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Judy Batalion, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, discovered an extraordinary story of women who fought the Nazis. The "ghetto girls" paid off Gestapo guards, hid revolvers in loaves of bread
From the author of Promising Young Women - 'Whipsmart and witty' Marian Keyes 'Brilliant' Dolly Alderton - comes a darkly comic and moving novel about going back to your roots - and digging up demons.
The Women's History of the World was a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and translated into almost forty languages. Now it is time for a new women's history - for more famous, infamous and
There's Amy and there's Ash. There's ice and there's fire. There's England and there's Scotland.Ali Smith evokes the twin spirits of time and place in an extraordinarily powerful first novel, which te
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The timeless and unique collection of short stories is Ali Smith's first. 'I love her prose' - Kate AtkinsonA teenage girl finds unexpected sexual freedom on a trip to Amsterdam. A woman trapped at a
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