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“Three Daughters of Eve” by Elif Shafak
Mother and daughter together in the car, stuck in the thankless traffic of Istanbul, on their way to a dinner party. What appears to be an everyday situation soon turns into a hot pursuit. Peri’s, the...
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Sapphic Fathers:Discourses of Same Sex Desire From Nineteenth Century France...
Gretchen Schultz’s new book is an important work on the meeting between French literary representations and lived identity, in the case of LGBT women during history, and pushes the argument that the...
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Outsiders Still: Why Women Journalists Love and Leave Their Newspaper Careers...
The book Outsiders Still: Why Women Journalists Love and Leave their Newspaper Careers is a 2015 book by Vivian Smith that explores the experiences of women in the newspaper medium and how their...
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Rational Passions: Women and Scholarship in Britain 1702-1870: A Reader...
Rational Passions: Women and Scholarship in Britain 1702-1870: A Reader edited by Felicia Gordon and Gina Luria Walker is an important collection of the early written scholarship composed by women in...
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“Daring to Drive” by Manal al-Sharif
A young Saudi woman who stood up to a kingdom of men There is no law prohibiting Saudi women from driving. Nothing that could legally stop them from simply getting into a car and driving through the...
View ArticleNew Polls on Sexual Harassment in the Workplace Show Widespread Abuse
I, like thousands and thousands of others across the world, have been repulsed by the almost never-ending allegations levelled against Miramax co-founder and Hollywood big wig Harvey Weinstein over the...
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Suffragette stories for younger women
Anabel recommends: Suffragette stories for younger women With the centenary of the first women getting the vote coming up in 2018, now is a great time to be learning more about the Suffragettes. Here...
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The waiting by Regi Claire
This review has very kindly been contributed by an anonymous supporter of the library, who also wrote this book review ‘The Waiting’ is a novel about 2 life-long friends called Lizzie and Marlene....
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Books recommended by the Front of House team
On Tuesday evening the fabulous Front of House Volunteer Team gathered: Aastha, Allison, Claire, Anemay, Pauline and staff members Gabrielle and Emily. Following the GWL tradition we had tea and...
View ArticleStory Cafe Special with Lesley O’Brien: Storytelling, Travel, Therapy and Music
Join us on Thursday 30th November from 12:30-2pm as we celebrate Book Week Scotland by welcoming incredible storyteller, musician and East End native Lesley O’Brien for an afternoon of traditionally...
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Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore.
Women painting alarm clock faces with Radium in 1932, Ingersoll factory, January 1932. Workers would often lick the paintbrush to achieve a finer point — directly ingesting the Radium. (Daily Herald...
View ArticleClarissa Pinkola Estes’ La Loba: Wild Woman, Luminous Wolf
Tomorrow at GWL we welcome musician and storyteller Lesley O’Brien for an incredible, unique Story Café special. Inspired by my research of Lesely and her love of travel, culture and exploration (and...
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Our volunteers and staff recommend…
Two weeks ago Paulina and Anna, two of our much cherished volunteers and me, Pauline, the intern, supported by our Volunteer Co-ordinator Gabrielle, decided to set up a new group: the Book Picnic. Once...
View ArticleFurther Thoughts on Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ Ideology, the Wild Women...
Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ opus Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype, is a beautifully crafted and thoughtfully written work, which not only serves as a window into...
View ArticleNew Exhibition Coming February: Our Red Aunt by Fiona Jack
In one of the most ground-breaking projects in our history, GWL is extremely excited to be hosting our first ever solo exhibition by an international artist – and what an exhibition it is! From the...
View ArticleComing Soon: Rupi Kaur’s milk and honey and the sun and her flowers
Rupi Kaur’s poetry collections combine simple prose with a powerful message, gaining popularity on social media for her illustrations as well as her writing. Her debut collection, milk and honey...
View ArticleReview of Lesley Nneka Arimah’s What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
“When Enebeli Okwara sent his girl out in the world, he did not know what the world did to daughters. He did not know how quickly it would wick the dew off her, how she would be returned to him...
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Our volunteers and staff recommend…
Last Tuesday we had our second session of the Book Picnic! So exciting! And again it was filled with amazing new recommendations that we want to share with you. Daring to Drive – Manal al-Sharif A very...
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Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine by Gail Honeyman
Margaret recommends: Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine by Gail Honeyman (which we read at Story Cafe in January) I have just finished, Gail Honeyman’s very first book, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely...
View ArticleDon’t Miss Talking About Making, A Double Session With Artists Jasleen Kaur...
On Wednesday 21st February and Saturday 3rd of March from 1:45-4:00pm we are thrilled to be welcoming Glasgow’s own worldwide exhibiting artist Jasleen Kaur in a “double bill” of conversation and...
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