Female Authors
| author: Eleanor Dark | shelved under: Fiction | | date: 1980 c.1941 | publisher: Fontana | | content type: book | | description: The Timeless Land (1941) is a work of historical fiction by Eleanor Dark (1901–1985). The novel The Timeless Land is the first of The Timeless Land trilogy of novels about European settlement and exploration of Australia. The narrative is told from English and Aboriginal points of view. The novel begins with two Aboriginal men watching the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Harbour on 26 January 1788.
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| author: Tessa Dahl, | shelved under: Fiction | | date: 1989, c1988 | publisher: Penguin Books | | content type: book | | description: "I know how privileged I am. I blame no one for my extraordinary life. I thank them for it. It's made me what I am and, my darling, I've decided I like it.
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| author: / Margaret Atwood | shelved under: Fiction | | date: 1969, c2006 | publisher: London : Virago | | content type: book | | description: The Edible Woman, a 1969 novel that helped to establish Margaret Atwood as a prose writer of major significance, is the story of a young woman whose sane, structured, consumer-oriented world suddenly slips strangely out of focus. Following her engagement, Marian feels her body and her self are becoming separated. As Marian begins endowing food with human qualities that cause her to identify with it, she finds herself unable to eat, repelled by metaphorical cannibalism.
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| author: Azar Nafisi | shelved under: Biography | | date: 2003 | publisher: Sydney : Hodder Headline Australia | | content type: book | |
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| author: Elif Shafak, | shelved under: Fiction | | date: 2007 | publisher: Penguin Books | | content type: book | | description: One rainy afternoon in Istanbul, a woman walks into a doctor's surgery. 'I need an abortion," she announces.
She is nineteen years old and unmarried. What happens that afternoon will change her life.
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| author: Rita Mae Brown | shelved under: Fiction | | date: 1976 | publisher: Daughters, Inc. | | content type: book | | description: Written immediately after her classic Rubyfruit Jungle, In Her Day takes a loving swipe at the charged political atmosphere of Greenwich Village in the early seventies. Full of infectious merriment and serious underpinnings.
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| author: Agnes Bushell | shelved under: Fiction | | date: 1989 | publisher: The Crossing Press Freedom | | content type: book | description: The year is 1980. Johanna Wilder and her partner, Ruth Wilson, have a small private investigating business in Portland, Maine. They may not get rich in their work tracking down errant husbands, missing nieces, and runaway teenagers, but at least it's a living. And for Johanna, it's a way to escape her past.
A simple job, taken as a favour to a new friend, plunges Johanna into the very life she has been trying so hard to forget: a life that is peopled with Russian emigres and dissidents- in which deceit, betrayal, and death are never far away.
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| author: Rita Mae Brown | shelved under: Fiction | | date: 1977, c1973 | publisher: New York : Bantam Books | | content type: book | |
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| author: Emily Bronte | shelved under: Fiction | | date: 2003 | publisher: Bantam Classics | | content type: book | | description: Classic novel of consuming passions, played out against the lonely moors of northern England, recounts the turbulent and tempestuous love story of Cathy and Heathcliff. A masterpiece of imaginative fiction, the story remains as poignant and compelling today as it was when first published in 1847.
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| author: Jean D. Briggs | shelved under: Fiction | | date: | publisher: Wannabee Publishing | | content type: book | description: When the company Deidre worked for was taken over by an international company she was fired. She tells people she 'threw the job in' and intends to take a long holiday and write a book.
She accepts an offer to care for a farm house on a property in Northern Victoria.
Her mistaken beliefs about country living create some comic situations.
She stumbles through one mishap to another and blames the locals for not explaining things to her.
Frank, who can barely read or write, owns the property. His parents have hinted to Deirdre that Frank is 'a bit simple'.
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