Men Explain Things To me

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...

Alderton, Dolly

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WITH A NEW CHAPTER ON TURNING THIRTY. READ AND LOVED IT? GIFT IT TO A FRIEND! 'There is no writer quite like Dolly Alderton working today and very soon the world will know it' Lisa Taddeo, author Three Women 'The book we will thrust into our friends' hands. Alderton feels like a best friend and your older sister all rolled into one and her pages wrap...

Solnit, Rebecca

La autora de Los hombres me explican cosas y Wanderlust vuelve con un libro lleno de sabiduría y lucidez: una llamada a la reflexión y a una vida alternativa. «Para Solnit, la esperanza no es una garantía para el mañana, sino el detonador para la acción de hoy».John Berger ¿Qué puede enseñarnos un violín de trescientos años sobre nuestros bosques? ¿Cuáles son los matices del h...

Solnit, Rebecca

Experiencia personal de cómo los hombres muestran una autoridad que no se han ganado, mientras que las mujeres han sido enseñadas a aceptar esa realidad sin cuestionarla.Mansplaining es un término en inglés que es una conjunción cómica entre man (hombre) y explaining (explica). Rebecca Solnit narra la experiencia que tuvo en una cena en la que un hombre se puso a contarle sobre...

Solnit, Rebecca

La premiada autora de Los hombres me explican cosas y «voz de la resistencia» (TheNew York Times Magazine) reflexiona sobre el #MeToo y el estado actual del feminismo: un libro urgente, necesario y lleno de esperanza. «Para Solnit, la esperanza no es una garantía para el mañana, sino un detonador para la acción de hoy». John Berger ¿Quién decide lo que consideramos verdadero? ¿...

Solnit, Rebecca

Escrito como una serie de ensayos autobiográficos, ‘Una guía sobre el arte de perderse' se basa en momentos y relaciones emblemáticos en la vida de Rebecca Solnit para explorar la incertidumbre, la confianza, la pérdida, la memoria, el deseo y los lugares. Si bien es profundamente personal, sus propias historias se vinculan con historias más grandes, desde narraciones en cautiv...