Review: Silence of the Girls, by Pat Barker

'Silence becomes a woman.' Every woman I’ve ever known was brought up on that saying

Review: Blindness, by Jose Saramago

I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing

Review: One Day In December, by Josie Silver

A light, quick, fun read that brings a little sparkly magic into your life!

Review: A Little Life, by Hanya Yanagihara

All the most terrifying ifs involve people. All the good ones do as well

Review: Circe, by Madeline Miller

When I was born, the name for what I was did not exist

Review: Spinning Silver, by Naomi Novik

Thrice you shall turn silver to gold for me, or be changed to ice yourself

Review: The Woman In Black, by Susan Hill

I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence, once lost, is lost forever

Review: Promising Young Women, by Caroline O’Donoghue

The corporate version of natural selection

Review: Legendary (Caraval #2), by Stephanie Garber

A heart to protect. A debt to repay. A game to win

Review: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, by Gail Honeyman

In the end, what matters is this: I survived

Review: The Betrayals, by Fiona Neill

Life isn’t about doing the right thing. It’s about not doing the wrong thing

Review: Everless, by Sarah Holland

Time is a prison. She is the key. Packed with danger, temptation and desire

Review: Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi

The only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it

Review: Life With A Star, by Jiří Weil

People always think there's hope, even they're standing over an open grave

Review: Fever Dream, by Samanta Schweblin

Strange can be quite normal

Review: My Absolute Darling, by Gabriel Tallent

You need to surrender yourself to death before you ever begin, and accept your life as a state of grace

Women & Power, My Own Manifesto

You cannot easily fit women into a structure that is already coded as male; you have to change the structure

Review: The Wicked Cometh, by Laura Carlin

Down the murky alleyways of London, acts of unspeakable wickedness are taking place

Review: The Children Act, by Ian McEwan

That the world should be filled with such detail, such tiny points of human frailty, threatened to crush her and she had to look away

Review: Mort (Discworld #4), by Terry Pratchet

People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it