Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Trailblazer: The First Feminist to Change Our World by Jane Robinson 9780857527776
RRP: £25.00£18.02'What a lot we have to thank Barbara Bodichon and her circle for. She was a charismatic but self-effacing woman so she would at the very least have been perplexed by the idea of being a role model. But I can't think of a better one for today.' - Literary... -
Elizabeth's Women: The Hidden Story of the Virgin Queen by Tracy Borman
RRP: £16.99£12.28'History as it should be written' Alison Weir, bestselling author of the Six Tudor Queens seriesA groundbreaking and fascinating biography of England's most famous queen, viewed through the women who influenced her life.Elizabeth I is often portrayed as... -
Cave in the Snow: A Western Woman's Quest for Enlightenment by Vicki MacKenzie
RRP: £12.99£9.09The story of Tenzin Palmo, an Englishwoman, the daughter of a fishmonger from London's East End, who spent 12 years alone in a cave 13,000 feet up in the Himalayas and became a world-renowned spiritual leader and champion of the right of women to achieve... -
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot 9781035038619
RRP: £10.99£7.12The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a fascinating mix of memoir and science, telling the story of how one woman's cells have saved countless lives. Now an HBO film starring Oprah Winfrey & Rose Byrne.'No dead woman has done more for the living . . ... -
A Leap of Faith: Memoir of an Unexpected Life by Queen Noor
RRP: £12.99£8.60The dramatic and inspiring story of one woman's incredible journey into the heart of a man and his nation.Born into a distinguished Arab-American family, Lisa Halaby was a strongly independent young woman. After studying architecture at Princeton, her... -
84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff 9781860498503
RRP: £8.99£6.20A TRUE STORY THAT HAS TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF THOUSANDS'Unmitigated delight from cover to cover' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A real-life love story . . . A timeless period piece. Do read it' WALL STREET JOURNAL 'Beguile an hour of your time and put you in tune with... -
Bloody Brilliant Women: The Pioneers, Revolutionaries and Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention by Cathy Newman
RRP: £10.99£7.25'A litany of fresh heroes to make the embattled heart sing' Caitlin Moran 'Newman is a brilliant writer' Observer A fresh, opinionated history of all the brilliant women you should have learned about in school but... -
Sister Wendy on Prayer: Biographical Introduction by David Willcock by Sr Sister Wendy Beckett
£17.13Sister Wendy, who has been dedicated to a life of prayer for more than half a century, has always resisted writing a book on the subject. Her reasons mix humility with a conviction that prayer is simple: books about prayer can be a dangerous distraction... -
Sharon Osbourne Extreme: My Autobiography by Sharon Osbourne
RRP: £10.99£7.40'I have been kept awake for the past two nights, utterly gripped by Sharon's story . . . She makes Keith Richards, Kurt Cobain et all look like kiddies at a tea party, overdosing on fizzy drinks . . . she is radiant, confident, assertive and glamorous... -
The Baroness: The Search for Nica the Rebellious Rothschild by Hannah Rothschild
RRP: £10.99£7.40A Rothschild by birth and a Baroness by marriage, beautiful, spirited Pannonica - known as Nica - seemed to have it all: children, a handsome husband and a trust fund. But in the early 1950s she heard a piece by the jazz legend Thelonious Monk. The music... -
Taking Back My Power: Our Bodies. Our Consent. by Georgia Harrison 9780349131009
RRP: £18.99£11.13Georgia Harrison's story as you've never heard it before. Explosive and inspiring, Georgia reveals the shocking truth of how she suffered revenge porn at the hands of her ex - and how she fought to get her life back. 'One woman's campaign for justice for... -
Unfollow: A Radio 4 Book of the Week Pick for June 2021 by Megan Phelps-Roper
RRP: £10.99£7.40'For anyone who enjoyed Hillbilly Elegy or Educated, Unfollow is an essential text' - Louis Theroux'A moving, redemptive, clear-eyed account of religious indoctrination' - Pandora Sykes'A nuanced portrait of the lure and pain of zealotry' New York... -
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino 9780008294953
RRP: £9.99£6.64A Times book of the year A Guardian book of the year 'Magnificent'The Times 'Dazzling' New Statesman 'It filled me with hope' Zadie Smith What happens to our behaviour when we live most of our lives... -
