For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Women

July 2021 Issue

Vicky Pryce

The XX Factor

The Authority Gap: Why Women are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It

By Mary Ann Sieghart

June 2002 Issue

Raymond Carr

A Good Way to Die

Doves of War: Four Women of Spain

By Paul Preston

February 2021 Issue

Edna Fernandes

It Takes More Than Cheap Tampons

The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing

By Sonia Faleiro

November 1985 Issue

Carol Thatcher

Discretion, C’est Tout

Five at 10: Prime Ministers’ Consorts since 1957

By Diana Farr

April 2020 Issue

Joanna Bourke

Victims without Borders

Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women

By Christina Lamb

February 2020 Issue

Sophie Duncan

She-Readers

Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives

By Helen Taylor

December 2019 Issue

Grace Blakeley

Mind the Pay Gap

Women vs Capitalism: Why We Can’t Have It All in a Free Market Economy

By Vicky Pryce

December 2019 Issue

Joanna Bourke

Call of the Caliphate

Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS

By Azadeh Moaveni

December 2019 Issue

Frances Spalding

Widening the Frame

Voyaging Out: British Women Artists from Suffrage to the Sixties

By Carolyn Trant

November 2019 Issue

Susan Owens

Out of the Shadows

Pre-Raphaelite Sisters

By Jan Marsh, with contributions by Peter Funnell, Charlotte Gere, Pamela Gerrish Nunn & Alison Smith

August 1982 Issue

Susan Marling

Gender Principles

February 1982 Issue

Celia Haddon

Female Friends

Surpassing the Love of Men

By Lillian Faderman

February 1982 Issue

Santha Bhattacharji

Spiritual Endeavour

The Solitary, Self Individuality in the Ancrene Wisse

By Linda Georgianna

April 1981 Issue

Anita Desai

Land of Women

The Woman Warrior

By Maxine Hong Kingston

China Men

By Maxine Hong Kingston

June 2001 Issue

Lynn Barber

Love in Bateau Lavoir

Loving Picasso: The Private Journal of Fernande Olivier

By Fernande Olivier (Translated by Christine Baker & Michael Raeburn)