The Alumnae Authors
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Dr Lydia Syson (1985, English)
- Mr Peacock’s Possessions (Bonnier Zaffre, 2018) - A Times & Sunday Times ‘Book of the Year’ 2018
- Liberty's Fire (Hot Key Books, 2015) - a Telegraph best YA book of 2015, Carnegie nominated
- That Burning Summer (Hot Key Books, 2013; Sky Pony 2017) - an Independent newspaper 'book of the year'
- A World Between Us (Hot Key Books, 2012) - Branford Boase Award Highly Commended, Carnegie nominated, Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, UKLA Award and Waterstone's Children's Book Prize longlisted
- Doctor of Love (Alma Books, 2008) - ‘an admirable and engaging book’ The Guardian; ‘Lydia Syson enterprisingly and entertainingly explores the fringes of eighteenth-century science…to give us a brilliant biography of the Scottish apothecary-physician-sexologist-nutritionist-showman Dr James Graham (1745-94)' Women: A Cultural Review
Elizabeth Mapstone (1981, Psychology)
- The Porcupine's Dilemma (Mapstone Williams Partnership, 2016)
- The Amazon's Girdle (2015)
Mandy Haggith (1984, Maths and Philosophy)
- Letting light in (Essencepress, 2005)
- Castings (Two Ravens Press, 2007)
- The Last Bear (Two Ravens Press, 2008) – winner of the Robin Jenkins Literary Award
- Paper Trails: From Trees to Trash, the True Cost of Paper (Virgin Books/Random House, 2008)
- Bear Witness (Saraband Books, 2013)
- Into the Forest: An Anthology of Tree Poetry (Saraband Books, 2013)
- A-B-Tree (self-published, 2015)
- The Walrus Mutterer (Saraband Books, 2018)
- The Amber Seeker (Saraband Books, 2019)
- Why the Sky is Far Away (Two Ravens Press, 2019)
- The Lyre Dancers (Saraband Books 2020)
Jenny Mayhew (1987, English)
- A Wolf in Hindelheim (Hutchinson, 2013)
Beth O'Leary (2010, English)
- The Flatshare (Quercus, 2019)
Margot Singer (1984, Social Studies)
- Underground Fugue (Melville House, 2017)
Jacci Bulman (1987, Human Sciences)
- A Whole Day Through from Waking (Cinnamon Press,
2016)
- Write to be Counted, An Anthology of Poetry to Uphold Human Rights (2017)
Dr Nadine Pinede (1986, English and Modern Languages)
- An Invisible Geography (Finishing Line Press, 2012)
Kate Weinberg (1994, English)
- The Truants (Bloomsbury, 2019)
N C Mander (2003, Chemistry)
- Ethereum (2019)
Professor Elleke Boehmer (1985, English)
- Screens Against The Sky (Bloomsbury, 1990
- An Immaculate Figure (Bloomsbury, 1993)
- Bloodlines (David Philip, 1997)
- Nile Baby (Ayebia Clarke, 2008)
- Sharmilla, and Other Portraits (Jacana, 2010)
- The Shouting in the Dark (Sandstone Press, 2015)
- To the Volcano, and other stories (Myriad Editions, 2019)
Kate Summerscale (1984, English)
- The Queen of Whale Cay (Fourth Estate, 1997)
- The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House (Bloomsbury, 2008)
- Mrs Robinson's Disgrace (2012)
- The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer (2016)
Professor Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis (2000, Classical Archaeology)
- Classical
New York: Discovering Greece and Rome in Gotham (Fordham, 2018)
- Bayt
Farhi and the Sephardic Palaces of Ottoman Damascus in the late 18th and 19th
Centuries (American School of Oriental Research, 2018)
- Housing the New Romans: Architectural Reception and Classical Style in the Modern World (OUP, 2017)
Professor Alison Cooley (1989, Literae Humaniores)
- A Companion to Roman Italy, ed. A.E. Cooley (Blackwell-Wiley, 2016)
- Inventive Inscriptions - The Organization of Epigraphic Knowledge
in the Nineteenth Century, eds A.E. Cooley and D. Orrells (Journal of the
History of Collections, special issue, 2014)
- Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Sourcebook (2nd edn, with M.G.L.
