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‘In a world where they had no voice, these women created one,’ Lauren Marino writes in the introduction to Bookish Broads: Women Who Wrote Themselves Into History, a charming new celebration of female writers. In a bid to rework the male, pale and stale literary canon, Marino has put together this gorgeous book that pays tribute to the contributions of female writers, from Colette to Maya Angelou and Jeanette Winterson. Sixty of their trailblazing stories are told, accompanied by colourful illustrations such as those above. A heartfelt love letter to women, reading and the power of the pen.

Bookish Broads: Women Who Wrote Themselves Into History (Abrams Image) by Lauren Marino, illustrated by Alexandra Kilburn is out 9th February