A Feminist classic paperback re-release. This is a remarkable work. It's learned and frivolous, female not feminine, silly and serious. The quality...

An award-winner when first published, this book has become a classic text for health activists and feminists interested in the complexities of how ...

Living in 2002, Stella Mante can remember back two thousand years when she was a ten-year-old girl named Mary whose best friend is a boy she nickna...

Against the background of the escalating violence of the 1980s, this novel tells a story of three families -- black and Jewish -- who are inextrica...

One afternoon, a twelve-year-old girl goes missing near her village. The local police tell her mother and the villagers she has been taken by a wil...

When the Twin Towers in New York, and the Pentagon in Washington were hit by aeroplanes, the western world stood in shocked silence. Then came the ...

The seven sisters of the Pleiades are known throughout the world and appear again and again in stories from many cultures. Beginning with her grand...

Sex dolls and robots in the female form function as an endorsement of men’s sexual rights, with women and girls positioned as sexual objects. The p...

For a mother, the death of a child under any circumstances is unbearable. When the child is severed from the mother’s life by his or her own hand, ...

'The Silicon Tongue' follows the award-winning novel, 'The Wood Burners' and critically acclaimed novel, 'The Iron Mouth'. These novels explore the...

The Edinburgh Festival brings together artists from all over the world, and Cowrie is among them, telling stories and giving readings. But even Cow...

The characters in these eleven stories range from a political activist, in the apartheid years, released from a South African jail into a seemingly...

Who invented hieroglyphics? Who did Einstein's mathematics? Which country did the Trung Sisters defend in 40 AD? Who invented the first computer? W...

This is an extended fable. The central theme, of how to live decently and honourably in a cruel and irrational world, is explored through related t...

A nosy nun discovers a body in a park. There is an immediate police cover-up. A Vietnam veteran spies on his old sweetheart. A man tries to rape hi...

Julie and Toby have grown up in a family wrecked by violence. They now live in Bondi with their Aunt Jean. Julie is trying to come to grips with th...

To love in a language prised from my wishbone. To sing a landscape where village girls burst the moon with giggles. To dance through the fattest ey...

Surrogacy is heavily promoted by the stagnating IVF industry which seeks new markets for women over 40, and gay men who believe they have a 'right'...

Surrogacy is heavily promoted by the stagnating IVF industry which seeks new markets for women over 40, and gay men who believe they have a ‘right’...

How do you pick up the pieces after your life is shattered by war? How do you continue living when your country no longer exists, your language is ...

Gillian Hanscombe performs a feat of lesbian imagination in this stunning sequence. Her sybilic voice, familiar and strange at once, radiates both ...

1999. Winter. Bondi. Harry’s been on the streets so long he could easily forget what time is. So Harry keeps an eye on it. Every morning. Then he h...

What drives young women and what drives them mad? Twentysomething women talk about their feminism. What they do, how they do it and why they choose...

Alix Clemenger, sophisticate and internationally famous composer and concert pianist, is the toast of high society. A succession of momentous miles...