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	NAME	DETAILS	PUBLISHER	PRICE
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	ABER	LOST GIRLS ADRIFT	Hippo	£2.75
	Linda	The story of 6 girls who set out on a holiday of a lifetime - a sailing trip in the Bahamas, but when a storm blows up, they find themselves cast adrift...	Fair / Good 1991 ISBN: 0590550705
	AKINS	LITTLE WOMAN	Collins	£3.75
	Ellen	The Comical Adventures of Beauty Skinner and her friend Claudia, who set up a rural shelter for needy Women.	Good 1993 ISBN: 0-06-092323-7
	ALERMO	A WOMAN	Virago	£1.95
	Sibilla	Set in Italy. The Story of a headstrong young Woman, who breaks away from the Traditional "Lot" of Woman.	Fair 1979 ISBN: 0-86068-010-X
	ALEXANDER	ADOLF'S REVENGE.	Abacus	£3.95
	Lynne	The story of Adolf who is big, hairy and hot for revenge. An anti-fairy tale about powerlessness and it's cultural and historical roots. Large / £2.50 P&P / RRP £8.99	Good / V Good 1994 ISBN: 0-349-10576-6
	ALLENDE.	EVA LUNA.	Penguin	£3.95
	Isabel, Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.	"Packed with action, prodigal in invention, vivid in description and metaphor, this cleverly plotted novel is enhanced by its flowing prose and absolute assurance" - The Times	Fair / Good 1989 ISBN: 0-14-024442-5
	AMBERLAKE.	THE DOMINO TATTOO.	Nexus	£3.25
	Cyrian,	Adult / Erotica book. Estwych. A place only the initiated can enter. A place where one must face one's deepest fears and most secret desires. A place where those without the domino tattoo find that they are everyone's slave and nobody's lover. Into this world apart comes Josephine Morrow, a young woman beset with a strange restlessness. At Estwych she finds a cruelty and a gentleness she has never known.	Fair / Good 1995
	ALLIOTT	THE REAL THING.	Headline	£1.50
	Catherine	The story of Tessa Hamilton who meets up with an old boyfriend...	Good 1997
	ANDERSON	ALL THE NICE GIRLS	Vintage	£1.00
	Barbara	The story of Sophie Flynn a naval wife with too much on her plate. As Serialised on Radio 4's "Woman's Hour".	Fair 1994 Ex-Library
	ANGADI	PLAYING FOR REAL.	Black swan	£3.00
	Patricia	Set in Cornwall. The Story of Joanne, who forms a disjointed friendship with Peter.	Fair 1991
	ARMSTRONG	MISCHIEF	Pandora	£3.00
	Charlotte	The story of a couple who leave their daughter with a babysitter in a hotel, for the little girl it's the start of a night, when she comes face to face with a deadly playmate - death itself...	Mint / New 1988
	ASHWORTH.	ONCE IN A HOUSE ON FIRE.	Picador	£3.95
	Andrea,	"A shining evocation of growing up, of yearning; it is a poetic social history, an enchanting and thrilling story that, although reading like fine fiction, has verisimilitude running through it like a watermark. As a chronicle of northern working-class life in the seventies and eighties, and as a testament of human frailty, it would be hard to better this book. It is extremely moving; It is also at times surprisingly, and gratifyingly, very funny". Tim Lott, The Times.	Good / V Good 1999
	ASTLEY	SEVEN FOR A SECRET.	Black swan	£3.50
	Judy	Novel about Heather, and the past secrets that are revealed, as her first husband Iain arrives.	Fair 1996
	ATKINSON.	HUMAN CROQUET.	Black Swan	£3.95
	Kate,	Once it had been the great forest of Lythe - a vast and impenetrable thicket of green with a mystery in the very heart of the trees. And here, in the beginning, lived the Fairfaxes, grandly, at Fairfax Manor, visited once by the great Gloriana herself. But over the centuries the forest had been destroyed, replaced by streets of trees. The Fairfaxes had dwindled too; now they lived in 'Arden' at the end of Hawthorne Close and were hardly a family at all. This is the story of Isobel (daughter), born on the street of Trees, who drops into pockets of time and out again. Isobel is sixteen and she s waiting for the return of her mother - the thin, dangerous Eliza, whose disappearance is part of the mystery that still remains at the heart of the forest.	V Good 1998
	ATWOOD.	BODILY HARM.	Virago	£3.25
