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The Technique of Greek Sculpture by Chief Nurse Sheila Adam
RRP: £18.99£14.54They were told to hold the fort. They did far more than that.When the Second World War broke out, the task of keeping society afloat fell on the shoulders of the women left behind. Women the world over stepped into boots they'd never worn before -... -
Call Me Elizabeth: Wife, Mother, Escort by Dawn Annandale 9780751536980 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£1.79Dawn Annandale is bright, witty and well educated. But when her marriage began to fall apart, she had to face a seemingly insurmountable pile of debts on her own. Determined that her children would not suffer because of their parents' mistakes, and with... -
Call Me Elizabeth: Wife, Mother, Escort by Dawn Annandale 9780751536980
£12.73Dawn Annandale is bright, witty and well educated. But when her marriage began to fall apart, she had to face a seemingly insurmountable pile of debts on her own. Determined that her children would not suffer because of their parents' mistakes, and with... -
Princess More Tears to Cry Jean Sasson 9780857502865
RRP: £8.99£6.65When Jean Sasson's book Princess: Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia was published, it became an immediate international bestseller. It sold to 43 countries and spent 13 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list. Now, in this long-awaited, compelling... -
The Sober Revolution: Calling Time on Wine O'Clock Lucy Rocca 9781783752089
RRP: £12.99£8.83A reissue of the 2014 edition, featuring a new foreword from the authors.Do you count down the minutes to wine o'clock? You are not alone. When it comes to alcohol, plenty of people find it hard to exercise moderation and become stuck in a vicious cycle... -
I Remember Nothing and other reflections by Nora Ephron
RRP: £9.99£7.32'Memories, aphorisms and stern good advice from America's favourite naughty aunt' Independent on Sunday'This book is as grown-up as a dirty martini' Sunday Times'Sharp as a knife' Daily Express___In her final book, Nora Ephron reflects on life, growing... -
I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman by Joumana Haddad 9780863564277 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£1.89In this provocative book Joumana Haddad uses the format of the political pamphlet to describe the liberating impact of literature on her life. She tells of reading the Marquis de Sade at twelve, of her metamorphosis into an award-winning poet, and... -
I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman by Joumana Haddad 9780863564277
RRP: £9.99£7.00In this provocative book Joumana Haddad uses the format of the political pamphlet to describe the liberating impact of literature on her life. She tells of reading the Marquis de Sade at twelve, of her metamorphosis into an award-winning poet, and... -
Princess: Secrets to Share by Jean Sasson
RRP: £8.99£6.65After the recent success of Princess, More Tears to Cry the Princess Al-Saud and Jean Sasson are collaborating on this new book to bring readers up to date not only with the Princess and her family but the stories and experiences of characters who formed... -
Violette: The Missions of SOE Agent Violette Szabo GC by Tania Szabo
RRP: £14.99£12.12SOE agent Violette Szabo was one of the most incredible women who operated behind enemy lines during the Second World War. The daughter of an English father and French mother, and widow of a French army officer, she was daring and courageous, conducting... -
My Sister Milly Gemma Dowler 9781405927574
RRP: £12.99£9.34You've seen Manhunt, now read this powerful and personal account from Milly Dowler's sister Gemma . . . 'My name is Gemma Dowler. On 21 March 2002, a serial killer named Levi Bellfield stole my sister and sent our family to hell . . .' In My Sister... -
The Nomad: Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt by Isabelle Eberhardt 9781623717100
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623717100Author Isabelle EberhardtFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc -
Diana: Her Last Love by Kate Snell
RRP: £9.99£6.15WITH NEW AFTERWORD FROM THE AUTHOR.When you're the most famous woman in the world, can you really love in secret?When Princess Diana flew to Pakistan in May 1997, she went to meet the family of Dr Hasnat Khan, the man she wanted to marry. One of the most... -
Great Women's Speeches: Empowering Voices that Engage and Inspire Anna Russell 9780711255852
RRP: £12.99£8.35This is an edited and resized version of So Here I Am: Speeches by great women to empower and inspire.Discover the inspiring voices that have changed our world, and started a new conversation.Great Women's Speeches is essential reading for pioneering... -
