Women & Power: A ManifestoBritain's best known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit, she revisits the gender agenda and shows how history has treated powerful women. Her examples range from the classical world to the modern day, from Medusa and Athena to Theresa May and Elizabeth Warren. Beard explores the cultural underpinnings of misogyny, considering the public voice of women, our cultural assumptions about women's relationship with

'Diary of a Brilliant Kid' is the 'tweenager's' atlas for navigating life

both struggling for their lives

Adam knows Kassie must be insane

and the north of England

whose wife is a walking miracle of modern medicine

and many more in between

After the disastrous failure of D-Day

have to cross in order to be accepted or heard

construction workers find a bag containing the rendered bones of a murdered child

healthy and delicious

This work includes new poems and work from seven collections published between 1984 and 1998

but we were never lonely on our remote island