Three Times a Countess: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Raine Spencer by Tina Gaudoin 9780349134833
RRP: £12.99£8.60TELEGRAPH 50 BEST BOOKS OF 2022THE UNTOLD STORY OF PRINCESS DIANA'S STEPMOTHER 'A sparkling biography of a fascinating woman' - Lynn Barber, Telegraph ***** 'Gaudoin's book is revealing and hugely entertaining. Highly recommended.' - Daily Mail... -
Katherine Grainger: The Autobiography by Katherine Grainger
RRP: £10.99£6.47Katherine Grainger is not only Great Britain's finest ever woman rower, but also she has won more Olympic medals than any other female British athlete in any sport. At Rio de Janeiro in the 2016 Olympic Games, at the age of 40, and less than two years... -
Eurydice Street: A Place In Athens by Sofka Zinovieff
RRP: £8.99£6.08Sofka Zinovieff had fallen in love with Greece as a student, but little suspected that years later she would return for good with an expatriate Greek husband and two young daughters. This book is a wonderfully fresh, funny and inquiring account of her... -
Mrs. Oswald Chambers: The Woman behind the World's Bestselling Devotional by Michelle Ule 9780801075148
£15.18Among Christian devotional works, My Utmost for His Highest stands head and shoulders above the rest, with more than 13 million copies sold. But most readers have no idea that Oswald Chambers's most famous work was not published until ten years after his... -
Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman who Ruled an Empire by Julia Baird
RRP: £18.99£12.13NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY JANET MASLIN, THE NEW YORK TIMES'Victoria the Queen, Julia Baird's exquisitely wrought and meticulously researched biography, brushes the dusty myth off this extraordinary monarch' The New York Times Book Review... -
Gone At Midnight by Jake Anderson
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806540061Author Jake AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S. -
What Would Boudicca Do?: Everyday Problems Solved by History's Most Remarkable Women by Elizabeth Foley 9780571340484 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.43Tired of being talked over? Of social media making you feel crap? Of the pressure to 'have it all' and a hot bod too? Boudicca stuck up for herself and now she can help you do the same. It is time to start channelling the spiky superwomen of history... -
Queens of the Age of Chivalry by Alison Weir
RRP: £25.00£18.02From one of Britain's best selling historians, a sweeping and magisterial history of the extraordinary lives of five queens in England's turbulent Age of ChivalryMedieval queens were seen as mere dynastic trophies, yet many of the Plantagenet queens of... -
One Pair of Feet: 'I envy anyone yet to discover the joy of Monica Dickens ... she's blissfully funny' Nina Stibbe by Monica Dickens 9780349016016
RRP: £9.99£6.80INTRODUCED BY LISSA EVANS'I envy anyone yet to discover the joy of Monica Dickens. She's beady eyed, big hearted and blissfully funny' NINA STIBBE ' Humorous, moving and fascinating' CLARE MACKINTOSH Considering herself unsuitable for any other... -
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
RRP: £28.00£15.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984801258Author Glennon DoyleFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Dial Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 516gDimensions(mm) 215mm... -
We Can All Make It: My Story by Sara Davies
RRP: £20.00£13.10A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER!'Determined, focused and full of heart - this book encapsulates all that has made Sara Davies the powerhouse she is.' Giovanna FletcherFrom student halls to Dragons Den (and now Strictly Come Dancing!), this is Sara Davies... -
The Trials of Annie Oakley by Chris Enss 9781493063772
RRP: £14.99£11.53Long before the screen placed the face of Mary Pickford before the eyes of millions of Americans, this girl, born August 13, 1860 as Phoebe Anne Oakley Moses, had won the right to the title of "America's Sweetheart." Having grown up learning to shoot... -
Four Mums in a Boat: Friends who rowed 3000 miles, broke a world record and learnt a lot about life along the way by Janette Benaddi 9780008214845 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£2.29A TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 SPORTS BOOK AWARDS LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 The... -
Four Mums in a Boat: Friends who rowed 3000 miles, broke a world record and learnt a lot about life along the way by Janette Benaddi
