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	NAME	DETAILS	PUBLISHER	PRICE
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	ABER	LOST GIRLS ADRIFT	Hippo	£2.75
	Linda	The story of 6 girls who set out on a holiday of a lifetime - a sailing trip in the Bahamas, but when a storm blows up, they find themselves cast adrift...	Fair / Good 1991 ISBN: 0590550705
	AKINS	LITTLE WOMAN	Collins	£3.75
	Ellen	The Comical Adventures of Beauty Skinner and her friend Claudia, who set up a rural shelter for needy Women.	Good 1993 ISBN: 0-06-092323-7
	ALERMO	A WOMAN	Virago	£1.95
	Sibilla	Set in Italy. The Story of a headstrong young Woman, who breaks away from the Traditional "Lot" of Woman.	Fair 1979 ISBN: 0-86068-010-X
	ALEXANDER	ADOLF'S REVENGE.	Abacus	£3.95
	Lynne	The story of Adolf who is big, hairy and hot for revenge. An anti-fairy tale about powerlessness and it's cultural and historical roots. Large / £2.50 P&P / RRP £8.99	Good / V Good 1994 ISBN: 0-349-10576-6
	ALLENDE.	EVA LUNA.	Penguin	£3.95
	Isabel, Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.	"Packed with action, prodigal in invention, vivid in description and metaphor, this cleverly plotted novel is enhanced by its flowing prose and absolute assurance" - The Times	Fair / Good 1989 ISBN: 0-14-024442-5
	AMBERLAKE.	THE DOMINO TATTOO.	Nexus	£3.25
	Cyrian,	Adult / Erotica book. Estwych. A place only the initiated can enter. A place where one must face one's deepest fears and most secret desires. A place where those without the domino tattoo find that they are everyone's slave and nobody's lover. Into this world apart comes Josephine Morrow, a young woman beset with a strange restlessness. At Estwych she finds a cruelty and a gentleness she has never known.	Fair / Good 1995
	ALLIOTT	THE REAL THING.	Headline	£1.50
	Catherine	The story of Tessa Hamilton who meets up with an old boyfriend...	Good 1997
	ANDERSON	ALL THE NICE GIRLS	Vintage	£1.00
	Barbara	The story of Sophie Flynn a naval wife with too much on her plate. As Serialised on Radio 4's "Woman's Hour".	Fair 1994 Ex-Library
	ANGADI	PLAYING FOR REAL.	Black swan	£3.00
	Patricia	Set in Cornwall. The Story of Joanne, who forms a disjointed friendship with Peter.	Fair 1991
	ARMSTRONG	MISCHIEF	Pandora	£3.00
	Charlotte	The story of a couple who leave their daughter with a babysitter in a hotel, for the little girl it's the start of a night, when she comes face to face with a deadly playmate - death itself...	Mint / New 1988
	ASHWORTH.	ONCE IN A HOUSE ON FIRE.	Picador	£3.95
	Andrea,	"A shining evocation of growing up, of yearning; it is a poetic social history, an enchanting and thrilling story that, although reading like fine fiction, has verisimilitude running through it like a watermark. As a chronicle of northern working-class life in the seventies and eighties, and as a testament of human frailty, it would be hard to better this book. It is extremely moving; It is also at times surprisingly, and gratifyingly, very funny". Tim Lott, The Times.	Good / V Good 1999
	ASTLEY	SEVEN FOR A SECRET.	Black swan	£3.50
	Judy	Novel about Heather, and the past secrets that are revealed, as her first husband Iain arrives.	Fair 1996
	ATKINSON.	HUMAN CROQUET.	Black Swan	£3.95
	Kate,	Once it had been the great forest of Lythe - a vast and impenetrable thicket of green with a mystery in the very heart of the trees. And here, in the beginning, lived the Fairfaxes, grandly, at Fairfax Manor, visited once by the great Gloriana herself. But over the centuries the forest had been destroyed, replaced by streets of trees. The Fairfaxes had dwindled too; now they lived in 'Arden' at the end of Hawthorne Close and were hardly a family at all. This is the story of Isobel (daughter), born on the street of Trees, who drops into pockets of time and out again. Isobel is sixteen and she s waiting for the return of her mother - the thin, dangerous Eliza, whose disappearance is part of the mystery that still remains at the heart of the forest.	V Good 1998
	ATWOOD.	BODILY HARM.	Virago	£3.25
	Margaret,	A magnificent novel of adventure, intrigue - and betrayal. Rennie Wilford, a young journalist running from her life, takes an assignment to a Caribbean island and tumbles into a world where no one is what they seem. When the burnt-out Yankee Paul (does he smuggle dope or hustle for the CIA?) offers her a no-hooks, no strings affair, she is caught up in a lethal web of corruption.	Fair / Good 1983
	ATWOOD.	BODILY HARM.	Virago	£3.50
	Margaret,	A magnificent novel of adventure, intrigue - and betrayal. Rennie Wilford, a young journalist running from her life, takes an assignment to a Caribbean island and tumbles into a world where no one is what they seem. When the burnt-out Yankee Paul (does he smuggle dope or hustle for the CIA?) offers her a no-hooks, no strings affair, she is caught up in a lethal web of corruption.	Good 1989
	ATWOOD.	SURFACING.	Virago	£3.50
	Margaret,	A young divorcee returns to the remote island of her childhood in Northern Canada to investigate the mysterious disappearance of her father. Flooded with memories, she is gradually drawn back into her past as the wild island exerts its elemental hold.	Good / V Good 1989
	ATWOOD.	SURFACING.	Virago	£3.50
	Margaret,	A young divorcee returns to the remote island of her childhood in Northern Canada to investigate the mysterious disappearance of her father. Flooded with memories, she is gradually drawn back into her past as the wild island exerts its elemental hold.	V Good 1999
	ATWOOD	THE EDIBLE WOMAN.	Virago	£3.75
	Margaret	Marian is determinedly ordinary, waiting to get married. She likes her work, her broody flat-mate and her sober fiance Peter. All goes well at first, but Marian has reckoned without an inner self that wants something more, an inner self that calmly sabotages her careful plans, stable routine - and her digestion. Marriage a la mode, Marian discovers, is something she literally can't stomach.	Fair / Good 1999
	ATWOOD	THE HANDMAID'S TALE.	Virago	£3.75
	Margaret	Classic Feminist Novel. Set in the Near Future. The Story of Offred, who is a Handmaid. Handmaids only have one purpose in Life and that is to bear a child	Good / V Good 1995
	AUSTIN.	EMMA.	Penguin	£2.50
	Jane,	In planning Emma, which appeared in 1816, Jane Austen wrote: 'I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like'. Yet despite her manifest faults - her officiousness and her capacity for deluding herself - most readers will agree in liking Emma Woodhouse very much indeed. More complex and fully rounded than almost any of Jane Austen's other characters, she dominates the novel as she believed herself to dominate her little world of Highbury. Her progress, through the mismanagement of other people's affairs to the crisis and resolution of her own, is a whole comedy of self-deceit and self-discovery.	Good 1980
	AUSTIN.	MANSFIELD PARK.	Penguin	£2.50
	Jane,	Mansfield Park (1814) is possibly the most profound and original of Jane Austen's novels, as Tony Tanner suggests in an introduction in which he unravels 'the figure in the carpet' of this strange and complex book. As it's title suggests it is as much the story of a house as of the people who carry on their intrigues and affairs in and around it. Some modern readers have felt little sympathy with the patient, watchful heroine, Fanny: few, however, have failed to detect an underlying atmosphere which is all the more powerful for being suppressed. And certainly the greatest scenes show Jane Austen working at the very height of her artistic powers.	Fair / Good 1983
	AUSTIN.	NORTHANGER ABBEY	Penguin	£2.50
	Jane,	No other novel from Jane Austen's pen allows more free rein for her sophisticated wit and tart sense of satire than this account of a young lady's first season in Regency Bath. Everyone in Bath believes - quite mistakenly - that Catherine Morland is a wealthy heiress, when, in fact, she is just one of a country vicar's brood of ten children. An innocent abroad in Bath's social whirl, she is charmed by General Tilney's invitation to stay at Northanger Abbey, especially since she has encountered his son, the eligible Henry. Jane Austen's richly ironical and deliciously lively narrative brings Catherine home to her father's vicarage in tears en route to her well-deserved happy ending.	Fair / Good 1979
