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Initial	AUTHOR	TITLE	PUBLISHER	PRICE
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	APPACHANA.	INCANTATIONS and Other Stories.	Virago	£2.95
	Anjana,	An important new young voice from India. Stories capturing the funny, poignant, unexpected and optimistic moment. People living their lives amid contradictions and double standards, superstitions and impossible dreams, but ultimately usurp their familiar landscape and imbue it with an idiosyncratic vision.	Poor / Fair 1991
	ATWOOD.	DANCING GIRLS and Other Stories.	Virago	£3.50
	Margaret,	Pregnant women, students and journalists; farmers, birdwatchers, ex-wives, adolescent lovers - and dancing girls. All ordinary people - or are they? In this collection of short stories Margaret Atwood maps human motivation we scarcely know we have.	Good 1989
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	BARANSKAYA	A WEEK LIKE ANY OTHER.	Virago	£3.25
	Natalya,	Women's lives are the central preoccupation in this colection; a young girl is bewildered by her parent's seperation; a woman writer who regrets never marrying is finally glad of it; a delinquent girl is brought before the people's court. In all of the stories, she captures the everyday realities of family and society in the Soviet Union.	Fair / Good 1989
	BLACKWOOD.	GOOD NIGHT SWEET LADIES.	Penguin	£3.00
	Caroline,	Stories and Essays. From its opening story - an interview with lack-veiled, razor-tongued widow of a famous painter - to its concluding autbiographical piece drawn from her wartime childhood at a boys' prep chool in Ireland, demonstrating the full range of her elegant and ferocious talent. Of the ten stories included here, 'Taft's wife' is a subtle study of male promiscuity, while 'Who Needs It?' is set in an American beauty salon. Recurring themes are the terror and pity inescapable in relationships; and - 'Marigold's Christmas', Olga and Angelica - Caroline Blackwood confirms her reputation as a remarkable portrayer of women, as her society hostesses, harridans and ex-wives all blaze into life with a wonderfully sour and idiosyncratic wit.	Fair / Good 1988
	BRAND.	A LOAD OF OLD BALLS	Simon & Schuster	£4.50
	Jo,	Men in History.	Good / V Good 19
	BROWN.	THE EVOLUTION OF DARKNESS and Other Stories.	Brilliance	£3.50
	Rebecca,	Everybody's nightmares and everybody's daydreams find focus in these stories that unravel the slightest of incidents into distrbingly familiar patterns. Essential reading for anyone interested in their imagination.	Fair / Good 1984
	BROWNRIGG.	TEN WOMEN WHO SHOOK THE WORLD.	Gollancz	£2.95
	Sylvia,	Across a series of vivid, untamed landscapes her characters wander in search of the obvious - love, fame, a good recipe for canapes - as well as the less obvious. In 'Hussie from the West' the narrator rides a long erotic journey hoping for satisfaction; in 'The Bird Chick' a visionary organises some unusual park inhabitants for a vold experiment in theatre. Wherever these maverick women travel their lyrical, comical voices urge you to follow.	Fair / Good 1997
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	CADIGAN, FOWLER & MURPHY.	LETTERS FROM HOME.	Women’s Press	£3.50
	Pat, Karen & Pat,	18 'Tales of the Unexpected' from 3 award-winning American authors: some frigtening, some humourous, all startlingly original. In Pat Cadigan's 'The Pond', a mother is terrified that her 5-year-old daughter will be drowned, as was her cousin when they were children. But it is not her daughter who will die... Karen Fowler writes of the shifting nature of relationships, between father and daughter in 'Lieserl', between Tonto and the Lone Ranger in 'The Faithful Companion at Forty', between women friends in 'Duplicity'. Pat Murphy shows an abused wife's sweet revenge in 'His Vegetable Wife' and sex as the cure for father-obsession in 'Dead Men on TV'. These stories are collected here for the first time. Satirical or serious, they show the workings of myth and magic in modern day life.	V Good 1991
	CAMERON.	DZELARHONS.	Harbour	£4.75
	Anne,	Myths of the Northwest Coast. The world is full of magic. It's everywhere... "When I was eight or nine - or maybe ten or eleven - I don't remember for sure now, Klopinum would share her stories with me". And thus it begins, the long awaited successor to Anne Cameron's ground-breaking 'Daughters of Copper Woman'. Magic in many incarnations - mischievous, terrifying, benevolent, erotic - suffuses the pages of this extraordinary collection. From the humourous tales of the trickster Raven through feminist fable of the bearded woman to the myth of the lazy boy who reared by whales and saved the world, climaxing with the epic story of the mythical superwoman Dzelarhons - First Mother, Frog Mother, Weeping Woman, guardian and teacher of her people.	Good / V Good 1986