	Margaret,	A magnificent novel of adventure, intrigue - and betrayal. Rennie Wilford, a young journalist running from her life, takes an assignment to a Caribbean island and tumbles into a world where no one is what they seem. When the burnt-out Yankee Paul (does he smuggle dope or hustle for the CIA?) offers her a no-hooks, no strings affair, she is caught up in a lethal web of corruption.	Fair / Good 1983
	ATWOOD.	BODILY HARM.	Virago	£3.50
	Margaret,	A magnificent novel of adventure, intrigue - and betrayal. Rennie Wilford, a young journalist running from her life, takes an assignment to a Caribbean island and tumbles into a world where no one is what they seem. When the burnt-out Yankee Paul (does he smuggle dope or hustle for the CIA?) offers her a no-hooks, no strings affair, she is caught up in a lethal web of corruption.	Good 1989
	ATWOOD.	SURFACING.	Virago	£3.50
	Margaret,	A young divorcee returns to the remote island of her childhood in Northern Canada to investigate the mysterious disappearance of her father. Flooded with memories, she is gradually drawn back into her past as the wild island exerts its elemental hold.	Good / V Good 1989
	ATWOOD.	SURFACING.	Virago	£3.50
	Margaret,	A young divorcee returns to the remote island of her childhood in Northern Canada to investigate the mysterious disappearance of her father. Flooded with memories, she is gradually drawn back into her past as the wild island exerts its elemental hold.	V Good 1999
	ATWOOD	THE EDIBLE WOMAN.	Virago	£3.75
	Margaret	Marian is determinedly ordinary, waiting to get married. She likes her work, her broody flat-mate and her sober fiance Peter. All goes well at first, but Marian has reckoned without an inner self that wants something more, an inner self that calmly sabotages her careful plans, stable routine - and her digestion. Marriage a la mode, Marian discovers, is something she literally can't stomach.	Fair / Good 1999
	ATWOOD	THE HANDMAID'S TALE.	Virago	£3.75
	Margaret	Classic Feminist Novel. Set in the Near Future. The Story of Offred, who is a Handmaid. Handmaids only have one purpose in Life and that is to bear a child	Good / V Good 1995
	AUSTIN.	EMMA.	Penguin	£2.50
	Jane,	In planning Emma, which appeared in 1816, Jane Austen wrote: 'I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like'. Yet despite her manifest faults - her officiousness and her capacity for deluding herself - most readers will agree in liking Emma Woodhouse very much indeed. More complex and fully rounded than almost any of Jane Austen's other characters, she dominates the novel as she believed herself to dominate her little world of Highbury. Her progress, through the mismanagement of other people's affairs to the crisis and resolution of her own, is a whole comedy of self-deceit and self-discovery.	Good 1980
	AUSTIN.	MANSFIELD PARK.	Penguin	£2.50
	Jane,	Mansfield Park (1814) is possibly the most profound and original of Jane Austen's novels, as Tony Tanner suggests in an introduction in which he unravels 'the figure in the carpet' of this strange and complex book. As it's title suggests it is as much the story of a house as of the people who carry on their intrigues and affairs in and around it. Some modern readers have felt little sympathy with the patient, watchful heroine, Fanny: few, however, have failed to detect an underlying atmosphere which is all the more powerful for being suppressed. And certainly the greatest scenes show Jane Austen working at the very height of her artistic powers.	Fair / Good 1983
	AUSTIN.	NORTHANGER ABBEY	Penguin	£2.50
	Jane,	No other novel from Jane Austen's pen allows more free rein for her sophisticated wit and tart sense of satire than this account of a young lady's first season in Regency Bath. Everyone in Bath believes - quite mistakenly - that Catherine Morland is a wealthy heiress, when, in fact, she is just one of a country vicar's brood of ten children. An innocent abroad in Bath's social whirl, she is charmed by General Tilney's invitation to stay at Northanger Abbey, especially since she has encountered his son, the eligible Henry. Jane Austen's richly ironical and deliciously lively narrative brings Catherine home to her father's vicarage in tears en route to her well-deserved happy ending.	Fair / Good 1979