	AUSTIN.	PERSUASION.	Penguin	£2.50
	Jane,	Published posthumously in 1818, is Jane Austen's last novel. Like her earlier works it is a tale of love and marriage, told with the irony, insight, and sane evaluation of human conduct which sets her writing apart. But the starting-point is a new one, the tone a little more sombre. Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth have met and separated years before. Their reunion forces a recognition of the false values that drove them apart. The characters who embody these values are the objects of some of the most withering satire that Jane Austen ever wrote. This edition also includes J.E. Austen-Leigh's valuable work, A Memoir of Jane Austen.	Fair / Good 1980
	AUSTIN.	PRIDE AND PREJUDICE.	Penguin	£2.50
	Jane,	First published in 1813, is a probably Jane Austen's best-loved work and certainly one of the most enduringly popular of all English novels. In Elizabeth Bennet the author drew a supremely spirited and attractive heroine - 'I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print' - her encounter with the proud Darcy is surely one of the most charming of all love stories. Beneath the delicate and sparkling surface, however, may lie a sense of the oppositions of playfulness and regulation, of energy and order, of Romantic values and Classical virtues, and of the civilised balance between them.	Fair / Good 1980
	AUSTIN.	SENSE AND SENSIBILTY.	Penguin	£2.50
	Jane,	Jane Austen's tale of two sisters carries its subject in it's title: good sense on the one hand and excess romantic 'sensibility' on the other. But this, as Tony Tanner makes clear in his introduction, is only a beginning. Far from being crudely schematic, Sense and Sensibility subtly probes, through the trials of it's very real heroines, perennial questions about civilisation and its discontents that have been more solemnly analysed in our times. It is high drama, though acted out in sighs and glances and unspoken thoughts, of the kind to be found in 'a society, which forced people to be at once very sociable - and very private'.	Fair / Good 1980
	AVIS	PLAYING THE HARLOT or mostly coffee.	Virago	£3.75
	Patricia	The story of Mary Gallen, a gifted woman writer, but a drifting soul amongst the 50s generation of raffish male literary intellectuals, plays the harlot and measures her life in dry, unsparing wit	V Good / Mint 1996
	AXLINE	DIBS - IN SEARCH OF SELF.	Penguin	£3.00
	Virginia M,	The moving story of an emotionally lost little boy called Dibs, who found his own way back... He would not talk. He would not play. Judged mentally defective, he was oblivious both to other children and to his teacher; in reality he was a brilliant, lonely child trapped in a prison of fear and rage, a prison from which only he could release himself. And, through psychotherapy and love, he did.	Good 1990
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	BAGNOLD.	THE SQUIRE	Virago	£1.00
	Enid,	The story of a woman whose husband is away in Bombay and is made temporary "Squire". Pregnant and restless, she looks back on her life and the woman she once was.	Fair 1988 Ex-Library
	BAILEY.	HANNIE RICHARDS or The Intrepid Adventures of a Restless Wife.	Virago	£2.95
	Hilary,	Hannie leads a double Life, One as a Wife, and the other as an International Smuggler.	Poor / Fair 1985
	BAINBRIDGE.	MASTER GEORGIE.	Abacus	£3.95
	Beryl,	When Master Georgie - George Hardy, surgeon and photographer - sets off from the cold squalor of Victorian Liverpool for the heat and glitter of the Bosphorus to offer his services in the Crimea, there struggles behind him a small caravan of devoted followers: Myrtle, his adoring adoptive sister; lapsed geologist Dr Potter; and photographer's assistant and sometime fire-eater Pompey Jones, all of them driven onwards through a rising tide of death and disease by a shared and mysterious guilt.	V Good / Mint 2000
	BAINBRIDGE.	THE BIRTHDAY BOYS.	Penguin	£3.25
	Beryl,	Account of the story of Captain Scott and the four men he led to their deaths in Antarctica in 1912.	Mint 1993
	BAINBRIDGE.	WINTER GARDEN.	Penguin	£2.75
	Beryl,	Douglas Ashburner had never been a womanizer. If his wife had murmured a single reproach he would have immediately made a clean breast of things. Instead her reaction to his sudden need for lone fishing holiday in the highlands seemed positively encouraging. So it is that Ashburner finds himself changing the luggage labels in the taxi to Heathrow, and checking in with his companions on the flight to Moscow.	Fair / Good 1991
	BAINES.	BODY CUTS	Pandora	£3.25
	Elizabeth,	The story of Bron, who leads a life on the move from her lovers, but ultimately from herself. Body cuts is a strong, unafraid trespass into the taboos of women's desire.	V Good 1988
	BAINES.	THE BIRTH MACHINE.	Women's Press	£3.25
	Elizabeth,	Zelda is a 'good girl' who has made a 'good' marriage. She is accustomed to please. Yet as her body is divided and her baby wrenched from her, rebellion rises in her; she enters a surreal world where past, present and deeper levels of myth, and childhood fairytale are nightmarishly confused.	V Good 1983
	BAKER	CASSANDRA AT THE WEDDING	Virago	£3.50
	Dorothy	The story of Cassandra Edwards, who returns to the family ranch for her twin sister Judith's wedding. A study of a passionate, jealous, and hopeless love between sisters	V Good 1994
	BAMBARA	THE SALT EATERS.	Women's press	£3.75
	Toni Cade,	The Story of Velma, who through meeting Minnie (fabled Healer) finds an understanding about life, female friendships and the struggles that face the black community in a hostile environment..	Good / V Good 1987
	BANTI.	ARTEMISIA.	Serpent's Tail	£4.75
	Anna,	Written in 1947, Artemisia immediately established itself as a Classic. At the centre of the book is Artemisia Gentileschi, a painter influenced by Michelangelo and Caravaggio. A rising star in 17th-century Naples, Artemisia realises that success has been bought at too high a price - she has failed as a woman, a wife and a mother. The closer Anna Banti gets to her subject the more she is forced to reflect on the condition of women today and on her own life in German-occupied Italy. In doing so she elucidates the nature of art, femininity and the creative experience.	Good / V Good 1995
	BARFOOT.	CHARLOTTE & CLAUDIA KEEPING IN TOUCH.	Women's Press	£3.75
	Joan,	Charlotte and Claudia have been friends for as long as both can remember. Through all their differences - Charlotte's career and affairs and Claudia's motherhood with marriage - they have always kept in touch. They have only one rule of friendship: they never advise. Now after many years, Claudia is coming to visit, and both women must confront the choices they have made...	Good / V Good 1994
	BARFOOT.	GAINING GROUND.	Women's Press	£3.25
	Joan,	The story of Abra, a woman who leaves her husband, children and suburban security to live as a hermit. She buys an isolated cabin and a piece of land and settles to a life without mirrors, clocks or human contact. The first winter is extremely hard, but her senses sharpen and her muscles harden, and as her socialised masks drop away her rhythms gradually match the seasonal changes dictated by nature, giving her an inner peace and strength which had increasingly eluded her in the world of city and family life. Nine years after Abra chooses solitude and self sufficiency, her peace is broken by her daughter, now a young woman full of questions. How and why had her mother 'run out on her'?	Good / V Good 1984
	BARKER	REGENERATION.	Penguin	£1.00
	Pat	The story of a real life encounter that occurred at Craiglockhart in 1917 between W H R Rivers, an army psychologist, and Siegfried Sasson. A vivid evocation of the agony of the first world war. It is a mulit-layered exploration of all wars, challenging assumptions about the relationship between doctors and patients, between the classes, between men and women, and between men and men.	Fair 1992 Ex-Library
	BAWDEN	FAMILY MONEY.	Virago	£0.75
	Nina	Funny and compelling tale, about families, old age and money. Seen through the eyes of Fanny Pye who intervenes in a street brawl and is hospitalised, her children suggest that she should move to a smaller house - and thereby release some 'useful' family money.	Poor/Fair 1991 Ex-Library.
