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	NAME	DETAILS	PUBLISHER	PRICE
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	GAITSKILL,	TWO GIRLS, FAT AND THIN.	Vintage	£3.50
	Mary	Her first novel, ‘two girls fat and thin, plunges deep into its subject, of the female psyche, ’	Good / V Good 1992
	GARNER.	COSMO COSMOLINO.	Virago	£3.25
	Helen,	The story of a group of friends, who have retreated into their own pasts, only to have it opened up by the arrival of Janet.	Good / V Good 1994
	GASKELL	NORTH & SOUTH.	Wordsworth	£3.75
	Elizabeth,	Set in the mid-19th Century. The Story of Margaret, who moves from Southern England to the turbulent Industrial North. This tale of the hard won triumphs of good over evil and of rational though over prejudice, the emergence of respect in the face of hatred, and the eventual blossoming of love, will thrill the readers of today just as much as it did when it was first written over 150 years ago.	Fair / Good 1995
	GELLHORN.	A STRICKEN FIELD.	Virago	£3.50
	Martha,	Set in the Nazi Camps of 1938. The story of Mary Douglas, an assured American, who becomes involved with the plight of the hunted victims of Nazi, rule.... First published in 1940, this powerful novel, written from the author's own experience, is a compelling record of one of the darkest moments of Europe's history, and of the heroism of those who resisted the insane brutality of fascism.	Fair / Good 1986
	GLAISTER.	EASY PEASY.	Bloomsbury	£3.95
	Lesley.	'Step into the world of family secrets, lies and whispers in the dark&ldots; You'll close the book feeling as though you've been through the mangle but satisfied you've enjoyed an extremely good read'. The story of Zelda, whose father commits suicide and is the lover of Foxy an older woman who was once her lecturer.	Good / V Good 1998
	GLAISTER.	PARTIAL ECLIPSE.	Hamish Hamilton.	£5.75
	Lesley.	The story of 2 women. Jennifer, who is in solitary confinement, and Peggy, who makes a bid for freedom aboard a convict ship bound for Botany Bay... Hardback	Good / V Good 1994
	GLAISTER.	THE PRIVATE PARTS OF WOMEN.	Bloomsbury	£3.50
	Lesley.	Inis has run away from her husband and children. Her new Neighbour, Trixie, is 84 years old and a hymn singing Salvation Army Veteran. Trixies life is one of apparent calm, but beneath the surface lie not one but 3 different personalities.	Fair / Good 1990
	GLENDINNING.	ELECTRICITY.	Arrow	£3.25
	Victoria,	Charlotte Mortimer, a spirited, sensual young woman, is testing the limits of her world. A world bounded by strict conventions, a world on the brink of change.	Fair / Good 1996
	GLENDINNING.	THE GROWN-UPS.	Vintage	£1.25
	Victoria,	The story of Dr Leo Ulm and the women in his life, who are obsessed with him, but also want to be free of him. A novel of sexual intrigue, vanity, nemesis and unexpected Death.	Fair / Good 1992 Ex-Library
	GO.	REQUIEM.	Women’s Press	£2.50
	Shizuko,	Set in 1945 Japan. Two Girls find comfort in friendship and argue about Patriotism, Honour and Democracy.	Fair / Good 1985
	GODDEN.	COROMANDEL SEA CHANGE; THE GREENGAGE SUMMER & THE RIVER.	Pan	£3.95
	Rumer,	Three Books in One: Now in one anthology, three of Rumer Godden's best-loved novels will delight her many fans and new readers alike. Included are Coromandel Sea Change, Rumer Godden's Number 1 best-seller, a captivating love story set in Southern India at election time; The Greengage Summer, an evocative portrait of love and deceit in rural France which became a memorable film starring Kenneth More and Susannah York; and The River, a beautiful tribute to India and childhood, made into a film by the great French director Jean Renoir.	Fair / Good 1995 £2 P&P (UK)
	GODWIN.	THE ODD WOMAN.	Pavanne	£3.50
	Gail,	The story of Jane Clifford, who wants more from life and reconsiders the lives of her female relatives in order to find meaning in her own...	Fair / Good 1986
	GOLDING.	THE DOUBLE TONGUE.	Faber	£3.75
