The war that killed Achilles by Caroline Alexander
The Illiad is one of those books pretty much everyone has heard of, and most have an idea of the storyline,...
16 May 2019
The Kingdom of Gods by N.K. Jemisin
The Inheritance trilogy ; book 3 Oh my god, you totally need to read this series. It is so awesome and...
4 October 2018
City of stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett
I don’t think I would have picked this book up at all if it hadn’t been nominated for a Hugo this...
13 July 2018
Wind will rove by Sarah Pinkster
Published in Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine September/October 2017 – read it online Ever since the “blackout” when a virus attacked their...
10 July 2018
Old ways old secrets : Pagan Ireland: myth landscape tradition by Jo Kerrigan
I requested this from the library because I came across it on @Justaddbooks’ twitter feed and it looked interesting. I think...
28 January 2018
from H is for hawk by Helen Macdonald
I think of all the complicated histories that landscapes have, and how easy it is to wipe them away, put easier,...
2 September 2017
The serpent and the goddess by Mary Condren
Using Ireland as a case study, this book provides an account of the decline of matriarchal power in Western civilizations and...
2 July 2017
The serpent and the goddess by Mary Condren
Women, therefore, had no input into a theology that gave so much importance to the male seed, and that led to...
2 July 2017
The serpent and the goddess by Mary Condren
Fergus’s fertility was so renowned that his name itself has been translated as “male ejaculation son of super stallion”. His virility...
26 June 2017
The Serpent and the goddess by Mary Condren
the word man … can encompass women, although the converse is not true and the word woman can never stand for...
26 June 2017
The Serpent and the Goddess by Mary Condren
History is not the objective science it was once thought to be but a particular form of power and knowledge, involving...
26 June 2017
The truth about stories by Thomas King
From what I remember I bought this book a few years ago because of Aarti’s A More Diverse Universe reading challenge....
17 March 2017
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