Title: Bookish Broads
Author: Lauren Marino
Genre: Biography
Publisher: Abram, New York
Cost: $19.99

The world has rarely been kind to empowered women, since the beginning of time. And history will tell you that whenever this tribe found a medium to express their beliefs and independent views, they were pushed into a corner. As centuries rolled on, such ballsy women found a sharper, more vocal tool, the pen, and there’s been no turning back since then.

Bookish Broads is an ode to all those women — past and present — who’ve defied convention, gender and gone ahead to write their own rulebook. In fact, this book’s tagline —  Women who wrote themselves into history — is enough of a teaser of what to expect from the 60-plus mini bios that feature in the book. It has been written by Lauren Marino and colourfully illustrated by Alexandra Kilburn.