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	NAME	DETAILS	PUBLISHER	PRICE
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	MAAS.	OF MARRIAGEABLE AGE.	Harper Collins	£5.00
	Sharon,	A magical story of forbidden love, family dreams and strange legacies, Of Marriageable Age follows three people across three decades and three continents. Savitri, intuitive and charming, is brought up among the servants of a British household in pre-war India. Nat, plucked from an orphanage, lives in the hill country with a revered but reticent doctor sahib. Sarojini, tempestuous and outspoken, spends her youth rebelling against the narrow social confines of her life. From a small South American country caught in the grip of political upheavals to a placid in rural Tamil Nadu, from a breeze-swept paradise in Madras to war-ravaged Singapore, the threads of their lives grow closer, as their questions grow in urgency. On one level this exotic love story, but it is also a many layered quest for true identity, for new life amid traditional customs. At its heart is a celebration of life itself.	V Gooda 1999
	MACAULEY.	KEEPING UP APPEARANCES.	Methuen	£3.50
	Rose,	Comical novel set around Daphne Simpson and her half-sister Daisy, who become a strange trio, when popular author Marjorie Wynne appears.	Good 1986
	MACKAY.	DUNEDIN.	Penguin	£3.25
	Shena,	From the rampant naturalist’s Eden of New Zealand at the turn of the century to South London in 1989, the Mackenzie family turns a full circle of links and divisions, redemption and abandonment.	Fair / Good 1993
	MACKAY.	OLD CROW.	Virago	£3.50
	Shena,	The story of Carol Fairweather, who from village beauty becomes the village outcast and with the aid of a malicious widow the villagers agree to purge their village of the "pariah" and begin a witch-hunt...	Mint/ New 1992
	MACKAY.	THE ORCHARD ON FIRE.	Vintage	£3.75
	Shena,	When Percy and Betty Harlency abandon their seedy Streatham pub for the Copper Kettle Tearoom in Kent, life for their daughter, April, changes dramatically. She is befriended by the wonderfully dangerous Ruby, whose red hair and brutal home life emphasize her love of fire, and by the creepy but immaculately dressed Mr greenridge, who likes to follow her around the village. Mingling the innocnet with the sinister and laced with the tragic and the bizarre, this is a rare evocation of a 1950s childhood.	V Good 1999
	MACKAY	McCARTHY'S LIST.	Picador	£3.00
	Mary,	The Story of Rinda Sue McCarthy, who writes her confession -as she awaits a firing squad. For the one murder she didn't commit. She writes her confession: of the crimes commited against her by Them, and her murderous but utterly apt revenge.	Fair 1979
	McMAHON.	AFTER MARY.	Flamingo	£6.50
	Katharine,	Isabel Stanhope, daughter of one of King James 1's favoured courtiers, is expected to marry Francis Bourne, a distant cousin. but for Isabel the prospect of a life spent childbearing and plying the needle is an intolerable denial of the Catholic faith inherited from her mother. Since birth, Isabel has led a double life, outwardly an obedient daughter, actually part of the turbulent and persecuted Catholic underworld. In the great country houses where she is educated, priests flit in and out under cover of darkness, mass is said secretly in attic rooms and a plot is hatched to murder the king. And this is the life Isabel chooses. She rebels against her father by following an outlawed order of women established by the charismatic Mary Ward, and finds herself pulled fast and deep into a world of subterfuge where the attractions of those who live dangerously are very powerful indeed. But other people have plans for Isabel. Francis Bourne will not let her go easily. The Catholic church has its own ideas on how women should behave, and Isabel's quest for the ideal life leads her to Rome and back as she becomes enmeshed in the treacherous politics of seventeenth-century Europe. £2 P&P (UK)	Good 2000 RRP £12.99
	MAITLAND.	THREE TIMES TABLE.	Virago	£3.50
	Sara,	Three women - Rachel, her daughter, and her daughter's daughter - share a house, but inhabit different worlds. Fifteen-year-old Maggie flies with her dragon over the rooftops of London to a secret world; Phoebe, her mother, who has carried the values of the sixties into her harsher world of the eighties confronts difficult truths about love and honesty. Rachel, the grandmother, an eminent paleontologist, has to reconsider the theories she has fought for throughout her professional life. On one strange and wakeful night Rachel, Phoebe and Maggie find themselves facing the illusions of their own pasts. This is a powerful, magical novel about the shaping of women's lives - their work, their freindships, their mothers and fathers, the extent of their freedom and the boundaries of their experience. Rich and deeply perceptive, a re-examination of familiar issues and gives them a very contemporary turn.	V Good 1991
	MANNING.	THE DOVES OF VENUS.	Virago	£3.50
	Olivia,	Red-haired, 18-year-old Ellie leaves her home and goes to London .in search of independence, employment and experience. There she finds a bedsit in Chelsea, a job painting "antique" furniture and herself in a love affair with a married man.	Good 1990
	MANTEL.	VACANT POSSESSION.	Penguin	£3.50
	Hilary,	Muriel is about to re-enter the lives of Colin Sidney, hapless husband, father and schoolmaster, and Isabel Field, failed social worker and practising neurotic. It has been 10 years since her last tangle with them, but for Muriel this is not time enough. There are still scores to be settled and truths to be faced - not to mention a certain amount of vengeance to be wreaked.	Good 1987
	MARAINI.	THE SILENT DUCHESS.	Flamingo	£3.50
	Dacia,	Set in the mid-eighteenth century, the novel tells of the noble Ucria family, seen through the eyes of the deaf-mute Duchess marianna. Married at thriteen to her own uncle, set apart from others by her handicap, Marianna searches for fulfilment in a society in which women face either marriage and endless childbearing, or a life of renunciation within the walls of a convent. As she sees this pattern repeated through three generations of her family, the silent Duchess overcomes cruelty and hardship to taste the freedom of which she has dreamed.	V Good 1993
	MARAINI.	WOMAN AT WAR.	Lighthouse	£3.75
	Dacia,	A recording in diary form Vannina's growing self-awareness. Beginning as a curiously absent narrator, Vannina encounters a fascinating array of characters during the holiday she takes with her husband, Giacinto. When he returns to work in a garage in Rome, Vannina travels to Naples with a friend she has made on holiday. There apart from her husband for the first time, she becomes involved in politics and acquires a degree of emotional independence. Back in Rome, Giacinto forces pregnancy on Vannina in an attempt to restore what he sees as her 'sweetness'. Stronger no, Vannina rebels, has a backstreet abortion and leaves her husband. The book ends on a positive note: "Now I'm alone and I must start everything again from the beginning".	Good 1984 £1.50 P&P (UK)
	MARSHALL.	BROWN GIRL, BROWN STONES.	Virago	£3.50
	Paule,	The story of the coming of age of Selina Boyce, daughter of Barbadian immigrants, living in Brooklyn through the depression and the Second World War. Passionate, stubborn, reflective, Selina is caught between the ambitions of her hardworking mother, Silla, and the fantasies of her charming, lazy father. But Selina wants her own identity: she wants love, friendship and independence. We watch as Selina grows to womanhood and comes to realise that only by accepting the great dreams of both her parents can she take her life into her own hands&ldots;	Good 1982
	MARSHALL.	PRAISESONG FOR THE WIDOW.	Virago	£3.25
	Paule,	The Story of Avey Johnson, a black middle aged and middle-class woman, who sets off on a cruise to the Caribbean after the death of her husband. She finds the cruise is different, disturbing - a harrowing odyssey into a past that strips Avey of all her pretensions, bringing her finally to an understanding of what she has lost - and found.	Fair 1989
	MARTINEZ.	SANTA EVITA.	Doubleday	£4.25
	Tomas Eloy,	Novel about the life of "Eva Peron" - or rather, her death - which is rich, provocative and bizarre. In it, the boundary between fact and fiction is constantly undermined, and the only thing of which you can be sure Is that real life is always stranger than fantasy. Already an international sensation, Santa Evita is a brilliant deconstruction of the Evita myth, and casts a whole new light on the twentieth-century obsession with fame. £2 P&P (UK)	V Good 1997
	MASON.	THE RACKET.	Sceptre	£3.25
	Anita,	The story of Rosa, a conscientious teacher in Brazil, who falls foul of a powerful businessman and his illegal plans to mine gold on an Indian reservation. A novel about greed, poverty and plunder.	Fair 1991
	MAYER.	SISTERS.	Piatkus	£3.25
	Debby,	The story of Ingrid whose almost `perfect’ life is turned upside down by the tragic death of her parents leaving her to look after her eight-year-old half sister Stephanie&ldots;	Fair 1987
	MAYOR.	THE THIRD MISS SYMONS.	Virago	£3.00
	F M,	The Story of Henrietta Symons from her birth to her death, and the most perfect account in English fiction of those women who, throughout the ages, neither married nor loved - the spinster, the maiden aunt, the surplus woman. (1st =1913)	Fair 1980
	McCAFFREY.	FREEDOMS CHALLENGE.	BCA	£3.95
	Anne,	Science Fiction. Hardback The inhabitants of Botany - a mixture of humans and extraterrestrials - have managed to build a thriving and productive world out of what was originally intended as a slave planet. And now they have plans to overthrow the terrible Eosi, who for centuries have existed by subsuming members of the Catteni race, living in their bodies and ruling space through them. The Botanists have received mysterious and unexpected help from the reat beings they know only as the "Farmers" - for the Farmers have thrown a huge impervious space bubble round Botany. Even as the Eosi ships have tried to pulverise the rebellious planet, the bubble has held firm. But safe though they are behind the protective device, Kris Bjornsen, Zainal and all of the council know they have to go out and destroy the Eosi on their own ground. It falls to Zainal to risk his life in a desperate and daring mission to vanquish the monster life forms for ever.	Mint 1998
	McCALL.	THE DATING GAME.	Arrow	£3.50
	Davina,	I know what you want: you want hot dates, loads of hot sex and a morning after that turns into the rest of your life. So what's going wrong? I know that too. I used to be confused. I mean what is all this? Girl power, Ladettes, New Men, Alpha Males? It's a scary world out there and we need all the help we can get. Well. I've got is sussed now. And here it is. The dating game, for the benefit of humanity and the future of the species. All you need to know to get out get lucky and get loved-up. Trust me - I'm a presenter!	V Good 2000
	McCAULEY.	HAPPENTHING IN TRAVEL ON.	Women’s Press	£3.50
	Carole Spearin,	Suspenseful thriller set around 7 women, who survive a winter plane crash on a snowbound mountainside. A story of death and birth, of weakness and endurance, of co-operation and confrontation. It is by turns gripping, moving, violent, polemical and provocative. In her portrayal of seven women struggling to survive, she raises questions about the human, as well as women's condition.	Good 1990
	McCLELLAND GLASS.	WOMAN WANTED.	Pavanne	£1.50
	Joanna,	Emma takes up a job as a housekeeper for a Yale professor. And finds herself caught up between him and his son Wendell&ldots;	Poor / Fair 1986
	McCRORY.	THE WATER'S EDGE.	Sheba	£1.50
	Moy,	Stories on the close community life of Irish Liverpudlians.	Good 1985
	McCULLERS.	CLOCK WITHOUT HANDS.	Penguin	£3.75
	Carson,	In the heart of the American South, JT Malone discovers he is dying. Suddenly it seems as though the whole town is in decline. The aged Judge Clane dreams of resurrecting the confederacy, while his grandson, Jester, is involuntarily drawn to Sherman, a volatile black orphan who feels the sharp sting of racial injustice, especially when he finds out the truth about his parentage. Through the eyes of these individuals Carson McCullers explores the roots of racial prejudice, so strong in the fifties, and the dual morality of the town's leading whites - benevolent when imposing standards of virtual slavery, violent and bloodthirsty at the hint of equality or change. In this thoughtful and moving novel four men, young and old, have distinct feelings about death, love and injustice, yet their past histories are inextricably bound together.	Good / V Good 1965
	McCULLERS.	REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE.	Penguin	£3.25
	Carson,	The interlocking patterns of five people's dreams, obsessions and failures are woven into Carson McCullers atmospheric novel of life in a peacetime army camp. In the American Deep South is a fort that contains a group of men and women trapped in a stifling and repetitive existence. The major and his fragile wife dine and play cards with Captain Penderton and the flamboyant Mrs Penderton watched at a distance, by Private Williams. Quiet and unfathomable, he is fascinated by the Captain's wife - his unsettling presence creating fear and despair within the isolated community.	V Good 1967
	McCULLERS.	THE BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFÉ.	Penguin	£3.25
	Carson,	In the small masterpiece which gives its title to this collection, a simple triangle of unrequited love is magically transmitted into a miniature epic with the melancholy atmosphere of a ballad. For this is the tale of Miss Amelia, gaunt and lonely owner of a small town store, and how she squandered her love on Cousin Lymon, the little strutting hunchback who turned the store into a café. And how her rejected husband, Marvin Macy, the meanest man in town, came back and stole the hunchback's heart; and of the gargantuan fight that followed.	Good / V Good 1963
	McCULLERS.	THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER.	Penguin	£3.75
	Carson,	Carson McCullers first novel written in 1940. Set in a small town in the American South, it is the story of a group of people who appear to have little in common except they are all hopelessly lonely. A young girl, a drunken socialist and a black doctor are drawn to a gentle, sympathetic deaf-mute, John Singer, whose presence changes their lives. An exploration of alienation, which is both moving and perceptive.	Good / V Good 1961
	McCULLERS.	THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING.	Penguin	£3.25
	Carson,	With delicacy of perception and memory, humour and pathos, Carson McCullers spreads before us the three phases of a weekend crisis in the life of a motherless twelve-year-old girl. Within the span of a few hours the irresistible, hoydenish Frankie passionately plays out her fantasies at her elder brother's wedding. Through a perilous skylight we look right into the mind of a child torn between the yearning to belong and the urge to run away.	Good / V Good 1962
	McLEAY.	THEN CAME THE LIARS, THEN CAME THE FOOLS...	Bodeley Head	£3.75
	Anna,	The story of Leila who lives in the decaying North of England and finds she has the power to change things; to alter events and the lives of the people around her. But Leila is the product of a world in which hope has been replaced by fear of the future, and she is only able to use her power to destroy...	Good 1993
	MENDELSOHN.	I WAS AMELIA EARHART.	Vintage	£3.95
	Jane,	A story of the famous aviatrix and her drunken navigator&ldots;	V Good 1997
	MENDEZ.	CONDOR AND HUMMINGBIRD.	Women’s Press	£3.25
	Charlotte,	Set in Columbia. A Story of growth and bonds between Women. Laura, a North American, visits Bogota with her Colombian husband, Andres. Gradually realising how little she knows him, she meets and grows to love his 'mad' sister Francisca, who shows her a Colombia of impassioned women and their spirit ancestors, quite unknown to her political activist husband. Together Laura and Francisca try to rescue the tiny, bird-like Carmen, a 'lost child', from servitude, and as the three women struggle to free themselves, and build new lives, a special bond is formed between them.	Fair 1986 198
	MENDEZ.	CONDOR AND HUMMINGBIRD.	Wildtrees	£3.75
	Charlotte,	Set in Columbia. A Story of growth and bonds between Women. Laura, a North American, visits Bogota with her Colombian husband, Andres. Gradually realising how little she knows him, she meets and grows to love his 'mad' sister Francisca, who shows her a Colombia of impassioned women and their spirit ancestors, quite unknown to her political activist husband. Together Laura and Francisca try to rescue the tiny, bird-like Carmen, a 'lost child', from servitude, and as the three women struggle to free themselves, and build new lives, a special bond is formed between them.	Fair 1986 198
	MILLER.	ON THE SIDE OF THE ANGELS.	Virago	£3.25
	Betty,	Honor Carmichael and her two young children are uprooted to Linfield, where her husband Colin, a dapper, small-town doctor, is stationed at the RAMC hospital. She is visited by her sister Claudia, whose fiance, Andrew, waits to be invalided out of the Army. Whilst Andrew dismisses himself as 'damaged goods', Colin becomes absorbed by the petty feuds and power games of uniformed life - most particularly with the arrival of Captain Herriot, a commando, and the C.O.'s current favourite. Apparently peripheral to this 'male pirouetting' Honor and Claudia are nevertheless deeply affected by this war. For its threat to notions of masculinity forces both women to reassess the roles they've always played. An Exploration of the Psychological affects of War.	Fair / Good 1985
	MILLER.	HAPPY AS A DEAD CAT.	Women’s Press	£3.00
	Jill,	The Story of an emerging Feminist with 5 Children, one rabbit, one cat, a gold fish - and a husband. Thirty-seven years old, and discovering that she's oppressed. Happily, she also has Jane, the friend every woman needs through the business of consciousness-raising, and taking the first steps towards liberation.	Fair / Good 1983
	MILNE.	JOHN DAVID.	Virago	£3.25
	Paula,	The Story of John, a baby born with Down's Syndrome. John David is a baby with no proper place in the world: he is born with Down's syndrome, a mongol. This is the story of his birth and its bitter aftermath, for his mother decides not to keep her child. The consequences of this decision, the heartbreak, the regret, the conflicts between mother and father, doctor and patient, family and friends are told with heart-warming sympathy in this stunning and utterly surprising first novel, by a writer who knows the agony of this immensely topical tragedy at first hand.	Fair / Good 1982
	MIN.	KATHERINE.	Hamish Hamilton	£7.95
	Anchee,	They were students in Shanghai, brought up to love Mao and to despise emotion; their only passion was communism. Then a new teacher arrived to teach them English vcabulary. Her name was Katherine. With her scarlet lipstick and radical attitudes Katherine instructs her pupils in more than just a new language; she teaches them a very different world - a world of freedom, frankness and personal discovery. With her unorthodox views, pop records and sexy clothes, the woman from the Midwest subtly seduces the minds of the class one by one. As they question their attitude to America, a country they had previously pitied, they also question their belief in their own culture. To the disparate group of mature students she is more than just a woman, she is a whole new universe. But the authorities are becoming increasingly irritated by her outrageous behaviour. As a foreign quest she is allowed certain amount of licence, but as Independence Day celebrations gat underway it seems she really is about to go to far. This alternative revolution must be stopped. The snake-eyed, foreign devil must pay the price for corrupting China's youth&ldots; Hardback	V Good 1995 RRP £15.99
	MINER.	MOVEMENT.	Methuen	£3.50
	Valerie,	The Story of Susan Campbell and 10 years of change in her Life. Expatriate, left activist, journalist, committed feminist - all these are part of her passage through the seventies. Travelling from the USA to Canada, Africa and Britain, we follow her search for self-knowledge in a decade of challenge and re-examination.	Good 1985
	MINER.	MOVEMENT.	Crossin Press	£3.75
	Valerie,	The Story of Susan Campbell and 10 years of change in her Life. Expatriate left activist, journalist, and committed feminist - all these are part of her passage through the seventies. Travelling from the USA to Canada, Africa and Britain, we follow her search for self-knowledge in a decade of challenge and re-examination.	Good 1982
	MOGGAGH.	CLOSE RELATIONS.	Arrow	£3.95
	Deborah,	Louise, Prudence and Maddy are three grown-up sisters happy to lead very different lives. But when their father leaves their mother, his wife of forty years, they find their own lives too plunged into chaos. Passions run high as the different generations bicker, fall out, test their emotions and pick up the pieces in this rich and profound novel of generations and family.	V Good 1998
	MOLINARO.	FAT SKELETONS.	Serif	£1.50
	Ursule,	The story of Mara a translator, who gets caught up in a cycle of deception and threats&ldots; Ex-Library	Fair 1993
	MOLLOY.	NO MATE FOR THE MAGPIE.	Virago	£3.00
	Frances,	The Story of Anne McGlove, a Catholic growing up in Northern Ireland the 50's and 60's. At fifteen Ann's a factory machinist, but decidesa nunnery is preferable, so in she goes with a popstars autograph on her arm. Sanctity is short lived; what follows is a stint as a nanny to a woman with 'seventy-nine pairs of shoes', a spell in a mental institute - treatment for a sore neck; bacon slicer in Belfast; demonstrating in Derry in 68; and then Dublin, until the decision to leave Ireland for somewhere where 'life resembled life'. This is a novel in the finest tragi-comic tradition.	Fair / Good 1985
	MOODY.	HUSH-A–BYE.	Coronet	£3.75
	Susan,	One Woman's struggle coping with the kidnap of her Daughter. "We'll get her back", the woman detective had said. Professionalism. Reassurance. Certainty. 'The likelihood is' - the inspector taking over - 'that your baby's been taken by a woman desperately in need of something to love. There is no reason to think that she will harm your daughter'. Then the days turned into weeks. A change of tone: 'Are you sure there isn't something you've forgotten to tell us?' The ache of loss and guilt. Incoherent, horror-filled dreams. But above all the thoughts and questions. Why? And, time and time again, Who? Who? Who&ldots;	Good 1993 £1.50 P&P
	MOORE.	THE WHITENESS OF BONES.	Pan	£1.50
	Susanna,	The story of Mamie Clarke, who ventures out into the world in New York in the 1980's after a childhood wrapped in enchantment on a lush Hawaiian island. Moving in with her aunt Alysse, she encounters the decadence of the urban jungle and all the temptations of the Manhattan sophisticated haute monde. For Mamie it is a chance to look afresh at her original garden paradise&ldots;	Fair Ex-lib 1991
	MOORHEAD.	REMEMBER THE TARANTELLA.	Women’s Press	£3.95
	Finola,	The tarantella - a rapid, whirling South Italian dance in an ancient, matriarchal, spiralling pattern. A defiant, courageous, irrepressible expression of the power, the guile, the freedom of women. When Christina Stead told Finola Moorhead that it was difficult to make an interesting novel with no men in it at all, Moorhead took it as a personal challenge. Remember the Tarantella is the glorious, explosive result. A wild, whirling dervish of a book, it has 26 extraordinary characters, all representing a letter of the alphabet. And between them, every astrological sign; an international cast of women whose lives intersect in the past, the present, and all over the globe, as they search for adventure, excitement, fulfilment, escape and love&ldots;	Good 1994
	MORGAN.	DRY YOUR SMILE.	Women's Press	£3.75
	Robin,	At the age of four, Julian is already the star of a popular television series, and the centre of her mother's universe. At the age of 18, desperate to break her mother's suffocating hold, she escapes into a bohemian marriage; and at 25 she embraces the feminist movement. When her 20 year marriage disintegrates, julian amazes herself by falling in love with a woman; and begins, at last, the struggle to love herself, and to reassess her intense relationship with her dying mother. £1.50 P&P	Fair/ Good 1988
	MORRIS.	THE FRINGE ORPHAN.	Mnadarin	£3.50
	Rachel,	Mattie's mother brought her up on poverty and God, but when Mattie turns 16 she runs away to London to live with her glamorous, wealthy cousins. The Oaklands are a famous family of English designers. Fabrics, furniture, glass and carpets - everything they make is beautiful. In love with them all, Mattie is their favourite child - until she loves one more than the others&ldots;	Fair / Good 1993
	MORTIMER.	MY FRIEND SAYS IT''S BULLET-PROOF.	Virago	£3.00
	Penelope,	A group of journalists are in Canada for an expenses-paid cultural spree. Muriel Rowbridge is the only woman of the contingent and for her the trip has a different flavour: it is her first assignment since having a breast removed five months earlier and, amidst this male bravado, she feels vulnerable and exposed. As a fashion and beauty correspondent Muriel knows women's indoctrine well - she feeds it to them and has swallowed it whole. What she doesn't know is how to come to terms with her changed body, the fears this unleashes about relationships, and her perception of herself as a woman. Compassionate, unsettling and beautifully constructed, it is a unique and memorable account of one woman's private reckoning - A Journey through anger and grief to an affirmation of her new self and her own sexuality.	Good 1990
	MOYNAHAN.	PARTING IS ALL WE KNOW OF HEAVEN.	Bantam	£3.50
	Molly,	Cordelia Cavanagh is a 29-year-old aspiring actress living in Manhattan whose oldest sister, an aspiring saint, is brutally murdered. The event turns Cordelia's life - until now the average maze of small triumphs, big disappointments, and casual, trendy attitudes - into a battleground where grief and guilt vie for control. Inner strength ultimately prevails after experiments with sex, anorexia, and drugs do not allow her to escape from the pain of her loss. With hypnotising clarity we see a privileged family's struggle to come to grips with the loss of its number-one daughter, and a woman's denial of her feelings to the point of self-abuse.	Good 1991
	MURDOCH.	THE UNICORN.	Penguin	£3.25
	Iris,	Marian Taylor, has come to be a `companion’ to a lonely woman in a remote castle. There she becomes aware that her employer is a prisoner, not only of her own obsessions, but of an unforgiving husband&ldots;	Good 1988
	MURPHY.	NADYA. (WOLF - WOMAN)	Tor	£4.95
	Pat,	Supernatural novel of a bold and sensual woman in the American west, who turns into a wolf when the moon is full... Growing up on the edge of the Missouri wilderness in the 1830s, Nadya knew she was not like other girls. But when she became a woman and the change came, she discovered just how different she was. For Nadya was a shapechanger, a werewolf like her mother and father before her. For a time, Nadya and her family kept their secret, living undisturbed by the edge of the forest - until a handsome, red haired man taught Nadya about passion, and brought her unexpected tragedy. Fleeing her past, Nadya set out alone on an arduous trek west, encountering danger, love and thrilling adventure as she sought a place where she could live wild and free. From her parents' first meeting in an untamed frontier town, to her daring rescue of a beautiful young survivor of a lost band of pioneers, and her fateful meeting with an Indian shaman, who recognised her power. Nadya's story is the captivating and richly realised saga of a most remarkable woman. Hardback	V Good / Mint 1996 £2 P&P
	MURPHY.	THE FALLING WOMAN.	Headline	£3.00
	Pat,	Elizabeth Butler is an Archaeologist with the ability to see ghosts of the past, the lingering remains of the people who once lived in the ruins she excavates. On a dig in the Yucatan, she encounters Zuhuy-kak, the spirit of a long-dead priestess, and comes face to face with the proof of an ancient Mayan magic - and a conflict of souls that has survived a millennium. Elizabeth is trapped between the shadows of a present that disowns her and a lost, blood-stained past that can be reborn with the power of her faith - and the strength of her madness.	Fair 1988
	MURRAY.	ELLA NORMAN or A Woman’s Perils.	Hill of Content	£3.95
	Elizabeth A,	(A rediscovered 19th century novel by Victoria's 1st woman novelist). The Tale of a young woman, whose family's sudden impoverishment leads them to seek opportunities in Australia... Elizabeth Murray's disdainful novel had a purpose; she was fighting for the rights of impoverished English girls against a group of aristocratic do-gooders whose muddled aim was to send boatloads of unattached women to Australia on the vague promise of easily-acquired husbands, social position and immediate wealth and happiness. Perhaps without intending to she portrays the emergent style of Australian women, assertive, independent, already able to run farms and business, and working women who had thrown off the class-ridden attitudes of their home countries, and blithely moved up, down or across the social barriers. £1.50 P&P (UK)	Good 1985
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	NAYLOR.	THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE.	Minerva	£1.50
	Gloria,	They were hard-edged but sensitive, brutally demanding and yet easily pleased these women of Brewster Place. Each had her time and her season. Each had her own story to tell&ldots; A celebration of the resilience and mutual supportiveness of women&ldots;	Fair 1984
	NEIL.	THE POSSESSION OF DELIA SUTHERLAND.	Headline	£3.50
	Barbara,	It was a foolish thing to fall in love with a dead man. This would never have happened had I not been asleep. Asleep, impervious, for forty-five years. I'm all right now; secure in my rootlessness as I never was with property, ownership, responsibility I remain peculiar, remote. The difference is that I'm aware of it. A powerful love story. In a beautifully paced and haunting narrative revealing with uncanny precision that which passes unspoken between people.	Good 1994
	NIN.	THE FOUR-CHAMBERED HEART.	Virago	£3.50
	Anais,	A magical cnal boat on the Seine becomes the ideal, secluded 'cell' in which Djuna and the chaotic Rango, a café guitarist, conduct their intense and passionate affair. He is undisciplined and wild, like nature itself, and an echo of the spirit that Djuna has repressed. But in the background is Rango's invalid wife, who gradually encroaches on their passion. Can it survive her manipulation, or is their love 'moored to the port of despair'? Famed for her bold and sensuous fiction Anais Nin here explores her recurrent theme: the fragmentation of self in the search for love.	V Good 1995
	NIN.	CHILDREN OF THE ALBATROSS.	Penguin	£3.25
	Anais,	Winning a scholarship to ballet school in Paris was a kind of liberation for sixteen-year-old Djuna. She joins the precarious existence of artists and musicians in the café-life of Montemarte, she makes friends and meets lovers. First Michael, who gently eludes her desire to be possessed. Then Paul whose shy ardour, for a time, overcomes his fear. In Children of the Albatross Anais Nin created one of her most poignant novellas, delicately catching the nuances and half-dreamed sensations of adolescent love.	Good 1993
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	OAKLEY.	MATILDA’S MISTAKE.	Flamingo	£3.50
	Ann,	Steven van de Biot, founder of the alternative birth clinic Roman Hall, believes passionately in natural childbirth. But what gives him the authority to pronounce on women's mysteries? And why should he want to? As stories of orgies, arguments and midnight burials at the clinic emerge, the beautiful, composed and competent Matilda Cressey - recently appointed head of a consumer watchdog and determined to make a name for herself - is drawn to investigate. When Matilda finds her interest aroused more by Steven van de Biot than by the accusations against him. She faces the biggest dilemma of her career - and her life. Is he Satan or saviour? Her position gives her the power to clear his name or to ruin him. And as the controversy escalates and passions she thought dead rise to the surface, she is forced to make her choice&ldots;	V Good 1991
	OAKLEY.	THE SECRET LIVES OF ELEANOR JENKINSON.	Flamingo	£3.50
	Ann,	Eleanor Jenkinson has several lives: some she lives, others she'd like to. And in an attempt to create a coherent vision of who she is, and how women like her can best survive in a hostile society, she writes fragments of herself in 64 notebooks, 2 unpublished novels and several short stories...	V Good 1993
	OATES.	BECAUSE IT IS BITTER, AND BECAUSE IT IS MY HEART.	Picador	£3.75
	Joyce Carol,	Upstate New York, 1953. A corpse is dragged from the river. The first question asked: white or coloured? Iris Courtney, a young white from a poor family, and Jinx Fairchild, a black classmate, know more about the murder than they will ever reveal. Whatever happens now, it is a bond between them forever&ldots; At once a gripping family melodrama and an expansive narrative meditation upon the rising racial and social tensions of the late fifties and early Sixties - one of Ms Oates's most powerful novels yet.	V Good 1992
	OATES.	BLACK WATER	Picador	£3.25
	Joyce Carol,	The background of this novel is rooted in any one of the last three decades of American history. The scene is Graying Island, off the coast of Maine. A young woman meets a Senator at a Fourth of July beach party. And, as afternoon slips towards evening, the two move unaware towards a shattering appointment with destiny. For it is not love that awaits young Kelly. Her date will end in the dark depths of a marsh beside a road&ldots;	V Good 1994
	OATES.	EXPENSIVE PEOPLE	Virago	£3.75
	Joyce Carol,	Expensive affluent, yes - but morally bankrupt. This is the suburban society from which Joyce Carol Oates carves an electrifying novel of Gothic suspense. The journal of Richard Elwood, an overweight 18-year-old, looking back with disaffection at his childhood in a succession of wealthy suburbs. He buys a gun by mail order ('German Sniper Rifle used by Mad Fanatic SS Men. Limited Number!) and roams the neighbourhood at night&ldots; The suspense is terrifying, the writing lethal. The first sentence is guaranteed to rivet your eyes to the page: 'I was a child murderer', Richard begins his memoir. Now read on&ldots;	Good 1999
	OATES.	MAN CRAZY	Virago	£3.75
	Joyce Carol,	An intense roller-coaster ride into the abyss, Man Crazy charts the life of a young girl, abandoned by her father, moving from town to town with her beautiful feckless mother, taking what they can get, always giving too much in return. Overwhelmed by teenage longings, fantasising about the friends and boyfriends she doesn't have, adolescence creeps up on Ingrid Boon like a runaway car, with all the ensuing dangers&ldots;	V Good 1999
	OATES.	MARYA: A LIFE	Jonathan Cape	£1.75
	Joyce Carol,	Marya: A Life is the most personal, and perhaps fascinating, of Joyce carol Oates's many varied novels. We learn of Marya Knauer in vividly observed, successive stages from earliest childhood in violence and poverty until her mid thirties, when she is famous as a critic and intellectual commentator, a frequent American delegate to international conferences. Though Marya's greatest wish is to blend in with others, even at high school this seems impossible: too bright, her teachers tell her; singled out, her priest maintains; too sharp for her own good, says the aunt who brings her up. She is by nature an observer, one who sees and listens intensely, remembering everything that happens, who wants to share in the good life - but cannot, not quite. Through university, graduate school love affairs and career, an outwardly conventional path hides a turmoil of self doubt and a nature that is sometimes maddening, sometimes pitiable - sometimes heroic. Marya seeks a clarity of vision which makes the reader feel that if she were a writer of fiction this is precisely the book she would have written. Hardback. Ex-Library	Fair 1987
	OATES.	WHAT I LIVED FOR.	Picador	£4.50
	Joyce Carol,	At forty-two, Jerome Corcoran is by all appearances a successful real estate developer and broker, a city councilman with a promising future in local politics, the owner of a big fashionable house and the wearer of fifteen-hundred-dollar suits. However, whilst he may think that his inauspicious beginnings on Irish Hill are now far behind him, that illusion, along with several others, will be completely shattered over the course of the 1992 Memorial Day Weekend. A complex drama of corruption, blackmail and political scandal. A telling journey into the heart of a complex and troubled man, and an indelible portrait of one man's road to moral ruin. £2 P&P (UK)	V Good 1995
	O'BRIEN.	THE HIGH ROAD	Penguin	£3.25
	Edna,	Fleeing London and a devastating love affair, Anna finds a small town on the Mediterranean where the sea, the sun and the company of women begin to work their healing magic. The women she meets are all veterans of love's betrayals - the hit-and-run affair, the sleepwalker's slow dawning - yet all of them long for love to return again. Meeting Catalina, the hotel chambermaid, Anna sneses that she may have another chance, too. Although in Edna O'Brien as in life, new love is always glittering with new danger&ldots;	Good 1989
	OLDHAM.	FLAMES.	Virago	£3.00
	June,	The story of Stella whose childhood is torn by divided loyalties and of her loving father whose infidelity threatens their families’ existence, when Stella responds with an uncharacteristic act of violence...	Fair / Good 1986
	O'NEILL.	BREAD & SUGAR.	Poolbeg	£2.00
	Joan,	Set in 1948. The Story of Karen Doyle and her 9-year-old son, when they return to post World War II Ireland after ten years in America. Set mainly in Dun Laoghaire of the late 1940s, Bread and Sugar spans the globe when Lizzie travels to New York to meet up with old flame Pete Scanlan. John sets off on an adventure to find his father, fighter pilot Paul Thornton, missing in action, and Vicky, now a medical student in Canada, returns to Ireland to stir up trouble.	Ex-Library 1987
	OOSTHUIZEN.	LONELINESS & OTHER LOVERS.	Sheba	£3.25
	Ann,	The story of Jean who at 43 comes to London after a divorce, there she meets women and men who help her to find an identity, which does not depend on her status as a married woman. A novel of changes, heartbreaks and discoveries.	Good 1981
	ORWELL.	A CLERGYMAN'S DAUGHTER.	Penguin	£3.50
	George,	Intimidated by her father, the Rector of Knype Hill, Dorothy performs her submissive roles of dutiful daughter and bullied housekeeper. Passing her days in church activities, penance and housework, her thoughts are circumscribed by the task in hand: by the costumes she is making for the church school play, for 'Oliver Cromwell, Charles 1, Roundheads, Cavaliers, peasants and Court ladies'; by local atheists against whom 'argument is powerless'; and by debts she cannot pay in 1930s Depression England. Suddenly her routine shatters and Dorothy finds herslef down and out in London. She is wearing silk stockings, has money in her pocket and cannot remember her name. Amnesia is followed by shock.	Good 1990
	OZAKIN.	THE PRIZEGIVING.	Women’s Press	£3.25
	Aysel,	Nuray is invited to Ankara to receive a prize for her1st novel. She is excited by the prospect of recognition and the ceremny is a dazzling afair. But Nuray is haunted by memories and discovers that life's prizes are not always what they seem ... Translated from the Turkish by Celia Kerslake.	V Good 1988
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	PAGE.	THE UNBORN DREAMS OF CLARA RILEY.	Virago	£3.25
	Kathy,	The story of 2 very different women in Edwardian England who break the law, and outrage society. Clara Riley is working-class, a washerwoman. Her employer Mrs Audley is a suffragist, who helps Clara get an abortion, but both are burdened by guilt...	Good 1987
	PALMER.	THE PLANET DWELLER.	Women’s Press	£3.00
	Jane,	Science Fiction Novel. The story of Diana who hears voices and sets off to help save the Earth from a greedy and power-mad species&ldots;	Fair 1985
	PALMER.	THE WATCHER.	Women’s Press	£1.75
	Jane,	Sci-Fi Novel. The planet Ojal has been invaded by a mysterious vampire force, and it is up to Controller Opu to seek the solution on Earth&ldots;	Fair / Good 1986
	PERERA.	HAVEN’T STOPPED DANCING YET.	Sceptre	£3.75
	Shyama,	It's 1966. Be anyone. Do anything! London in the 1960s. Four little girls have swallowed the dream that they can be anyone and anything, from Grace Kelly to the sole owner of that morning's gobstopper. Reality is just an irritating backdrop against which they cart their own destinies: sisters under different shades of skin, making the transition from girls to women.	V Good 1999
	PIERCE.	LIONESS RAMPART.	Oxford	£4.50
	Tamora,	Book 4 - The Song of the Lioness. The fourth and final adventure in the story of Alanna, Knight and Warrior, who with her magical powers faces her most biggest and most dangerous challenge of all. It begins in the icy mountains at the Roof of the World, where she is determined to win the Dominion Jewel, a token that could bring enormous power for good to the King of Tortall. So far she has succeeded in proving herself as good as the men around her, and winning acclaim as a great knight. But at the court there is evil, and magic, and a final contest with her archenemy, Duke Roger, whom she thought she had killed&ldots; Hardback Book 1 = Alanna: The First Adventure Book 2 = In the Hand of the Goddess Book 3 = The Woman who Rides like a Man.	Good 1990
	PIERCY.	BRAIDED LIVES.	Penguin	£3.50
	Marge,	The Story of Jill and her cousin Donna, Girls who found out what it means to be Women....	Fair 1983
	PIERCY.	THE HIGH COST OF LIVING.	Women's Press	£3.50
	Marge,	Leslie is serious, disciplined, strong. A graduate research student and a black belt in Karate, she is in possession of herself and her body. But her career depends on the patronage of a spoiled, womanising, academic politician. A stranger in the violent, blighted urban landscape of Detroit, she is befriended by Honor, a seventeen-year-old schoolgirl who conceals her determination to enjoy life behind vanity and frivolity; and by Bernard, a self-centred and charming reformed street hustler, fiercly dependant on Honor. Leslie and Bernard bristle, spar, become locked in a conspiracy of understanding and eventually dare to trust each other - with explosive consequences.	Good 1993
	PIERCY.	THREE WOMEN.	Piatkus	£3.50
	Marge,	Suzanne Blume has survived two marriages, financially supported two children through college and her teaching duties at a Boston university allow her just enough time to take on important legal cases and spend time with her closest friend. Life in her forties has also yielded some unexpected pleasures - she is enjoying her first sexual relationship in years. But her neat, buttoned-up life starts to unravel when her daughter Elena returns home, angry and unemployed. Can mother and daughter rebuild their fragmented relationship? And what of Suzanne's own mother? Having devoted her life to men and politics and passion, fiercely independent Beverly is now coping with the effects of a stroke and is also forced to share Suzanne's home and rely on the conventional daughter she has never had much time for&ldots;	Good 2000
	PIERCY.	VIDA.	Women's Press	£3.75
	Marge,	In the splintering world of America's political underground, Vida Asch carries her deep commitment to revolution knit tight with the instincts of a determined survivor. Alcohol, drugs, fatigue and even friendship are luxuries to avoid as she moves across country between those trusted to shelter members of the Network. Her longing for the people and places of her pre-fugitive years is unappeasable. Clandestine meetings with her husband turn sour as she realises his sixties commitment has given way to seventies liberalism, and his interest in her and the actions she believes necessary is at best sentimental. The surveillance of the FBI is unremitting. Years on the run, sexual rivalries and the lack of continuing focus tear agonisingly through the political and emotional solidarity of the Network and contrast bleakly with the heady optimism of the preceding decade. £1.50 P&P	Fair 1982
	PIERCY.	WOMAN ON THE EDGE OF TIME.	Women's Press	£3.00
	Marge,	Connie Ramos is thirty-seven, Mexican-American, worn out, labelled, discarded by a society which has declared her insane and taken away her first lover, then the child, finally her own freedom. As the drugged, helpless inmate of a public mental hospital, she is offered only one way back to the casually violent urban 'normality' from which she was snatched: participation in a mind-control experiment using electronic implantations in the brain. But Connie is also a 'catcher' - able to visit and take part in a translucent future of ecological and socail harmony. In it sex roles are unknown, biological relationships have given way to a broader concept of family, and the likeness of her lost child and lover live on in rare atmosphere of liberty and possibility. As the doctors close in, this poignant vision becomes a vivid counterpoint to the intensifying horror of Connie's reality. But gradually she comes to seize her own power to act - not only for herself but also for the future.	Fair 1983
	PISERCHIA.	STAR RIDER.	Women's Press
	Doris,	Science Fiction Novel. Jaks claim humans as their ancestors, but have developed, along with their mounts, the power to jump through dimensions and skip acros the spaces between stars. There are other inhabitants of the galaxy and they have their eyes on one young Jak: the dreens want to imprison her in motherhood, the varks grin and stay inscrutible. But Jade of the Galaxy has a razor sharp mind and a faithful mount called Hinx. Where will she skip to? Who will she take with her? A grippin tale of plot and counter-plot that shows the future of the galaxy held in the balance by one young woman.	Good 1987	£3.50
	PLATH.	THE BELL JAR.	Faber	£3.50
	Sylvia,	Terse account of an American girl's breakdown and treatment gains its considerable power from an objectivity that is extraordinary considering the nature of the material.	Good 1989
	POTTER.	THE TAKING OF AGNES.	Abacus	£3.50
	Jennifer,	The story of Agnes, who is sent by her family to Martinique, to bring her aunt back to France, but Agnes bears a disturbing resemblance to a disgraced member of her aunt's family. Her sexuality is insouciantly flaunted. She quickly captivates the young men of the island&ldots; and just as quickly vanishes: the victim, it is said, of terrorist kidnappers.	Fair 1986
	POWELL.	THE GOLDEN SPUR.	Virago	£3.50
	Dawn,	The story of Jonathan Jaimison, who arrives in a Greenwich village bar, seeking the identity of his true father, and finds himself amidst a strange group of people&ldots; Introduction by Gore Vidal.	Mint 1991
	PRICHARD.	GOLDEN MILES.	Virago	£2.50
