Writers love being invited to the Hay Festival. Sales will rocket into double figures, you get into the green room with a free coffee and a chance to smile flirtatiously at Germaine Greer and listen to Stephen Fry talk about his bunions. The festival was sponsored by the Times, then the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-05-24 21:25:18 UTC ]
Scribe is publishing a biography of Germaine Greer, who recently courted controversy internationally for her views on sexual assault ahead of her new book On Rape (Bloomsbury). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Eddo-Lodge’s Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race beat books by Germaine Greer and Simone de BeauvoirReni Eddo-Lodge’s book Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race has been named the most influential book written by a woman. The 2017 book bested titles including Mary... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Germaine Greer is publishing a new book, On Rape, arguing there are "important differences between sleaze and assault". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
The late art critic John Berger's Ways of Seeing (Penguin Modern Classics), first published in 1972, Edward Said’s 1978 study Orientalism (also Penguin Modern Classics) and Germaine Greer’s 1970 feminist study The Female Eunuch (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) are among the list of the 20... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon Schama, Germaine Greer, Salman Rushdie and Caitlin Moran are just some of the writers and thinkers lined up to take part in this year’s Hay Festival, which takes place 25th May – 5th June. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
I grew up on a diet of Carry On films, Benny Hill and my parents’ Daily Telegraph. The Spare Rib Reader helped me articulate an unease that I had felt for as long as I could rememberTo be honest, I can’t remember a single thing about the contents of this book. Mind you, that’s true of many books... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-07-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Writer Germaine Greer has said that ebooks should “cost pennies” and accused people... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-08-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Tue, 08/03/2011 - 08:40 Inspiring books by and about women are being hailed for International Women's Day, as J K Rowling and Germaine Greer are named among 17 authors on the Guardian's Top 100 Inspirational Women list. Female novelists are holding... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]