Women and Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard

Women and Power: A Manifesto by Mary BeardRenowned classicist and committed feminist Mary Beard considers attitudes towards women in power from throughout history and across the contemporary climate, from ancient representations of Athena to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, addressing whether our assumptions about power itself are inherently sexist and in need of evaluation.

the family avoid contact with Agnes

its irresistible heroine

members embittered by a peace that fell far short of the goal of a united Ireland

Frances is twenty-one years old

Andre Aciman's Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliff-side mansion on the Italian Riviera

a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten

'One of the most exciting and original Northern Irish writers of her generation' SUNDAY TIMES

They never saw her again

This much-loved tale of courage and survival is now a beautiful new animated series for television

Discover the greatest Greek myth of all - retold by the witness that history forgot

For readers aged 10 and up

Gloriously silly comedy from Booker prize winner and bestseller Roddy Doyle