Women on Nature by Katherine Norbury

Women on Nature by Katherine NorburyWhat would happen, I wondered, if I simply missed out the fifty per cent of the population whose voices have been credited with shaping this particular 'cultural form'. If I coppiced the woodland, so to speak, and allowed the light to shine down to the forest floor and illuminate countless saplings now that a gap has opened in the canopy. . . This landmark anthology brings together the work of over a hundred women, from the fourteenth century to the

The result is an ambitious novel

but without quite knowing how

a group of school girls get very lost and things get very strange

Tim Pat Coogan's book is an authoritative and compelling account of modern Irish history from the point of view of one of its most controversial major participants

'Exquisite

hopeful' Jeanette Winterson

and Joyce's obsession with the city of Dublin

A Christmas Carol is the most famous

A dazzlingly exuberant novel moving from north west London to West Africa

' The Tiny Activist

Susan Sontag was also a leading commentator on contemporary culture until her death in December 2004

As twelve-year-old David takes refuge from his grief in the myths and fairytales so beloved of his dead mother