macmillan |
£4.50 |
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Jane
Palatini, |
Women
Writers Series.
Until
recently Getrude Stein was best known as an eccentric collector of modern
art, as a hostess - with Alice B Toklas
- of a world famous Parisian literary salon, and only
incidently as a writer of enigmatic poetry and prose,
most of it unread, much of it out of print.
In
her engaging account of Stein's work, Jane Palatini Bowers
elucidates some of Steins most difficult texts and enables readers to
re-evaluate Steins position in the modernist canon. Steins deconstruction
of genre, language systems and literary conventions made her marginalization
by modern critics and scholars.
The
world of literary criticsim has only recently caught up with Getrude Stein's
literary practice. Recent critical theories (feminist and post-structuralist)
have facilitated a reassessment of Stein's work and a recognition of her
centrality in modernist and postmoderninst literary history.
Informed
by post-structuralist theory, but refreshingly jargon-free, Bowers's study
will guide readers as they negotiate the difficulties and enjoy the pleasures
of Gertrude Stein's writing. |
Good
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1993
Hardback
ISBN:
0-333-54909-0 |
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BRITTAIN. |
TESTAMENT
OF YOUTH.. |
Virago |
£4.50 |
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Vera, |
One
Woman's Unforgettable Record of the First World War - a haunting elegy
for a lost generation. 1900-1925
In
1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen, and as war was declared
she was about to go to Oxford. Four years later her life
- and the life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that was
unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war years.
This
is her account of how she survived the war; how she lost
the man she loved; how she nursed the wounded; and how
she emerged into an altered world.
Autobiography
of the writer and campaigner. Now a major BBC TV Series. |
Fair
/ Good
1993
Large
£2 p&p (UK)
ISBN:
0-86068-035-5 |
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BRITTAIN. |
TESTAMENT
OF YOUTH.. |
Fontana |
£2.00 |
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Vera, |
One
Woman's Unforgettable Record of the First World War - a haunting elegy
for a lost generation. 1900-1925.
As
Above. |
Poor
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1980
ISBN:
0-00-635703-2
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BURKE. |
FAMILY
VALUES:
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Abacus |
£3.95 |
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Phyllis, |
A
Lesbian Mother's Fight for her Son.
When
her lesbian partner gave birth through donor insemination, it seemed only
natural that Phyllis Burke should adopt their child as
his other legal parent. But as it became apparant that,
even in liberal San Francisco, there were powerful forces ranged against
her fight for recognition. Burke's perception of her
lesbian identity was tested as never before.
Previously
suspicious of the militancy of gay activist groups like
Queer Nation, Burke now found herself increasingly drawn
to their proactive stance as her entry into motherhood
and love for her son sparked a growing radicalisation.
An
extraordinary account of motherhood in the face of ignorance
and prejudice - a story of civil rights, political warfare, Hollywood,
and scraping spaghetti off the floor. |
Fair
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1995
ISBN:
0-349-10638-X |
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BURN. |
THE
CALLING OF KATH BURN. |
Angel |
£3.50 |
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Kath, |
Autobiography
of the female "pilgrim" and "priest".
- What
makes a woman want to be a priest?
- Where
is her calling coming from?
This
is the utterly honest account of one woman's pilgrimage
from Whitley Bay in the north of England to Pakistan, Ireland, the United
States and Canada. Kath discovered that to fulfil her calling, she had
to be on the move. Coming from a traditional Anglo-Catholic parish,
she learned that God wanted her to serve him in the Church. She tested
this calling as a missionary, a member of a religious
order and finally realised that her role was a more active one - as a
priest.
After
an attempt to be accepted for ordination in Britain, she enrolled as a
student of theology in the United States and was ordained
there. Everyone who is for or against the ordination of women to the priesthood
should open their minds and hearts to the challenge that Kath's calling
poses.
The
revd Kath Burns has been a rector of American and Canadian parishes, and
is currently serving as priest at St Mark's church in Cleveland, Ohio. |
Fair
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1988
ISBN:
0-947785-21-3 |
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CASSIDY. |
AUDACITY
to BELIEVE. |
DLT |
£4.50 |
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Sheila, |
The
moving story of Sheila Cassidy.
Sheila
who as a young Doctor who went to work in Chile
and became caught up in the terrible injustice of that
country - injustice which finally led to her own arrest,
imprisonment, torture and expulsion. |
Good
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1996
ISBN:
0-232-51987-0 |
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CHAMBERLAIN. |
29
INMAN ROAD. |
Virago |
£3.50 |
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Ena, |
This
lyrical, poignant autobiography,
in the classic tradition of Cider with Rosie and Lark Rise
to Candleford, belongs to the 1920s, to a
street in south-west London, to its people - and especially to
Ena Chamberlain, the family 'afterthought'.
