Women vs the void

Lady Oracle

Margaret Atwood • 1998

Clytemnestra

Costanza Casati • 2023

Writers & Lovers: Lily King

Lily King • 2021

The New York Times Bestseller<br/>‘Captivating, potent, incisive, and wise’ – Madeline Miller, author of Circe<br/>‘Extremely funny’ – Sunday Times<br/><br/>Recently out of a devastating love affair and mourning the loss of her beloved mum, Casey is lost. The novel she has been writing for six years isn’t going anywhere, her debt is soaring, and at thirty-one, with all her friends getting married and having kids, she feels too old for things to be this way.<br/><br/>Then she meets Silas. He is kind, handsome, interested. But only a few weeks later, Oscar – older, fascinating, troubled – walks into her life, his two boys in tow. Suddenly Casey finds herself at the point of a love triangle, torn between two very different relationships that promise two very different futures. And she’s still got to write that book . . .<br/><br/>‘Suffused with hopefulness and kindness’ – Ann Patchett<br/>‘Exquisite’ – Sunday Telegraph<br/>‘Funny and immensely clever’ – Tessa Hadley<br/>‘Beautiful . . . Reading the book feels like waiting for clouds to break – a kind of gorgeous agony’ – Guardian<br/>‘I loved this book’ – Curtis Sittenfeld

Ithaca

Claire North • 2022

From the multi-award-winning author Claire North comes a daring reimagining that breathes life into ancient myth and gives voice to the women who stand defiant in a world ruled by ruthless men. It’s time for the women of Ithaca to tell their tale . . . "North brings a powerful, fresh, and unflinching voice to ancient myth. Breathtaking." —Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne Seventeen years ago, King Odysseus sailed to war with Troy, taking with him every man of fighting age from the island of Ithaca. None of them has returned, and the women of Ithaca have been left behind to run the kingdom.   Penelope was barely into womanhood when she wed Odysseus. While he lived, her position was secure. But now, years on, speculation is mounting that her husband is dead, and suitors are beginning to knock at her door.    No one man is strong enough to claim Odysseus' empty throne—not yet. But  as everyone waits for the balance of power to tip, Penelope knows that any choice she makes could plunge Ithaca into bloody civil war.  This is the story of Penelope of Ithaca, famed wife of Odysseus, as it has never been told before. Beyond Ithaca's shores, the whims of gods dictate the wars of men. But on the isle, it is the choices of the abandoned women—and their goddesses—that will change the course of the world.