	William,	An aged prophetess at Delphi, the most sacred oracle in ancient Greece, looks back over her strange life as the Pythia, the first Lady and voice of the God Apollo. As a young virgin with disturbing psychic powers, Arieka was handed over to the service of the shrine by her parents. She has now spent 60 years as the very medium, the torn mouthpiece, of equivocal mantic utterances from the bronze tripod in the sanctuary beneath the temple. Over a lifetime at the mercy of god and priest and people she has watched the decay of Delphi's fortunes and it's influence in the world. Her reflections on the mysteries of the oracle, which her own weird gifts have embodied, are matched by her feminine insight into the human frailties of the high Priest himself, a true Athenian, whose intriguing against the Romans brings about humiliation and disaster.	Good / V Good 1995
	GOLDSMITH,	THE FIRST WIVES CLUB	Mandarin	£3.50
	Olivia,	When their best friend commits suicide over her divorce, Elsie, Brenda, and Annie decide enough is enough. Each was crucial to her husband’s career. But now that the men are successful, they’ve traded in their wives for newer, blonder models.	Good / V Good 1996
	GORDIMER.	BURGER’S DAUGHTER.	Penguin	£2.50
	Nadine,	The story of a young woman’s slowly evolving identity in the turbulent political environment of South Africa.	Poor / Fair 1988
	GORDON.	THE COMPANY OF WOMEN.	Black Swan	£3.50
	Mary,	Her Mother and 3 closest friends under the influence of Father Cyprian have raised Felicitas.	Fair / Good 1987
	GORDON.	THE OTHER SIDE.	Bloomsbury	£4.25
	Mary,	The Saga of Irish Immigrants and their descendants in America.	Fair / Good 1991
	GRACE,	THE SKY PEOPLE.	Women’s Press	£3.50
	Patricia	The sky people. Born of Earth and Sky. Rebelling against the guardianship of their parents. Wayward, precocious, troublesome and dispossessed. But there is a compelling force to which sky people everywhere aspire. A yearning for the Light. To love and in turn to be loved; to create and to belong; even, perhaps, to fly. Award-winning author Patricia Grace draws on ancient Maori legend to weave her extraordinary contemporary narrative of today’s sky people. Capricious, ephemeral beings who walk the earth and live seemingly ordinary lives.	Fair / Good 1995
	GREKOVA.	The SHIP of WIDOWS.	Virago	£2.95
	I,	In a large communal apartment in Moscow live 5 women, together not by choice but by chance, for the year is 1943 and their lives have been torn apart by the War.	Fair / Good 1985
	GRENVILLE.	JOAN MAKES HISTORY.	Minerva	£3.50
	Kate,	The Story of Joan, who has 2 existences: wife and mother and her inner travels through Australian history, where she becomes "Everywoman"...	Fair / Good 1991
	GREY.	A SIMPLE MISTAKE.	Sheba	£3.75
	Dorothy,	England in the 1950s. Jean knows of nowhere to turn, when she discovers that marriage and motherhood, far from providing the mythical fairy-tale happy end, lead to isolation and tragedy.	Good / V Good 1983
	GUY.	A MEASURE OF TIME.	Virago	£3.75
	Rosa,	The story of Dorine Davis, who leaves Alabama to take Harlem by storm in the 1920s	Fair 1984
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	HAGEN.	DEAD END STREET.	Women’s Press	£3.50
	Helga,	The Story of One Woman during War - Time in Hamburg.	Good / V Good 1991
	HALEGUA.	THE PEARL BASTARD.	Women’s Press	£2.95
	Lillian,	The story of Francie, a young girl from a poor Irish Catholic family, who journey's from childhood into sudden adulthood...	Good 1985
	HAMILTON.	SWEET WHISPERS, BROTHER RUSH.	Walker	£1.50
	Virginia,	The story of Tree, who looks after her retarded older brother Dabney while her mother is away, but whose resources are tested when the ghost of Brother Rush appears...	Fair / Good 1990
	HANSCOMBE,	BETWEEN FRIENDS	Women’s Press	£3.25
	Gillian.	‘Between Friends’ is immediately involving, drawing you into the intimacies, arguments and intrigues of four women friends. The letters they exchange set out very different viewpoints, tackling some of the most controversial issues faced by women today. In a new introduction to this feminist classic Gillian Hanscombe describes how the book came to be written, and its role within contemporary women’s fiction.	Good 1990
