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	NAME	DETAILS	PUBLISHER	PRICE
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	TAN.	THE JOY LUCK CLUB.	Minerva	£3.00
	Amy,	The story of 4 mothers and their first-generation Chinese-American daughters; two generations of women struggling to come to terms with their cultural identity. Tan writes from the heart, cutting sharp edges with wit, wisdom and a gentle and delicate precision. International bestseller and Film.	Good 1994
	TAYLOR.	ANGEL.	Virago	£3.00
	Elizabeth,	The Story of Angelica Deverell, who wants to be a writer.. Angelica Deverell is fifteen years old at the turn of the century. She is the daughter of a widow who keeps a grocery shop in a dreary provincial backstreet, working hard to pay for Angel's education so she can 'better herself'. But Angel rejects the drabness of her daily life and, retreating into a world of romantic dreams, she begins to write stories remarkable for their extravagance and fantasy. To those around her it is simply folie de grandeur, but Angel knows better. She knows she is different, that she will grow up to be a feted authoress, owner of great riches and of the mysterious Paradise House&ldots; It evokes the life of Romance Writer Marie Corelli.	Fair 1991
	TAYLOR.	AT MRS LIPPINCOTE'S.	Virago	£1.50
	Elizabeth,	The Story of Julia, who is forced to stay at Mrs Lippincote's and fulfil her role as "Officer's Wife"... Ex-lib	Fair 1988
	TAYLOR.	AT MRS LIPPINCOTE'S.	Virago	£3.50
	Elizabeth,	The Story of Julia, who is forced to stay at Mrs Lippincote's and fulfil her role as "Officer's Wife"...	Good 1991
	TAYLOR.	BLAMING.	Virago	£1.50
	Elizabeth,	The Story of Amy, whose husband dies on holiday and is supported by Martha, a young American novelist whose acquaintance Amy is ungratefully reluctant to maintain on their return to England. A novel about blaming, of oneself, of circumstances, of others. Ex-Lib	Fair 1991
	TAYLOR.	THE WEDDING GROUP.	Virago	£3.50
	Elizabeth,	Cressey has grown up in an artistic community, presided over by her eccentric Grandfather who bears more than a passing resemblance to Augustus John. Rebelling against this existence she leaves home, taking a job in an antique shop. Here she meets David, a journalist, and they marry. But as Cressey cannot fed for herself and David is securely tied to his mother's apron strings, this act of escape for both of them proves a powerful form of bondage. An exploration of the ways in which the parental mould is not easily broken.	V Good 1985
	TAX.	PASSIONATE WOMEN.	Virago	£3.95
	Meredith,	The story of a family throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Hardback (No Cover). £2 P&P (UK)	Good 1989
	TEM.	BLOOD MOON.	Women’s Press	£3.25
	Melanie,	When Breanne Novak adopts 11-year-old Greg, she knows she has trouble ahead. But Greg has an uncanny ability to make things happen and Breanne soon realises she has been totally unprepared for the full impact of the struggle about to rock her life...	Mint 1992
	TENNANT.	THE ADVENTURES OF ROBINA.	Faber	£3.25
	Emma,	Being the memoirs of a débutante at the court of Queen Elizabeth II. Robina, is a red-haired young innocent, a Scottish orphan. At the age of 15, after strict upbringing on a border farm at the hands of her aunt and uncle. She is sent South: first to an eccentric Oxford boarding school; then to a family in Paris; and finally to the London flat of a bankrupt Chaperone who is paid to guide her through the Debutante 'season'.	Fair / Good 1987
	TENNANT.	WOMAN BEWARE WOMAN.	Picador	£3.25
	Emma,	An eminent man has been found dead in a wood on the southern coast of Ireland. Much loved for his charm, wit and knowledge of the world, the famous writer and commentator had on this occasion blundered into a situation beyond his understanding. And in turn, the people round him find they are drawn into an area of violence and menace. Women and their conflicting loyalties (to their own images, men they love, each other) are the main protagonists in this chilling account of amorous obsession, exclusion and revenge.	Fair 1983
