Books about femalewriter

Girl meets boy. It's a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new set of circumstances? Ali Smith's re-mix of Ovid's most joyful metamorphosis is a story about the kind of fluidity that can't be bottled and sold. It is about girls and boys, girls and girls, love and transformation, a story of puns and doubles, reversals and revelations. Funny and fresh, poetic and .

Tells the story of the adventures that music leads us into - getting drunk, falling in love, cutting our hair, wanting to change the world - as well as the darker side of the adolescent years: loneliness, bullying, getting arrested.

Harry discovers what fate truly has in store for him as he inexorably makes his way to the final meeting with Voldemort.

Executive Facilitator Suleyman uses his intelligence operation to uncover the secret of Alpha-Omega, vital to the mortals' survival. The mortal masters of the Company, terrified of a coup, invest in a plan they believe will terminate their immortal servants. And they awaken a powerful AI whom they call Dr Zeus.

The horror of the Rainbow Opera riot is the talk of the country. But the nightmare has only just begun. Rumours about the government's torture of prisoners have been buried and corrupt minister Cas Doran is free to take his plans to shocking heights. For at a secret depot deep within the Place, a new, terrifying dream has been unearthed.

It is 1867, Canada: as winter tightens its grip on the isolated settlement of Dove River, a man is murdered and a 17-year old boy disappears. Tracks leaving the dead man's cabin head north towards the forest and the tundra beyond. In the wake of such violence, people are drawn to the township. But do they want to solve the crime or exploit it?

Estrella lives in Spain, next door to her best friend Catalina. They used to be inseparable, but then Andres, Catalina's cousin and the boy she's planning to marry, starts to gaze at Estrella. Estrella's family have always done things differently. She discovers that she and her family are Marranos - Spanish Jews living double lives as Catholics.

Charlotte supports herself and her lumpen side-kick, Fru Schleswig, as a prostitute in fin-de-siecle Copenhagen. But, the course of harlotry never runs smooth, and Charlotte's life is altered irrevocably when one hard winter, she stumbles on an exciting new source of income.

It is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - an incident which changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander - until he becomes a suspect.

Mendoza was banished long ago, to a prison lost in time where rebellious immortals are dealt with. Now her past lovers: Alec, Nicholas, and Bell-Fairfax, are determined to rescue her, but first they must learn how to live together, because all three happen to be sharing Alec's body.

An attempt to escape her past makes Bessy Buckley take a job as a maid in a big house outside Edinburgh working for the beautiful Arabella. Bessy is puzzled by her employer's increasingly strange requests and her insistence that Bessy keep a journal of her most intimate thoughts. It seems that Arabella has a few secrets of her own.

Magical mayhem is afoot in a new adventure set in the worlds of the nine-lived enchanter Chrestomanci.

Structured around a syllabus for a Great Works of Literature class (with hand-drawn Visual Aids), this work presents a wickedly funny yet poignant tale that reveals how the imagination finds meaning in the most bewildering times, the ways people of various ages strive for connection, and how the darkest of secrets can set us free.

William Thornhill is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake, for which he and his family are made to pay dearly. His sentence: to be transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. They arrive in this harsh land that they cannot understand and which feels like a death sentence.

Gail Anderson-Dargatz unearths a host of curious characters and explores the rutted path towards self awareness: the awakenings to sexuality, place in the family, community and world at large.