	AUSTIN.	PERSUASION.	Penguin	£2.50
	Jane,	Published posthumously in 1818, is Jane Austen's last novel. Like her earlier works it is a tale of love and marriage, told with the irony, insight, and sane evaluation of human conduct which sets her writing apart. But the starting-point is a new one, the tone a little more sombre. Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth have met and separated years before. Their reunion forces a recognition of the false values that drove them apart. The characters who embody these values are the objects of some of the most withering satire that Jane Austen ever wrote. This edition also includes J.E. Austen-Leigh's valuable work, A Memoir of Jane Austen.	Fair / Good 1980
	AUSTIN.	PRIDE AND PREJUDICE.	Penguin	£2.50
	Jane,	First published in 1813, is a probably Jane Austen's best-loved work and certainly one of the most enduringly popular of all English novels. In Elizabeth Bennet the author drew a supremely spirited and attractive heroine - 'I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print' - her encounter with the proud Darcy is surely one of the most charming of all love stories. Beneath the delicate and sparkling surface, however, may lie a sense of the oppositions of playfulness and regulation, of energy and order, of Romantic values and Classical virtues, and of the civilised balance between them.	Fair / Good 1980
	AUSTIN.	SENSE AND SENSIBILTY.	Penguin	£2.50
	Jane,	Jane Austen's tale of two sisters carries its subject in it's title: good sense on the one hand and excess romantic 'sensibility' on the other. But this, as Tony Tanner makes clear in his introduction, is only a beginning. Far from being crudely schematic, Sense and Sensibility subtly probes, through the trials of it's very real heroines, perennial questions about civilisation and its discontents that have been more solemnly analysed in our times. It is high drama, though acted out in sighs and glances and unspoken thoughts, of the kind to be found in 'a society, which forced people to be at once very sociable - and very private'.	Fair / Good 1980
	AVIS	PLAYING THE HARLOT or mostly coffee.	Virago	£3.75
	Patricia	The story of Mary Gallen, a gifted woman writer, but a drifting soul amongst the 50s generation of raffish male literary intellectuals, plays the harlot and measures her life in dry, unsparing wit	V Good / Mint 1996
	AXLINE	DIBS - IN SEARCH OF SELF.	Penguin	£3.00
	Virginia M,	The moving story of an emotionally lost little boy called Dibs, who found his own way back... He would not talk. He would not play. Judged mentally defective, he was oblivious both to other children and to his teacher; in reality he was a brilliant, lonely child trapped in a prison of fear and rage, a prison from which only he could release himself. And, through psychotherapy and love, he did.	Good 1990
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	BAGNOLD.	THE SQUIRE	Virago	£1.00
	Enid,	The story of a woman whose husband is away in Bombay and is made temporary "Squire". Pregnant and restless, she looks back on her life and the woman she once was.	Fair 1988 Ex-Library
	BAILEY.	HANNIE RICHARDS or The Intrepid Adventures of a Restless Wife.	Virago	£2.95
	Hilary,	Hannie leads a double Life, One as a Wife, and the other as an International Smuggler.	Poor / Fair 1985
	BAINBRIDGE.	MASTER GEORGIE.	Abacus	£3.95
	Beryl,	When Master Georgie - George Hardy, surgeon and photographer - sets off from the cold squalor of Victorian Liverpool for the heat and glitter of the Bosphorus to offer his services in the Crimea, there struggles behind him a small caravan of devoted followers: Myrtle, his adoring adoptive sister; lapsed geologist Dr Potter; and photographer's assistant and sometime fire-eater Pompey Jones, all of them driven onwards through a rising tide of death and disease by a shared and mysterious guilt.	V Good / Mint 2000
	BAINBRIDGE.	THE BIRTHDAY BOYS.	Penguin	£3.25
	Beryl,	Account of the story of Captain Scott and the four men he led to their deaths in Antarctica in 1912.	Mint 1993
	BAINBRIDGE.	WINTER GARDEN.	Penguin	£2.75