	BAWDEN.	FAMILY PASSIONS.	Virago	£0.95
	Nina,	After an expensive dinner on their 13th wedding anniversary, James calmy announces that he wishes to leave Bridie. a cherished adopted child, she stepped into marriage - and a pet name - at the age of 19 and has nurtured two step - children and a daughter. The habit of protecting others is strong in Bridie but now, redundant and with her happiness turned into a charade, she is uncertain of her identity. Unless she reclaims a portion of her past, Bridie fears that she will have no future.	Fair 1991 Ex-Library
	BAWDEN.	THE GRAIN OF TRUTH.	Virago	£1.00
	Nina,	The story of Emma, whose father-in-law falls down the stairs to his death, and is convinced she pushed him.	Fair 1993 Ex-Library
	BEAUMAN	LOVERS & LIARS.	Bantam	£1.50
	Sally	One frosty January morning, a beautiful blonde woman sends 4 Parcels off to 4 different people around the world. But this is no innocent transaction and the woman is not who she claims to be...	Good 1995
	BEAUMAN, McGOWAN & HUTH.	OF LOVE AND LIFE.	Readers Digest	£3.95
	Sally, Frankie and Angela.	3 Novels in One: Sextet - Sally Beauman. Part love story, part thriller, exploring the lives of six colourful characters - 3 men and 3 women - all from the glamorous worlds of film and journalism. As their destinies become inextricably linked, there is romance, retribution and murder in the air.   A kept woman - Frankie McGowan. How does a woman used to a life of privilege and luxury cope, when her husband disappears, leaving her and her children to face homelessness and destitution? Wives of the fishermen - Angela Huth.The moving story of two unlikely lifelong friends: sexy flirtatious Annie Macleod and plain, virtuuous Myrtle Duns. A lyrical tale of love and loss, it explores the intricacies of friendship with tenderness and understanding.	Good / V Good 1998 Large £2 P&P (UK)
	BENSON	AT THE STILL POINT.	Virago	£1.25
	Mary	The story of Anne Dawson a journalist, who returns to South Africa in 1965 and becomes embroiled in the struggle of black resistance. (Political)	V Good / Mint 1988
	BERNE.	A CRIME IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD	Penguin	£3.75
	Suzanne,	In the long hot summer of 1972, three events shattered the serenity of 10 year-old Marsha's life: her father ran away with her mother's sister Ada; Boyd Ellison, a young boy, was molested and murdered; and Watergate made the headlines.	Good / V Good 1998
	BEYNON.	ALETA DEY	Virago	£3.50
	Francis Marion,	In the years before the first world war, Aleta Dey grows up on a remote Canadian farm. After early rebellion against her parents' attempts to "break her spirit", she graduates to "subversion" in the history lessons at school, inspired and supported by her socialist friend Ned. Her mistrust of convention and passionate defence of justice directs Aleta towards radical journalism and an active role in the suffrage movement. With the outbreak of war, her ideology is immediately challenged - for not only is Aleta a pacifist but she has fallen in love with McNair, an out-and-out Tory. Originally published in 1919, this forgotten Canadian Classic boasts a heroine as charming and irrepressible as that of Sybylla in Miles Franklin's novel, My Brilliant Career.	Fair / Good 1988
	BIRDSELL.	THE CHROME SUITE.	Virago	£4.95
	Sandra,	Layer by layer, The chrome Suite uncovers the effects of loss and absence and of the inadvertent damage that can occur within the most well-meaning of families. Reaching back through the life of Amy Barber, now in her forties, the novel opens in a small town in Manitoba during one extraordinary hot summer in the 1950's. Although Amy's father, a travelling salesman, has equipped their home like a showcase of postwar gadgetry, complete with gleaming chrome kitchen suite, the emotional clutter of private life refuses to be polished and tidied away. When death closes in on the family, her father travels out of his marriage and her mother takes refuge in religion, which holds no comfort for Amy. Escaping this constricting bond she travels, via a hapless marriage in which she begins to fear for her son's well being, to the present and a journey with her young lover that shadows the future.	V Good 1994 Large £1.50 P&P (UK)
	BLUMENTHAL	KNOWING ME.	Sceptre	£3.25
	Valerie	A poignant, often tear-jerking tale of the teenage years and Mother-daughter relationships	Fair 1996
	BO.	I MUST TELL YOU SOMETHING.	Bloomsbury	£2.95
	Arno,	Rosemyn's story about the sudden death of her mother... A happy mum and dad with their two children, Phoebe and Rosemyn, are driving home after a lovely birthday party, when in an instant, life is changed. The events that follow are told by Arno Bo, as seen through the eyes of Rosemyn, his nine-year-old daughter. It's an honest, true story of a strong and thoughtful girl dealing with a profound tragedy: her mother's death.	V Good 1996
	BOHJALIAN.	MIDWIVES	Chatto & Windus	£3.95
	Chris,	Set in rural vermont during a harsh winter, Midwives is the gripping story of a respected midwife who is accused of murder, and stands trial. Utterly compelling, atmospheric and tautly written, this is a courtroom drama with powerful resonance.	Good / V Good 1997
	BOLL.	GROUP PORTRAIT WITH LADY.	Minerva	£3.95
	Heinrich,	The story of Leni, seen through a satirical kaleidoscope of Mini-biographies. The stories timescale ranges from the Hitler era until today; its point of departure is a woman, in pursuit of whose history Boll's 'author' interviews a vast number of people who have known her. Gradually emerging is a delightfully unheroic heroine, a eholly passive rebel whose humanity augurs hope for a better world.	Good / V Good 1993
	BOLTON.	NAVER JAM TODAY.	Aladdin	£3.50
	Carole,	17 year old Mattie Franklin had never dreamed that jail would be so brutal. But in 1917 if you were a suffragist picketing the "White House", you went to jail... Mattie became a suffragist the day she knew she could no longer accept certain ideas her father and boyfriend held. She fled to her aunt, who had been a suffragist for years. And with that Mattie's career as a crusader for women's votes began. It changed her life and her outlook on everything.	Fair / Good 1971
	BOWEN	THE LAST SEPTEMBER.	Penguin	£3.00
	Elizabeth	Set in 1920 - It is a Description of Anglo-Irish Life. The ambushes and burnings of the Irish Troubles of 1920 seem far removed as up at the 'Great House' tennis parties and dances continue to divert, and flirtations with English officers from the local garrison amuse. Yet a sense of brooding, nostalgic melancholy pervades - the sense of a tragedy coming to its climax in the calm, opulent sunlight of Irish autumn.	Fair 1983
	BOYLE.	PLAGUED BY THE NIGHTINGALE.	Virago	£3.25
	Kay,	The story of Bridget a young American girl, who marries a young Frenchman and goes to live with his wealthy, close-knit family in their Breton village...	Mint 1993
	BRAID	LETTERS TO MY SEMI-DETACHED SON.	Women's Press	£1.75
	Helen	A Mother’s Story. Tom is just 15 when his mother - at the end of her tether - finally tells him to leave home. Now she's left, racked with guilt, loss and an immense sense of failure, reflecting back over the life of her eldest, much-loved child. Through letters she will one day send him, she tries to untangle the web of conflicting emotions.	V Good 1993
	BRAND.	LONDON PARTICULAR.	Pandora	£1.50
	Christianna	A car crawls through fog bound London. It’s passengers responding to a call from a man in danger	V Good 1988
	BRASIL	ESCAPE FROM BILLY'S BAR-B-QUE.	Women's Press	£2.95
	Jo Anne	The life and times of Cecyl, who escapes from the racist society of Phoebus, Virginia to the 'liberal' North of Boston. Yet her encounters with the post-war Babies, a group of South American musicians, and an assortment of room-mates, leave her perplexed at the barriers raised by class, sex, race and by people who won't 'treat each other normal'. Utterly convinced that everyone knows something she doesn't, Cecyl possesses that uncluttered honesty which sees right to the heart of human contradiction and hypocrisy.	Good 1987
	BRISCOE.	BIG GIRLS DON’T CRY.	Harper Collins	£3.95
	Connie,	Growing up in Washington DDC in the 1960s, Naomi Jefferson, sheltered by her solid, middle-class black community, is only occasionally touched by racism. But when her adored older brother, Joshua, is involved in a tragic accident on his way to a civil rights demonstration, the rift between black and white America suddenly becomes personal. At college, Naomi immerses herself in campus politics, and men, only to become disillusioned and facing some harsh realities. Then she makes a decision: politics are useless, romance is hopeless, what she needs is a career. Despite her success at work. The promotions keep going to white guys. But Naomi is determined to win where other black women have failed, and just when she thinks that the only person she can depend on is herself, two people walk into her life who make her believe once again that anything worth having is worth fighting for.	V Good 1996
