by Sophie Mc Dermott | Jun 29, 2020 | Book Review
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down.” Recently adapted for television by Bruce Miller through HULU, The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopian tragedy set in a near-future New England, in a totalitarian state known as Gilead. Telling the story of Offred, a handmaid who is...
by Sophie Mc Dermott | Jun 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
Hey everyone – we have decided to have a little bit of fun with photography during the month of JULY! We want to feature some of YOU on our Instagram and Twitter 📸 Take a pic of you with a book by a female author, tag us or send it directly to us via social...
by Sophie Mc Dermott | Jun 28, 2020 | Blog Post, Book Recommendations
Why is calling yourself a feminist such a seemingly scary prospect? The fact that we are even in a position where we have to have a term that groups together women who want equality says a lot about our society, but what makes it even worse is the backlash that...
by Sophie Mc Dermott | Jun 17, 2020 | Book Review
Living in an arguably post-truth world, we are constantly asked to question what is real and what is fake. Whose version of events are true? And whose are presented to us as a form of propaganda? The narrative of An American Marriage brought all of these questions to...
by Sophie Mc Dermott | May 31, 2020 | Book Recommendations
Women’s Writes was touched and over the moon when Dialogue Press reached out to send us some books. If you don’t know Dialogue, they are an imprintas of Little, Brown and spearheaded by Sharmaine Lovegrove. Their mission is very much aligned with ours here...