	CARTER.	THE VIRAGO BOOK OF FAIRY TALES	Virago	£3.50
	Angela,	Once upon a time fairy tales weren't meant just for children and neither is 'The Virago Book of Fairy Tales'. Adults certainly delight in them and this stunning collection of Angela Carter's met with huge acclaim and success when first published in hardback. Here is the pick of Mother Goose's feathers: lyricl and bloody tales, hilariously funny and ripely bawdy stories that show the dark and the light side of life - from Europe, the Arctic, the USA, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Be they brave, good, silly, cruel, awesomely clever or unfortunate, Angela Carter's heroines are always centre stage, as large as life, even larger.	Fair / Good 1991
	CHINEN.	THE WAKING WORLD.	Tarcher Putnam	£6.00
	A.B,	Classic Tales of Women and the Heroic Feminine. This captivating collection of fairy tales, compiled from 7000 folklores from around the world, focuses on strong, mature women and explores such matters as compettion and loyalty among sisters; disloyalty of parents; reclamation of power and discovery of its limits; trust in intuition over intellect; rescue and revival of the true self. These stories defy passive female roles and present empowered women who do not wait for the prince to come, but instead rescue him and change their worlds. Psychology/Women's Studies/Stories/ Spirituality.	Good / V Good 1997   Large £2 P&P (UK) ISBN: 0-87477-863-8
	CHOPIN.	PORTRAITS.	Women’s Press	£3.00
	Kate,	Collection of 29 short stories, each story illustrates why Kate Chopin is read now with such pleasure and recognition and was so firmly censored and castigated at the end of the nineteenth century. Her characters are full of life, faults and passion; she wrote with relish of great love, of unsatisfactory marriage, of the nature and implications of illicit romance and adultery. The rage and despair with which so many women writer's speak the truth of women's experience are rarely present in Kate Chopin's work. Her knowledge of the ways in which a woman's life is circumscribed is used to effect, but in many stories, against the odds, the woman hero has the last laugh or at least a much-enjoyed moment of triumph.	Good / V Good 1988
	CLAUSEN.	MOTHER, SISTER, DAUGHTER, LOVER.	Women’s Press	£2.50
	Jan,	OUT OF STOCK - SORRY!!	Fair / Good 19
	COOPER.	A PIECE OF MINE.	Women’s Press	£1.50
	J California,	J California Cooper's larger-than-life women struggle for love, money, happiness, and sometimes revenge. Told with enormous warmth and humour, these twelve stories centre on the lives of black women and their men in the small-town southern states of America. Ex-Library	Fair 1986
	COOPER.	A PIECE OF MINE.	Women’s Press	£2.95
	J California,	J California Cooper's larger-than-life women struggle for love, money, happiness, and sometimes revenge. Told with enormous warmth and humour, these twelve stories centre on the lives of black women and their men in the small-town southern states of America.	Good / V Good 1986
	COOPER.	HOMEMADE LOVE.	Women’s Press	£3.00
	J California,	The characters in these stories spend their lives trying to learn to swim to the top. They strive, survive and age in their attempts. They swim by creating their own Homemade Love. These stories are full of wonder at the mystery of life, the hardness of fate, and the whimsical humour the Lord indulges in.	Good 1987
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	DAVIS & OLSEN.	LIFE IN THE IRON MILLS & Other Stories.	Feminist press	£3.50
	Rebecca Harding Davis (Edited by Tillie Olsen).	Forgotten American Classic. Rebecca Harding's 'Life in the Iron Mills', reprinted after 124 years from April 1861 'Atlantic Monthly'. Edited and with a Biographical Interretation by Tillie Olsen. Without precedent or predecessor, it records what no one else recorded; alone in its epoch and for decades to come, saw the significance, the passage, in scorned or unused native materials - and wrought them into art. Written in secret and in isolation by a thirty-year-old unmarried woman who lived far from literary circles of any kind, it won instant fame - to sleep in ever deepening neglect in our time.	Fair / Good 1985
	De Beauvoir.	THE WOMAN DESTROYED	Flamingo	£2.50
