Celebrated novelist and political scientist Elif Shafak selects 10 of the most important female writers in the UK today, and offers a specially curated list of their books to add to your reading list.

Best books: 10 amazing female writers in the UK to empower your reading list

Together and on their own, these women work, they write, they resist and they renew our faith in humanity

Because extraordinary times call for extraordinary women

10 of the UK’s most extraordinary female writers to empower your reading list