Seven writers, including Joanne Harris, Marie Phillips, and Irvine Welsh, spent time with a charity promoting the development of women and girls—and were inspired to write an extraordinary array of stories and essays that statistics cannot convey Irvine Welsh tells a story of prostitutes in the Dominican Republic, while Xiaolu Guo tells of a policeman with a Khmer Rouge past. Marie Phillips takes on the sexual abuse of Ugandan schoolgirls—and the outcome of the abuse. Seven authors have visited seven different countries—Brazil, Togo, Sierra Leone, Cambodia, Uganda, Ghana, and the Dominican Republic—and spoken to young women and girls about their lives, struggles, and hopes. The result is an extraordinary collection of writings based on the girls' true stories, about prejudice, abuse, and neglect, but also about courage, resilience, and changing attitudes.

Because I Am a Girl

Literature & Fiction

WELSH, IRVINE

GUO, XIAOLU

HARRIS, Joanne

LETTE, Kathy

Phillips, Marie

Butcher, Tim

MOGGACH, Deborah

Essays & Correspondence

RANDOM HOUSE UK

Kat's in Hollywood to meet a man who's romantic. You know, the type who talks to you after sex. Nothing special, as long as he has pectorals, a Ph.D., a nice bum, a non-sexist attitude, can cook souffles and wants a loving relationship with bone-marrow melting sex. Now, is that too much to ask of a billionaire? For Kat, love is in the air. Her mate, Tash assures her it's only car exhaust...

The Llama Parlour

MACMILLAN PUB. LTD.

Seven friends get together for a girls` night out. As one story leads to another they begin to realise that there are only two things wrong with men: everything they say and everything they do. In twelve brilliantly funny short stories, Kathy Lette reveals the hilarious secrets women tell each other-when men aren`t around. Tales that ring true to every woman who reads them.

Girls Night Out

British & Irish

Mad Cows

Maddy`s first day out with her newborn takes a Kafkaesque turn when she`s arrested for shoplifting. The only person she can turn to is her ex-lover Alex, who proves himself as useful as a solar-powered vibrator on a rainy day. How do you brief a lawyer with a heat-seaking penis? And why is Maddy`s friend Gillian searching for a sperm happy to get egg all over its face?

Pan Books, Ltd.

Beccie Steele runs out on her fairytale wedding to Julian. Why can't she commit to her knight in shining Armani? It's not until Julian gets engaged to her best friend that Beccie realizes that the United Nations is about to declare her love life a disaster area.

Altar Ego

Contemporary

PICADOR. LONDON 1998

`Query. Would it be a serious breach of etiquette to run out on my own wedding?` This is the question Becky Steele asks herslef as she clings to the window ledge of her parents` bathroom, grimly regarding the ten-foot drop into the dustbins below. She stares in disbelief at the meringue dress for which she has drunk only skimmed water for four weeks to fit into. Why can`t Becky commit to Julian, human rights lawyer, and her Knight in Shining Armani? Yes, Julian`s the right man. But has she had enough wrong ones?

Humor & Satire

Query: would it be a serious breach of etiquette to run out on my own wedding? This is the question Becky Steele finds herself asking, on the morning of her very own wedding. Having finally managed to fit into her meringue dress after weeks of drinking only skimmed water, she is suddenly uncertain about what exactly she wants. Yes, she loves Julian, but is she quite ready to become a proper grown-up, and give up on the joys of the single life? Julian might be the right man, but has she had enough wrong ones? Things get more complicated still when temptation arrives in the form of gorgeous rockstar toy boy Zack. And it looks like Julian might be making a few contingency plans of his own...

A contemporary humorous tale from the author of FOETAL ATTRACTION and MAD COWS. As a woman stares in disbelief at her wedding dress, she is having second thoughts and wondering whether to run out on her own wedding. She worries that she will be unable to give up her toy boy rock star, or quell her urges to dance naked in front of her pets.

Picador

Lizzie has a successful career as a TV news anchorperson, a handsome husband and two small children. Life seems pretty perfect, until her husband falls for a beautiful Texan model and decides to join a clinic that specialises in plastic surgery.

Nip 'n' Tuck

Foetal Attraction (Picador thirty) by Lette, Kathy

PICADOR (ENGLAND)

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Because I Am a Girl

The Llama Parlour

Girls Night Out

Mad Cows

Altar Ego

Altar Ego

Altar Ego

Altar Ego

Nip 'n' Tuck

Foetal Attraction (Picador thirty) by Lette, Kathy