DRAGON. TIGRESS. SHE-DEVIL. HUSSY. SIREN. WENCH. HARRIDAN. MUCKRAKER. SPITFIRE. VITUPERATOR. CHURAIL. TERMAGANT. FURY. WARRIOR. VIRAGO.
For centuries past,and all across the world there are words that have defined and decried us. Words that raise our hackles fire up our blood; words that tell a story.
In this blazing cauldron of a book,fifteen bestselling,award-winning writers have taken up their pens and reclaimed these words,creating an entertaining and irresistible collection of feminist tales for our time.
Publisher: Little,Brown Book GroupISBN: 9780349017143Number of pages: 304Weight: 440 gDimensions: 218 x 140 x 30 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'This anthology is all killer,no filler'- Red Magazine
'A slick collection of clever tales,with something for bluestockings and banshees alike'- Observer
'Delightful and thought-provoking'- Perspective
'Spell-binding...these vivid works of imagination are further proof that,back in 1973,Virago's founder Carmen Calil was on to something'- Kiran Duggal,Harper's Bazaar
'A collection of dazzling stories,as inventive as they are inspiring'- Daily Mirror
Margaret Atwood
Widely regarded as one of the world's leading writers,Margaret Atwood is an author,essayist,poet and activist whose inventive and diverse literary output ranges widely and deeply from feminist classics such as The Handmaid's Taleto complex blends of Science Fiction and reality such as her Man Booker Prize winning novel The Blind Assassin and chilling dystopian visions like Oryx and Crake.
Visit the Margaret Atwood author pageAli Smith
Described by the author Sebastian Barry as'Scotland's Nobel Laureate-in-waiting',Ali Smith is one of Britain's foremost contemporary novelists. Formally and topically experimental,her best known works include: The Accidental,Girl Meets Boy (part of the Canongate Myths series),There But For The,and How to Be Both, which won the Baileys Prize,the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Folio Prize.
Visit the Ali Smith author page
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