Steve Roud was Local Studies Librarian for the London Borough of Croydon and served as Honorary Librarian of the Folklore Society for over fifteen years. He has been researching British folklore for over thirty years and is the joint author of the Oxford Dictionary of English Folklore, plus other books on traditional drama and folk song, and the Penguin Guide to the Superstitions of Britain and Ireland, which won the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award in 2004. His publications include London Lore (2008) and The Lore of the Playground (2010). He also compiles the Folk Song Index and the Broadside Index, two internationally acclaimed computer databases of traditional folk and popular song. He lives in Sussex.

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Sapphire

'I'm alive inside. A bird is my heart. Mama and Daddy is not win. I'm winning.' 
 
This is the story of Precious, a sixteen-year-old illiterate Black girl who has never been out of Harlem. Pregnant by her own father for the second time, she is kicked out of school and placed in an alternative teaching programme. Through learning to read and write, Precious begins to find her voice, and fight back. 
 
Push is the unflinching diary of a girl whose strength and kindness shines amidst extraordinary adversity. 
 
Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, featuring bold portraits by female photographers from around the world.

Push

Ottessa Moshfegh

'When I'd slept enough, I'd be okay. I'd be renewed, reborn.' 
 
 This is the story of a woman with no name. Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance. Yet she longs to lose herself completely. 
 
 It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a savagely funny novel of a woman looking out from the abyss. 
 
Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world.

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

The cult New York Times bestseller

NoViolet Bulawayo

'There are times, though, that no matter how much food I eat, I find the food does nothing for me, like I am hungry for my country and nothing is going to fix that' 
 
This is the story of Darling, uprooted from her family home by paramilitary police, and living in a Zimbabwean shanty called Paradise. Despite the turmoil, she revels in mischief and adventures with her friends, like stealing guavas from the rich neighbourhood, and singing Lady Gaga at the top of her voice. 
 
But when Darling has a chance to forge a different life in America, she realises that this new paradise brings its own set of challenges. In We Need New Names a spirited girl grows into a powerful observer of global identity. 
 
Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world.

We Need New Names

Mary Lynn Bracht

'Look for your sister after each dive. Never forget. If you see her, you are safe.' 
 
This is the story of Hana and her little sister Emi, who are part of an island community of haenyo, women who make their living from free diving off the southernmost tip of Korea. One day Hana sees a Japanese soldier heading for where Emi is guarding the day's catch on the beach. Saving her sister, Hana herself is captured and forced to become a "comfort woman" in a Japanese military brothel. 
 
Moving between Hana in 1943 and Emi as an elderly woman today, White Chrysanthemum sheds light on a devastating history - and how the bond of sisterhood is strong enough to endure the evils of war. 
 
Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world.

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