	BRONTE.	THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL.	Penguin	£1.50
	Anne,	As the new tenants of Wildfell Hall, beautiful, reclusive Helen Graham and her young son find themselves the objects of gossip and scandal. (TV Drama).	V Good 1996
	BRONTE.	WUTHERING HEIGHTS.	Penguin	£2.50
	Emily,	'Stronger than a man, simpler than a child, her nature stood alone'. So Emily Bronte appeared in the eyes of her sister, Charlotte. Her one novel, Wuthering Heights, published a year before her death in 1848 at the age of thirty, similarly stands alone as perhaps the most passionately original work in the English language. This dark, unforgettable story of Catherine Earnshaw and the swarthy Heathcliff ' is moorish, and wild, and knotty as a root of hearth'. Emily Bronte records the progress of their love with such truth, imagination, and emotional intensity that a plain tale of the Yorkshire moors acquires the depth and simplicity of ancient tragedy.	Fair/Good 1978
	BROOKE	DEAR VENUS.	Simon & Schuster	£5.00
	Cassandra	Comedy of letters about adultery in the suburbs... Janice Blakemore and her philandering husband, Harry, renew their faltering marriage by moving into a London mews, so select even catflaps are electronic. Barely have they unpacked when Harry's roving eye alights on a glamorous neighbour: wounded and outraged, Janice wants revenge. But how?	V Good / Mint 1992 Hardback RRP £13.99
	BROPHY	HACKENFELLER’S APE.	Virago	£2.95
	Brigid	The story of Percy a rare ape, who is caged in London Zoo, and who is befriended by a Professor and a young female burglar, who plot Percy’s escape.	Mint 1991
	BROPHY	THE KING OF A RAINY COUNTRY.	Virago	£3.75
	Brigid	The story of Susan, who sets off to find an old school friend. A story of Love, poverty, betrayal and female friendships	Mint 1990
	BRYANT.	CONFESSIONS OF MADAME PSYCHE.	Women's Press	£3.95
	Dorothy,	The Memoirs and Letters of Mei - Li Murrow who fakes a vision of an Earthquake, hours before the Great Earthquake of 1906. She is then catapulted to instant fame...	Fair / Good 1989
	BRYANT.	MYTHS to LIE BY.	Ata	£3.50
	Dorothy,	Short Pieces - Essays, Reviews, Stories and a Play. A Selection spanning more than 20 years.	Good 1984
	BRYANT.	PRISONERS	Ata	£3.75
	Dorothy,	The story of Sally, 50, a Berkeley activist who writes letters to a young male convict	Fair / Good 1980
	BURTON.	HEARTBREAK HOTEL.	Penguin	£2 .50
	Gabrielle,	The comical story of a group of women, who are convalescing down at Heartbreak Hotel.	Poor / Fair 1987
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	CAMBRIDGE	CLARISE CUMBERBATCH WANT TO GO HOME	Women's Press	£3.25
	Joan	The Adventures of Clarise, who arrives in New York on a quest to find her 'go around' husband Harold.	Fair / Good 1988
	CARR.	TOPSY DINGO WILD DOG.	Futura	£3.95
	Camilla,	The bizarre tale of Mary Jane Shady (TV's Miss Peanut Butter Cup) who goes home to "Uncertain", Texas, for her 20th year high school reunion, followed by a New York film crew and the black & beautiful Arabella du Noir	Fair / Good 1989
	CARTER.	NIGHTS AT THE CIRCUS.	Picador	£3.50
	Angela,	A new, raunchy, raucous, Cockney voice for her heroine Fevvers, taking us back into a rich turn of the 19th Century world, which reeks of human and animal vitality.	Fair / Good 1985
	CARTER.	WISE CHILDREN.	Vintage	£3.50
	Angela,	A richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the Hazards and the Chances, Angela Carter's witty and bawdy new novel is populated with as many sets of twins and mistaken identities as any Shakespeare comedy, and celebrates the magic of over a century of showbusiness.	Good / V Good 1992
	CARTER.	THE PASSION OF NEW EVE.	Virago	£1.50
	Angela,	New York has become a dance of chaos for Evelyn, a young Englishwoman whose fate is that of Tiresias. For in the arid desert, now the post-menopausal part of the earth, a many-breasted fertility goddess will wield the obsidian scalpel that is to transform him into the new Eve. This is the story of how Evelyn learns to be a woman - first in the brutal hands of Zero, the poet, the ragtime Nietzsche, the one eyed, one legged monomaniac; then through the gentle touch of the ambiguous, ancient Tristessa, the beautiful ghost of Hollywood past, myth made flesh, in a glass palace full of worn-out dreams. And the story tells of how, in a California torn by civil war, in a deserted cave by the sea, Eve comes to learn at last a kind of enlightenment. (See also Fantasy section).	Fair / Good 1987 Ex-Library
	CATHER.	THE PROFESSOR’S HOUSE.	Virago	£1.50
	Willa,	Tom Outland, killed in the Great War, seemed an embodiment of the American frontier spirit - explorer, inventor and discoverer of ancient Amerindian culture. But he has left a troubling legacy, inspiring to his former professor, Godfrey St Peter, but bringing betrayal and strife to the professor's two married daughters. St Peter has recently achieved worldly success and has bought a new house. But it is in the shabby study of his former family home that he spends a summer reflecting on the people he has loved - his wife Lillian and his daughters and, above all, the enigmatic, courageous Outland. Ex-Library	Fair / Good 1995
	CHAPLIN	NIGHT FISHING.	Virago	£3.50
	Patrice	An Urban Tale. A Story about sons who go wrong, mothers who don’t see trouble until it’s too late and fathers who aren't there. At the heart of this moving and all-too-familiar terror is Jamie, a sweet boy, 'beautiful with a radiance', who finds the ultimate sweetness in street drugs. His mother is Janice, a documentary filmmaker who thinks she has her finger on the pulse; his father, a rich and famous man who sees the world through his camera lens; his friends, the teenagers who roam the back streets of London and tell their mothers they're just going night fishing.	V Good 1992
	CHASE.	DURING THE REIGN OF THE QUEEN OF PERSIA.	Virago	£4.50
	Joan,	The story of 3 generations of women on their farm in Ohio, told through the collective viewpoint of 4 teenage girls, 2 sets of sisters. Novel of family passions, violence and grief. Hardback	Good / V Good 1984 (RRP £8.95)
	CHEDID.	FROM SLEEP UNBOUND.	Serpent’s Tail	£3.25
	Andree	At the age of 15, Samya, an Egyptian woman, is forced into a loveless and humiliating marriage. Boutros, her husband, is interested in her only in so far as she will provide him with a son. In pregnancy, Samya becomes for the first time a parson to whom consideration is due. A daughter is born. Judged a failure because she did not produce a son, Samya is condemned to isolation in the home. Her act of revenge is both swift and liberatory. Capturing not one woman's world. But that of all women, whether&ldots; cloistered and closeted in a society bound by retrograde customs or in a modern metropolis, liberated for all intents and purposes, but imprisoned within their own psychological cells.	Fair / Good 1987
	CHEN.	THE DRAGON'S VILLAGE	Women's Press	£3.50
	Yuan-Tsung,	Autobiographical novel set in China. The Life of Ling-Ling, a young Woman Revolutionary. At the age of 18, Ling-Ling refused to flee the revolution with her wealthy Shanghai family. To avoid an arranged marriage, and with no prior political involvement, she chose to stay to work for the transformation of the new China. Volunteering to join a group of cadres carrying out land reform in the remote north-west of China, Ling-Ling entered a world far removed from her own experince, a world of incredible hardship and cruelty.	Good / V Good 1986
	CHERNYSHEVSKY.	WHAT IS TO BE DONE?	Virago	£3.75
	Nikolai,	Russian Classic 1st published in 1863. Vera Pavlova is a heroine who can no more deny her need for love than her need for work. Her attempts to find satisfying sexual relationships and to organise new collective ways of working were an inspiration to all those unmarried daughters who, like her, were thrown out into the world, expected either to find a rich husband or support themselves. Her dreams of work and freedom, love and pleasure had an enormous influence too on later revolutionaries like Kollontai and Lenin, and throughout its history this funny, hopeful, sensual novel has been an example of how fiction can change people's lives.	Good / V Good 1982
