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Violence Against Women: Killing of Women -

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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 7 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Liliana
    Liliana's Invincible Summer - by Cristina Rivera Garza

    £17.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781526649348 | ISBN 10: 1526649349

    From one of Mexico's greatest contemporary writers, an astonishing work of non-fiction that illuminates an epidemic of femicide in Mexico through the death of one woman.  'Meticulously written and deeply moving... A triumph' JACKIE KAY  'Full ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shamed: The Honour Killing That Shocked Britain – by the Sister Who Fought for Justice by Sarbjit Kaur Athwal
    Shamed: The Honour Killing That Shocked Britain – by the Sister Who Fought for Justice - by Sarbjit Kaur Athwal

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780753541548 | ISBN 10: 0753541548

    In 1998, Sarbjit Athwal was called by her husband to attend a family meeting. It looked like just another family gathering. An attractive house in west London, a large dining room, two brothers, their mother, one wife. But the subject they were discu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Killing Honour by Bali Rai
    Killing Honour - by Bali Rai

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780552562119 | ISBN 10: 0552562114

    ‘Honour,’ I repeated, wondering how such a small word could have caused so much trouble.   When Sat's sister, Jas, is married off into the Atwal family she changes, she's quiet and distant. But Sat's too busy with his own life; his girlfriend, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Honour Killing: Stories of Men Who Killed by Ayse Onal
    Honour Killing: Stories of Men Who Killed - by Ayse Onal

    £12.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780863566172 | ISBN 10: 0863566170

    Honour killing persists across the Middle East, where regimes refrain from tackling primitive traditions for fear of sparking unrest. Ayse Onal interviewed imprisoned men in Turkey convicted of killing their mothers, sisters and daughters. The result ... more

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  • Cover image of book Erased: Missing Women, Murdered Wives by Marilee Strong and Mark Powelson
    Erased: Missing Women, Murdered Wives - by Marilee Strong and Mark Powelson

    £22.99   hardback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780787996390 | ISBN 10: 0787996394

    Based on five years of investigative reporting and research into forensic psychology and criminology, Erased presents an original profile of a widespread and previously unrecognized type of murder: not a 'hot-blooded', spur-of-the-moment crime of pas ... more

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  • Cover image of book If I am Missing or Dead by Janine Latus
    If I am Missing or Dead - by Janine Latus

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099499596 | ISBN 10: 0099499592

    In April 2002, Janine Latus' youngest sister Amy wrote a note and taped it to the inside of her desk drawer. 'If I am gone or dead', it read, 'question Ron'. By the time the letter was found, Amy was already missing.  Helicopters and 'missing' poster ... more

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  • Cover image of book Burned Alive by Souad
    Burned Alive - by Souad

    £7.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780553816303 | ISBN 10: 0553816306

    When Souad was seventeen she fell in love. In her village, as in so many others, sex before marriage was considered a grave dishonour to one's family - a dishonour punishable by death. This was her crime, and her brother-in-law was given the task of ... more

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