	Beryl,	Douglas Ashburner had never been a womanizer. If his wife had murmured a single reproach he would have immediately made a clean breast of things. Instead her reaction to his sudden need for lone fishing holiday in the highlands seemed positively encouraging. So it is that Ashburner finds himself changing the luggage labels in the taxi to Heathrow, and checking in with his companions on the flight to Moscow.	Fair / Good 1991
	BAINES.	BODY CUTS	Pandora	£3.25
	Elizabeth,	The story of Bron, who leads a life on the move from her lovers, but ultimately from herself. Body cuts is a strong, unafraid trespass into the taboos of women's desire.	V Good 1988
	BAINES.	THE BIRTH MACHINE.	Women's Press	£3.25
	Elizabeth,	Zelda is a 'good girl' who has made a 'good' marriage. She is accustomed to please. Yet as her body is divided and her baby wrenched from her, rebellion rises in her; she enters a surreal world where past, present and deeper levels of myth, and childhood fairytale are nightmarishly confused.	V Good 1983
	BAKER	CASSANDRA AT THE WEDDING	Virago	£3.50
	Dorothy	The story of Cassandra Edwards, who returns to the family ranch for her twin sister Judith's wedding. A study of a passionate, jealous, and hopeless love between sisters	V Good 1994
	BAMBARA	THE SALT EATERS.	Women's press	£3.75
	Toni Cade,	The Story of Velma, who through meeting Minnie (fabled Healer) finds an understanding about life, female friendships and the struggles that face the black community in a hostile environment..	Good / V Good 1987
	BANTI.	ARTEMISIA.	Serpent's Tail	£4.75
	Anna,	Written in 1947, Artemisia immediately established itself as a Classic. At the centre of the book is Artemisia Gentileschi, a painter influenced by Michelangelo and Caravaggio. A rising star in 17th-century Naples, Artemisia realises that success has been bought at too high a price - she has failed as a woman, a wife and a mother. The closer Anna Banti gets to her subject the more she is forced to reflect on the condition of women today and on her own life in German-occupied Italy. In doing so she elucidates the nature of art, femininity and the creative experience.	Good / V Good 1995
	BARFOOT.	CHARLOTTE & CLAUDIA KEEPING IN TOUCH.	Women's Press	£3.75
	Joan,	Charlotte and Claudia have been friends for as long as both can remember. Through all their differences - Charlotte's career and affairs and Claudia's motherhood with marriage - they have always kept in touch. They have only one rule of friendship: they never advise. Now after many years, Claudia is coming to visit, and both women must confront the choices they have made...	Good / V Good 1994
	BARFOOT.	GAINING GROUND.	Women's Press	£3.25
	Joan,	The story of Abra, a woman who leaves her husband, children and suburban security to live as a hermit. She buys an isolated cabin and a piece of land and settles to a life without mirrors, clocks or human contact. The first winter is extremely hard, but her senses sharpen and her muscles harden, and as her socialised masks drop away her rhythms gradually match the seasonal changes dictated by nature, giving her an inner peace and strength which had increasingly eluded her in the world of city and family life. Nine years after Abra chooses solitude and self sufficiency, her peace is broken by her daughter, now a young woman full of questions. How and why had her mother 'run out on her'?	Good / V Good 1984
	BARKER	REGENERATION.	Penguin	£1.00
	Pat	The story of a real life encounter that occurred at Craiglockhart in 1917 between W H R Rivers, an army psychologist, and Siegfried Sasson. A vivid evocation of the agony of the first world war. It is a mulit-layered exploration of all wars, challenging assumptions about the relationship between doctors and patients, between the classes, between men and women, and between men and men.	Fair 1992 Ex-Library
	BAWDEN	FAMILY MONEY.	Virago	£0.75
	Nina	Funny and compelling tale, about families, old age and money. Seen through the eyes of Fanny Pye who intervenes in a street brawl and is hospitalised, her children suggest that she should move to a smaller house - and thereby release some 'useful' family money.	Poor/Fair 1991 Ex-Library.