	CHOPIN.	THE AWAKENING	Women's Press	£3.25
	Kate.	Edna Pontellier is a young woman living in the beautiful city of New Orleans. She is fond of her husband, and proud of her sons, but finds it impossible to accept that 'for women it is a holy privilege to efface themeselves as individuals'. She fights back, the only way she knows how, and her solution is drastic.	Good / V Good 1995
	CHUTE.	THE BEANS OF EGYPT, MAINE.	Minerva	£1.50
	Carolyn,	The Beans of Egypt, Maine are a large clan of loggers, poachers and hard drinkers living in a small New England town. The Pomerleaus, who fear God and the Beans, warn their daughter Earlene not to play with the Bean children, but Earlene grows up and marries Beal Bean and inherits a future which promises hunger, humility and most of all, rage.	Good / V Good 1989 Ex-Library
	CLIFF.	FREE ENTERPRISE.	Penguin	£3.50
	Michelle,	In 1858, two black women meet to plot a revolution. Mary Ellen Pleasant, already a frontier legend, owns a string of hotels that cater to wealthy whites and secretly double as havens for runaway slaves. Her comrade, Annie, is a young Jamaican who has given up her life of privilege to fight for the abolitionist cause. Together they join John Brown's doomed raid on Harper's Ferry, barely escaping with their lives. Mary Ellen remains undaunted, but Annie retreats to a shack on a Mississippi riverbank, where her only neighbours are the inmates of a nearby leper colony, whose memories of a world before the white man live on in their own tales of conquest and struggle.	Good / V Good 1995
	CLIFF.	NO TELEPHONE TO HEAVEN.	Methuen	£3.95
	Michelle,	The story of light skinned Clare Savage, who moves through a variety of settings - Jamaica, England, America - and encounters people who affect her search for place and self...	Fair/Good Hardback 1988
	COLLEN.	THE RAPE OF SITA.	Minerva	£3.95
	Lindsey,	Sita is a strong woman, champion of the oppressed, inspiration of the weak, a living legend in mauritian society. She has also buried a secret that threatens to overwhelm her very self. Raped by a 'friend' eight years before, Sita's painful and angry search to come to terms with her past extends beyond her physical violation to encompass other forms of powerlessness and oppression.	V Good 1996
	COLLINS.	AMERICAN STAR.	Heinemann	£3.95
	Jackie,	A Love Story. The stories of the rise of Nick Angel, a cult superstar, and that of beautiful Lauren Roberts who finds herself alone.	Good / V Good 1993 Hardback £3 P&P
	COMPTON- BURNETT.	MANSERVANT & MAIDSERVANT.	Oxford	£3.50
	Ivy,	Horace Lamb is a Tyrant - oppressor of his offspring, his wife, his cousin, his servants. The Lamb household carries the material for explosion within it; its members perform a subtle, comic, and horrifying ceremony of insult and manipulation. The hierarchy and oppression of the servants' hall both mirror and caricature the tyrannies and hypocrisies of the drawing room. The children, totally unchildlike, are at the same time endowed with all the ruthless and more usually unspoken perceptions if childhood.	V Good 1983
	COMPTON- BURNETT.	THE MIGHTY & THEIR FALL.	Virago	£3.25
	Ivy,	The story of Lavinia, who is turned into her father’s companion, when her mother dies; until he decides to remarry!	V Good / Mint 1990
	COMYNS	THE JUNIPER TREE.	Methuen	£3.25
	Barbara,	A fairytale and yet sinister friendship between two lonely Women; Gertrude wealthy yet seemingly barren; Bella poor, scarred, the mother of an illegitimate child. As the snows thaw and different configurations emerge, so Bella, Gertrude and her husband Bernard take on roles of a macabre, magical story, which will conclude on the other side of madness.	Good / V Good 1986
	COMYNS	THE SKIN CHAIRS.	Virago	£1.50
	Barbara,	Her father dies and ten-year-old Frances, her mother and assorted siblings are taken under the wing of their horsey relations, led by bullying Aunt Lawrence. Their new home is small and they can't afford a maid. Mother occasionally dabs at the furniture with a duster and sister Polly rules the kitchen. Living in patronised poverty isn't much fun but Frances makes friends with Mrs Alexander who has a collection of monkeys and a yellow motor car, and the young widow, Vanda, who is friendly if the Major isn't due to call. But times do change and one day Aunt Lawrence gets her come-uppance and Frances goes to live in the house with 'the skin chairs'. First published in 1962, this quirky novel describing the adult world with a young girl's eye resounds with Barbara Comyns' original voice.	Fair / Good 1986 Ex-Library
	COOKE.	A SINGLE SENSATION.	Poolbeg	£1.00
	Emma,	The story of a Irish girl from a middle-class midlands family, whose unwanted pregnancy brings her face to face with the awful dilemma of abortion...	Fair / Good 1981
			Pocket	£3.25
	CORNWELL.	THE SEVENTH SUNRISE.
	Judy,	The extraordinary story of 3 Women, who are forced to live a lie - and of one woman who seeks the truth. Separated by four continents and three generations, they have only one thing in common: each is at once a product and a victim of their culture and their generation. An exhilarating story of journeys both spiritual and physical, this haunting novel is also a gripping study of a timeless conundrum - the complex relationships between mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and between friends and enemies.	Poor Cover/ Good book 1994
	COURTNEY.	MORPHINE & DOLLY MIXTURES	Honno	£3.25
	Carol-Ann,	The Story of an 11-year-old girl, who is left to look after her dying Father, 3 Brothers and a baby Sister, when her mother dies... This book is powerful, visual and arresting. It brings to life the north London slums of the mid-fifties as we follow the plight of a vulnerable child at the mercy of an erratic and all-powerful father, watched helplessly from the sidelines by the local community, and inefficiently dealt with by the social services of the day. OUT OF STOCK AT PRESENT!	Good / V Good 1989
	CREWE.	FALLING AWAY.	Arrow	£3.50
	Candida,	The story of Dorothy Sheffield and her slow, but growing self-awareness. At nineteen, Dorothy Sheffield fell pregnant. Her outraged and ashamed parents gave her baby away and sent her to Piccadilly Park, an institution for wayward girls on the outskirts of Glasgow. There, for the next ten years, she cleansed her soul and washed the city's laundry. Now fifty-two, Dorothy is a midwife in a small Somerset town. Her busy, bustling days do little to assuage the solitary nights and the bleak memories of her past. Until she meets Harold, a fifty-nine-year-old bachelor who takes her dancing at the Majestic Hotel and gradually allows her to glimpse another world.	V Good / Mint 1997
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	DALLAS.	THE PERSIAN PICKLE CLUB.	Arrow	£3.25
	Sandra,	It is the 1930's and hard times have hit Harveyville, Kansas, where the crops are burning up and there's not a job to be found. For Queenie Bean the highlight of each week is the gathering of the Persian Pickle Club, a group of local ladies dedicated to improving their minds, exchanging gossip and putting their skills to good use. Into this orderly existence arrives Rita Ritter, newly married and the first woman Queenie has ever met who doesn't want to be a farmwife. With her city ways, her glamorous clothes and her taste for investigative journalism she succeeds in disrupting the Pickle club in every conceivable way.	Fair / Good 1996
	DAVIDSON.	THE PRIEST FAINTED	Women's Press	£4.95
	Catherine Temma,	Every woman needs a story. But a young woman cannot find her story amongst the dusty ruins of the past or the stereotyped heroines of myth. She has to start with secret clues. She must drink the wines of lands whose roots go deeper than nations and borders; she must learn to capture the air-borne electricity that makes Thessalian peaches twice as round and as sweet as others. She will find that curing bitterness is possible, although the salt will make her fingers swell and her joints ache. And she will sample the Greek dish that made the priest faint. To find her story. A woman must take the raw ingredients of history, blend them with experience and season them with knowledge. The Priest Fainted is the succulent recipe of one woman's life. Her odyssey through the birthplace of myth bears the imprint of her mother's journey thirty years before. In a country 'born on dead rocks' she discovers her ow readings of the stories of Aphrodite and Psyche, Athena, daughter of Zeus, Demeter and Persephone. And she comes to realise that most family resemblances are more than skin deep.	Good / V Good 1998   SIGNED COPY.