Cooley) (Routledge, 2014)
- The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge University
Press, 2012)
- Res Gestae Divi Augusti: text, translation, and commentary (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
- Pompeii: A Sourcebook (with M.G.L. Cooley) (Routledge, 2004)
- Pompeii (Duckworth Archaeological Histories, 2003)
- Becoming Roman, Writing Latin? Literacy and Epigraphy in the Roman
West, ed. A.E. Cooley (JRA Supplement no.48, 2002)
- The Afterlife of Inscriptions: Reusing, Rediscovering, Reinventing
and Revitalizing Ancient Inscriptions, ed. A.E. Cooley (BICS Supplement no.75,
2000)
- The Epigraphic Landscape of Roman Italy, ed. A.E. Cooley (BICS Supplement no.73, 2000)
Dr Ingrid Wassenaar (1993, Modern Languages)
- Proustian Passions (OUP, 2000)
- Beginner’s Guide to Proust (Hodder, 2000)
Sarah Wall-Randell (1999, English)
- The Immaterial Book: Reading and Romance in Early Modern England (University of Michigan Press, 2013)
Nicola Luckhurst (1988, Modern Languages)
- Science and Structure in Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu (OUP, 2000)
Rachel Starr (1992, Theology)
- Reimagining Theologies of Marriage in Contexts of Domestic Violence (Routledge, 2019)
Kathryn Laing (1988, Modern Languages)
- Hannah Lynch (1859-1904): Irish Writer, Cosmopolitan, New Woman (Cork University Press, 2019)
Alma Brodersen (2008, Theology)
- The End of the Psalter: Psalms 146-150 in the Masoretic Text, the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Septuagint Brodersen (De Gruyter, 2017)
Dr Kate Aughterson (1981, English)
- Shakespeare and Gender (Bloomsbury, 2020)
- Shakespeare: The Late Plays (Palgrave, 2013)
- Aphra Behn: The Comedies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)
- Webster: The Tragedies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001)
- Jim Crace: Into the Wilderness (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
- The English Renaissance: An Anthology of Sources and Documents
(Routledge, 2001)
- Renaissance Woman: A Sourcebook: A Sourcebook - Constructions of Femininity in England (Routledge, 1995)
Tara Stubbs (2003, English)
- American Literature and Irish Culture, 1910-1955: The Politics of Enchantment (Manchester University Press, 2013)
Caroline Kelly (2001, Modern Languages)
- Women Writing War: The Life-writing of the Algerian Moudjahidate (Peter Lang’s Studies in Contemporary Women’s Writing Series, 2020)
Michelle Hartman (1994, Oriental Studies)
- Teaching Modern Arabic Literature in Translation (MLA, 2018)
Yi Ping Ong (1999, Philosophy and Theology)
- The Art of Being: Poetics of the Novel and Existentialist Philosophy (Harvard University Press, 2018)
Professor Helen Fulton (1974, Celtic Studies)
- The Cambridge History of Welsh Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019)
Anne-Celine Jaeger (1994, Medieval and Modern Languages)
- Image Makers, Image Takers: The Essential Guide to Photography by
Those in the Know (Thames & Hudson, 2010)
- Fashion Makers, Fashion Shapers: The Essential Guide to Fashion by
Those in the Know (Thames & Hudson, 2009)
Professor Emily Mackil (1994, Literae Humaniores)
- Creating a Common Polity: Religion, Economy, and Politics in the Making of the Greek Koinon (University of California Press, 2013).
Professor Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei (2005, Languages)
- The Life of Imagination: Revealing and Making the World (Columbia University Press, 2020)
Nomi Dave (2005, Music)
- The Revolution's Echoes: Music, Politics, and Pleasure in Guinea (University of Chicago Press, 2019)
Rosie McLachlan (2005, Languages)
- Nina Bouraoui, Autofiction and the Search for Selfhood (Peter Lang's Studies in Contemporary Women's Writing Series, 2017)
Dr Tamsyn Barton (1981, Literae Humaniores)
- Power
and Knowledge: Astrology, Physiognomics and Medicine Under the Roman Empire (University
of Michigan Press, 1994)
- Ancient
Astrology (Routledge, 1994)
Danielle Fontaine (1981, PPE)
- Still Time on Pye Pond (Clemson University Press, 2021)
Kerry Young (1987, Experimental Psychology)
- Imagery-Based Cognitive Therapy for Bipolar Disorder and Mood Instability (Guildford Press, 2019)
Karen Morris (1979, Experimental Psychology)
- Promoting Positive Behaviour in the Early Years (OUP, 2015)
Dr Maria Kinga Devenyi (1988, Visiting Student Programme)
- Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Brill, 2015)
Nadja N. Reissland-Burghart (1982, Experimental Psychology)
- The Development of Emotional Intelligence: A Case Study (Routledge, 2013)
- Fetal Development: Research on Brain and Behavior, Environmental Influences and Emerging Technologies (Springer, 2016)
Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (1993, BA Psychology)
- The Learning Brain (Wiley-Blackwell, 2005)
- Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain (Black Swan, 2019)
Julie Harrod (1981, Agriculture and Forest Sciences)
- The Garden Wall (Cassells, 1991)
Usha Goswami (1979, Experimental Psychology)
- Cognitive Development and Cognitive Neuroscience: The Learning Brain (Routledge, 2019)
- Phonological Skills and Learning to Read. Reissue of 1990 research monograph in the “Classics in Psychology” series (Psychology Press, 2016)
- Child Psychology: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2014)
- Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development: 2nd Edition (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
- Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Learning to Read: Culture, Cognition and Pedagogy (Routledge, 2010)
- Cognitive Development: The Learning Brain (Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis, 2008)
- Cognition in Children (Psychology Press, 1998)
- Analogical Reasoning in Children. Part of series 'Developmental Essays in Psychology' (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1992)
- Phonological Skills and Learning to Read. Part of series 'Developmental Essays in Psychology' (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1990)
Wendy Erber (1982, Clinical Medicine)
- Diagnostic Techniques in Hematological Malignancies (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
- Blood and Bone Marrow Pathology (2nd edition) (Elsevier, 2011)
Dr Betina Ip (2006, Physiology)
- The Usborne Book of the Brain and How It Works (Usborne Publishing, 2020)
Dr Rachel Crossland (2005, English)
- Modernist Physics: Waves, Particles, and Relativities in the Writings of Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence (OUP, 2018)
Dr Elizabeth Ryznar (2010, Comparative Social Policy)
- Landmark Papers in Psychiatry (ed.) (Oxford University Press, 2020)
Jo Broadbent (1989, Jurisprudence)
- Informing and Consulting Employees: the New Law (Hart Publishing, 2006)
Lynn Davis (1980, Jurisprudence)
- The Social Worker's Guide to Children & Families Law (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2nd ed 2014)
- See You in Court: A Social Worker's Guide to Presenting Evidence in Care Proceedings (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2nd ed 2015)
- A Practical Guide to Fostering Law (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2010)
Angela Eagle (1980, PPE)
- The New Serfdom (Biteback Publishing, 2018)
Robin Gorna (1984, Theology)
- Vamps, Virgins and Victims: how can women fight AIDS? (Continuum International Publishing Group, 1996)
Dr Victoria Robertson (2010, MJur)
- Competition Law’s Innovation Factor: The Relevant Market in Dynamic Contexts in the EU and the US (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Professor Beatrice Heuser (1983, Politics)
- Brexit in History: Sovereignty vs European Union? (Hurst, 2019)
- Strategy before Clausewitz: Linking Warfare and Statecraft (Routledge, 2017)
- The Evolution of Strategy: Thinking War from Antiquity to the Present (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
- The Bomb: Nuclear Weapons in their Historical, Strategic and Ethical Context in the series: Turning Points in History (Longman’s, 1999)
- Nuclear Mentalities? Strategies and Beliefs in Britain, France and the FRG (St Martin’s Press, 1998)
- NATO, Britain, France and the FRG: Nuclear Strategies and Forces for Europe, 1949-2000 (Macmillan and St Martin’s Press, 1997)
- Transatlantic Relations: Sharing Ideals and Costs (Pinter for RIIA, 1996)
- Western Containment Policies in the Cold War; The Yugoslav Case, 1948-1953 (Routledge, 1989)
Sophie Pedder (1985, Geography)
- Revolution Française: Emmanuel Macron and the Quest to Reinvent a Nation (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Abigail Bond (1988, Jurisprudence)
- Care Proceedings and Learning Disabled Parents: A Handbook for Family Lawyers (Jordans Family Law, 2011 and 2014)
Rasha Barrage (2002, Jurisprudence)
- Say No To Racism (Summersdale, 2021)
Zlata Filipovic (1998, Human Sciences)
- Zlata's Diary (Puffin, 1995)
Jane Karen Ho (1998, PPE)
- Emi Takes Hong Kong (Fly High Press, 2019)
Nadine Pinede (1986, English and Modern Languages)
- Women in Film (Core Library, 2018)
- Sexism & Race (Essential Library, 2017)
Elizabeth Mapstone (1981, Psychology)
- Stop Dreaming, Start Living (Vermillion, 2004)
Belinda Kirk (1994, Biology)
- Adventure Revolution: The life-changing power of choosing challenge (Piatkus, 2021)