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The Wise Wound: Menstruation and Everywoman by Penelope Shuttle 9780714534053
RRP: $20.98$16.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714534053Author Penelope ShuttleFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers LtdWeight(grams)... -
The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym by Paula Byrne
RRP: $31.48$20.37'Captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously' JILLY COOPER Picked as a Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by the Guardian, The Times and the Observer A Radio 4 Book of the Week, April... -
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction by Joan Didion
RRP: $84.00$56.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307264879Author Joan DidionFormat HardbackPage Count 1160Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 987gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read by Virginia Woolf
RRP: $18.88$12.64FOREWORD BY ALI SMITH WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE Who better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf? ... -
Jane Austen: The Six Novels by Wendy Craik 9781138084445
RRP: $92.38$80.72First published in 1965, this reissued work by Wendy Craik provides a thorough and extensive study of Jane Austen's six complete novels: Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma and Persuasion. This is a truly... -
Elizabeth Bowen's Psychoanalytic Fiction by Victoria Coulson 9781474480505
RRP: $44.08$36.10This book provides a new account of Bowen's fiction that highlights in particular the force and originality of Bowen's virtually psychoanalytic thinking about development, sexuality and gender. Focusing on the relationship between Bowen's work and the... -
Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives by Helen Taylor 9780198827689
RRP: $33.58$24.99Ian McEwan once said, 'When women stop reading, the novel will be dead.' This book explains how precious fiction is to contemporary women readers, and how they draw on it to tell the stories of their lives. Female readers are key to the future of fiction... -
Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life by Claire Tomalin
RRP: $23.08$16.32Katherine Mansfield is the celebrated biography be bestselling author Claire Tomalin'One of the best biographies I have ever read: a perfect match of author and subject. It should become a classic' Alison LuriePursuing art and adventure across Europe,... -
Black Women Writers at Work by Claudia Tate
RRP: $41.98$28.48"Black women writers and critics are acting on the old adage that one must speak for oneself if one wishes to be heard." -Claudia Tate, from the introductionLong out of print, Black Women Writers at Work is a vital contribution to Black literature in the... -
Artful by Ali Smith
RRP: $23.08$16.32A playful, form-bending novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted, Women's Prize-winning author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet 'Playful and audacious' Independent Narrated by a character who is haunted - literally - by a... -
Devotion by Patti Smith 9780300240221
RRP: $18.88$13.57The National Book Award-winning author of Year of the Monkey, Just Kids, and M Train offers a rare, intimate account of her own creative process. A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic-its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring... -
Agatha Christie's England by Caroline Crampton 9781838216733
RRP: $25.20$18.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838216733Author Caroline CramptonPage Count 1Imprint Herb Lester Associates LtdPublisher Herb Lester Associates LtdDimensions(mm) 208mm * 145mm * 5mm -
Summary and Analysis of Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race: Based on the Book by Margot Lee Shetterly by Worth Books 9781504046657
RRP: $18.88$9.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504046657Author Worth BooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Open Road MediaPublisher Open Road Media -
Vita and Virginia: The Work and Friendship of V. Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf by Suzanne Raitt
RRP: $93.43$84.88This book examines the creative intimacy between Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf, interpreting both their relationship and their work in the light of their experience as married lesbians. The contradictions and conflicts of their situation are... -
The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth by Frances Wilson
RRP: $23.08$15.37The prize-winning biography of Wordsworth's beloved sister, champion, muse who was at the heart of the Romantic movement in Britain - reissued to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Dorothy's birth.'Genius ... Its own kind of heaven.' New York Times 'A... -
The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine
RRP: $31.50$20.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140446890Author Christine de PizanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)... -
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm 9780300143102
RRP: $25.18$21.32Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography: the story of the mystifying relationship between the brilliant and affable Gertrude Stein and her brooding companion, Alice B. Toklas"Janet Malcolm deftly captures Alice B. Toklas's legendary... -
Sangati: Events by BAMA 9780195698435
RRP: $12.58$11.15Sangati is a startling insight into the lives of Dalit women who face the double disadvantage of caste and gender discrimination. Written in a colloquial style, the original Tamil version overturns the decorum and aesthetics of upper-caste, upper-class... -
What Matters in Jane Austen? by John Mullan
RRP: $27.28$19.09What are the right and wrong ways to propose marriage? What do the characters call each other, and why? And which important Austen characters never speak? In twenty short chapters, each of which answers a question prompted by Jane Austen's... -
South and West: From A Notebook by Joan Didion
RRP: $18.88$12.64From one of the most important chroniclers of our time, come two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks - writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. ... -
Jane Austen, the Secret Radical by Helena Kelly 9781785781889