Spoilt Creatures

unknown author • 2024

The Wall

Marlen Haushofer • 2022

Chelsea Girls

Eileen Myles • 1994

stories, w/Nicole Eisenman's cover art

Las indignas

Agustina Bazterrica • 2023

La nueva novela de la aclamada autora de Cadáver exquisito, premio Clarín de Novela y un fenómeno mundial con más de doscientos mil lectores en una treintena de países.<br/><br/>«Perturbadora desde sus primeras páginas. [...] Lleva al lector al límite para provocar en él tanto vértigo como dudas sobre sí mismo. [...] Muy recomendable».<br/>Ana Bretón, El Mundo<br/>«Nadie le dice que no a la Hermana Superior. Nadie que quiera seguir viva».<br/>El mundo como lo conocemos ha desaparecido después del gran apagón,guerras por el agua y catástrofes ambientales. Los días pasan de gélidos a sofocantes en cuestión de horas, apenas hay animales ni naturaleza y pocas personas han sobrevivido. En este presente desolador, varias mujeres viven confinadas en la Casa de la Hermandad Sagrada, sometidas a los designios de un culto religioso. Una de ellas cuenta esta historia, escrita a escondidas noche tras noche para que un día alguien sepa todo lo que pasa entre esas paredes: torturas, sacrificios y ceremonias terroríficas en nombre de la iluminación. Se encuentran bajo el mando estricto de la Hermana Superior, por encima de quien solo se erige «Él». ¿Quién es Él? Poco se sabe; nadie puede verlo, pero domina desde las sombras.<br/>Agustina Bazterrica, la autora de la inolvidable Cadáver exquisito, nos ofrece en esta nueva y esperada novela una distopía perturbadora en la que resplandece la naturaleza oscura de una falsa divinidad, un dios abusivo, pero también la forma subrepticia, aunque poderosa, de la amistad.<br/>«Perturbadora desde sus primeras páginas. [...] Lleva al lector al límite para provocar en él tanto vértigo como dudas sobre sí mismo. […] Muy recomendable».<br/>Ana Bretón, El Mundo<br/>«Entrecorta la respiración».<br/>Concha García, La Razón<br/>«La narrativa, con su prosa poética y el cruce entre crueldad y lirismo, ofrece una experienciaintensa y sobrecogedora del horror, dejando al mismo tiempo un espacio vislumbrado para la esperanza».<br/>Carmen Gómez Moreno, El Generacional Post<br/>«Atrapa. La inmediatez, el secretismo y el suspense mantenido obligan al lector a […] no apartar la vista del libro, impactado por la violencia de lo relatado. La autora consigue transmitir esa repugnancia desde un estilo muy poético, logrando así el equilibrio que nos hace disfrutar hasta de la imagen más oscura y nos impulsa a seguir leyendo».<br/>Lucía Pérez García, Madrid Actual<br/>«Una historia que no te deja indiferente. El personaje de Lucía es un gran personaje. Muy bueno».<br/>Rosa Sánchez de la Vega, El Español<br/>«Terrorífica y absorbente».<br/>Isabel Loscertales, Woman<br/>Sobre Cadáver exquisito:<br/>«Desde un primer momento, el lector de Cadáver exquisito se da cuenta de que se convirtió en un animal más, un ser que, a los tumbos, entiende que este libro en realidad es un matadero y nada de lo que está por pasarle será bonito».<br/>The New York Times Book Review<br/>«Horriblemente eficaz [...]. Esta provocativa novela empuña hábilmente un cuchillo de doble filo».<br/>The Guardian<br/>«Novela mayor, cuya acción transcurre en el interior de una atmósfera densa e hipnótica en la que el lector queda atrapado desde las primeras líneas como si fuera uno de sus personajes».<br/>Juan José Millás

Study for Obedience

Sarah Bernstein • 2023

Garden of Earthly Bodies: A Novel

Sally Oliver • 2022

The Exhibition of Persephone Q: A Novel

Jessi Jezewska Stevens • 2021

Indelicacy: A Novel

Amina Cain • 2020

The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency

Tove Ditlevsen • 2021

<p><b>A </b><b><i>New York Times </i>10 </b><b>Best Books of the Year (2021)</b><br><b>An NPR Best Books of the Year (2021)</b><br><br><b>Called "a masterpiece" by <i>The New York Times</i>, the acclaimed trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in the field of genre-bending confessional writing.</b><br><br>Tove Ditlevsen is today celebrated as one of the most important and unique voices in twentieth-century Danish literature, and <i>The Copenhagen Trilogy</i> (1969–71) is her acknowledged masterpiece. <i>Childhood </i>tells the story of a misfit child’s single-minded determination to become a poet; <i>Youth </i>describes her early experiences of sex, work, and independence. <i>Dependency </i>picks up the story as the narrator embarks on the first of her four marriages and goes on to describe her horrible descent into drug addiction, enabled by her sinister, gaslighting doctor-husband.<br><br>Throughout, the narrator grapples with the tension between her vocation as a writer and her competing roles as daughter, wife, mother, and drug addict, and she writes about female experience and identity in a way that feels very fresh and pertinent to today’s discussions around feminism. Ditlevsen’s trilogy is remarkable for its intensity and its immersive depiction of a world of complex female friendships, family and growing up—in this sense, it’s Copenhagen's answer to Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels. She can also be seen as a spiritual forerunner of confessional writers like Karl Ove Knausgaard, Annie Ernaux, Rachel Cusk and Deborah Levy. Her trilogy is drawn from her own experiences but reads like the most compelling kind of fiction.<br><br>Born in a working-class neighborhood in Copenhagen in 1917, Ditlevsen became famous for her poetry while still a teenager, and went on to write novels, stories, and memoirs. Having been dismissed by the critical establishment in her lifetime as a working-class female writer, she is now being rediscovered and championed as one of Denmark’s most important modern authors.</p>

For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My

Victoria Mackenzie • 2023