	HARAN.	SCENES FROM THE SEX WAR.	Signet	£0.75
	Maeve,	The story of Ally, who lands a day time TV slot as an agony aunt, but will Ally's bid for independence go horribly wrong...	Fair / Good 1994
	HEAD.	A QUESTION OF POWER.	h e b	£1.00
	Bessie,	The Life of Elizabeth. Set in Africa, a mind-bending book which, takes the reader In and Out of sanity.	Fair / Good 1974
	HEGLAND,	INTO THE FOREST	Arrow	£3.50
	Jean.	Nell and Eva live alone in the forest. Recently orphaned and completely isolated, they struggle for normality in a post-holocaust world in the busy hum of society is slowly replaced by the silence of nature. From chaos comes strength however, and through this cataclysmic destruction the sisters discover their hidden power. As they blaze a path into the forest and into an unknown future, they become pioneers and pilgrims – not only creatures of the new world, but they creators of it.	Good / V Good 1996
	HELLMAN,	MAYBE	Quarter	£2.75
	Lillian	'Why am I writing about Sarah? I really only begun to think about her a few years ago, and then not often. Although I always rather liked her, she is of no importance to my life and never was. I do not know the truth about her or much of what I write here. It is the first time that has ever happened; In addition tio the ordinary deceptions that you and others make in your life, time itself makes time fuzzy and meshes truth with half truth. But I can't seem to say it right. I am paying the penalty. I think, of a childish belief in absolutes, perhaps an equally childish rejection of them all. I guess I want to say how inattentive I was - most of us, I guess - to the whole damned stew.'	Fair / Good 1981
	HEMINGWAY.	STOP HOUSE BLUES.	Penguin	£2.00
	Maggie,	Story of Robert a young boy and his journey through a Material and spiritual wasteland.	Poor / Fair 1989
	HILL.	AMANDA & THE ELEVEN MILLION MILE HIGH DANCER.	Bloomsbury	£3.75
	Carol,	The story of Amanda Jaworski an Astronaut who roller-skates through the halls of NASA, and who meets the ultimate seductress, the 11, million mile high dancer, as she seeks to bring back from a world 40 million light years away a message that can save the earth... "Hill is an intense fantasist, a gentle humorist, a sexy feminist, a dogged idealist, a passionate environmentalist, and a god, fast-paced storyteller".	Fair / Good 1988
	HOBHOUSE.	THE FURIES.	Bloomsbury	£4.95
	Janet,	Helen is the last in a line of mothers and daughters... In this line there is a pair of sisters who define themselves to the outside world either as victim or as woman warriors, the good sister or the bad.	V Good / Mint 1992 RRP£16 Hardback £2 P&P (UK)
	HOCKING.	INDIFFERENT HEROES.	Abacus	£3.50
	Mary,	Vol 2: Set in 1939 and the repercussions of War on the Fairley household, seen through the eyes of Judith, Louise, Claire and Daphne...	Good 1986
	HOCKING.	INDIFFERENT HEROES.	Virago	£3.50
	Mary,	Vol 2 : Set in 1939 and the repercussions of War on the Fairly household, seen through the eyes of Judith, Louise, Claire and Daphne...	Good 1995
	HOCKING.	LETTERS FROM CONSTANCE.	Virago	£3.25
	Mary,	In 1939, as they leave school, Constance and Sheila vow to keep in touch. From the war to the 1980s, Constance writes to Sheila of everyday hopes and sorrows. An unforgettable portrait of friendship.	Good / V Good 1992
	HODGMAN.	BLUE SKIES & JACK JILL.	Virago	£1.25
	Helen,	Two Stories about the hardships surrounding "Death" and "Grief". Ex-Library	Fair / Good 1989
	HOFFMAN.	SEVENTH HEAVEN.	Virago	£3.50
	Alice,	Set in 1959. The residents of a sleepy Long Island neighbourhood go about their suburban lives. Then one day Nora Silk moves in and profoundly unsettles a world carefully underpinned by two unspoken rules: mind your own business and keep up your lawn.	Good / V Good 1992
	HUGHES.	VIVIANS.	Oxford	£3.25
	M V,	A Family in Victorian Cornwall. In this autobiographical novel Molly Hughes goes back a generation to tell the story of her mother, Mary Vivian, and her beloved aunt Tony, the elder daughters of a manager of Cornish tin-mines. Recording the details of their daily life and their adventurous journeys to Paris, to the fjords of Norway, and to Spain, where Mary narrowly escaped capture by bandits.	Poor / Fair 1980
	HURSTON.	THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD.	Virago	£3.75
	Zora Neale,	To Janie Starck's grandmother both history and personal experience have shown (in her much quoted phrase) that 'de nigger woman is de mule ah de world' and the romantic dreams that Janie aspires to are what got them into trouble in the first place. Married at 16, Janie soon finds that wedded bliss is just as lonely and confining as her former life, and the world is to hold more mystery - and men - before she learns that husbands are just things to 'drape her dreams over'. And when she finally meets the man of her dreams, the man who will truly liberate her, he offers not diamonds but a packet of flowering seed. First published in 1937, this rhythmic and beautiful tale of an unconventional woman's quest for self-fulfilment is Zora Neale Hurston's masterpiece.	Good / V Good 1997
	HUTH.	INVITATION TO THE MARRIED LIFE.	Abacus	£3.50
	Angela,	Comical novel about marriage and the "Farthingoes" Ball. The married couples in this book have two things in common: A skill in the duplicity that flourishes even in happy marriages, and an invitation to the Farthingoes ball..	Fair 1993
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	IRONSIDE.	THE ACCOMPLICE.	Hodder & Stoughton	£4.75
	Elizabeth,	When the builders dig up the rose bed in Jean Loftus's garden they find the skeleton of a child. But what child? And what has it to do with Jean? That there are skeletons buried deep in Jean's past, there is no doubt. She is forced to confront them by the arrival of Xenia, a mysterious Russian student. Can she be a link to Jean's hidden past, to her childhood in Russia during the Revolution, to her life in Latvia between the wars, and the competing passions of two lovers long since dead? What crimes disturb the sleep of an elderly widow? What secret is Xenia herself concealing? Zita Daunsey, a lawyer who is herself haunted by her past, gradually uncovers the truth, or thinks she does. But how far should she unearth old crimes, how far leave them to lie, and so become an accomplice in murder?	Good / V Good 1996 Hardback RRP £16.99
	IRWIN.	WE ARE MESQUAKIE: WE ARE ONE.	Sheba	£3.50
	Hadley,	Story of "Hidden Doe", who grew from Childhood into a "Mesquakie" Woman, helped by her grandmother Gray Gull who teaches her the ways of her ancestors: to plant the red earth, to eat herbs and berries from the bushes, to fish and hunt. As fire rages through her village, Hidden Doe begins a journey that leads her and her people to a land of broken promises. This moving and exciting story traces the struggle of the American Indians against the cruelty of the 'White Ones'. Even in desperate situations Hidden Doe, Soft Cloud, Laughing Wind and others manage to stay hopeful. A story of hope and promise.	Good / V Good 1980
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	JAIVIN.	EAT ME.	Chatto & Windus	£4.95
	Linda,	Julia is a photographer; Chantel edits a fashion magazine; Helen is an academic, and Philippa is writing a novel. The best friends, the meet at hip cafes and restaurants to eye the passing talent and to swap stories about their wilder sexual encounters. These rane from the fruit section of the local supermarket to the imperial parks of Peking and the headquarters of the Conservative Party in London. They involve such characters as Jake, the slacker gigolo; Mengzhong, the athletic Chinese snake charmer; a gorgeous slave girl, and even Rambo. But what is fiction and what is fact in these delicious erotic exploits? Can we believe tha tales these women are telling?	Good / V Good 1996 RRP £9.99
	JESSE.	A PIN TO SEE THE PEEPSHOW.	Virago	£3.75
	F. Tennyson,	Julia Almond, born into drab suburban poverty in Edwardian London, longs for a better life, the fairy-tale world of romance she glimpsed in the toy peepshow of her childhood.	Good / V Good 1994