	THOMAS.	THE LAST ROOM.	Virago	£3.25
	Elean,	The story of Valerie `Putus' Barton, who is charged by her mother to take the family forward from the `Last room' of slavery into the mansions of the world. So she emigrates from Jamaica to England.	Good 1992
	THOMAS.	THE LAST ROOM.	Virago	£4.75
	Elean,	The story of Valerie `Putus' Barton, who is charged by her mother to take the family forward from the `Last room' of slavery into the mansions of the world. So she emigrates from Jamaica to England. A story of exile and disenchantment, her characters pursue that delicate balance between remembering and forgetting which emigration inevitably forgets. Hardback RRP £13.99	Good 1991
	THOMAS.	MOON ISLAND.	Heinemann	£6.00
	Rosie,	A love story, a ghost story, a tale of opportunities lost and second chances, 'Moon Island' is Rosie Thomas's resonant and compelling new novel. On a small stretch of untamed coast, five year old clapboard houses gaze out to sea. They are visited by the same group of families every year. When she arrives at the beach for the summer May Duhane is on the brink of womanhood, and at the point of estrangement from her father and older sister. Isolated and resentful, no longer a child but not as confident as her glamorous sister, she feels only the currents of sexual tension between those around her, including her father and a married neighbour, Leoine Beam. Meanwhile, May has made an eerie discovery - the diary of a dead girl. To try to break the dairy's code and unravel its story, she must immerse herself in stories from the past. And as she finds herself drawn deeper into the beaches history, a history steeped in sadness, so she begins to feel she is destined to follow in the dead girls tragic footsteps&ldots; Hardback RRP £15.99	V Good 1998
	TOUATI.	DESPERATE SPRING.	Women’s Press	£3.25
	Fettouma,	The story of 3 generations of Algerian Women. Faroudja a young wife during the Algerian war of liberation, finds her hopes shattered when her husband returns from prison, tortured and driven half crazy by his French interrogators. Yasmina, determined to escape the confinement that has emotionally crippled her mother and grandmother, fights to qualify as a doctor; only to find that even in independent Algeria, men may view unmarried women with derision. And Malika, the young rebel, defies the authority of her brother; but finds that the odds against her are too great. It is to each other that the women are able to turn, for solcae, comfort and even a way forward&ldots; A disturbing tale of the price women pay for daring to challenge.	Fair / Good 1987
	TRAPIDO.	TEMPLES OF DELIGHT.	Penguin	£3.50
	Barbara,	The moment Jem joined her class; Alice knew her life was irrevocably changed... But Jem vanishes as abruptly as she came, only to reappear 5 years on... A baroque romance of untimely deaths, orphan babes, stolen novels, canny nuns and dark, forceful lovers.	Good 1991
	TROLLOPE.	THE BEST OF FRIENDS & NEXT OF KIN.	BCA	£3.95
	Joanna,	The story of the friendship between 2 women and their families in Whittingbourne&ldots; The story of a family at a tragic crossroads&ldots; (2 Novels in One) Hardback £2 P&P	Mint 1996
	TSUSHIMA.	CHILD OF FORTUNE.	Women’s Press	£3.25
	Yuko,	The story of Koko a single mother living alone in Japan. Hemmed in by society and her families’ expectations Koko realises that the time has come to make some active decisions about her future...	Mint 1986
	TWEEDIE.	LETTERS FROM A FAINTHEARTED FEMINIST.	BCA	£3.25
	Jill,	The Letters from Martha - to the younger more militantly feminist, Mary - which appeared in the Guardian. Hardback (No Cover).
