Women Authors

The official TV tie-in to accompany the ITV drama scripted by Andrew DaviesThe World of Sanditon delves behind the scenes of Sanditon, giving you the inside scoop on Jane Austen's unfinished masterpiece, adapted for television by Andrew Davies.Produced...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375756030Author Eve EnslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint VillardPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 164gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm * 10mm

Based on the true story of her great uncle and freedom fighter Dinesh Gupta, Lions and Tigers is Tanika Gupta's most personal play yet. It charts Dinesh Gupta's emotional and political awakening as this extraordinary 19 year old pits himself against the...

The Convent of Pleasure (1868) is a closet drama by Margaret Cavendish. Intended for private performance rather than the stage, The Convent of Pleasure is a comedy that critiques the institution of marriage and explores the possibility of lesbian desire...

The new and expanded edition of Fefu and Her Friends celebrates the fortieth anniversary of the beloved play by Maria Irene Fornes, one of the most influential contemporary American playwrights. The volume includes the original version of the play, which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679755333Author Lorraine HansberryFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 174mm...

The influence of the women's movement has long been a scholarly priority in the study of British women's drama of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but previous scholarship has largely clustered around two events: the New Woman in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156335409Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books Classics

Hilary Mantel and Ben Miles' exhilarating stage adaptation of The Mirror and the Light, one of 2021's must-see theatrical events, and the long awaited conclusion to the Oliver Award-winning Wolf Hall Trilogy. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559369879Author Sarah RuhlFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692654620Author Sharon L JansenFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Saltar's Point PressPublisher Saltar's Point PressWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559364041Author Anton ChekhovFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S...

Sofia was recently hired as an empathy coach at a debt collection agency and clearly she has her work cut out for her. These employees can barely identify what an emotion is much less practice deep radical compassion for others. And while they...

Hope is a superpower. Running is Alice's happy place - you might even say it's in her DNA. She's the best runner at her school but is struggling to prove her worth. Jade is slowly coming to realise that prejudices can be found everywhere, even in the...

Votes for Women! (1907) is a play by American actress, writer, and suffragette Elizabeth Robins. Having established herself as one of England's leading actresses with her productions of Henrik Ibsen's dramas, Robins retired from the stage to pursue a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789176370698Author Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Wisehouse ClassicsPublisher Wisehouse ClassicsWeight(grams)...

A revealing and witty new examination of how Agatha Christie became the world's most successful and popular female playwright, including details of never-before-published scripts and stories. Agatha Christie is revered worldwide for her books...

The first collection of plays by Marina Carr introduces the work of a major new voice in playwriting. Low in the Dark'One of the most exciting, new and absolutely original aspects of Carr's writing is the manner in which the sexism of the language and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787802896Author Aphra BehnFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Stage DoorPublisher Stage DoorWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 6mm

An angry orphan escapes a grey town on the back of a hurricane. She lands in a mysterious country of tiny people and wicked witches, where the trees carry bazookas, the crows recite slam poetry, and a mouse can blow your head off. In just one day,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375708718Author Dael OrlandersmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573707858Author Larissa FasthorseFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353420710Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 4mm

Crowning Glory brings together the stories of seven women to explore the meaning of identity and beauty in today's world. This thought-provoking story is sure to make you laugh and cry, and will undoubtedly get you talking after the show.A new play...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838033156Author Zahra BatoolFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Leaf Publishing HousePublisher Leaf Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 127g

I know you hey. You're the one that's always in the back of the library. Like a little library gremlin. Eating up knowledge. And Haribo... It's a new term at college and, for most of the Sixth Form students, all that matters are mocks, UCAS...

A collection of four twist-in-the-tail plays for two women: "Day Trippers", "The Guilt Card", "Theatrical Digs" and "Short Changed". All set by the seaside, and delicately observing life, they are full of animated characters.Book InformationISBN...

A modern retelling of Sophocles' classic play, Antigone, by bestselling writer and poet Hollie McNishAs the daughter of Oedipus, Antigone was dealt a cruel hand at birth - even within the bounds of Grecian tragedy. When her brothers are slain fighting...

Edna O'Brien's wonderful, wild and moving novel shocked the nation on its publication in 1960. Adapted for the stage by the author, The Country Girls, the play, is a highly theatrical and free-flowing telling of this classic coming of age story.This new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Best Play, New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards 2018.Book InformationISBN 9781559365833Author Amy HerzogFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Theatre...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681370644Author Alice GoodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

The heartwrenching new novel from bestselling author Kitty NealeCan she put right the secrets of the past?London, 1939. Winnie Berry has been the landlady of the Battersea Tavern for nearly twenty-five years, and the pub is like home to her - a place of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559369633Author Aleshea HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 161Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.

'Luminous' SEBASTIAN BARRY'Incandescent characters and mellifluous prose' LISA CAREY'Reminiscent of Edith Wharton at her very best' LIZ NUGENT_________The true story of a woman ahead of her time . . . In 1887, Isabel Bilton is the eldest of three...

Winner of numerous literary awards including the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize, Eimear McBride's debut novel A Girl is a Half-formed Thing plunges us into the psyche of a girl with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559365970Author Martyna MajokFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.

The Plays Libration by Lluisa Cunill (Spain): A mysterious, intense and comic two-hander about two women who meet in a city park at night. The End Of The Dream Season by Miriam Kainy (Israel): A woman doctor outwits her friends and relations to retain...

A landmark collection of plays for stage, screen and radio. While other anthologies of plays by writers of African descent have been published, Six Plays by Black and Asian Women Writers (1st edition 1993; new revised edition 2005) was the first drama...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881459135Author Reina HardyFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Broadway Play PublishingPublisher Broadway Play PublishingWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573100031Author Jean McConnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd