As a literary prize launches for funny female writers, we look back at the books that make us laugh the most. However, according to the creators of a new fiction prize, women authors still don’t ...

It's Jane Austen at her best - with drama ... published on ipreferreading.com as Book recommendations: Top five classical reads written by women.

The inaugural Ilse Schwepcke Prize, along with its German-language sister prize, will recognize the best English-language ...

A new travel writing prize for women has launched at the Frankfurt Book Fair today (October 17). The Ilse Schwepcke prize is ...

I tend only to read novels by women these days, a trend which started a few years ago when I encountered, in close succession, the short stories ...

whose best known work is 1967 novel Ice. It defies genre description, but if you had to pick one it would be sci-fi. Kavan was some woman. She was born Helen Woods in Cannes in 1901. Her wealthy ...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel Half of a Yellow Sun has been voted the best book to have won the ... outstanding international fiction written by women," she said. "The Reading Women campaign ...