	DAVIES.	BOY BLUE.	Women's Press	£3.25
	Stevie,	Set in 1944 it is the story of Chrissie who at 18 and painfully shy meets and marries Jim and is soon pregnant. As her confinement approaches she dreads the birth of a boy baby, whom she associates with the war...	Good / V Good 1987
	DAVIES.	ARMS AND THE GIRL.	Women's Press	£3.75
	Stevie,	Scotland 1959 Prue and January Cahill - British army children - are subject to outrageous family betrayal and violence. Prue survives by clinging to her schoolbooks, but most of all by developing an unlikely friendship with the rector's daughter, in her loving but troubled middle-class world. But January is the outcast in her family, its scapegoat and its reject. This shattering novel exposes British institutionalised violence and women's experience of brutal colonisation, rebuking the male tradition of war and militarism as the measure of heroism, honour and value. Hardback	Good / V Good 1992
	DAYAS.	THE PEOPLE OF LAVENDER COURT.	Virago	£1.50
	Kathleen,	The people of Lavender Court: Aggie, orphaned at ten whose life is to see violent changes of fortune; Florence, the good-hearted neighbour whose feckless daughter throws two households into scandalous uproar; and Annie, daughter of Aggie and Fred, who manages to carve out a life of some dignity. Frank and unsentimental, Kathleen Dayas takes us into the slums of turn of the century Birmingham - a harsh world made bearable by kindness, courage and laughter.	Fair / Good 1993 Ex-Library
	DE BEAUVOIR.	THE MANDARINS.	Flamingo	£3.95
	Simone,	Brilliant survey of post-war intellectualism in France. 'A dazzling panorama of the giants of the Left Bank'. 'The characters, especially the women, are uninhibited and sometimes predatory. The dialogues are salty, frank and realistic. The characters' amorous adventures are set down with microscopic exactitude'.	Good / V Good 1988 £2 P&P (UK)
	DONLEAVY.	THE LADY WHO LIKED CLEAN REST ROOMS.	Abacus	£3.25
	J P,	Jocelyn Guenevere Marchantiere Jones, sometime resident of Scarsdale, educated at Bryn Mawr, has been brought up always to behave like a lady. But what with chiselling divorce lawyers, fraudulent financial advisors and importunate and oversexed suitors, the patience of even the most impeccable lady might wear thin. Which is why Joy ends up with a pair of matching Purdey shotguns across her knees and a .38 Smith & Wesson under her pillow, waiting for the next lying bastard to cross her threshold. Trigger happy she may be, but a woman who will always follow her South Carolina granny's advice on the matter of clean rest rooms, Joy Jones is one of J P Donleavy's most comic creations.	V Good 1998
	DOUGLAS.	CAN’T QUIT YOU, BABY.	Virago	£3.50
	Ellen,	This is the stirring portrayal of two women: Cordelia, rich, white, secure in her love for her husband and their well-ordered home, who conceals deafness with the skill of an actor; and Tweet, her black servant, whose love for her family has been threatened at every turn by poverty, violence and death. As time passes, Tweet's world impinges on Cordelia's orderly existence, awakening her memory to her own buried past, and to how she, too, had been deceived and betrayed. The resulting crisis and the havoc it plays, constitutes one of the most haunting stories of friendship between women ever told. With themes of transgression and guilt, magic, memory, illusion and truth, Ellen Douglas delivers an incomparable literary performance.	Good / V Good 1991
	DRABBLE	THE NEEDLE'S EYE.	Knorf	£3.50
	Margaret,	6th novel by Margaret Drabble.	Fair / Good 1972 £2.50 P&P
	DUFFY.	LONDONERS.	Methuen	£3.25
	Maureen,	Londoners is her most evocative and structured work, more carefully written than anything she has done before; her main character, a writer called Al, who is the narrator, is her most wholly realized portrait. 'Al is writing the biography of the French vagabond poet Villon, and, with all due attention to historical differences, many parallels between our times and the Frenchman's medieval ones are exquisitely and imaginatively drawn. This is a fine portrait of London as it really today; The dialogue is effectively veristic, and the book has almost tragic overtones: it is an authentic return to the true naturalism of Zola'.	V Good 1983
	DUFFY.	THAT’S HOW IT WAS.	Virago	£2.50
	Maureen,	Paddy is illegitimate, the daughter of yet another Paddy (Irish and IRA) who abandons her English mother, Louey, at her birth. This is the story of that mother - frai but with an indomitable spirit - of that daughter and of their life together, seen through the cear eyes of Paddy as a child and as an adolescent. Set in wartime England, wonderfully evoking working-class life of that period, the subtle changing relationship between Paddy and Louey is movingly conveyed in a novel which is really a love story, but this time of the love between parent and child.	Fair / Good 1990 Ex-Library
	DUNANT.	TRANSGRESSIONS.	Warner	£3.00
	Sarah,	Suspense. Alone in her London house, Elizabeth is trying to piece her life together again after a bitter split from her boyfriend of seven years. Her only companions are a thriller she is translating, her music and her cat. It seems like things just might be fine, but they are not. 'It is every woman's nightmare: to wake up, alone at night, to the realisation that something is very wrong. Unfamiliar noises, footfalls on the stairs, the terror, the waiting; Will you surrender? Will you survive? It's possible to do both, but at what cost? The narrator of this chilling story is about to find out'.	Good / V Good 1998
	DUNMORE.	A SPELL OF WINTER - & - ZENNOR IN DARKNESS.	BCA	£4.95
	Helen,	One book containing Two Novels. A Spell of Winter: Catherine and her brother Rob do not know why they have been abandoned by their parents. In the house of their grandfather, 'the man from nowhere', they make a passionate refuge for themselves against the terror of family secrets. While the world outside moves to the brink of war, their sibling love becomes fraught with dangers. But as Catherine fights free of the past, the spell of winter that has held her in its grasp begins to break. Zennor in Darkness: It is May 1917 and war overshadows the haunting beauty of spring in Zennor. As U-boats attack ship after ship on the Cornish coastline, the village is alive with talk of treachery. In a world of call-up, telegrams, suspicions and silent fears, no one is immune. Not Clare Coyne, a young artist, nor Clare's beloved cousin John Williams on leave from the trenches and shell-shocked. And especially not D.H. Lawrence and his German wife Frieda who, hoping to escape the war fever of London, find themselves the objects of the shifting, dangerous tide of scorn and gossip.	Good / V Good 1999 £2 P&P (UK)
	Du PLESSIS	A STATE OF FEAR.	Pandora	£1.50
	Menan	Set in Cape Town in the stormy winter of 1980. The story of Anna a young white teacher, Who shelters two of her pupils from arrest.	Fair / Good 1987 Ex-Library Hardback
	DWORKIN.	ICE AND FIRE.	Flamingo	£2.50
	Andrea,	In a squalid tenement in New York's lower east side, surrounded by junkies, prostitutes and pimps, a young woman battles to survive against all the odds. She has had a privileged upbringing, a college education. Now she sells her body - to men and women alike - for drugs, food and alcohol. Her life has become brutal, formless, degraded. This is her story.	Good 1986
	DWORKIN.	ICE AND FIRE.	Flamingo	£3.75
	Andrea,	In a squalid tenement in New York's lower east side, surrounded by junkies, prostitutes and pimps, a young woman battles to survive against all the odds. She has had a privileged upbringing, a college education. Now she sells her body - to men and women alike - for drugs, food and alcohol. Her life has become brutal, formless, degraded. This is her story. Hardback	V Good 1986
	DWORKIN.	MERCY.	Arrow	£3.75
	Andrea,	In this stark, powerful and uncompromising novel recreating the experiences of a young woman repeatedly raped from childhood to womanhood. A monumental work of fiction, which asks the questions: In a culture that believes that rape is every woman's fantasy, how is it possible to tell our story? How do we make ourselves heard? How are we to be believed? And finally, when women and children are being raped, tortured and abused every minute of every day, where is God? Are we His pornography? Journey through man's world in which we all live. She becomes a forceful and potent symbol of the struggle of all women for dignity, self-determination and, above all, freedom.	Fair / Good 1992
	DWORKIN.	MERCY.	4 Walls	£4.25
	Andrea,	In this stark, powerful and uncompromising novel recreating the experiences of a young woman repeatedly raped from childhood to womanhood. A monumental work of fiction, which asks the questions: In a culture that believes that rape is every woman's fantasy, how is it possible to tell our story? How do we make ourselves heard? How are we to be believed? And finally, when women and children are being raped, tortured and abused every minute of every day, where is God? Are we His pornography? Journey through man's world in which we all live. She becomes a forceful and potent symbol of the struggle of all women for dignity, self-determination and, above all, freedom.	Fair / Good 1991  Hardback £2.75 P&P(UK)