	Katharine S,	Sequel to "The Roaring Nineties" and 2nd in trilogy of the history of Australia's goldfields through the life of one extraordinary woman and her family. It is 1914. Since the days of The Roaring Nineties fortunes have been made and lost in the goldfields of Western Australia, most particularly on the Golden Mile. The story of Sally Gough, whose indomitable spirit saw her through those early years and, whose greatest concern is her 4 sons. Katharine Prichard - communist, feminist, social reformer and pacifist, wrote 13 novels, short stories, plays and poetry.	Poor / Fair 1984
	PULLINGER.	WEIRD SISTER.	Phoenix House	£4.95
	Kate,	Agnes Samuel is an American, beautiful, witty, cool: the kind of woman people remember. She arrives among the respectable citizens of Warboys like a cat among pigeons. Soon she has insinuated herself into the affections of the sleepy Fenland village, and into the heart and home of the ancient Throckmorton family. Nobody remembers another Agnes Samuel from long ago, a frightened girl betrayed by her wealthy neighbours and hanged as a witch. In Weird sister, Kate Pullinger has created a modern gothic novel. Sinister and subtle, it is a chilling feast to remember.	V Good 1999         2 P&P (UK) RRP £9.99
	PULLINGER.	WHERE DOES THE KISSING END?	Serpent's Tail	£3.50
	Kate,	Stephen Smith falls in love assuming that this is where happiness lies. The object of his desire is Mina Savage, the illegitimate child of parents themselves both illegitimate, a young woman whose ambitions and appetites outstrip Stephen's wildest fantasies. They become lovers. But when mina continues to disappear at night, Stephen tries to force her to be faithful to him. Is Mina simply unfashionably promiscuous or is there something more sinister about her vampiric attitude towards other men? A novel about obsession and possession. A Dracula for the end of the century, it asks where does pleasure end and where does the hurting begin. Slight Crease	Fair 1991
	PURKIS.	PETA'S PENCE.	Women’s Press/Livewire	£3.00
	Christine,	The story of the relationship between Peta and her mother and how the early death of Peta's brother, Peter, has affected them. A painful story of one girl's fight against other people's expectations.	Mint 1990
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	RAYMOND.	EMMA PRIDE.	Piatkus	£3.25
	Diana,	The Story of Emma, Mother and Impossible Wife to 2 husbands, but first and foremost an Actress. For three decades her wildly alternating swings of mood - from purest ecstasy to dark and creeping despair - thrilled film and theatre audiences, and tormented and alienated those closest to her.	Good 1987
	RENAULT.	THE BULL FROM THE SEA.	Penguin	£3.50
	Mary,	Half prince, half bull-leaper, Theseus is now High King&ldots; The Minotaur is dead. Theseus the bull-leaper returns to Attica from Crete. He has sacked the Labyrinth, brought down the Minoan dynasty and now the boy-king must be High King and learn to rule like a god. But these are the days when Greek kings are also pirates. Theseus must go raiding the Hellespont and seek the golden fleece&ldots; and even a hero-king can have his destiny stolen by his love.	V Good 1973
	RICHARDS	SINGLE BLACK FEMALE.	The X Press	£3.25
	Yvette,	Thirtysomething, Carol< is slowly coming to terms with being single after her husband runs off with his secretary. High-flying career woman, Dee, wants to find 'Mr Right' but somehow always seems to meet the right man at the wrong time. Would be dancer and model, Donna, believes that 'girls just wanna have fun' and says she's too young to get involved in a heavy relationship. By a twist of fate these three very different women end up sharing a house and find they all have the same problem - Men! Together they experience the ups and downs of black single women in the 90's. they finally discover that something special can happen with a man when you least expect it.	Good 1994
	RIDGE.	MORD EM'LY.	Robin Clark	£3.50
	William Pett,	Life in the East End during the 1890s. Mord Em'ly is a member of the all-female Gilliken Gang which roams the streets of Whitechapel - fighting the Bermondsey Gang and generally terrorising the neighbourhood. She lives with her widowed mother in Black C of Pandora Buildings. A spirited young girl, Mord Em'ly is sent to a 'Home' in Surrey for stealing cream-filled meringues from a shop in Walworth Road. She dreams of London - the lighted shops, the crowded pavements, the bustling strret-markets, the penny shows and, above all, the Gilliken Gang - but is disappointed by the reality when she returns. The Gang has broken up - Miss Gilliken has joined the Salvation Army, while in stark contrast some of the others have become prostitutes. Mord Em'ly finds work as a waitress at Mitchell's dining-rooms. It is here that she meets the weaselly mr Wetherell. A wheeler-dealersocialist soap-box orator, and the striking young boxer, Henry Barden&ldots;	Good 1992
	RILEY.	ROMANCE.	Women’s Press	£3.00
	Joan,	The story of Verona and Desiree, 2 very different sisters, who begin to rethink their lives when Desiree’s husband parents turn up for a visit, filling the family with tales of Jamaica&ldots;	Fair / Good 1988
	RILEY	THE UNBELONGING.	Women’s Press	£3.00
	Joan,	The Story of 11-year-old Hyacinth, who is summoned to Britain by a father she has never known. She finds herself in a land of strangers, the only face in a sea of white. Faced at school with the hostility of her classmates, and at home with violence from her father, and a threatening sexuality she does not understand, she seeks refuge in dreams of her homeland - dreams which she must eventually test against the truth.	Good 1985
	RILEY	WAITING IN THE TWILIGHT.	Women’s Press
	Joan,	The Story of a Woman's struggle for dignity against a background of Urban racism. When Adella, a talented seamstress, moves to Kingston, Jamaica, life seems to promise much: a respectable career and the chance of professional status. Instead, she falls in love: first with a young policeman, then with Stanton, whom she follows to England&ldots; yet he too deserts her. She resolves to buy a home of her own, but in the end, this is taken from her by The Council. Now a grandmother crippled by a stroke, Adella waits patiently for her husband to return. Haunted by memories of the past, she assesses what has been achieved.	Fair / Good 1987
	ROBERTS.	A PIECE OF THE NIGHT.	Women’s Press	£2.50
	Michelle,	Julie Fanchot, French born, English convent-school educated, learns to please. The seductive daughter, virgin Mary, romantic heroine, perfect wife and mother: she can be all of these. But Julie knows she is also the witch, the whore, the madwoman, the insatiable, the lesbian. After years of absence she returns to Normandy to care for her sick mother. Her parents are alienated by the choices she as made: divorce, single motherhood,a communal life with women. Slipping between the cracks of time, amid the familiar icons of church and childhood, Julie remembers. Peace has to be won.	Good 1980
	ROBERTS.	DAUGHTERS OF THE HOUSE.	Virago	£3.50
	Michelle,	Secrets and lies linger in the very walls of the solid, old Normandy house in which Therese and Leonie, French and English cousins of the same age, grow up after the war. Intrigued by parents' and servants' guilty silences and the broken shrine they find buried in the woods, the girls weave their own elaborate fantasies, unwittingly revealing the village secret and a deep shame that will come to haunt Therese and Leonie in their adult lives&ldots; Resonant with the sounds and scents of French provincial life, this is a richly imagined and sensous tale from one of Britain's most exciting contemporary writers.	Good 1993
	ROBERTS.	IN THE RED KITCHEN.	Minerva	£2.50
	Michelle,	Who I s Flora Milk? Is she the medium she claims to be, or an hysteric, a charlatan preying on the anguish of the bereaved? In an East London house, her voice mingles acrossthe ages with those of other women - ghosts, spirits, displaced persons - in Michele Roberts haunting new novel.	Good 1991
	ROBINS.	THE CONVERT.	Women's Press	£3.50
		The convert is a novel, a most readable novel in the Edwardian style: long, detailed, lots of plot, character development and tension. But it is also a most valuable piece of social history, bringing to life, as few works of non-fiction could do, that significant and exciting period when women struggled to take the right to vote. First published in 1907. £1.50 P&P (UK)	Fair / Good 1980
	ROHINI.	TO DO SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL.	Sheba	£3.50
		Set in the swirling and shanty towns of modern Bombay. Centred on the lives of women who in different ways all aspire 'to do something beautiful'. Some succeed against heavy odds, but others are destroyed in the effort. The support they give to each other is crucial; without it each one is defeated in her isolation. Kavita, Marion, Nirmala, Mangal and Geetaare just some of the women characters who deal with the struggles at work, domestic violence, sexual harassment, love, hate and poverty.	V Good 1990
	ROWE.	TIGER COUNTRY.	Women’s Press	£3.50
	Penelope,	Margaret (Matti) the little Catholic girl. Quiet, subdued, hardworking, she is the ideal convent pupil, but outside of school, she is exposed. The routine sadism of her father, and her mother's refusal to acknowledge it, are slowly destroying Matti. Margaret Milton is now a grown career woman, living in London. But then, the inevitable call and Matti is compelled to return to her Australian home, to live through the last days of her father's life and gradually come to terms with her childhood self.	V Good 1992
	RUSS.	ON STRIKE AGAINST GOD.	Women’s Press	£3.00
