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An atmospheric, disturbing, even scary tale that touches on otherworldliness' THE TIMES 'Too-cool-for-school teenage girls, an outsider welcomed into their fold, and murder. They track and kill those who’ve murdered and have escaped justice, killing them in as bloody a fashion as possible. Ali Smith’s Spitfire is a different look at a mother, where the narrator realises there is much about her parents she’ll never know, with their memories of wartime often being filtered or unsaid. Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty works, including fiction, poetry and critical essays, and her books have been published in over thirty-five countries.One activist tells Flock that in Smith’s Alabama county rape is epidemic, and in “The Furies” the incidents pile up, one outdoing the next in brutality. Wench and Hussy deny women’s rights to free sexuality; Spitfire and She-Devil try to force them into quietness and acceptance; Muckraker and Harridan imply nastiness.

Margaret Atwood, Susie Boyt, Eleanor Crewes, Emma Donoghue, Stella Duffy, Linda Grant, Claire Kohda, CN Lester, Kirsty Logan, Caroline O’Donoghue, Chibundu Onuzo, Helen Oyeyemi, Rachel Seiffert, Kamila Shamsie and Ali Smith – introduced by Sandi Toksvig. Overall I'm so glad I got my hands on this collection and there was so much spirit to it as a collection examining women in all shapes and stages of life (including menopausal and older women in Dragon by Stella Duffy) so I LOVED that aspect of the book. I found many of these stories to be a bit dull, and some felt underdeveloped, leaving me wanting for more. Truth be told, there were some of these words that I’d be happy to take on and acknowledge – Warrior, Fury, Tygress and of course Virago – but some which still hold associations long used to put down women.And in the Afrin district of northern Syria, she encounters Cicek Mustafa Zibo, who joined an all-female militia to protect the newly autonomous Kurdish-majority region of Rojava from ISIS militants. Knowing how desperate she is to get away from London and all the reminders of what happened, her old drama tutor Robert offers her a job in Edinburgh using her secondary qualification in dramatherapy to help recalcitrant kids at a special-needs unit. I didn't enjoy every story though and some stories had an uncomfortable understone but all in all: this is great. Spitfire” by Ali Smith (4/5) is nostalgic in tone and delves into a daughter’s memories of her mother who once served in WAAF during WWII.

A cracking, fizzing, furious and fun collection of stories by some starry authors, each titled with a gendered insult, such as Hussy, Wench, Dragon, She-Devil, Termagent, and Vituperator. For this celebratory work, Virago have drawn on an impressive array of authors to explore the topic of damaging words. Termagant” by Emma Donahue (4/5) is also set in the first half of the twentieth century and based on real characters.I also had a hard time believing that Alex – merely 25 years old – had been a renowned theater director in London and that she was given the responsibility of challenged kids with no experience.