The @ReadWomen team suggest their favourite women to read in 2018
If you’re not familiar with the ReadWomen hashtag and Twitter account, do yourself a favour and look them up.
Founded in 2014 by author Joanna Walsh as a catalyst to get people thinking more carefully about their reading habits, it sparked a worldwide literary conversation that’s still going on.
It was one of a sequence of prompts that led us to embark on our Year of Publishing Women in 2018, and it’s the inspiration behind our new Reading Women book club, which you can find more information about on our website here.
We asked the current team behind the @ReadWomen Twitter account to tell us a few of the books they’re looking forward to this year (all written by women of course). So if you want some great feminist reading inspiration, read on!
Joanna Walsh (@badaude), founder and author of Worlds from the Word’s End
I'm looking forward to reading A Handbook of Disappointed Fate by US poet Anne Boyer. She's a passionate and political lyric essayist and these meditations on her cancer treatment are sure to be witty, inventive, scalpel-sharp, and purely extraordinary.
Alexia Richardson (@lillie_langtry), contributor and translator
I loved Madeline Miller's The Song of Achilles, so I'm delighted she has a new book coming out in April and focusing on a female character from Homer's Odyssey: Circe.
Sian Norris (@sianushka), co-editor and writer
I'm looking forward to The Illumination of Ursula Flight by Anna-Marie Crowhurst. It promises to be romp with intelligence, as aspiring playwright Ursula Flight makes a name for herself in Charles II's Restoration court.