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A compelling, entertaining and thought-provoking collection that showcases brilliant writing through a broad range of different styles and approaches. A FUN AND FEARLESS ANTHOLOGY OF FEMINIST TALES, to celebrate Virago’s 50th birthday, featuring NEW AND ORIGINAL STORIES by Margaret Atwood, Susie Boyt, Eleanor Crewes, Emma Donoghue, Stella Duffy, Linda Grant, Claire Kohda, CN Lester, Kirsty Logan, Caroline O’Donoghue, Chibundu Onuzo, Helen Oyeymi, Rachel Seiffert, Kamila Shamsie and Ali Smith – introduced by Sandi Toksvig.
Like a Greek tragedy, the tale drives inexorably toward a calamitous revelation - a revelation rather heavily foreshadowed by the title and the students' syllabus. Meanwhile the island is alive with gossip about the strangers who have arrived from the mainland, armed with mysterious equipment which can reportedly steal a person's words and transmit them through thin air. I liked figuring out, step by step, what happened and why, and while I really did like some aspects of the reveals - such as the person dying not being one of the group or anyone in the school as you might expect, but Katarina, the fiancee of the man who killed Luke. Her husband, Hatushaly, the last of the legendary Firemanes, seeks to control his magic and even travel among the filaments of energies that power all existence: the furies.A FUN AND FEARLESS ANTHOLOGY OF FEMINIST TALES, to celebrate Virago's 50th birthday, featuring NEW AND ORIGINAL STORIES by Margaret Atwood, Susie Boyt, Eleanor Crewes, Emma Donoghue, Stella Duffy, Linda Grant, Claire Kohda, CN Lester, Kirsty Logan, Caroline O'Donoghue, Chibundu Onuzo, Helen Oyeyemi, Rachel Seiffert, Kamila Shamsie and Ali Smith - introduced by Sandi Toksvig. I am reviewing this on my own accord after winning an Advanced Reader's Copy from Goodreads Giveaways. This seems to me to be an example of what happens when the marketing department is allowed too much influence in a book's categorisation.
The books featured on this site are aimed primarily at readers aged 13 or above and therefore you must be 13 years or over to sign up to our newsletter. Some stories are more relatable than others but each one as beautiful and interesting because it celebrates our being, our existence. I love stories that take place in schools or school settings, follow a select group of students and their teacher, and is just all about the stuff they are learning.
To escape the demons of her past, she starts a new life in Edinburgh and becomes a teacher of troubled children at a Pupil Referral Unit. I wasn't disappointed by it as a book because it was a good book, an effective depiction of grief, with a strong protagonist to follow.
On land, from the tropical beaches and swamps of Kossuth to the icy, machine-infested wastes of New Hokkaido the hard won gains of the Quellist revolution have been lost. When Elizabeth Flock was 20, she took a trip to Rome with friends, and the group signed up for a guided tour. Haynes shines with these classroom vignettes, which capture the self-conscious, insecure and often raw nature of troubled teens.Most of the titles – rather vintage-seeming gendered insults – have a degree of ambiguity baked in, perhaps even a lurking admiration for the distinctive, unpredictable woman. I especially enjoyed Mel and her story of becoming more and more obsessed with Alex, to the point that she wants to enact revenge on her behalf. Alex brings her love of Greek classic plays to the classroom and slowly slowly the kids start to unwind. Anyway, I still can't get over how predictable this book was and if it only stuck to just one storyline, it probably would have gotten a better review.
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