Sally Rooney and Kishani Widyaratna: Normal People

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Erin Maglaque & Hannah Dawson: Presence

Erin Maglaque’s first book, Presence, explores the hidden history of the female body through deep archival research: fragments in medical texts, trial transcripts, legal treatises, prayerbooks, letters, and diaries come together to make tangible a vanished past, unfamiliar becaus ...  Show more

Eli Davies & Rebecca May Johnson: The Spinster Cookbook

The kitchen has always been a complex space for women: a place of labour and gendered expectations, as well as a site of nourishment, care and company. But how does this change when you’re alone, not cooking for family or friends, but simply for yourself? In The Spinster Cookbook ...  Show more

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