RRP: £8.99£5.29A TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 SPORTS BOOK AWARDS LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 The... -
Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore by Bettany Hughes 9781845952143
RRP: £25.00£18.02As soon as men began to write, they made Helen of Troy their subject; for nearly three thousand years she has been both the embodiment of absolute female beauty and a reminder of the terrible power that beauty can wield. Because of her double marriage to... -
The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown
RRP: £10.99£7.77_____________________________________________The 20th Anniversary Edition of Tina Brown's definitive behind-the-scenes insight into the life of Diana Princess of Wales, as depicted in the hit Netflix series The Crown, with a brand new introduction by... -
Molly's Game: The Riveting Book that Inspired the Aaron Sorkin Film by Molly Bloom
RRP: £10.99£7.25A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY AARON SORKIN, AND STARRING JESSICA CHASTAIN, IDRIS ELBA, KEVIN COSTNER AND MICHAEL CERA ... -
Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers by Mary Rodgers 9781399718516
RRP: £25.00£16.78'Mary careens across these pages with her usual wit, wisdom and honesty' - Julie Andrews'Having had the pleasure of meeting Mary Rodgers personally its so wonderful to read her story in her own words . . . I couldn't put it down' - Elaine Page'[A]... -
Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer
RRP: £20.00£11.65***BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK***'Funny, lively and convivial... how rare and nourishing this sort of roaming thought is and what a joy to read' MEGAN NOLAN, SUNDAY TIMES'An exhilarating, shape-shifting exploration of the perilous boundaries between art... -
Apricots on the Nile: Memories of a Lost Egypt by Colette Rossant 9780743475617
£11.94A James Beard Award-winning journalist presents a combination memoir and cookbook in which she describes growing up in French colonial Egypt and presents a richly exotic collection of recipes that blend a variety of cultural influences. Originally... -
Committed: A Love Story by Elizabeth Gilbert
RRP: £10.99£7.77________________ 'Like Eat, Pray, Love, her follow-up ... feels irresistibly confessional ... I found myself guzzling Committed, reading it in mighty chunks, far into the night. Whenever I put it down, it was pinched by my mother or sister' - Sunday... -
In the Days of Rain: WINNER OF THE 2017 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD by Rebecca Stott 9780008209193
RRP: £12.99£8.48WINNER OF THE 2017 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD In the vein of Bad Blood and Why be Happy when you can be Normal?: an enthralling, at times shocking, and deeply personal family memoir of growing up in, and... -
Agatha Christie: A biography by Janet Morgan
RRP: £12.99£8.48Janet Morgan's definitive and authorised biography of Agatha Christie, with a new retrospective foreword by the author. Agatha Christie (1890-1976), the world's bestselling author, is a public institution. Her creations, Hercule Poirot and... -
Chosen by a Horse by Susan Richards 9781845297169 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£1.97When she agrees to take on one of the abused horses just rescued by the local SPCA, a new chapter opens in Susan Richards's difficult life. She lost her mother at the age of five and was raised by uncaring relatives; she married unhappily and divorced;... -
Chosen by a Horse by Susan Richards
RRP: £10.99£7.40When she agrees to take on one of the abused horses just rescued by the local SPCA, a new chapter opens in Susan Richards's difficult life. She lost her mother at the age of five and was raised by uncaring relatives; she married unhappily and divorced;... -
Lady Katherine Knollys: The Unacknowledged Daughter of King Henry VIII by Sarah-Beth Watkins 9781782795858
RRP: £9.99£8.59Katherine Knollys was Mary Boleyn's first child, born in 1524 when Mary was having an affair with King Henry VIII. Katherine spent her life unacknowledged as the king's daughter, yet she was given prime appointments at court as maid of honour to both... -
A History of Islam in 21 Women by Hossein Kamaly 9781786078780
RRP: £9.99£6.41Khadija was the first believer, to whom the Prophet Muhammad often turned for advice. At a time when strongmen quickly seized power from any female Muslim ruler, Arwa of Yemen reigned alone for five decades. In nineteenth-century Russia, Mukhlisa Bubi...