	TWEEDIE.	MORE FROM MARTHA.	Robson	£3.50
	Jill,	Further Letters from a fainthearted Feminist. Hardback In many ways, housewives were overlooked in the explosive beginnings of the women's movement. So when the letters from Martha to the younger, more militantly feminist, Mary first appeared on the Guardians women's page the sentiments they expressed were greeted with delighted recognition by those who shared her plight. Here, in the second volume of her letters, Martha shows us her life with all its vagaries as she takes pen in hand to pour out her heart and various other internal organs to her sister under the skin, the enviably liberated Mary.	Good 1983
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	VANDENBURGH.	FAILURE TO ZIGZAG.	Avon	£3.50
	Jane,	The story of Charlotte, who tries to make some sense of the world, after her mother is temporarily furloughed from a mental hospital, convinced she's being pursued by psychiatrists. Grandma Winnie reminds Charlotte that Katrinka was once sweet, smart, and pretty&ldots; before she took up with Charlotte's father and all those other high-IQ-no-common-sense types.	Fair 1989
	VAN HERK.	NO FIXED ADDRESS.	Virago	£3.00
	Aritha,	An Amorous journey. The story of Arachne Manteia, a travelling saleswoman, who is on a quest for independence through sex, death and lingerie as she tours the Canadian West...	Fair 1989
	VONARBURG.	THE SILENT CITY.	Women’s Press	£3.50
	Elizabeth,	Sci-Fi Novel. Wild tribes roam the surface of the earth, the City, deep underground, is the final storehouse of knowledge and science. Only a handful of people survive there, kept alive for multiple lifespans by machines. The story of Elisa who is born in the City where the scientists are conducting genetic experiments and who rebels against her father/lover and leaves the City fot the outside world. Later she will return, having sown the seeds for a transformation of human life.	Mint 1990
	VOZNESENSKAYA.	THE WOMEN’S DECAMERON.	Methuen	£3.75
	Julia,	Ten women, who have all just given birth in a Leningrad clinic, are unexpectedly quarantined together for ten days. Each night each woman undertakes to tell a story on some previously chosen subject: first love, rape, revenge, jealousy, money, betrayal, happiness, noble deeds or sex in absurd situations&ldots; It is an intimate world, startlingly frank about personal and social relationships and, as such, reveals more about Soviet life than anything to be read in a newspaper.	Good 1987
	VOZNESENSKAYA.	THE WOMEN’S DECAMERON.	Quartet	£1.75
	Julia,	Ten women, who have all just given birth in a Leningrad clinic, are unexpectedly quarantined together for ten days. Each night each woman undertakes to tell a story on some previously chosen subject: first love, rape, revenge, jealousy, money, betrayal, happiness, noble deeds or sex in absurd situations&ldots; It is an intimate world, startlingly frank about personal and social relationships and, as such, reveals more about Soviet life than anything to be read in a newspaper. Ex-Library Hardback	Fair 1986
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	WATSON SHERMAN.	ONE DARK BODY.	Women’s Press	£3.75
	Charlotte,	The story of Raisin, abandoned at birth, and nursed by Miss Marius, with other rejected children. The story of Nola, her mother, who returns to claim her daughter and to put to rest the ghosts of the past. The story of Sin-Sin, the fatherless fourteen year old son of the local schoolteacher. And of Blue, the wanga-man, healer and Shamanic figure living in the forest out of town. Stories about ancestry, and blood and underknit with mysticism and magic&ldots;	Good 1993
	WATT.	MICAWBER'S AILMENT.	Women’s Press	£3.00