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	EDEN.	THE SEMI ATTACHED COUPLE & THE SEMI- DETACHED HOUSE	Virago	£3.95
	Emily,	2 Novels about love, marriage and manners, seen through women's eyes... the witty 19th century aristocrat whose two delightful novels were first presented to an admiring world well over a 100 years ago.	Fair / Good 1979
	EDGELL.	BEKA LAMB	Heb	£2.50
	Zee,	Set in Belize, it is the story of Beka a young girl at a convent school, and her family over a few months. The story of Beka's victory over her habit of lying, which she conquers after deceiving her father about a disgrace at school, is told in flashback. Her reminiscences begin when she wins an essay prize at her convent school, and they stand in lieu of a wake for her friend Toycie. The politics of the small colony, the influence of the matriarchal society and the dominating presence of the Catholic Church are woven into the fabric of the story to provide a compelling portrait of ordinary life in Belize.	Fair / Good 1983
	EDWARDS.	WINTER SONATA	Virago	£3.50
	Dorothy	Mr Arnold Nettle moves to a secluded English village, where he meets beautiful Olivia...	Fair / Good 1986
	EDWARDS.	MUD	Women's Press	£3.00
	Nicky	The story of a friendship of 2 widely different Women. A novel about War, Peace and bonds between Women	Fair / Good 1986
	EHRLICH	THE DARK CARD.	Walker	£4.25
	Amy	The story of Laura, who begins a double life after the death of her mother. Dressing in her mother’s clothes she enters the flashy, alluring, high-risk world of the gambling tables, where the dark card is queen.... A story of loss, love and risk-taking that leads Laura deep into deceit and danger... Hardback	V Good / Mint 1991
	ELLIOTT	DR GRUBBER'S DAUGHTER.	Sceptre	£3.25
	Janice	The story of German illegal immigrants living with an horrendous secret in a suburban rooming house in a city like Oxford... Set in 1953.	Good / V Good 1986
	ELLIOTT	NECESSARY RITES	Sceptre	£3.25
	Janice	The complications that arise for a family, when they take in a young homeless girl at Christmas...	Fair / Good 1991
	ELLMAN.	SWEET DESERTS.	Virago	£3.50
	Lucy,	Born into a middle-class, American family dominated by Opera, art history, and tuna fish sandwiches, Suzy Schwarz longs to be normal, or, failing that, more like her older sister, Fran. Abruptly transplanted to England after their mother's death, both girls succumb to desolation and secret snacking. But as Fran compensates with academic and amorous over-achievement, Suzy diligently pursues failure. Finally abandoning her husband (one of Fran's many cast-offs), Suzy sets off to find love on one side of the Atlantic or the other, little knowing that one source was quite close to home.	Good / V Good 1999
	ELSNER	OFFSIDE	Virago	£3.25
	Gisela	One Woman's existence in Middle-class Urban Germany. The story of Lilo Besslein, whose marriage to the dull and mean spirited Ernst proves bleak compensation for the shame of remaining single. Even when Lilo has a child, the predicted joys of parenthood elude her, and she seeks consolation in the only ways she knows how. She takes a job, a baby-minder, a lover - and larger and larger doses of tranquillizers; she drinks martinis and spends extravagantly on clothes; she ignores, even renounces, her husband and child. But each attempt at escape seems to fuel her helplessness and only hastens the day when she must, at least, take decisive action.	Fair / Good 1985
	EMECHETA	GWENDOLEN.	Flamingo	£3.50
	Buchi	In her early novels, Second-class Citizen and The Bride Price, Nigerian writer Buchi Emecheta explored the tribulations of womanhood and latest continues in a similar vein with the tale of a young Jamaican girl (Gwendolen), her harsh childhood days in rural Jamaica and her alienation later in life in England. 'Incest is a notoriously hard subject for fiction, but this writer succeeds in handling it with tact and pity'.	Good / V Good 1989
	EMECHETA	SECOND - CLASS CITIZEN.	Flamingo	£2.00
	Buchi	The Story of a young Nigerian wife, who comes to London with her husband.	Fair / Good 1987
	EMECHETA	SECOND - CLASS CITIZEN.	Flamingo	£3.25
	Buchi	Young and clever, Adah has a good job as a librarian in Lagos. But her dream is to become a 'been-to' - a Nigerian who has visited London. When her husband, Francis, goes to study there, Adah moves heaven and earth to join him. But London, she discovers, is not the kingdom of Heaven she was brought up to believe.	Good 1987
	ERDRICH.	THE BEET QUEEN.	Pavanne	£3.75
	Louise,	The story of the people who arrive at the small town of Argus, by rail in 1932 and of Mary Adare. Novel celebrating Native American survival.	Fair / Good 1987
	EVANOVICH.	ONE FOR THE MONEY.	H Hamilton	£4.95
	Janet,	Out of money and out of luck, Stephanie Plum needs to find a new job after losing her post as lingerie buyer for New Jersey's crummiest store. For once in her life, she's grateful for her low-life cousin Vinnie, who runs a bail bonding company, and she starts work as an apprehension agent - capturing people who have jumped bail. Her first assignment is to nail Joe Morelli, a former vice cop on the run from a charge of murder. Morelli is also the irresistible charmer who wrote up her vital statistics on the bathroom wall of Mario's Sub Shop after some intimate research when she was 16. The hunter and hunted set off on a fast-paced, funny and increasingly dangerous chase around New Jersey. For Stephanie has now attracted the unwholesome attentions of Benito Ramirez - a menacingly focused prizefighter who just wants her to be nice to him.	Good / V Good 1995 £1.75 P&P (UK)
	EVANOVICH.	THREE TO GET DEADLY.	Penguin	£3.50
	Janet,	Cuddly Mo Bedemier, Trenton's favourite ice-cream seller, has gone missing. Stephanie Plum, carbohydrates' biggest fan, needs to track him down. But it's not raspberry ripple she's after: Mo's jumped bail, and Stephanie's job is bounty-hunting. Nobody can believe mo would do anything wrong. But Stephanie - with the help of big blonde Lula,, good cop/bad cop Joe Morelli and fitness-freak Ranger - soon discovers that Mo has more than candy in his basement. Uncovering the truth about Mo is one thing, but coping with dead drug dealers, a man-sized chicken and a seriously bright hair colour is pushing Staphanie to the edge. And when someone holds her hamster to ransom, things look like they're getting dealdy.	Good / V Good 1997
	EWING.	A DANGEROUS VINE.	Virago	£4.25
	Barbara,	Margaret-Rose Bennett, like her elder sister, Elizabeth, was named after an English princess. But Elizabeth is dead, and Margaret-Rose is aware that there is something unspoken in her family. For against the odds, strained English household she inhabits in 1950's New Zealand the truth is elusive. So Margaret-Rose maps out a course of her own: she studies at university and makes friends with the wayward Emily and the enigmatic Prudence. By day, they work in a government office and study hard for their degrees; by night they sing, drink and laugh with a group of people very different from themselves. The love and the music of those nights is etched into their hearts forever, and the girls discover a new, enchanting world, one with an underbelly of struggle, colour, passion and hidden violence. A world, perhaps, not so far removed from Margaret-Rose's own secret history.	Good / V Good 2000
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	FARIBAIRNS.	STAND WE ATLAST	Virago	£3.95
	Zoe,	Epic story of 5 generations of women. The year is 1855, a turning point in the lives of two sisters. Helena is about to marry; Sarah to emigrate to Australia. In the 120 years encompassed by this best-selling epic novel, we see the seeds of one generation bear fruit in the next. In Pearl, wife of a working man and mother to sons destined for death in the trenches; in Ruby, wife of a merchant of the Raj; and in Jackie, child of the liberated society. We witness poverty and prostitution, the battle for the vote, the devastation of war, the growth of sexual freedom, the new world for women ushered in by the rise of the contemporary women's movement. This is a novel about our mothers and our grandmothers, about the men they married and the children they bore, about the heritage they passed on to us, their daughters. And it is about Sarah, who had no daughters, but whose lonely example bore the most precious fruit of all. Novel about emancipation, sexual and personal freedom and the struggles of these Women from 1855 to 1972.	Good 1992  £2.50 P&P (UK)
	FAKINOU.	THE SEVENTH GARMENT.	Serpent's Tail	£3.95
	Eugenia,	Through the lives of 3 women, the contemporary history of Greece is told.	Fair / Good 19
	FELDMAN.	LOOKING FOR LOVE.	Little brown	£3.95
	Ellen,	The Story of 2 Generations of Women and the choices they make. An unparalleled Portrait of the plight and promise of contemporary Women’s lives.	Fair / Good 19
	FELL.	THE PILLOW BOY & THE LADY ONOGORO.	Serpent's Tail	£3.95
	Alison,	Set in 11th century Japan. The poet "Onogoro" is trying to escape a world of a "Concubine" and of female suppression	Fair / Good 1994
	FENWICK.	SECRESY	Pandora	£4.25
	Eliza,	or The Ruin on the Rock. Told through the letters between 2 young women, it explores the effects on their very different upbringings. A novel about women's lives, secrecy and women's friendships...	Good / V Good 1989 RRP £10.95
	FFORDE.	LIVING DANGEROUSLY	Penguin	£3.75
