Birding is an immersive novel about women’s lives, consent and about how acknowledging and verbalising abuse can lead to greater clarity.
The Household
The Household is a mystery and fictionalised account of the setup, by Charles Dickens and a wealthy heiress, of a house for fallen women.
The Book of Secrets
We are plunged into 17th century Rome, where women strive to survive in a patriarchal world perhaps not so very different from our own.
The Husbands
What if you could order an unending list of husbands (and lifestyles) to choose from? An imaginative, funny, philosophical fantasy novel.
The Ministry of Time
Secret government mission involving a myopic civil servant, time travellers and a plot to save our future. Gripping and beautifully written.
Violet Hamilton, Lady Detective series
Meet the most delightful detective ever written, Violet Hamilton, in No Life for a Lady and How to Solve a Murder Like a Lady.
Toxxic
A matriarchal world damaged by and struggling to move on from its patriarchal, violent past. A moving novel and a painful read.
Shaking Hands With Elvis
An apparently light-hearted novel about assisted dying that feeds into a facile, populist narrative. Scare-mongering.
What Doesn’t Kill Us
What Doesn’t Kill Us is a beautifully written, gripping and immersive, and still very relevant historical novel about misogyny and activism.
The Trials of Marjorie Crowe
Murder in a small community. Robertson does it again, with another great female character, Marjorie Crowe. Gripping and immersive.