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We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction by Joan Didion
RRP: €47.60€30.10Apologies 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 *... -
I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys by Miranda Seymour 9780008353254
RRP: €29.75€20.03'An absolute belter of a biography' MARINA HYDE A Times Literary Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2022 An LA Times Best Book of the Year 2022 An... -
Elizabeth Bowen's Psychoanalytic Fiction Victoria Coulson 9781474480505
RRP: €24.98€20.46This 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... -
The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym by Paula Byrne 9780008322205
RRP: €29.75€20.74'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... -
A Bite of the Apple: A Life with Books, Writers and Virago by Lennie Goodings
RRP: €23.79€16.99'The moment I got my job at Virago in 1978 I knew it would be a long time before I would leave. I certainly wouldn't have had the brazen hope then-only twenty-five and very recently new to Britain-that I would ever become the Publisher, but I did know... -
Too Much by Rachel Vorona Cote
RRP: €23.80€17.01Lacing 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... -
The Cambridge Companion to D. H. Lawrence by Anne Fernihough
RRP: €39.26€33.77The Cambridge Companion to D. H. Lawrence contains fourteen chapters by leading international scholars. They offer a series of alternative perspectives on one of the most important and controversial writers of the twentieth century. These... -
The Forgotten Female Aesthetes: Literary Culture in Late-Victorian England by Talia Schaffer 9780813919379
€36.54Every non-canonical male aesthete in Victorian England once competed with what Talia Schaffer calls the female aesthetes, whose critical and popular success made them formidable contemporaries. Not only did these women make significant contributions to... -
The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth by Frances Wilson
RRP: €13.08€8.71The 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... -
Agatha Christie's England by Caroline Crampton 9781838216733
RRP: €14.28€10.63Apologies 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 -
Black Women Writers at Work by Claudia Tate
RRP: €23.79€16.14"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... -
Out of Her Mind: Women Writing on Madness by Rebecca Shannonhouse 9780375755026
€18.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375755026Author Rebecca ShannonhouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238g -
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: €10.70€5.36Apologies 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 -
The Woman Beyond the Attic: The V.C. Andrews Story by Andrew Neiderman 9781982182632
RRP: €23.80€15.30**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... -
Vita and Virginia: The Work and Friendship of V. Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf by Suzanne Raitt
€54.44This 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... -
What Matters in Jane Austen? by John Mullan
RRP: €15.46€10.82What 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... -
The Wise Wound: Menstruation and Everywoman by Penelope Shuttle 9780714534053
RRP: €11.89€9.78Apologies 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 Book of the City of Ladies by Christine
RRP: €19.04€11.09Apologies 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)... -
Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature by Anna Beer 9780861546848
RRP: €13.08€8.78Margery Kempe. Aemilia Lanyer. Aphra Behn. Lady Mary. Jane Austen. Warned not to write - and certainly not to bite - these women put pen to paper anyway and wrote themselves into history. 'Smart, funny and highly readable... a tour de force.' A.L... -
Jane Austen, the Secret Radical by Helena Kelly 9781785781889
RRP: €13.08€8.71'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... -
Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life by Claire Tomalin
RRP: €13.08€9.25Katherine 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,... -
Buzzworthy: Cocktails Inspired by Female Literary Greats by Jennifer Croll
RRP: €17.84€13.03The 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... -
This Little Art by Kate Briggs
RRP: €15.46€11.88An 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 Life of Una Marson, 1905-65 by Delia Jarrett-Macauley
RRP: €23.79€17.28This is an original, full length biography of Britain's first twentieth-century black feminist - Una Marson - poet, playwright, and social activist and BBC broadcaster. Una Marson is recognised today as the first major woman poet of the Caribbean and... -
The Annotated Emma by Jane Austen
RRP: €19.03€13.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307390776Author Jane AustenFormat PaperbackPage Count 928Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 737gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 132mm... -
Essays Lydia Davis 9780241371473
RRP: €23.80€17.48From 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... -
George Eliot's Middlemarch by Josie Billington
RRP: €10.70€8.81Apologies 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 -
Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature by Anna Beer
RRP: €23.80€17.01Margery Kempe. Aemilia Lanyer. Aphra Behn. Lady Mary. Jane Austen. Warned not to write - and certainly not to bite - these women put pen to paper anyway and wrote themselves into history. 'Smart, funny and highly readable... a tour de force.' A.L... -
Hannah Arendt: Life Is a Narrative by Julia Kristeva
RRP: €22.60€19.90In 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,... -
Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kroeger
RRP: €21.41€15.89Everyone 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: €29.75€23.31The #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... -
The Private World of Georgette Heyer by Jane Aiken Hodge
RRP: €11.89€8.46As an internationally bestselling phenomenon and queen of the Regency Romance, Georgette Heyer is one of the most beloved historical novelists of our time. She's written more than fifty novels - romances, detective stories and contemporary works of... -
Seduction and Betrayal by Elizabeth Hardwick 9780571347001
RRP: €13.08€8.71ONE 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.'... -
Literary Trails: Haworth and the Bront s by Walford, David F 9781526720856
RRP: €17.84€13.03This 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... -
The Road to Middlemarch: My Life with George Eliot by Rebecca Mead 9781847085160
RRP: €11.89€7.97At the age of seventeen, Rebecca Mead read Middlemarch for the first time, and has read it again every five years since, each time interpreting and discovering it anew. In The Road to Middlemarch she writes passionately about her relationship to this... -
Journey with Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet by Eavan Boland 9781857545418
RRP: €20.17€14.34A Journey with Two Maps begins with an anecdote: one afternoon, Eavan Boland saw one of her mother's paintings for sale in a gallery, signed by her famous teacher. It is the starting point for an exploration of concepts of art and womanhood, of what it... -
The New Woman: Fiction and Feminism at the Fin De Siecle by Sally Ledger
RRP: €23.79€21.21Sexually transgressive, politically astute and determined to claim educational and employment rights equal to those enjoyed by men, the new woman took centre stage in the cultural landscape of late-Victorian Britain. By comparing the fictional... -
In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination by Margaret Atwood
RRP: €13.08€8.81From 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... -
Writing Wild: Women Poets, Ramblers and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World by Kathryn Aalto
RRP: €22.60€18.09"Re-centers and gives voice to a diversity of women naturalists and writers across time." -Cultivating Place In Writing Wild, Kathryn Aalto celebrates 25 women whose influential writing helps deepen our connection to and understanding of the natural... -
Judith Butler by Sara Salih 9780415215190
RRP: €23.79€21.05Since the publication of Gender Trouble in 1990, Judith Butler has revolutionised our understanding of identities and the ways in which they are constructed. This volume examines her critical thought through key texts, touching upon such issues as:* The...