	BAWDEN.	FAMILY PASSIONS.	Virago	£0.95
	Nina,	After an expensive dinner on their 13th wedding anniversary, James calmy announces that he wishes to leave Bridie. a cherished adopted child, she stepped into marriage - and a pet name - at the age of 19 and has nurtured two step - children and a daughter. The habit of protecting others is strong in Bridie but now, redundant and with her happiness turned into a charade, she is uncertain of her identity. Unless she reclaims a portion of her past, Bridie fears that she will have no future.	Fair 1991 Ex-Library
	BAWDEN.	THE GRAIN OF TRUTH.	Virago	£1.00
	Nina,	The story of Emma, whose father-in-law falls down the stairs to his death, and is convinced she pushed him.	Fair 1993 Ex-Library
	BEAUMAN	LOVERS & LIARS.	Bantam	£1.50
	Sally	One frosty January morning, a beautiful blonde woman sends 4 Parcels off to 4 different people around the world. But this is no innocent transaction and the woman is not who she claims to be...	Good 1995
	BEAUMAN, McGOWAN & HUTH.	OF LOVE AND LIFE.	Readers Digest	£3.95
	Sally, Frankie and Angela.	3 Novels in One: Sextet - Sally Beauman. Part love story, part thriller, exploring the lives of six colourful characters - 3 men and 3 women - all from the glamorous worlds of film and journalism. As their destinies become inextricably linked, there is romance, retribution and murder in the air.   A kept woman - Frankie McGowan. How does a woman used to a life of privilege and luxury cope, when her husband disappears, leaving her and her children to face homelessness and destitution? Wives of the fishermen - Angela Huth.The moving story of two unlikely lifelong friends: sexy flirtatious Annie Macleod and plain, virtuuous Myrtle Duns. A lyrical tale of love and loss, it explores the intricacies of friendship with tenderness and understanding.	Good / V Good 1998 Large £2 P&P (UK)
	BENSON	AT THE STILL POINT.	Virago	£1.25
	Mary	The story of Anne Dawson a journalist, who returns to South Africa in 1965 and becomes embroiled in the struggle of black resistance. (Political)	V Good / Mint 1988
	BERNE.	A CRIME IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD	Penguin	£3.75
	Suzanne,	In the long hot summer of 1972, three events shattered the serenity of 10 year-old Marsha's life: her father ran away with her mother's sister Ada; Boyd Ellison, a young boy, was molested and murdered; and Watergate made the headlines.	Good / V Good 1998
	BEYNON.	ALETA DEY	Virago	£3.50
	Francis Marion,	In the years before the first world war, Aleta Dey grows up on a remote Canadian farm. After early rebellion against her parents' attempts to "break her spirit", she graduates to "subversion" in the history lessons at school, inspired and supported by her socialist friend Ned. Her mistrust of convention and passionate defence of justice directs Aleta towards radical journalism and an active role in the suffrage movement. With the outbreak of war, her ideology is immediately challenged - for not only is Aleta a pacifist but she has fallen in love with McNair, an out-and-out Tory. Originally published in 1919, this forgotten Canadian Classic boasts a heroine as charming and irrepressible as that of Sybylla in Miles Franklin's novel, My Brilliant Career.	Fair / Good 1988
	BIRDSELL.	THE CHROME SUITE.	Virago	£4.95
	Sandra,	Layer by layer, The chrome Suite uncovers the effects of loss and absence and of the inadvertent damage that can occur within the most well-meaning of families. Reaching back through the life of Amy Barber, now in her forties, the novel opens in a small town in Manitoba during one extraordinary hot summer in the 1950's. Although Amy's father, a travelling salesman, has equipped their home like a showcase of postwar gadgetry, complete with gleaming chrome kitchen suite, the emotional clutter of private life refuses to be polished and tidied away. When death closes in on the family, her father travels out of his marriage and her mother takes refuge in religion, which holds no comfort for Amy. Escaping this constricting bond she travels, via a hapless marriage in which she begins to fear for her son's well being, to the present and a journey with her young lover that shadows the future.	V Good 1994 Large £1.50 P&P (UK)
	BLUMENTHAL	KNOWING ME.	Sceptre	£3.25
	Valerie	A poignant, often tear-jerking tale of the teenage years and Mother-daughter relationships	Fair 1996
	BO.	I MUST TELL YOU SOMETHING.	Bloomsbury	£2.95
	Arno,	Rosemyn's story about the sudden death of her mother... A happy mum and dad with their two children, Phoebe and Rosemyn, are driving home after a lovely birthday party, when in an instant, life is changed. The events that follow are told by Arno Bo, as seen through the eyes of Rosemyn, his nine-year-old daughter. It's an honest, true story of a strong and thoughtful girl dealing with a profound tragedy: her mother's death.	V Good 1996
	BOHJALIAN.	MIDWIVES	Chatto & Windus	£3.95
	Chris,	Set in rural vermont during a harsh winter, Midwives is the gripping story of a respected midwife who is accused of murder, and stands trial. Utterly compelling, atmospheric and tautly written, this is a courtroom drama with powerful resonance.	Good / V Good 1997
	BOLL.	GROUP PORTRAIT WITH LADY.	Minerva	£3.95
	Heinrich,	The story of Leni, seen through a satirical kaleidoscope of Mini-biographies. The stories timescale ranges from the Hitler era until today; its point of departure is a woman, in pursuit of whose history Boll's 'author' interviews a vast number of people who have known her. Gradually emerging is a delightfully unheroic heroine, a eholly passive rebel whose humanity augurs hope for a better world.	Good / V Good 1993
	BOLTON.	NAVER JAM TODAY.