RRP: $23.08$15.37'A sublime piece of literary detective work that shows us once and for all how to be precisely the sort of reader that Austen deserves.' Caroline Criado-Perez, GuardianAlmost everything we think we know about Jane Austen is wrong. Her novels don't... -
Buzzworthy: Cocktails Inspired by Female Literary Greats by Jennifer Croll
RRP: $31.48$23.00The author of Free the Tipple is back with another collection of delectable cocktails-this time a literary mix inspired by the world's most iconic women writers. The fifty recipes in this volume are as unconventional, imaginative, and refreshing as... -
Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction by Samantha J. Rayner
RRP: $52.50$46.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787357617Author Samantha J. RaynerFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 610g -
This Little Art by Kate Briggs
RRP: $27.28$17.98An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs's This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading, writing and living with the works of others. Taking... -
The Hardships of the English Laws in Relation to Wives by Sarah Chapone by Susan Paterson Glover
RRP: $83.98$73.63Susan Paterson Glover here presents, in modern type, a critical edition of the first printed work by an English woman writer, Sarah Chapone, on the inequity of the common law regime for married women. Glover's extended, original introduction provides an... -
Too Much by Rachel Vorona Cote
RRP: $42.00$28.04Lacing cultural criticism, Victorian literature, and storytelling together, Too Much explores how culture corsets women's bodies, souls, and sexualities - and how we might finally undo the strings.Written in the tradition of Shrill, Dead Girls, Sex... -
Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri
RRP: $37.78$29.53Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary translatorTranslating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on... -
The Real Beatrix Potter by Nadia Cohen 9781526752758
RRP: $31.48$23.00The Real Beatrix Potter is a fascinating and revealing biography of one of the world's most cherished children's authors. Beatrix Potter's famous little white books have enchanted generations of young readers who adored the characters she created and of... -
Essays by Lydia Davis
RRP: $42.00$30.85From the International Man Booker Prize-winning author of Can't and Won't and The End of the Story - a crystalline collection of literary essays for fans of Susan Sontag and Joan Didion'She's a joy. There's no writer quite like her' Ali Smith 'Among my... -
Hannah Arendt: Life Is a Narrative by Julia Kristeva
RRP: $39.88$36.41In this volume, based on the series of Alexander Lectures she delivered at the University of Toronto, Julia Kristeva explores the philosophical aspects of Hannah Arendt's work: her understanding of such concepts as language, self, body, political space,... -
The Woman Beyond the Attic: The V.C. Andrews Story by Andrew Neiderman 9781982182632
RRP: $42.00$27.01**Nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biography**This celebration of the woman who took us to the heights of a secluded attic and the depths of our own dark psyches reveals an intimate portrait of the famously private V.C. Andrews-featuring... -
Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kroeger
RRP: $37.78$28.43Everyone knows about Mary Shelley, creator of Frankenstein; but have you heard of Margaret Cavendish, who wrote a science-fiction epic 150 years earlier? Have you read the psychological hauntings of Violet Paget, who was openly involved in long-term... -
The #MeToo Effect: What Happens When We Believe Women by Leigh Gilmore
RRP: $52.50$40.28The #MeToo movement inspired millions to testify to the widespread experience of sexual violence. More broadly, it shifted the deeply ingrained response to women's accounts of sexual violence from doubting all of them to believing some of them. What... -
Kate Chopin's The Awakening: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook by Janet Beer 9780415238212
RRP: $41.98$37.15Damned upon publication for engaging with the taboo issues of female sexuality and infidelity, Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1899) is now hailed as a key early feminist text and an important work of American literature.This sourcebook combines accessible... -
Literary Trails: Haworth and the Bront s by Walford, David F 9781526720856
RRP: $31.48$23.00This light-hearted but deeply researched book offers interest and guidance to walkers, social historians and lovers of the Bronte family; their lives and works. Set in and around the town of Haworth it gives a dual introduction to walkers and lovers of... -
George Eliot's Middlemarch by Josie Billington
RRP: $18.88$15.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776076Author Josie BillingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Seduction and Betrayal by Elizabeth Hardwick 9780571347001
RRP: $23.08$15.37ONE OF THE WHITE REVIEW'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019Elizabeth Hardwick's iconic essay collection Seduction and Betrayal is a radical portrait of women and literature, reissued with a new introduction by Deborah Levy.'Hardwick's sentences are burned in my brain.'... -
The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory by Ellen Rooney
RRP: $71.38$61.45Feminism has dramatically influenced the way literary texts are read, taught and evaluated. Feminist literary theory has deliberately transgressed traditional boundaries between literature, philosophy and the social sciences in order to understand how... -
In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination by Margaret Atwood
RRP: $23.08$15.54From her days as a child reader in the 1940s, through her time at Harvard, where she studied the Victorian ancestors of the form, and later as a writer and reviewer, Margaret Atwood has always been fascinated with science fiction. Here she brings... -
The Adventurous Life of Amelia B. Edwards: Egyptologist, Novelist, Activist by Margaret C. Jones 9781350293953
RRP: $33.58$29.99In Victorian England, Amelia B. Edwards was an iconic cultural figure, admired by Trollope and Browning for her best-selling fiction and by the wider public for her witty, thought-provoking travel writing. In later life, she became a celebrated...