	Joanna,	The story of Esther, a 38-year old Professor of English literature, who wakes up overnight to the compromises she's made for more years than she cares to remember. A Novel about Outrage, Passion, Sex and Grief.	V Good 1987
	RUSS.	THE ADVENTURES OF ALYX.	Women’s Press	£2.50
	Joanna,	Magical and Mythical Adventure Story. The Story of Alyx, Dragonslayer, Assassin, Thief and bodyguard.	Fair 1985
	RUSS.	THE TWO OF THEM.	Women’s Press	£2.50
	Joanna,	The Story of Irene starlover turned Outlaw, who has freed Zubeydeh from a world where women are kept in purdah. Now there is nowhere left to run but Earth. (Sci-Fi)	Fair 1986
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	SANTIAGO.	AMERICA’S DREAM.	Virago	£4.50
	Esmeralda,	America Gonzalez is a hotel maid on an island off the coast of Puerto Rico, clearing up after wealthy foreigners who don't even look her in the eye. Her alcoholic mother resents her, her married boyfriend beats her, and their 14-year-old daughter thinks life would be better anywhere else than with her mother. Somewhere, out there, is the land of America's dreams. So when she is offered the chance to work as a live-in housekeeper for a nice wholesome American family in Westchester, USA, she sees it as an opportunity to start afresh. Life in Westchester is strange though, from the language through to the food. Even as America revels in the comparative luxury of her life, meets new people, and dares to hope again, she fights to resist the nagging feeling that no matter what she does, the past is always with her. A lush, descriptive, often bittersweet novel of thwarted hopes and resurrected dreams from a fresh new voice in fiction. £1.75 P&P (UK)	V Good 1997
	SANTMYER.	"&ldots; AND LADIES OF THE CLUB".	Pan	£4.50
	Helen Hooven,	From the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War to the social turmoil of the 1930s&ldots; a warm, intimate yet epic tale of 2 remarkable Women in a small Ohio town and of their fellow members in the Waynesboro Ladies' Literary Society. From Girlhood to Matriarchy, and through wrenching battles for Suffrage. A Century of American history.	Fair 1982 £2.50 P&P (UK)
	SARTON.	AS WE ARE NOW.	Women’s Press	£3.00
	May,	The Story of Caro Spencer, who at 76 is abandoned in a home for old people. A former mathematics teacher, she has prided herself in her independence of spirit and the liveliness of her intellect. Now abandoned, she can see only brutality and humiliation around her. She struggles to salvage what dignity she can through defiance and contempt. But in the end it is her own inner life that must save her, and the spark of human love.	Fair 1987
	SAUNDERS.	WILD YOUNG BOHEMIANS.	Century	£4.95
	Kate,	Melissa Lamb is a romantic beauty, in the grip of an obsession. In the eyes of her practical cousin Ernestine, Melissa's determination to restore her derelict family mansion is just a harmless fantasy. Melissa, however, is anything but harmless. This is an obsession that knows no boundaries, and even those she loves most cannot be allowed to stand in her way. At Oxford, Melissa and Ernestine form the core of the Wild Young Bohemians, a dining club for the beautiful and ambitious. Three men make up Melissa's court: Frank Darcy, a handsome American Rhodes scholar, high on English romance; Will Ivery, decent and kindly heir to a huge fortune; Giles Ross, charismatic drug-dealer to the aristocracy. Their golden circle is invaded by a revengeful stranger from the underclass, destined to bring the Wild Young Bohemians unimaginable sorrow and transformation. But he is only the catalyst. The evil is already there, the canker at the heart of the rose, turning dreams to dust and hopes to ashes. Melissa's spectacular Victorian ruin holds a secret that has slept fro a hundred years; a Gothic legacy of lust, greed and death. Before the game is played out, some of the Wild Young Bohemians, will be damned, some saved. All will be changed forever. Hardback	V Good 1995
	SCHAEFFER.	THE INJURED PARTY.	Pavane	£3.00
	Susan Fromberg,	The story of Iris, who returns home from hospital after a brush with death and now faces the more painful challenge of life; caught between her past and present loves, she must struggle to catch up with her own secret self - in a world she no longer seems to understand.	Fair / Good 1997
	SCHAEFFER.	THE MADNESS OF A SEDUCED WOMAN.	Pavanne	£3.50
	Susan Fromberg,	The Story of Agnes Dempster, a beautiful young woman destined to be severely wronged by life and love, whose dreams, thoughts and actions propel her towards a horrific crime of passion she is incapable of preventing. In her search for an all-consuming, perfect love, Agnes turns her back on an unhappy childhood in Vermont, only to become infatuated with a man who will never make her happy, a betrayer who unwittingly pushes Agnes to the brink of madness, the madness of a seduced woman&ldots; £1.50 P&P	Fair 1985
	SCHMIDT.	OUT OF AMERICA.	Serpents Tail	£4.25
	Susan,	Opportunities meet in these gently ironic stories about the US Southwest, a place where the country is wide-open and weirdness flourishes. Set against this landscape are stories of cultural confusion on both sides of the Atlantic, where American and English sensibilities clash. Susan Schmidt writes humorously and movingly about the idea of 'home', and confirms with panache the success of Winging it.	Good 1993
	SCHOELLER.	LADY JANE.	W H Allen	£4.50
	Ghislaine,	The Story of Lady Jane Digby, a beautiful aristocrat, who travelled to the Orient where she eventually lived and died as a native Bedouin. This life of this legendary nineteenth century beauty was one of constant drama and adventure and her story provides a glimpse of a wild and uninhabited nature overturning the constraints of an age of repression in the pursuit of life and love. Hardback £2.50 P&P	V Good 1987
	SCHWARZ-BART.	A WOMAN NAMED SOLITUDE.	Picador	£2.95
	Andre,	The story of Solitude, conceived aboard a slave-ship bound for the Carribean, born into slavery and sold on the auction block, a black chattel of a corrupt society, until she hears the ringing of rebellion on the island wind... Portrait of a woman and her race fallen victim to the innate inhumanity of humankind.	Fair 1988
	SCOTT.	PASSING FOR HUMAN.	Women’s Press	£2.50
	Josephine,	Science Fiction Novel. The Story of Benaroya, a well-meaning hedonist from Interstellar Station 8, who visits earth in various female forms. Her mission: to save the earth from Alien invasion, to sow wild oats, sort out the human race and generally have a good time.	Fair/Good 1986
	SCOTT.	NOT IN NEWBURY.	Serpent’s Tail	£3.95
	Mary,	Alice, an independent woman of the 90s, has a way with words. Like any angst-ridden speaker, she feels trapped by the tyranny of their meetings. Her therapeutic solution is to compile her own dictionary - now she will be able to make words mean what she wants. This everyday tale of bankrupt relationships and lonely hearts marries Wittgenstein with Mills and Boon - it suggests that if you can't get your (wo)man then at least you should be accurate in your disdain. In a book that is both brittly funny and profound, Mary Scott confirms her unerring ability to capture the semantics of our times.	Good 1992
	SHEEPSHANKS.	FACING THE MUSIC.	Arrow	£3.50
	Mary,	The Story of Flavia Cameron, who is set to marry the headmaster of Winsleyhurst School. Impossibly young, with a musical talent that could have been heard in concert halls around the world, she was beautiful and sparkling and she swept the upper Fourth off their feet. And then Ben Forbes arrived at the school, with a father who saw Flavia not as a prodigy, a daughter or a wife, but, for the first time, as herself. It is a discovery that will throw her life into turmoil.	Good 1996
	SHEIKH.	THE RED BOX.	Women’s Press	£1.25
	Farhana,	The story of Raisa, who was born in Pakistan and who now, lives in 1960's London. Now an educationist, she finds herself researching problems of 'identity' for Asian girls and women in Britain and to confront her own relatively privileged position - her education and her well-off family. a a a aa a a a a a a Ex-lib	Fair 1991
	SINCLAIR.	LIFE AND DEATH OF HARRIETT FREAN.	Virago	£3.50
	May,	In this portrait of a perfect daughter of the Victorian Age we enter the consciousness of Harriett Frean from the day of her birth to the day of her death. Harriett is the embodiment of all those virtues then viewed as essential to the womanly ideal; a woman reared to love, honour and obey. Idolising her parents, she learns from childhood to equate love with self-sacrifice, so that when she falls in love with the fiancé of her closest friend, renunciation of this unworthy passion initially brings her a peculiar form of happiness. But the passing of time unveils a different truth&ldots; In capturing the inner life of one ordinary woman, May Sinclair puts under the microscope a whole way of nineteenth century life. Ironic, brief, intensely realised, not one word is superfluous in this brilliant study of female virtue seen as vice. First published in 1922, it is may Sinclair's most perfect literary achievment and stands with the work of Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf as one of the great innovative novels of this century.	Good 1986
	SINCLAIR.	LIFE AND DEATH OF HARRIETT FREAN.	Virago	£3.75
