WINNER OF THE PETRONA AWARD 2023 FROM INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF "FEMICIDE" - 1.5 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE Two bodies are discovered in a Stockholm park, one a policeman and the other an unidentified young woman. With the police beli...

Utopia is a distant island where the inhabitants are thriving and justice and reason prevail, in contrast to the realities of sixteenth-century Europe, where greed, superstition and unenlightened tradition reign. Using the framework of a traveller'...

Finalist for The Ngaio Marsh Best Crime Novel 2023 Shortlisted for the NZ Booklovers Award for Best Adult Fiction Nothing in Stan Andino's unremarkable life could prepare him for the day he discovers his wife naked, except for a black apron, bleach...

"Societies are oiled with the unpaid, unaccounted for, work of women. It is the very glue that binds us together, and yet we are blind to it; a woman's work remains invisible". Rosalind Franklin knows that to be a woman in a man's world is to be inv...

Published originally in weekly instalments, "Hard Times" is focusing on Mr Gradgrind's flawed model of upbringing and its lifelong impact on the wellbeing and destinies of his children. The novel, in fact, follows two opposing ways an individual can...

Set between Uganda and South Africa, An Image in a Mirror is the story of Nyakale and Achen, identical twins pulled apart by their mother's decision to give one of them away to her sister for a chance at a better life. At the heart of this beautiful...

Finding the battered body of a young boy was not unusual in Bloody Mary's cruel England. However, the stabbed tongue, a false seal and strange letter implicate Princess Elizabeth, threatening to bring down the Tudor Dynasty. ​ Doctor John Dee and his...

With the triumph of England's Lionesses at Euro 2022, the women's game has been in the spotlight like never before, enjoying unprecedented media attention. But this is the result of decades of struggle to get women's football – banned by the English...

What is a traditional liberal education, and what are the arguments for it in the twenty-first century? This collection of essays by Anthony O'Hear sets out an alternative educational philosophy to the prevailing progressivist thinking on these issue...

ONE OF STYLIST'S BEST NEW FEMINIST RETELLINGS TO READ IN 2023 In the Garden of Eden, at the beginning of time, an outrageous lie is born: that women are inferior. Lilith and Adam are equal and happy in the Garden of Eden. But when Adam decides Lil...