Britta Böhler | Women's History Month! @brittabohlerthesecondshelf | Uploaded March 2023 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Let’s chat about five fantastic books for Women’s History Month.
#womenshistorymonth

FavoriteBooks 1:
Five Fabulous Female Characters: youtube.com/watch?v=7heFpaCNQFc

1 Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra (2010): goodreads.com/book/show/7968243-cleopatra
#nonfiction

2 Anya Seton, The Winthrop Woman (1958): goodreads.com/book/show/28171797-the-winthrop-woman
#historicalfiction

3 Mary Seacole, The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (1857): goodreads.com/book/show/709968.Wonderful_Adventures_of_Mrs_Seacole_in_Many_Lands
#memoir

4 Eva Meijer, Bird Cottage, transl. from the Dutch by Antoinette Fawcett (2018 / 2016): goodreads.com/book/show/40724595-bird-cottage
#historicalfiction
Len Howard: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Howard

5 Lennie Goodings, A Bite of the Apple (2020): goodreads.com/book/show/51771399-a-bite-of-the-apple
#nonfiction

Channel mentioned:
Heidi @myreadinglife8816

Connect with me:
twitter: twitter.com/Britta_Boehler
goodreads: goodreads.com/author/show/5497508.Britta_B_hler
Instagram: instagram.com/brittaboehler

The name of the channel (‘The Second Shelf’) was inspired by Simone de Beauvoir's book, 'The Second Sex'. And it was the title of an article by Meg Wolitzer in the New York Times: nytimes.com/2012/04/01/books/review/on-the-rules-of-literary-fiction-for-men-and-women.html?_r=1

I also wrote some books:
Fiction: De juiste houding (2021) / only available in Dutch: https://www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/De%20juiste%20houding-T717.php

Nonfiction: De goede advocaat (2017) / nonfiction / only available in Dutch: http://www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/boek/De-goede-advocaat-T559.php

Fiction: The Decision (2015): hauspublishing.com/fiction/the-decision
In the German original: Der Brief des Zauberers (2014): aufbau-verlag.de/index.php/autoren/britta-bohler-a01
also available in Dutch, French, Italian, Danish, Greek, Hebrew and Turkish

Nonfiction: Crisis in de rechtstaat (2004) / only available in Dutch: https://www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/de-arbeiderspers/boek/crisis-in-de-rechtstaat/

Nonfiction: De zwerftocht van een leider (2000) / only available in Dutch: https://www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/de-arbeiderspers/boek/de-zwerftocht-van-een-leider/

Crime fiction, as Britta Bolt (together with writer Rodney Bolt)
The Posthumus Mysteries:
- Lonely Graves (2014)
- Lives Lost (2015)
- Deadly Secrets (June 2016)
hodder.co.uk/authors/detail.page?id=OyxVSj8qaz8LdzSTmFvOZFbcgK5hHe5EsnGIqAwZPIsQ/c8OEdhES6cW

also available in German:
- Das Büro der einsamen Toten (2015)
- Das Haus der verlorenen Seelen (2016)
- Der Tote im fremden Mantel (February 2017)
hoffmann-und-campe.de/autoren-info/britta-bolt

and in Dutch:
- Heldhaftig (2012)
- Vastberaden (2014)
- Barmhartig (2016)
https://www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/de-arbeiderspers/auteur/britta-bolt/