Melisende's Library

A post by Emily Temple for CrimeReads : Undisputed Queen of Crime Agatha Christie died on this day [12th Jan] in 1976. Crime fiction is a g...

Sysnopsis: From two acclaimed experts in the genre, a brand-new volume of supernatural stories showcasing the forgotten female horror write...

From  The Irish Times :  A rare book of lyrics, poems and illustrations that Joni Mitchell created for her closest friends more than 40 ...

From  The Quint : A Murder on Malabar Hill (also titled the Widows of Malabar Hill ) is a murder mystery set in 1920s Bombay with a pro...

Vulture : When you think of horror literature, most of the books that spring to mind are written by men. But some of today’s best writ...

From Christianity Today : Story, at its heart, is one of the primary modes in which God speaks to us, which means it’s one of the main vehi...

From  Independent (Ireland) : A biography of Astrid Lindgren suggests her famous redhead heroine was created to defy Hitler. When t...

From  FactorDaily : One does not really need a reason to celebrate the fabulous and fantastic women writers of India who’ve enriched sci...

From  The Coast News Group : When Regan Walker decided to try her hand as a novelist, she set her sights on historical romance. Her deci...

From the New Zealand Herald : English crime writer Minette Walters has settled down to talk with Weekend about her first full-scale nove...

Amanda Taylor believes she was destined to write about crime, and no wonder. Her  latest book, Aram, based on a true murder mystery that ha...

From Midnight Walks to Medieval Murders: Writing 'The Anjou Trilogy' | The Huffington Post Princess Michael of Kent blogs about wr...

Radio Prague - Kateřina Tučková and the latterday witch-hunts of Moravia The White Carpathian Mountains, straddling the border of Moravi...

Canberra writer LJM Owen devises intermillennial forensic crime series   Canberra replaces Somerset. There are complicated family feuds,...

10 Worldwide Rad Women Writers You Should Know Th e first known author was an ancient Sumerian priestess named Enheduanna. The first nove...

Shirley Jackson: the US queen of gothic horror claims her literary crown | Books | The Guardian She has been cited as an inspiration by St...

126 remarkable Agatha Christie facts With Poirot-like diligence, expert John Curran has gathered 126 facts about the Queen of Crime .... an...

The First Encyclopedia by a Woman Contains The First Image of a Pretzel | Atlas Obscura An illuminated encyclopedia that dates back to t...

Spirit of Fire: Eastern Hills student's exciting new chapter - Community News GroupCommunity News Group MOST people spend a lifetime ...

Anxiety of Erasure: Trauma, Authorship and the Diaspora in Arab Women’s Writings – Middle East Monitor A nxiety of Erasure …  is a book w...