Energetically
and vividly she observes and interprets the complex nuances of family
relationships and describes the carnival delights of the street
- frequently retreating from them to the wonderfully sacrosanct world
of her own imagination.
A
celebration of the women who dominate street
society; shape it or perish by it. It is also a story about Enas
adored father who is the catalyst for the end of the story - and the end
of childhood. |
Good
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1990
ISBN:
1-85381-139-4 |
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CHERNIN. |
CROSSING
THE BORDER. |
Women's
Press |
£4.50 |
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Kim, |
An
Erotic Journey.
A
young American women, charged with idealism and passion,
leaves behind her family to travel to Israel. There, on a kibbtuz
near the Palestinian border, she strives to create a way of life she can
believe in.
There
she meets the soldier of whom she has long dreamt. And
there she forges a powerful friendship with Sena - one
of the kibbutz's leading women organisers...
But
love at the border soon becomes as ambiguous and dangerous
as the border itself... and a young Kim Chernin threatens to be destroyed
by the very passion she has invoked. |
Good
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1994
ISBN:
0-7043-4414-9 |
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CHING. |
ONE
OF THE LUCKY ONES. |
Sphere |
£3.00 |
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Lucy, |
One
Woman's Triumph over Blindness and Despair.
The
daughter of a prosperous architect in Canton, Lucy Ching was blinded
at the age of six months by a medicine man's herbal 'cure'. In
a society which believed that suffering was a punishment
of evil, blind children were hidden away out of shame.
they grew up as outcasts unable to look after themselves:
many were sold into slavery and prostitution, and some were deserted to
die.
Lucy
Chings story is an heroic one of triumph against all odds. It tells how,
with the help of her selfless and devoted amah and a
set of braille letters, Lucy built a life of her own. She taught herself
to read, ventured out of the family house for the first
time, met strangers, and eventually gained a place at school
where she excelled and made many friends.
With
her family and amah she survived the Revolution, poverty
snd bereavement, winning a scholarship to America and
returning to Hong Kong where her social work gained her the MBE.
This
is a moving story of great personal bravery as well as a fascinating account
of changing life during a time of great upheaval in China. |
Fair
/ Good
1982
ISBN:
0-7221-2318-3 |
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COLETTE. |
THE
EVENING STAR. |
Womens
Press |
£2.95 |
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Recollections
The
Evening Star begines and ends from Colette's divan in the Palais-Royal,
where she refuses to take any painkillers for her arthritic hip because,
she said, 'they change the colour of my thoughts'.
Comapanion
to the earlier Looking Backwards (The Women's Press 1987),
this volume is in effect a love letter, and a tribute, to Paris
during the Nazi Occupation.
The
minutiae of life in war-time France interweave with half a century
of recollections or remarkable people as the authour moves
effortlessly within the paradox of being trapped by disease and the Occupation,
and being free to travel wherever she will through her writing, her imagination
and her exuberant love of a beneficient world. |
Good
1987 |
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COOPER. |
THE
RAINBOW COMES and GOES |
Century |
£3.50 |
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Diana
(Lady), |
Vol
1 - Her life to the 1920's (Writer/ Socialite).
Born
Lady Diana Manners, the youngest child of the 8th Duke of Rutland, Lady
Diana Cooper became famous as a great socialite between
the wars and during her marriage to Duff Cooper - the politician, writer
and first Viscount Norwich - whose wife she became in 1919.
This
is the first of her three volume autobiography, in which
she writes fluently of her early life - from her Edwardian
upbringing as one of the 'Quality', to her presentation at Court
in 1911 and the years during which she earned a reputation as a 'scalp-collector'
of 'eligibles' - though the 'ineligibles' were always
more to her taste.
Before
her engagement and marriage to Duff Cooper, she also describes her period
as 'Nurse Manners' at Guy's Hospital during
the 1914-18 war.
The
reader of this memoir enters both the life of an exceptional individual,
and the fascinating world of the aristocracy before and during the First
World War. |
Fair
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1984
ISBN:
0-7126-0452-9 |
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COOPER. |
TRUMPETS
FROM the STEEP. |
Century |
£3.50 |
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Diana
(Lady), |
Vol
3 - The second world war years.
Born
Lady Diana Manners, the youngest child of the 8th Duke of Rutland, Lady
Diana Cooper became famous as a great socialite between the wars and during
her marriage to Duff Cooper - the politician, writer and first Viscount
Norwich - whose wife she became in 1919.
This
is the third part of her three volume autoiography and here she tells
of the Second World War years, when she experiences the
London raids during the Blitz at one
extreme, and digs for victory at the other.
