Exhibiting Now at GWL: Beyond the Selfie
The GWL are excited to be exhibiting Beyond the Selfie, an incredible collection of self-portraits compiled by a group of talented young Scottish women exploring the diverse concept of female selfhood...
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Angela Carter is one of my all-time favourite writers, but, I shamefully admit, I had never read perhaps her greatest work – The Bloody Chamber, a collection of short stories. But, this past week, as...
View ArticleDon’t Miss This Week: Sharon Hayes In Conversation
This Saturday 8th October, starting 2pm, we at the Women’s Library are delighted to welcome renowned American artist Sharon Hayes and her latest commission In My Little Corner of the World, Anyone...
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Jean Armour, A Scottish Feminist Heroine: A review of The Jewel by Catherine...
The Living Mountain author, Nan Shepard is going to be the first woman on a Scottish bank note which is awesome but if I was to suggest someone from history to further immortalise it would be Jane...
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‘The Writer’s Key’– A Book Review
The following book review has very kindly been contributed by an anonymous participant at the Glasgow Women’s Library ‘Blogging for the Terrified’ workshop for women as part of the Harpies, Fechters...
View ArticlePlease Join Us This Saturday For Voices of Experience – Discussions on...
All around the world, architecture shapes the character of a place and endures in our memories. Architectural landmarks are some of the only Earthly things that truly endure against time, and can move...
View ArticleA Review of The Novel The Color Purple In the Lead Up To ‘Celebrating Black...
“I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ast. And that in wondering bout the big things and asting bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know...
View ArticleEthyl Smith’s Story Café Specials: A List of 5 Great Women’s Historical Fiction
As part of Bookweek Scotland 2016, we will welcome Ethyl Smith into the Women’s Library on Thursday 24th November from 12:30-2:30, where she will host the next anticipated edition of our Story Café...
View ArticleWomen’s Literacy And How the GWL Can Help!
While doing some research lately for a personal project of mine, I came across some shocking statistics that I felt I just had to share on the GWL Blog. While looking around for a base reference on...
View ArticleChristmas Gaming Fun That Highlights a Terrible Sexism
Over Christmas, when the turkey and mince pies had settled, I – like many others – came together with my friends and family to show off and play with our new and shiny toys. My boyfriend’s younger...
View ArticleThe Time In Between:A Memoir of Hunger and Hope by Nancy Tucker.
The Time In Between: A Memoir of Hunger and Hope is an amazing personal account by the author, Nancy Tucker, about their experiences during their youth as someone with anorexia, bulimia, anxiety and...
View ArticleAn Exciting January Schedule!
It’s a new year, and with it a new schedule of exciting and inspiring events here at the Women’s Library. January and February are jam-packed with events and workshops, so why not come along and escape...
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Monstress volume 1 by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda
The realms of fantasy and sci-fi have been ,until recently, overwhelming masculine genres of fiction ,despite the impact of those like Le Guin and Atwood, as well as genres in which alternative...
View ArticleDon’t Discount the Power of Female Protestors – We’ve Been Successful Before
Over the weekend, global society witnessed something quite spectacular. In the wake of Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 45th POTUS, people protested, and protested on a huge scale. Indeed, some...
View ArticleHelen Oyeyemi and Boy, Snow, Bird: a Review
Some of my very favourite reads are ones that intricately incorporate rich myth, folklore and fairytale, and Helen Oyeyemi’s novels are nothing if not characterised by her abundant use of all of the...
View ArticleA Taster of Events Springing Into the GWL This March!
As the flowers begin to bloom, the nights begin to lengthen (finally) and we all thaw out, we at the GWL have prepared a jam-packed schedule from workshops to outings and events, exhibitions, awards...
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Shadow behind the sun by Remzije Sherifi
Anabel recommends: Shadow behind the sun by Remzije Sherifi In the 1990s, Yugoslavia fell apart in a series of bloody wars. For people like me, this was utterly shocking. This was Europe, I had friends...
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The readers of Broken Wheel recommend
Margaret recommends: The Readers of Broken Wheel recommend by Katarina Bivald Sara Lindqvist, a Swede, arrives in a one-horse town in Iowa, America’s mid-west, expecting her pen friend, Amy Harris, to...
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Run by Ann Patchett
Anabel recommends: Run by Ann Patchett Bernadette had been dead two weeks when her sisters showed up in Doyle’s living room asking for the statue back. Ann Patchett certainly knows how to write an...
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House of Three Book Launch!
Come along to the library on the 25th of March to see the launch of the first volumes from the House of Three, a wonderful new poetry press. This new press has published three volumes of poetry, with...
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