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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