	Simone,	3 long short stories all on the theme of woman's vulnerability. In the first, to the process of ageing; in the second, to loneliness; and, in the third, to the growing indofference of the loved one.	Poor / Fair 1985
	DORSEY.	MACHINE SEX... and other stories.	Women’s Press	£3.25
	Candas Jane,	Sci-Fi Stories which are speculative and subtle. They deal with the advance of technology, cultural changes and human relationships. In '(Learning About) Machine Sex' she offers a brilliant parody of cyberpunk: funny, angry and feminist. In 'Time is the School in which We Learn, Time is the Fire in which We Burn', a woman dying of cancer meditates on her life and the choices she has made and teaches herself to come to terms with her past. Other stories are concerned with exile and identity, with the fragile beauty of earth, with loneliness and desire.	V Good 1990
	DWORKIN.	THE NEW WOMANS BROKEN HEART.	Frog in the Well	£3.00
	Andrea,	Eight short stories by the Author of 'Woman Hating' and 'Our Blood'. Includes big women, Lesbians and broken hearts.	V Good / Mint 1986
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	EIDUS.	VITO LOVES GERALDINE.	Serpent’s Tail	£3.50
	Janice,	In these stories, recognisable myths of US life - country and western music, lecherous therapists, best friends, divorcees, locker-room talk, motels, body building - are undermined with sardonic sympathy. It is a world where the real is mock, where the student becomes the object of her study, where the computer operator longs to be a performance artist, where the linguist is at loss for words. Vito loves Geraldine confirms Janice Eidus as a writer with the nerve to take risks and the poise to carry them off.	Good 1989
	ELLIOTT.	THE NOISE FROM THE ZOO.	Sceptre	£3.00
	Janice,	In these, the best of her short stories which include the new 'No Man's Land', Janice Elliott explores a range of themes with all the dark wit and magic found in her novels. Combining a menacing world of the imagination with sharp observation of eveyday foibles, she blends the beautiful with the grotesque, humour with tragedy, and provides a collection of stories as subtly thought-provoking as they are entertaining.	Good / V Good 1992
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	FERRE.	THE YOUNGEST DOLL.	Bison	£3.75
	Rosario,	A gentle maiden aunt who has been victimised for years unexpectedly retaliates through her talent for making life-sized dolls filled with honey. 'The Youngest Doll', based on a family anecdote, is a stunning literary expression of Rosario Ferre's feminist and social concerns. It is the premier story in a collection that was originally published in Spanish in 1976 as Papeles de Pandora and is now translated into English by the author. The daughter of former governor of Puerto Rico, Ferre portrays women who are loosening the constraints that have bound them to a particular culture. Anger takes creative rather than polemical form in ten stories that started Ferre on her way to becoming a leading writer in Latin America. The upper-middle class women in 'The Youngest Doll', mostly married to macho men, rebel against their doll-like existence or retreat into fantasy; those without money or the right skin colour are even more oppressed. In terms of powet and influence, these women stand in the same relation to men as Puerto Rico does to the United States, and Ferre stretches artistic boundaries in writing about their situation. These stories, moving from the realistic to the nightmarish, are deeply felt, full of irony and black humour, often experimental in form. In closing, Ferre considers how her experiment as a Latin American women with ties to the United States has brought to her writing a dual cultural perspective.	Fair / Good 1991
	FLANAGAN.	BAD GIRLS.	Abacus	£3.50
	Mary,	A sharp and funny collection of stories about women of all ages who don't always behave as they ought. It is a triumph for Mary Flanagan, who views women, their behaviour and sensuality with an avid intelligence and an unforgettable freshness.	Good / V Good 1993
	FLANAGAN.	BAD GIRLS.	Abacus	£3.75
	Mary,	In her superbly sharp and funny debut short story collection Mary Flanagan writes about women of all ages who don't always behave as they should. Bad Girls is a triumph for this gifted author, who views women, their behaviour and sensuality with avid intelligence and unforgettable freshness.	Good / V Good 1995
	FLANAGAN.	THE BLUE WOMAN.	Abacus	£3.75
	Mary,	By turns funny and serious, quirky and moving, Mary Flanagan's superb new collection of 16 sequential stories delightfully picks up the thread of her outstanding debut, 'Bad Girls'. Then, women imposing themselves on life were the focus of her ironic scrutiny. Now Flanagan investigates life's impositions on women - from girlhood to old age and with a narrative range that embraces tragedy, lyricism and broad farce.	Good 1995