	Lucy Anne,	Elisabet is drifting downwards, like Mr Micawber, Elisabet hopes incessantly for a change in her fortunes. But, as with Micawber, that change, when it comes, is not as she expects... Novel of homelessness, and the nightmare of urban poverty.	Mint 1992
	WAUGH.	A HANDFUL OF DUST.	Penguin	£1.50
	Evelyn,	Tony Last, loves Hetton Abbey more than anything except for his wife, Lady Brenda. The story of the break-up of a marriage.	Fair / Good 1988
	WEIS & HICKMAN.	FORGING THE DARKSWORD.	Bantam	£3.00
		The Darksword Trilogy: Vol1 Saga of Magic, Fantasy and Adventure. The Story of Joram, born without Magical abilities and denied his birthright.	Fair / Good 1990
	WEIS & HICKMAN.	DOOM OF THE DARKSWORD.	Bantam	£3.00
		The Darksword Trilogy: Vol 2. Joram returns to his kingdom to claim his birthright	Good 1989
	WEIS & HICKMAN.	DRAGONS OF WINTER NIGHT.	Penguin	£3.00
		Dragon Lance Chronicles: Vol 2 War and oblivion threaten the world of Krynn. 8 Heroes are given the power to save the world and set off on their perilous mission.	V Good 1986
	WELDON.	BIG WOMEN.	Flamingo	£3.75
	Fay,	Big Girls Don't Cry. Channel 4 TV Drama. There's the feminist publishing house, Medusa, founded one balmy evening in a flurry of argument, peace-making and naked dancing. There's Layla: noisy, darlingish, high profile: 'I am the only right-thinking feminist there is. It's all the others who are out of step'. And Nancy, boring, sensible Nancy who is the only one with business nous. And Alice, the academic, the philosopher, the - eventually - Glastonbury witch. And Stephanie - the only one who leaves her husband and children to embrace politics, men, other women&ldots;	V Good 1998
	WELDON.	FEMALE FRIENDS	Pavanne	£3.00
	Fay,	The story of 3 friends, who grew up together in wartime Essex and whose friendship survive the erosion and intrusion of shared lovers, turbulent marriages and clamouring children&ldots;	Good 1977
	WELDON.	LIFE FORCE.	Harper Collins	£3.95
	Fay,	Feminist novel about the lives and loves of women. Large £1.75 P&P (UK)	Fair 1992
	WELDON.	THE FAT WOMAN’S JOKE BOOK.	Sceptre	£3.25
	Fay,	Esther is monumental and magnificent. She has left her husband and her world has slimmed down to eating, drinking and thinking about food. She grows and grows in size, though in wisdom too. One day she asks a close and worried friend: 'I suppose you really do believe that your happiness is consequent upon your size?' Her friend does but Esther doesn't - and she triumphantly and outrageously sets out to prove her point. But which of them is right?	Good 1993
	WESLEY.	THE VACILLATIONS OF POPPY CAREW.	Black Swan	£3.50
	Mary,	The comical story of Poppy Carew, who is left a lot of money by her once-milkman father...	Fair / Good 1987
	WEST.	COUSIN ROSAMUND.	Virago	£3.75
	Rebecca,	Book 3. Following from the "Fountain Overflows" and "This real night". The Story of Rose and Mary successful Pianists, whose happiness is diminished by their cousin's unfathomable marriage, to a man they perceive as grotesque. Excluded from the realm of Rosamund's intuitive understanding, Rose looks to the surrogate wisdom of Mr Morpurgo, whilst days of domesticity with Aunt Lily and the Darcys at their pub on the Thames, offset the tensions of foreign concert tours. And, as Rose approaches middle age and begins to see more clearly herself and those she cares for, a new experience awaits her: the discovery of - and delight in - her own sexuality&ldots;	Fair / Good 1988
	WEST.	THE BIRDS FALL DOWN.	Virago	£3.75
	Rebecca,	The Story of Laura, who is taken by her mother to visit her grandfather, and means that she will become a witness to the momentous events leading up to the Russian Revolution... Revolution through a vivid canvas layered with intrigue, conspiracy and murder, Rebecca West has created a story that is at once a family saga, a political thriller, a philosophical drama and a fine historical novel. First published in 1966 and also a successful TV Serial	Good 1986   £1.50 P&P (UK)
