by DB Stephens — The police aren’t helping these women escape their violently abusive partners. But someone has decided it’s time for them to step up.
Tag: empowered women
Don’t Make Me Laugh
by Julia Raeside — Shines a Me Too searchlight on the comedy circuit. The nice guy is the usual toxic creep. Will he get his comeuppance?
Kitty Collins series: How To Kill Men… and You’d Look Good in a Coffin
by Katy Brent — A fun series with a serious message. Too many men are violent against women. They don’t all get away with it.
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
by Grady Hendrix — A horror story, of subjugated children, pregnancy and forced adoption, witchcraft and a pact with the devil.
Heart of Cruelty
by Maybelle Wallis — Gripping, atmospheric historical fiction in the sensationalist tradition. Forbidden love amidst evil and murder.
The Glassmaker
by Tracy Chevalier — A multiple-timeline novel about the history of Murano glassmaking, following Orsola Rosso from 1486 to now.
The House of the Witch
Immersive story, set in the 17th century and the present, about female defiance of patriarchal control.
Blue Hawk
by Chloe Turner — Immersive story about a textile worker, set in 17th century Gloucestershire. Blue Hawk celebrates female tenacity and ingenuity.
The Light and Shade of Ellen Swithin
by DG Coutinho — Another in the latest slew of books about women truly killing it. Entertaining.
How to Kill a Guy in Ten Ways
by Eve Kellman — Another female serial killer novel with gallows humour and deplorable men getting their comeuppance in myriad painful ways.
The Book of Secrets
by Anna Mazzola — We are plunged into 17th century Rome, where women strive to survive in a patriarchal world perhaps not so very different from our own.
Toxxic
by Jane Hennigan — A matriarchal world damaged by and struggling to move on from its patriarchal, violent past. A moving novel and a painful read.
What Doesn’t Kill Us
by Ajay Close — A beautifully written, gripping and immersive, and still very relevant historical novel about misogyny and activism.
The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill
by C.S. Robertson — Grace is a death scene cleaner. A well written, character-driven, immersive crime read. I loved it. Dark, disturbing and unusual.
The Best Way to Bury Your Husband
by Alexia Casale — The Best Way to Bury Your Husband is, surprisingly, a very moving AND uplifting AND very funny book about domestic abuse and violence. Really!
Murder by Natural Causes
by Helen Erichsen — If I’m going to use murder as light entertainment, at least it’s nice for the protagonist to be a woman. Especially if she’s good at her job.
A Bird in Winter
by Louise Doughty — A Bird in Winter is beautifully written, well paced, at times exciting, at times more reflective. Older, career women will appreciate it!
Bad Men
by Julie Mae Cohen — Bad Men is sharp and fast and clever and very funny. You’ll love it. (Maybe less so if you’re a scumbag who hurts women.)
Tell Me What I Am
by Una Mannion — Portrays coercive control and domestic violence. Highlights the difficulties facing victims’ families and the lack of legal support.
Such Sharp Teeth
by Rachel Harrison — Rage, trauma, resilience and transformation. Women finding strength and learning to face the world without (or with less) fear.