All About Love: New Visions

Feito, Virginia

"Sensationally unhinged" - SUNDAY TIMES"Simmering with rage, propulsive and laugh-out-loud funny" - CATRIONA WARD""Weird and wonderful" - LUCY MANGAN, GUARDIANWinifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect Victorian governess. She'll dutifully tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, and only joke about eating children. But the long...

Rooney, Sally

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney. From the author of the multimillion-copy bestseller Normal People, an exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties - successful, compe...

Alice Oseman

harlie and Nick are at the same school, but they've never met ... until one day when they're made to sit together. They quickly become friends, and soon Charlie is falling hard for Nick, even though he doesn't think he has a chance.But love works in surprising ways, and Nick is more interested in Charlie than either of them realised.By Alice Oseman, winner of the YA Book Prize,...

Vallejo, Irene

A fascinating and profound, yet delightfully personal take on books in the ancient world, with many illuminating insights into more modern literature and life.' - Paul Strathern, author of Ten Cities that Led the World Long before books were mass produced, those made of reeds from along the Nile were worth fighting and dying for. Journeying along the battlefields of Alexander t...

Bechdel, Alison

All her life, Alison Bechdel has searched for an elusive secret. The secret to superhuman strength. She has looked for it in her favourite books, the lives of her heroes, celibacy, polyamory, activism, therapy, and most obsessively, in her lifelong passion for exercise. Skiing, running, karate, cycling, yoga, weight lifting - you name it, she´s tried it. "Oh, to be self-suffici...

O'farrell, Maggie

A stunning new departure for Maggie O'Farrell's fiction, HAMNET is the heart-stopping story behind Shakespeare's most famous play.On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home?Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medici...

Hooks, Bell

En estas páginas, bell hooks revela cómo el patriarcado capitalista supremacista blanco impone a los hombres una máscara de invulnerabilidad que oculta heridas profundas. Aquello que a menudo se interpreta como fuerza es, en realidad, una armadura frente a un sistema que les niega su humanidad y los empuja hacia la alienación. Las rígidas expectativas de género y la falta de a...

Hooks, Bell

Tios durs és una crida insistent, des del feminisme negre, a desmantellar el patriarcat com a pas fonamental per a la curació comunitària. Després que La voluntat de canviar s?hagi convertit en un clàssic contemporani, hooks ens dona, amb la seva característica mirada pedagògica, la possibilitat de continuar aprofundint en la mirada crítica a la masculinitat patriarcal a Tios ...

Hooks, Bell

No es cierto que los hombres no estén dispuestos a cambiar. Es cierto que muchos hombres tienen miedo de cambiar. Es cierto que muchísimos hombres ni siquiera han comenzado a observar cómo el patriarcado les impide conocerse a sí mismos, estar en contacto con sus sentimientos, amar. Para conocer el amor, los hombres deben ser capaces de abandonar el deseo de dominar. Deben pode...

Hooks, Bell

Hooks mostra als homes com expressar les emocions, una part fonamental dequi són. Un llibre pensat per ajudar-los a recuperar el millor de si mateixos.Tothom necessita estimar i ser estimat, fins i tot els homes. Però per conèixer l?amor, els homes han de poder veure les maneres com la cultura patriarcal els impedeix conèixer-se a si mateixos, estar en contacte amb els seus sen...

Hooks, Bell

Hooks, Bell