	JHABVALA.	GET READY FOR BATTLE.	Penguin	£3.50
	Ruth Prawer,	In a series of wittily observed scenes Ruth Prawer Jhabvala draws a sharp and perceptive, yet always compassionate, portrait of middle-class family life in contemporary Delhi. Through the conflicting ambitions, business intrigues and the personal and emotional entanglements, she gently mocks the self-seeking nature of this group of people who are all ready for battle - with each other and themselves. But beneath this humorous and ironic study of personal problems and conflicts, we catch a glimpse of India's terrifying social problems, and also of the deep moral consciousness which may prove her salvation.	Fair / Good 1981
	JIE.	LEADEN WINGS.	Virago	£3.25
	Zhang,	Novel of daily life in modern China and the women who reach high levels of power, yet still suffer from prejudices rooted in the feudal past...	Good / V Good 1987
	JOHNSON.	IN THE NIGHT CAFÉ.	Collins	£3.95
	Joyce,	A woman, looking back, tells the story of the great love of her life. Set in the downtown New York art world of the 60’s. The classic theme of abandonment, of lost sons and absent father's, acquires a wholly new bite and compassion.	Fair / Good 1989 Hardback £2.50 P&P
	JOLLEY.	MISS PEABODY'S INHERITANCE.	UQP	£3.25
	Elizabeth,	In this powerful tale of love and loneliness, Elizabeth Jolley has woven two parallel stories into a dazzlingly original novel. Arabella Thorne, a cultured and eccentric schoolmistress, travels to Europe accompanied by a shy schoolgirl and the jealous Miss Edgely. Meanwhile, the Australian novelist Diana Hopewell answers a letter from Miss Peabody, an incompetent clerical worker living in a London suburb, and the ensuing correspondence between the two women changes Miss Peabody's life and personality dramatically.	Fair / Good 1983
	JONES.	THE HALF - GOOD SAMARITAN.	Hodder	£3.50
	Allan Frewin,	Story of 2 Girls at school from different walks of Life. Janey's upbringing has instilled in her a degree of certainty about right and wrong, but her friendship with the exotic Pearl Silvera leads her to question that certainty and helps her sort out the priorities in her life.	Fair / Good 1991 £2 P&P
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	KEANE.	GOOD BEHAVIOUR.	Abacus	£3.50
	Molly,	Behind the gates of Temple Alice the aristocratic Anglo-Irish St Charles family sinks into a state of decaying grace. To Aroon St Charles, large and unlovely daughter of the house, the fierce forces of sex, money, jealousy and love seem locked out by the ritual patterns of good behaviour. But crumbing codes of conduct cannot hope to save the members of the St Charles family from their own unruly and inadmissible desires.	Fair / Good 1983
	KEANE.	LOVING AND GIVING.	Abacus	£3.75
	Molly,	Set in 1904 in a big Irish house. The story of a family whose lives are shattered, when Maman does something too dreadful ever to be spoken of.	Good / V Good 1996
	KEANE.	TIME AFTER TIME.	Abacus	£3.50
	Molly,	Durraghlass, a beautiful mansion in Southern Ireland, is crumbling in neglect, as the present churns with the bizarre passions of its owners' past. The Swifts - three sisters of marked eccentricity, defiantly christened April, May and baby June, and their only brother, a one-eyed Jasper - have little in common, save vivid memories of their darling mother and a long lost youth particularly prone to acts of treachery. Into their world comes cousin Leda from Vienna, a visitor from the past, blind but beguiling - a thrilling quest. But within days, the lifestyle of the Swifts has been dramatically overturned - and desires, dormant for so long, flame fierce and bright as ever.	Good / V Good 1998
	KEANE.	TREASURE HUNT.	Virago	£1.50
	Molly, (M J Farrell).	When Sir Roderick dies he leaves his heirs a host of debts. Whilst his family battles to work out what to do, Old and dotty Aunt Rose, insists she has some Rubies, if only she could remember where. Ex –library	Fair / Good 1990
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