Shakespeare's Wife sold 8,000 copies in hardback and trade paperback, and will be a strong outdoor presence this autumn, with a major consumer campaign to ensure it hits the bestseller charts. There is a huge Shakespeare market and this will sit against Stephen Greenblatt, Stella Tillyard and Paula Byrne. Germaine Greer is one of the great intellectuals, writers, broadcasters and feminist academics of our time. As read on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week

Shortlisted for Prime Minister's Literary Awards (Australia): Non-Fiction 2008.

'Greer dares to think the unthinkable this is a bold and imaginative book' Independent 'Excellent a marvellous imagining of the life of Shakespeare's wife and a devastating exposure of the misogyny of the male biographers who have disparaged her' Sunday Telegraph 'This is a spirited, voluble, scholarly book which gives some depth and some dignity to the marginalised Mrs Shakespeare' Guardian 'A refreshing corrective to the usual portrait Greer is impressive when it comes to detailing their Stratford life and times It's robust, lively stuff' The Times