The 107 female authors everyone should have on their bookshelf:
Growing up on the Laguna Pueblo reservation in New Mexico, Silko reveals she learned the stories and history of the Laguna people from her grandmother and other female relatives. It’s a history that has influenced her own poetry and novels including 1977’s seminal
– a book that started off as a comedy about a mother trying to keep her son on the wagon and turned into a powerfully moving story of looking to your roots to find healing in the future.There’s Ruth Rendell nailing the cosy crime market thanks to her Inspector Wexford novels then in the 80s all of a sudden she invents Barbara Vine. Gone are the mysteries of middle England and out come dark, twisted tales of psychopaths and killers in inner-city Britain.
The joy of Murdoch’s novels comes from watching her characters struggle to navigate the fine line between desire and social conformity, between selfish and selfless love. In Murdoch’s novels, as in real life, once the passion storm has cleared, individuals are forced to untangle the sometimes violent and often-humorous messes they have created.
Indian novelist Anita Desai: “I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth”“Anne Enright is one of those authors that defies categorisation. Her books range from short story collections and non-fiction through to the most brilliant, iridescent novels: read the first page of any of her works and you know instantly, you’re in an Enright book.
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