women authors

In this collection of twenty-four interviews spanning several decades, Doris Lessing talks on varied topics including her early years in Southern Rhodesia, her views on Marxism, Sufism, feminism, the problems of autobiography, and her own fiction--especially the Golden notebook.

Beatrix Potter joins with her four-legged friends in solving the mystery of who killed local shepherd Ben Hornby, and finding the heartless humans who broke up a badger family.

Author Beatrix Potter purchases Hill Top Farm in the Lake District hamlet of Near Sawrey in 1905 where she plans to recover from the death of her fiance and work on her books for children, but she and her many animal friends soon become caught up in the domestic joys and mysteries of the small town.

A life of the Danish author describes how writing sustained her through a wealthy but unhappy childhood, a troubled marriage to a distant cousin that left her seriously ill, difficult times in Africa, and other problems.

When a group of competitive mystery authors attend a conference at Dalmorton Castle near Edinburgh, chick lit myster writer Kimberlee Kalder, who has collected her share of enemies over the years, turns up dead at the bottom of the castle's bottle dungeon, much to St. Just's surprise.

Two women in Nantucket, dealing with their own separate issues of death and heartbreak, find solace in each other's friendship.

Corrie becomes deeply involved in the Northern cause during the Civil War.

Explores the reasons why women do not have the same influence, power, and wealth as men do and meditates on the writer-temperament.

American journalist Julia Jarmond researches the brutal 1942 Nazi roundup in Paris and stumbles upon a connection between her family and one of the victims, which compels Julia to learn more about the girl's life.