Discover our list of the best novels to read in 2021 about women by women.
1. As You Were by Elaine Feeney (Harvill Secker)
- Intimate relationship on a hospital ward between three Irish women who are thrown together.
2. The Weekend by Charlotte Wood (Orion)
- Novel about the female experience of aging.
3. Weather by Jenny Offill (Granta)
4. Writers & Lovers by Lily King (Macmillan)
5. I Am Not Your Baby Mother by Candice Brathwaite (Quercus)
- Racism in pregnancy, birth and raising children
6. Square Haunting (Faber) by Francesca Wade
- Tells the stories of five women who forged creative lives on the edge of Bloomsbury between the wars
7. My Wild and Sleepless Nights (Transworld) by Clover Stroud
- A celebration of motherhood
8. The First Woman (Oneworld) by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
- A novel of feminism, mythology and tradition in 1970s Uganda
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by The Raven Brothers
Out of shape and unprepared, The Raven Brothers return to the road in a collection of ten quests to travel to their dream destinations against all odds! After two decades pioneering new routes across the globe, you would expect the authors of 'Driving the Trans-Siberian' to be hotshot explorers, with a sixth sense and an ability to survive in almost any situation. Think again! With virtually zero knowledge of the workings of the internal combustion engine and very limited skills of wilderness survival, Simon and Chris struggle into their hiking boots and power across three continents by river, tarmac and trail.
Venture to the top of Norway, cruise the road to Damascus, hike the Camino trail into Spain’s Wild West, row the Ganges, explore Frida Kahlo’s world in Mexico City, hangout with the dead in Sicily’s eerie catacombs, crawl deep inside Bolivia’s notorious silver mine, seek lions in Gujarat, wellness in Berlin and journey into the Naga Hills where tribal kings still rule.
Noted by Lonely Planet for their talent to portray an “accurate view of what to expect”, 'Hike, Drive, Stayin’ Alive!' signals a return to the duo writing “buttock clenching” travel comedy with the first in a series of candid stories of adventure by The Raven Brothers.