	FOSTER.	A BRIGHTER COMING DAY.	Feminist press	£3.75
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	FRAME.	YOU ARE NOW ENTERING THE HUMAN HEART.	Women's Press	£3.50
	Janet,	These dazzling stories, selected by the author herself from all her published and unpublished collections, span forty years of her writing life. From impressions of a New Zealand childhood to life in some of the world's largest cities; fromthe sardonic to the compassionate, scrupulous realism to the haunting resonance of dream and fable, these supurb and moving tales confirm Janet Frame's position as one of the world's finest writer's of fiction.	V Good 1991
	FRASER.	JEMIMA SHORE at the SUNNY GRAVE.	Mandarin	£1.50
	Antonia,	See Detective novels.	Fair / Good
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	GILLIATT.	LINGO.	Weidenfeld	£3.50
	Penelope,	Characters ranging from the exotic to the everyday, and her settings from Troy to the East End. Yet the subjects of all her stories have the sharpness of immediate experience. In 'Fat Chance', a young girl is torn between poverty and the chance to study music, as well as between her mother and father she adores. Other stories, including the title story 'Lingo', explore the pitfalls of speech, for people who have much to say but cannot control the words in which they say it. And others again discover people, often unwittingly, at critical moments where seemingly insignificant decisions can shape a life. Hardback	V Good / Mint 1990
	GLADWELL.	BRIDAL GOWN SHROUD.	Creation	£3.75
	Adele Olivia,	Fiction & Essays. Collection of short stories, prose poems, and complementary essays, which confronts contemporary female issues using radical motifs of menstruation and abjection - a 'beautific abyss of crimson issue'. Here, steeped in bloody catamenial lore, we meet satyrs and vampire paramours; goddesses within; devils of fate, death and rebirth; and other praeterhuman shadow figures cavorting to liberate the female imagination. OUT OF STOCK - SORRY!!	Fair / Good 1992
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	HIGHSMITH.	LITTLE TALES OF MISOGYNY.	Heinemann	£1.00
	HURSTON.	SPUNK - Selected Short Stories.	Camden	£3.50
	Zora Neale,	Novelist, folkloreist, anthropologist, playwright, journalist and critic, Zora Neale Hurston (1901?-1960) has been called the heart behind an entire generation of modern black women writers. Named by Alice Walker 'a native American genius', she was born in Eatonville, Florida; where she grew up in an all black, self-governed town. Hurston's stories celebrate the vitality and exuberance of black culture, whether in 'The Gilded Six Bits', an ironic account of infidelity, the powerful 'Sweat', a story of marital cruelty, or the joyful 'Isis', where a little girl tries to shave her grandmother's whiskers and runs off with the new red tablecloth to dance at the carnival.	Good / V Good 1987
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	JAMES.	THE ADVENTURES OF STOUT MAMA.	Balnain	£3.75
	Sibyl,	Collection of short tales, deliciously funny sound bites that will send you running to a phone to read them to your best friend. Stout Mama - a fortyish radical obsessed with diets, politics, language, travel, and romance - is a politically eclectic feminist who paints toenails but hasn't shaved her legs for years, who loves Mick Jagger but has never taken the words of 'Under My Thumb' seriously.	Good 1994
	JIE.	AS LONG AS NOTHING HAPPENS, NOTHING WILL.	Virago	£2.00
	Zhang,	One of China's most popular and controversial writers. In this Collection of 5 stories she dissects some of the more hidden areas of daily life in Chinese society, speaking out on such taboo issues as sex, and satirising what she sees as hypocrisies and abuses - plotting and manoeuvring at work, nepotism, conniving to secure a prestigious husband, a better flat or job.	V Good / Mint 1988
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	LETTE.	GIRLS' NIGHT OUT.	Picador	£1.50
	Kathy,	The seven friends who get together for a girls' night out believe there are only two things wrong with men: everything they say and everything they do. in twelve brilliantly funny short stories, Kathy Lette reveals the hilarious, poignant and bawdy secrets women tell each other - when men aren't around. 'New Woman' Mag Editiion.	Good / V Good 1993
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