But
because of who and what she is, the inevitable glamour still persists
and she cuts a brilliant social figure - whether it be
with President Roosevelt at the White House or when following
the blazing trail of Duff Cooper's wartime career through the Far
East, the British Embassy in Paris, Algiers
and Australia.
Trumpets
from the Steep forms the most moving and tenderly written volume of a
fascinating life story. |
Fair
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1984
ISBN:
0-7126-0957-1 |
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CRACKNELL. |
A
BIASED MEMOIR. |
Penguin |
£4.50 |
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RUTH, |
Australias
first lady of theatre, film and television.
From
performing in radio soap operas in evening wear to dancing
a wild tango in the famous Phillip Street revues to subverting
the 'old dear' stereotype in Mother and Son, Ruth Cracknell has
led an acting life that embraces Australian theatre
history since World War Two.
Her
personal account beautifully evokes the endless summers and long verandahs
of childhood, the wild adventure of London in the fifties,
the fun and desperation of rehearsals in many theatres
- and always the richness of a life hugely emjoyed and lived to the full. |
V
Good / Mint
1999
ISBN:
0-14-027588-6 |
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CREIDER. |
TWO
LIVES: |
Women's
Press |
£3.25 |
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Jane
Tapsubei, |
My
Spirit & I
A
unique insight into the vastly different worlds of Africa
and the West, and two autobiographies in one:
the life of the author, a Nandi woman from East Africa
now resident in Canada, and the life of the first Tapsubei,
of whom she is a reincarnation.
The
author grew up, one of the Nandi people, in colonial and post-independence
Kenya. Her parents seperated when she was young; Jane
was taken from her mother and brought up in her fathers household. There
from her beloved grandmother she hears the story of her
past life in a previous incarnation, as a resourceful
mother who took to cattle-raiding to win for herself a better life.
Inspired,
Jane vows to live up to this example, a vow which takes her up country
to Kisumu and Nairobi, where she tries
her hand at a variety of jobs, from misionary to midwife. Eventually her
path leads to Europe and North America,
where she finds independence at last, and a career as artist and
writer. |
Fair
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1986
ISBN:
0-7043-4006-2 |
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CUNDIFF. |
CALLED
TO BE ME. |
Triangle |
£2.50 |
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Margaret, |
Deaconess
Margaret Cundiff's reminiscences of 10 years in a Parish church in North
Yorkshire.
OUT
OF STOCK - AT PRESENT! |
Fair
1982 |
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DALY. |
OUTERCOURSE
The Be-dazzling Voyage. |
Womens
Press |
£5.00 |
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Mary, |
The
resplendent philosophical Autobiography of the worlds foremost radical
feminist philosopher.
Containing
recollections from my Logbook of a radical feminist philosopher
(be-ing an account of my time/space travels and ideas - then, again,
now and how).
"A
shimmering and utterly unique achievment, a portrait of the radical
feminist philosopher as a child, young adult, and wonderlusting
Crone. By interweaving memories from her philosophical explorations, Mary
Daly puts her story, character, adventure, and the faculty of imagination
back into philosophy.
Ultimately,
she presents us with an invaluable document of radical feminist be-ing,
actualizing that be-dazzling reality and inviting all readers, finally,
to voyage with her and her uncanny Familiars to the Other side of the
moon. Take me to the moon, Mary Daly!". - Jane Caputi |
Good
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1993
Large
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£3.50
P&P (UK)
ISBN:
0-7043-4372-X |
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D'ARCY. |
TELL
THEM EVERYTHING. |
Pluto |
£2.50 |
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Margaretta, |
The
women in Armagh said to me 'tell them everything' and this i have tried
to do.
This
is the story of a sentence served in the bizarre and controversial jail
environment that has resulted from the British government's new policy
(1976) of 'criminalising' political prisoners in Northern
Ireland.
The
author preferred to spend three months in Armagh jail with 30 young republican
women on the no-wash protest rather than pay a fine for protesting (on
international women's day 1979) against the inhuman
and squalid conditions in the prison - she describes vividly but with
humour how the women organised themselves with courage and dignity despite
living amid excrement, urine and menstrual blood for 23 hours
a day.
She
poses a crucial question for the women's movement - can it remain silent
in the face of the sufferings and resistence of the republican women prisoners
in Ireland?
A
woman who spent 3 months in an Armagh jail. |
Fair
/ Good
1981
ISBN:
0-86104-349-9 |
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DARROW. |
FLIRTING
WITH DANGER. |
Virago |
£5.50 |
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Siobhan, |
Confessions
of a Relucatant War Reporter.
Siobhan
Darrow has worked for CNN |