	WEST.	THE FOUNTAIN OVERFLOWS.	Pan	£2.00
	Rebecca,	Book 1 in the family saga of 3 girls growing up in the Edwardian era. Rose Aubrey one of a family of 3 girls and a younger brother are the children of an artistic mother and a father whose gambling keeps the family on the verge of financial ruin and social disgrace..	Poor /Fair 1979
	WEST.	THE FOUNTAIN OVERFLOWS.	Virago	£3.50
	Rebecca,	Book 1 in the family saga of 3 girls growing up in the Edwardian era. Rose Aubrey one of a family of 3 girls and a younger brother are the children of an artistic mother and a father whose gambling keeps the family on the verge of financial ruin and social disgrace..	Fair / Good 1987
	WEST.	THE HARSH VOICE	Virago	£3.50
	Rebecca,	Four short novels set in America, England and Paris. Exploring the lives and relationships of rich women and men, who are ruled by money and hate... First published in 1935, each a virtuoso piece, these acute, witty novellas penetrate the world of the rich, where the price paid for overwhelming ambition is the loss of human contact and human love.	Fair 1983
	WEST.	THE RETURN OF THE SOLDIER.	Virago	£3.75
	Rebecca,	The story of a soldier who returns to his home shell-shocked, and it is up to his wife, cousin and long forgotten love to leave him like this or cure him... An exploration into the nurturing and life-sustaining force of woman in a world governed by the destructive powers of man.	V Good 1996
	WHARTON.	THE AGE OF INNOCENCE	Virago	£3.50
	Edith,	The Story of Newland Archer, who awaits his marriage to May. Then Mays beautiful cousin Ellen arrives... She alternately captivates and outrages the New York milieu and, as Newland's sympathy for her deepens into love, he not only gains insight into the brutality of society's treatment of women, but also discovers the real anguish of loving outside the rules.	Good 1993
	WHARTON.	THE BUCCANEERS.	Viking	£3.95
	Edith,	TV Drama. A novel of American beauties questing for British titles and British titles questing for American dollars. £1.75 P&P	Good 1993
	WHARTON.	THE EDITH WHARTON COLLECTION.	Chancellor	£3.95
	Edith,	3 Novels in One Book. £1.50 P&P 1) The Age of Innocence. 2) The House of Mirth. 3) Ethan Frome	Fair / Good 1994
	WHARTON.	THE HOUSE OF MIRTH.	Penguin	£3.50
	Edith,	Set in America. The Story of Lily Bart, whose specialness threatens the elegance and fulfilment she seeks. Portrait of a woman who can only define herself through the perceptions of others.	Good 1985
	WHARTON.	THE HOUSE OF MIRTH.	Bantam	£1.95
	Edith,	Set in America. The Story of Lily Bart, whose specialness threatens the elegance and fulfilment she seeks. Portrait of a woman who can only define herself through the perceptions of others.	Fair 1986
	WHITAKER.	AND SO DID I.	Paladin	£3.25
	Malachi,	A Portrait of a remarkable Woman's Voice. (1st = 1939) An Informal Journal of Impressions, Memories and Insights. It is about survival, the survival of imagination and love in difficult times, with war about to break on Europe.	Fair 1990
	WHITE.	BEYOND THE GLASS.	Virago	£3.50
	Antonia,	No 4 in the Clara Batchelor Series. Portrait of a young Catholic girl in the first decade of this century. Her brief marriage to Archie is over and Clara returns to her parent's home, a Catholic home the confines of which have formed a dangerous barrier between herself and the real world. Clara sees herself imprisoned behind a glass wall of guilt and repression, longing for, yet terrified of, the bright human world beyond. When she escapes into a strange, passionate love affair with Richard Crayshaw, their extraordinary happiness erodes Clara's fragile sense of identity - the glass wall shatters and she descends into madness&ldots; A compelling account of going mad, being mad and recovering from madness.	Good 1979