The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde

The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde'A brave, beautiful book that could double as a handbook to accompany anyone on their journey through cancer' Jackie Kay, New Statesman The Cancer Journals is an intimate, poetic and invigorating account of the experience of breast cancer, from biopsy to mastectomy, told by the great feminist and activist Audre Lorde. Moving between journal entry, memoir, and essay, Lorde fuses the personal and political to reflect on the many questions breast cancer

the unnerving logic of dreams

took a hapless artist for a lover

Compassionate

Here are sisters fighting for the love of the same woman

A major literary talent

The woman at the heart of this extraordinary novel finds that everyone she meets has a common need: the urge to talk about themselves and to have an audience for their experiences

should become more efficient and beautiful until we die

It was a brutal campaign - the violence was extreme

Arrested in Liverpool as an agitator for the IRA

Tim Pat Coogan traces the stirring story of an institution which

for students in search of a quick refresher course

An orphan returns from Dublin to live with his tyrannical grandfather in a small village in the country