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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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