	Katie,	The story of Polly Cameron who at 35 and celibate, lives with her cat in a small Gloucestershire town and a rayburn for comfort and a pottery career to get off the ground. But her friends and mother decide to find her a husband... Comical look at rural life.	Good / V Good 1995
	FIELDING.	BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY.	Picador	£3.75
	Helen,	A dazzling urban satire of modern human relations? An ironic, tragic insight into the demise of the nuclear family? Or the confused ramblings of a pissed thirty-something?	Fair / Good 1997
	FIELDING.	BRIDGET JONES - THE EDGE OF REASON.	Picador	£3.75
	Helen,	The wilderness Years are over! But not for long. At the end of Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget hiccupped off into the sunset with the man-of-her-dreams Mark Darcy. Now, in the Edge of Reason, she discovers what it is like when you have the man of your dreams actually in your flat and he hasn't done the washing-up, not just the whole of this week, but ever. Lurching through a morass of self-help-book theories and mad advice from Jude and Shazzer, struggling with a boyfriend-stealing ex-friend with thighs like a baby giraffe, an 8ft hole in the living-room wall, a mother obsessed with boiled-egg peelers, and a builder obsessed with large reservoir fish. Bridget embarks on a spiritual epiphany, which takes her from the cappuccino queues of Nottinghill to the palm- and magic- mushroom-kissed shores of.	Good / V Good 2000
	FIELDING.	MISSING PIECES.	Headline	£6.00
	Joy,	Kate Sinclair became a family therapist because of her intense desire to help people, her reputation as someone to whom others could turn and her experience with her own dysfunctional family. Now, over twenty years later, her clients would be horrified to learn that her once steady and comfortable life is careening out of control. Her sister is addicted to abusive men, her mother is convinced she is being stalked, her elder daughter Sara is rebelling against her and, neglected by her husband, Kate is dangerously close to starting an affair. Kate's life is falling apart at the seems and no matter how clearly she sees disaster looming, there are certain things which are beyond her control - and her family's actions are the most frightening of them all.	Good / V Good 1997 RRP £16.99 Hardback
	FINDLATER	CROSSRIGGS	Virago	£1.50
	Jane & Mary,	The story of Alexandra Hope, who lives with family in the Scottish village of "Crossriggs". Portrait of a powerful "New Woman" in the 1890s.	Good 1986
	FINN.	OUT ON THE PLAIN.	Women's Press	£3.25
	Frankie,	The novel concerns the developing links between four women: Rebecca, a painter; Jane, a patient in a mental hospital; Helen, a university student; and Elsie, the woman who cleans her campus room. The women meet and come together, not so much in the physical world we know, but on the plain, a mysterious and unfamiliar landscape which first appears unfocused, 'without form and void', and only gradually, as the bonds between the women strengthen, takes on colour and clarity. This new and fragile world is continually threatened by the interventions of Mr Jones and Mr Smith-god.	Good / V Good 1984
	FLAGG.	DAISY FAY & THE MIRACLE MAN.	Vintage	£3.75
	Fannie,	The story of Daisy Fay Harper, a sassy, truth-telling heroine, who just can't stay out of trouble... set in the 50's in the Gulf Coast's Shell Beach.	Fair / Good 1992
	FLAGG.	FRIED GREEN TOMATOES AT THE WHISTLE STOP CAFÉ.	Vintage	£3.95
	Fannie,	As 80 year old Mrs Cleo Threadgoode tells Evelyn Couch about her life, she escapes the Rose Terrace Nursing Home and returns in her mind to Whistle Stop, Alabama in the 30's where the Whistle Stop Café provides good barbecue, good coffee, love and even an occasional murder. Now a major feature film starring Kathy Bates and Jessica Tandy.	Fair / Good 1992
	FORSTER.	HAVE THE MEN HAD ENOUGH?	Penguin	£2.75
	Margaret,	Novel about the desolation of old age and the barnacles of family life. It is a moving love story, a condemnation of the way we treat our old friends and loves, a rage against the dying of the light.	Fair 1990
	FORSTER.	THE BATTLE FOR CHRISTABEL.	Chatto & Windus	£3.95
	Margaret,	Large £1.50 P&P (UK)	Fair 1991
	FRAME.	FACES IN THE WATER.	Women's Press	£3.50
	Janet,	About confinement in mental institutions, about the fear the 'sane' have of the 'mad' and the ways in which that fear banishes and punishes those whose reaction to a truly cruel and insane world is to move into a world which is self-created.	Good / V Good 1991
	FRAME.	LIVING IN THE MANIOTOTO.	Women's Press	£3.50
	Janet,	Exploration of uncharted lands. The path is through the maniototo, that 'bloody plain' of the imagination, which crouches beneath the world. Our guide is a woman of manifold personalities: Violet Pansy Proudlock, ventriloquist, also known as Alice Thumb, gossip, and as Mavis Furness Barwell Halleton, a writer who has borne children and buried husbands. The theme of this novel is the process of writing fiction, the power, interruptions and avoidance's that the writer feels as she grapples with deceptive and elusive reality. With wit, and magnificent command of language, Janet Frame reveals her metaphor for the creative process - on which our own survival depends.	Good / V Good 1991
	FRAME.	OWLS DO CRY.	Women's Press	£3.25
	Janet,	The story of the growing up of the children of an educated but impoverished family in New Zealand, Owls do cry was Janet Frame's first novel. It is also among her most enchanting. The extraordinary qualities that distinguish the later novels are already clear: the joy in the power of words, the sense of paradox that colours every moment, the elision of time and place so that the present is forever haunted by the future and the past; and glory is to be found in a rubbish dump!	Good / V Good 1991
	FRAME.	SCENTED GARDENS FOR THE BLIND.	Women’s Press	£3.50
	Janet,	In this brilliant, haunting novel Janet Frame leads us, through alternating interior monologues, to inhabit in turn Vera Grace, the mother who has willed herself sightless; Erlene, the daughter who has ceased to speak; and Edward, the husband and father who has taken refuge in a distant land. She bids us consider the pain - impossibility? - of closeness, of love, among human beings; and the beauty, and danger, in the world of the senses. Then, behind this parable of human relationships, she springs another level of meaning upon us: a study of a mind that has burst the confines of everyday individual consciousness, and invented its own colourful and tormented reality.	Good / V Good 1986
	FRANKAU.	THE WILLOW CABIN.	Virago	£3.75
	Pamela,	Caroline is 22, gamine and vociferous, neither daunted nor impressed by the prospect of a promising stage career. Then she meets Michael Knowles, a successful middle-aged surgeon, and her career slips into second place beside brief meetings, midnight trysts and the welcome anonymity of foreign cities, as they seek to evade the shadow of Mercedes, Michael's estranged wife. London of the 1930's gives way to the Blitz and the pain of seperation, but the intensity of wartime does nothing to deflect Carolines obsession with the three-cornered relationship. In America, some years later, she meets Mercedes for the first time. Discovering an unexpected bond with her, Caroline begins to comprehend her own misinterpretation of the past.	Fair / Good 1989 £2 P&P (UK)
	FRANKAU.	THE WINGED HORSE.	Virago	£3.75
	Pamela,	Set around J G Baron Newspaper Tycoon and the effects he has on his family. An exploration of power, truth and dishonesty.	Good / V Good 1989 £1.50 P&P (UK)
	FRANKLIN.	SOME EVERYDAY FOLK & DAWN.	Virago	£3.75
	Miles,	It is 1904 and women's suffrage has hit the small town of Noonoon. Though election campaigners preen themselves for the women's vote, the fight isn't entirely won for the male residents are bristling at this threat to their supremacy. And down at Clary's there are other problems too: Dawn is now a young woman and in these days of slender chances Grandma Clay must keep an eye on the marriage market. But Dawn, lively and outspoken, is not content to beckon just any suitor, thinking a career on the stage more likely to add that extra sparkle she wants from life. (1st = 1909)	Fair / Good 1986
	FRASER.	ROSES ROUND THE DOOR.	Fontana	£1.50
	Christine Marion,	Autobiographical novel of growing up in Scotland whilst confined to a wheelchair.	Fair / Good 1986
	FRENCH.	HER MOTHER'S DAUGHTER.	W h Allen	£1.75
	Marilyn,	The Lives of 4 Generations of Women. Hardback. Ex - library £2.50 P&P	Fair / Good 1987
	FRENCH.	THE BLEEDING HEART.	Sphere	£1.50
	Marilyn,	A Love story between Feminist Dolores and Victor	Fair / Good 1980
	FRENCH.	THE WOMEN’S ROOM.	Virago	£3.75
	Marilyn,	1968 Mira Ward is lonely, depressed and in a mess. Having spent years subscribing to the American Dream of a husband, children and a spotless kitchen in suburbia, Mira decides it's time to go back to school&ldots; From the shallow excitements of suburban cocktail parties and casual affairs through the varied nightmares of rape, madness and loneliness to the dawning awareness of the exhilaration of liberation, Mira Ward's world is about to be turned gloriously upside down.	Fair / Good 1998 £1.50 P&P (UK)
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