	May,	In this portrait of a perfect daughter of the Victorian Age we enter the consciousness of Harriett Frean from the day of her birth to the day of her death. Harriett is the embodiment of all those virtues then viewed as essential to the womanly ideal; a woman reared to love, honour and obey. Idolising her parents, she learns from childhood to equate love with self-sacrifice, so that when she falls in love with the fiancé of her closest friend, renunciation of this unworthy passion initially brings her a peculiar form of happiness. But the passing of time unveils a different truth&ldots; In capturing the inner life of one ordinary woman, May Sinclair puts under the microscope a whole way of nineteenth century life. Ironic, brief, intensely realised, not one word is superfluous in this brilliant study of female virtue seen as vice. First published in 1922, it is may Sinclair's most perfect literary achievment and stands with the work of Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf as one of the great innovative novels of this century.	V Good 1998
	SINGER.	TO STILL THE CHILD.	Virago	£3.25
	Nicky,	When Roger Holmes suddenly walks out on his wife Esmee after thirty years of marriage, her feelings of loss and betrayal are made more poignant by the discovery of a treacherous illness. Esmee struggles to come to terms with these new circumstances, supported by her successful television-producer daughter, Sarah, who finds her own priorities dramatically shifting. Meanwhile, Roger's difficult mother, Kathleen, has her won ideas about her son's flight. Taking as her themes the loss of love, death and the intricate dynamics of family relationships, Nicky Singer has produced a perceptive and compelling novel by turns comic, sad, and devastatingly honest.	Good 1993
	SKELTON.	A MURDEROUS INNOCENCE.	Diamond	£3.50
	Alison Scott,	A gripping Saga of One Woman's Spiritual Awakening. £2 P&P.	Good 1994
	SKRAM.	BETRAYED.	Pandora	£1.00
	Amalie,	When 17-year-old Aurora finds herself married off to a Sea captain 15 years her senior, she retreats into a fantasy world of idealised married life whilst rejecting and contact with her husband. From this refusal begins a dark drama between the two of them of frustrated desire and misunderstanding. Riber, the husband, is unable to cope with his wife's sexual fears, unable to imagine her pain at being handed ove to a man she hardly knows or has had time to like. Vividly portrayed, the two of them reach a terrifying emotional impasse&ldots; Hardback Ex-lib	Fair 1986
	SLONCZEWSKI.	A DOOR INTO OCEAN.	Women’s Press	£4.25
	Joan,	Science Fiction. From the ocean world of Shora, Merwen the Impatient and Usha the Inconsiderate travel to Valedon, the world of stone. The Valens view with suspicion the ancient female race of Shora: with their webbed fingers, their withdrawl into 'whitetrance' and their marvellous arts of healing. Where the Sharers of Shora hope for understanding, they are met with aggression. Joan Slonczewski pushes the moral and political philosophy of non-violence to its very limits in a powerful and gripping narrative. To read it is to see your own future in the balance.	V Good 1987
	SMEDLEY.	DAUGHTER OF EARTH.	Virago	£3.25
	Agnes,	Autobiographical novel of Marie Rogers, born into the harsh rural poverty in Northern Missouri at the end of the last Century. Hers is a family nurtured in poverty - her father a charming but shiftless itinerant worker, her mother undernourished and overworked. In a world where the choices for a woman are marriage or prostitution, Marie is fiercely determined to choose neither. Struggling to educate herself, haunted by the family she leaves behind, Marie's restless nature cannot reconcile sexual desire with love and comradeship. Marriage ends in divorce, political involvement in imprisonment, a passionate love affair in betrayal. But through all this Marie finds herself - the past conquered, a new future ahead.	Fair/Good 1985
	SMITH.	THE NATURALISTS.	Women's Press	£5.00
	Diane,	A spectacular natural backdrop, a pioneering botanist and a cast of eccentric, endearing characters converge in a unique novel about observation and independence. It is the spring of 1898. Alex Bartram, a high-spirited medical student with a passion for botany has secured a palce on a Smithsonian-sponsored field study to Yellowstone National Park. The only problem is that Alex is a woman, joining an all-male team rather wary of the female of the species. Thrown together in an awe-inspiring but capricious environment, the members of the group struggle to relate to each other on both a personal and professional level. From these very human dilemmas emerge clashing concepts of science, nature and economics. A death, a fire, a snowstorm and academic double-dealing force them to rethink their perceptions of themselves and each other. Grounded in academic life but naïve in the ways of the world. Alex begins to realise that human beings are as singular as orchids and as unpredictable as geysers.	Mint 2000 RRP £9.99
	SMYTH.	SUBVERSIVE ELEMENTS.	Canadian Women’s Press	£3.50
	Donna E,	An intriguing melange of voices that entice us to explore two seemingly unrelated strands - a highly romantic and unlikely love story and a timely account of the controversy surrounding Uranium mining in Nova Scotia. Textually and thematically subversive, these two narratives resonate off each other creating a story that is both innovative and moving.	Fair / Good 1986
	STAFFORD.	BOSTON ADVENTURE.	Hogarth	£3.75
	Jean,	Sonie Marburg gazes across the bay at Boston's gleaming State House and dreams of escaping from her childhood home, a cobbler's shack echoing with the recriminations of her beautiful Russian mother. All her hopes seem to come true when a summer visitor, Miss Pride, whisks her off to the shadowy libraries and gilded salons of Beacon Hill. But Sonie finds that she is doomed to remain forever an outsider, hovering on the fringes of a privileged world. Portrait of the snobbery of the old Bostonians, threatened by the radical politics and the Jazz Age energy of the 1930s. But at its heart id the story of one woman's quest for love and for meaning in life, a compelling pilgrimage that takes her to the brink of madness. £1.50 P & P	Good / V Good 1986
	STEAD.	THE PEOPLE WITH THE DOGS.	Virago	£3.50
	Christina,	The story of Edward Massine who comes home from the Second World War to his large family, resting contentedly in their ample bosom. But even benevolent love can suffocate and destroy: it takes death, betrayal and a new independent love for Edward to break the chains of family life and assert himself as a passionate individual.	Good 1981
	STEAD.	THE PUZZLEHEADED GIRL.	Virago	£2.95
	Christina,	4 Novellas first published in 1967 are peopled with some of the most fascinating characters to be found in Christina Stead's magnificent oeuvre. The stories of 4 women, who struggle to survive with the changes that, occur in their lives.	Good 1984
	STEEL.	NO GREATER LOVE.	Bantam Press	£7.50
	Danielle,	As eldest daughter in a large and happy family, Edwina Winfield was returning from her engagement trip to England with her fiancé, her parents and five siblings on the maiden voyage of the greatest ship ever built the Titanic. In one fatal, unforgettable night the Winfield family would be changed forever as that as that terrible catastrophe at sea shattered their lives and their future. Edwina instantly becomes a woman mourning the loss of the man she loved, and the mother to her 5 brothers and sisters. Her life is ir3eversibly altered in a single moment. She must return to San Francisco with five young children, to care for them, run the family newspaper and take on responsibilities that are both overwhelming and unexpected. Hardback £2.50 P&P (UK)	V Good 1991
	STERN.	THE MATRIACH.	Virago	£3.95
	G B,	A novel about the history of the Rakonitz family - rich cosmopolitan and Jewish – and the indomitable women within it. First published in 1924. First in the Rakonitz Chronicles.	V Good 1988
	STOWE.	NOT THE END OF THE WORLD.	Virago	£3.25
	Rebecca,	Twelve-year-old Maggie Pittsfield must be the luckiest girl in the world. She lives in a house with it’s own beach and her father owns the local candy factory&ldots; But are the Pittsfields the perfect American family? What lies behind the mysterious and traumatic incident involving Maggie and her teacher Mr Howard? And what is Maggie evading when she escapes to the woods where the prospect of an encounter with the elusive pervert seems much less frightening than the revelation that waits her at home?	V Good 1992
	SWAN.	THE BIGGEST MODERN WOMAN OF THE WORLD.	Pandora	£3.50&#9;
	Susan,	The story of `giantess’ Anna swan who at 7’6" joins a showplace of freaks in New York and discovers strength in her size&ldots; And so unfolds a dazzlingly wacky tale of Anna's encounters with tall and small people, with crooks and with friends as she tours America as the "Biggest Modern Woman in the World" and even travels to Britain, where she is summoned to Queen Victoria's court. But this is also a sad tale, of Anna's search for a home in a world in which she doesn't fit.	Fair / Good 1988
	SWICK.	EVENING NEWS.	QPD	£5.00
	Marly,	'How much 'time out' for shooting your little sister?' how will your stepfather forgive you for the loss of his only child? Will your mother ever love you again? When nine-year-old Teddy accidentally shoots his half sister, fault lines appear, as the family grapples with the unaskable: Whom do you love more? In the bestselling tradition of Ordinary People, Evening News is an unflinchingly honest novel about the fragile relationships in stepfamilies, the nature of love between parents and children, and what happens when the two collide.	V Good 1999
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