Helen Oyeyemi

Margaret Atwood

Rachel Seiffert

Stella Duffy

Caroline O'Donoghue

Kamila Shamsie

Kirsty Logan

Emma Donoghue

Linda Grant

Ali Smith

Chibundu Onuzo

Eleanor Crewes

Susie Boyt

Claire Kohda

Cn Lester

DRAGON. TIGRESS. SHE-DEVIL.
For centuries past, and all across the world,
HUSSY. SIREN. WENCH.
there are words that have defined and decried us.
HARRIDAN. MUCKRAKER. SPITFIRE.
Words that raise our hackles,
VITUPERATOR. CHURAIL. TERMAGANT.
fire up our blood;
FURY. WARRIOR. VIRAGO.
words that tell a story.

In this blazing cauldron of a book, fifteen bestselling, award-winning writers have taken up their pens and reclaimed these words, creating an entertaining and irresistible collection of feminist tales for our time.

Stories of the wicket, wild and untamed

Furies

Stas

But I know so, she insisted, as though to force me to agree. What could be more natural than to be struck by the beauty of a captivating woman? To admire the grace of her form and her native intelligence, to pay respect to her, to love and be loved by such a creature? And would it not in turn be unnatural to put in her place some kind of hulking lout? Or, worse, a prosaic little man with no colour, no light, no charm? To endure his presence, his smell, his breath: would that seem natural to you?

My fame spread from our small village to all of Israel, until now as far as Egypt, I am known as the Mother of Israel.

It was hard finding a coffin that could fit Mama in it.

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