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Feral Girl Summer

Every hour is happy hour if you have a good book.

13 July 2023

Feral Girl Summer

Feral girl energy is big this summer; even more so with these books in hand!

See ALL our Summer Reading here.

Don't forget: Verso Book Club members get 50% all book purchases year round, plus other great benefits. Sign up today and get your first month free!

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  • Burn It Down!

    Burn It Down!

    by Breanne Fahs

    Burn It Down! is a testament to what is possible when women are driven to the edge. Collecting over seventy-five manifestos from around the world, Burn It Down! is a rallying cry and a call to acti...
    Hardback

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  • Girls Against God

    Girls Against God

    by Jenny Hval

    Translated by Marjam Idriss

    Welcome to 1990s Norway. White picket fences run in neat rows and Christian conservatism runs deep. But as the Artist considers her past, her practice and her hatred, things start stirring themselv...
  • Happy Hour

    Happy Hour

    by Marlowe Granados

    With the verve and bite of Ottessa Moshfegh and the barbed charm of Nancy Mitford, Marlowe Granados’s stunning début brilliantly captures a summer of striving in New York CityRefreshing and wry in ...
    Paperback

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  • Females

    Females

    by Andrea Long Chu

    “Everyone is female, and everyone hates it.”So begins Andrea Long Chu’s genre-defying investigation into sex and lies, desperate artists and reckless politics, the smothering embrace of gender and ...
    Paperback (2019)

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  • Is Mother Dead

    Is Mother Dead

    by Vigdis Hjorth

    Translated by Charlotte Barslund

    **Longlisted for The International Booker Prize 2023**'To mother is to murder, or close enough', thinks Johanna, as she looks at the spelling of the two words in Norwegian. She's recently widowed a...
  • Girl Online

    Girl Online

    by Joanna Walsh

    The unwritten contract of the internet, that a user is what is used, extends from the well-examined issue of data privacy and consent to the very selves women are encouraged to create in order to a...
    Hardback

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  • The Xenofeminist Manifesto

    The Xenofeminist Manifesto

    by Laboria Cuboniks

    The Xenofeminist Manifesto is an attempt to articulate a feminism fit for the twenty-first century. Unafraid of exploring the potentials of technology, exploring both oppressive and emancipatory po...
    Paperback

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Book strip #2

  • Hit Parade of Tears

    Hit Parade of Tears

    by Izumi Suzuki

    Translated by Sam Bett, David Boyd, Daniel Joseph and Helen O'Horan

    A new collection of stories from the cult author of Terminal Boredom.Izumi Suzuki had ideas about doing things differently, ideas that paid little attention to the laws of physics, or the laws of t...
  • Terminal Boredom

    Terminal Boredom

    by Izumi Suzuki

    Translated by Polly Barton, Sam Bett, David Boyd, Daniel Joseph, Aiko Masubuchi and Helen O'Horan

    On a planet where men are contained in ghettoised isolation, women enjoy the fruits of a queer matriarchal utopia -- until a boy escapes and a young woman's perception of the world is violently int...
  • Is Mother Dead

    Is Mother Dead

    by Vigdis Hjorth

    Translated by Charlotte Barslund

    **Longlisted for The International Booker Prize 2023**'To mother is to murder, or close enough', thinks Johanna, as she looks at the spelling of the two words in Norwegian. She's recently widowed a...
  • Abolish the Family

    Abolish the Family

    by Sophie Lewis

    What if we could do better than the family?We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families can be filled with love and care, but for many they are sites of pain: from abandonmen...
    Paperback

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