Lighting the Fuse by Lucy Lewis 9781841883946
RRP: £9.99£7.00Imagine standing over a bomb - you need to make a choice. Remember, your life depends on it.In this extraordinary memoir, Lucy Lewis reveals the hidden world of bomb disposal training and how she came to be the UK's first female bomb disposal expert... -
Chanel: The Fashion Icons by Michael O'Neill 9781915343215
RRP: £21.99£16.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915343215Author Michael O'NeillFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Sona BooksPublisher Danann Media Publishing LimitedWeight(grams) 794gDimensions(mm)... -
Never Shaken, Never Stirred: The Story of Ann Fleming and Laura, Duchess of Marlborough by Christopher Reindorp
RRP: £22.99£17.79Glamorous, fun and packed with scandalous anecdotes and exclusive interviews, Never Shaken, Never Stirred tells the story of two extraordinary sisters, Ann and Laura Charteris, who made marrying well an art form.While Laura eventually became the Duchess... -
Vanessa Bell: Portrait of the Bloomsbury Artist by Frances Spalding
RRP: £14.99£12.33The definitive and authorised biography of the artist Vanessa Bell. Even through the lens of the twenty-first century, the story of Vanessa Bell's life is unorthodox. A powerful magnetic figure, Bell lived at the heart of the Bloomsbury Group and was... -
This is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch by Tabitha Carvan
RRP: £14.99£10.36A hilarious, heartfelt memoir about one woman's midlife obsession with Benedict Cumberbatch, and the liberating power of reclaiming our passions as we age, whatever they may be. Tabitha Carvan was a new mother, at home with two young children,... -
In The Shadow of the Mountain by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
£19.16WINNER OF THE 2023 EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Silvia Vasquez-Lavado is a warrior. I'm in awe of her strength and courage' - Selena Gomez'An incredibly powerful story' Sunday Independent'In the Shadow of the Mountain has all the elements a... -
The Accidental Duchess: From Farmer's Daughter to Belvoir Castle by Emma Manners, Duchess of Rutland 9781035002108
RRP: £10.99£7.99'The Duchess does indeed seem a remarkable woman . . . this is an engaging book' - Lynn Barber, Daily TelegraphWhen Emma Watkins, the pony-mad daughter of a Welsh farmer, imagined her future, she imagined following in her mother's footsteps to marry a... -
Martha Gellhorn: A Life by Caroline Moorehead
RRP: £16.99£12.28Discover the life of one of the twentieth century's most significant and notorious war correspondents, and the third wife of Ernest Hemingway.Martha Gellhorn's journalism tracks many of the flashpoints of the twentieth century; as a young woman she... -
Through Innocent Eyes: The Chosen Girls of the Hitler Youth by Cynthia A Sandor 9780999755006
RRP: £26.71£19.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999755006Author Cynthia A SandorFormat HardbackPage Count 366Imprint Bdm HistoryPublisher Bdm HistoryWeight(grams) 640g -
Sharon Osbourne Extreme: My Autobiography Sharon Osbourne 9780751537666
RRP: £10.99£7.61'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... -
A Promise To Nadia: A true story of a British slave in the Yemen Zana Muhsen 9780751543698
RRP: £10.99£7.61Ten years previously Zana Muhsen escaped from the life of slavery in the Yemen into which her father had sold her as a child bride, leaving behind her baby son, her sister Nadia, and Nadia's two small children. As she described so powerfully in her... -
No Far Shore: Charting Unknown Waters by Anne-Marie Fyfe 9781781725177
RRP: £9.99£7.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781725177Author Anne-Marie FyfeFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press -
My Secret Sister: Jenny Lucas and Helen Edwards' family story by Jenny Lee Smith
RRP: £9.99£7.32A heartbreaking and moving true story of two sisters separated at birth, and their journey towards finding each other, celebrating the true meaning of family.Helen Edwards grew up in a pit village in Tyneside in the post-war years, with her gran, aunties... -
What Are You Doing Here?: My Autobiography by Floella Benjamin 9781529071054
RRP: £20.00£14.91Winner at the 2022 Parlimentary Book AwardsBaroness Floella Benjamin is an inspiration, an actress and much-loved children's television presenter who is a member of the House of Lords. But how did the girl from Trinidad end up lunching with the Queen?In... -
Ernestine L. Rose: Agitate! by Joyce B Lazarus 9780761873426
RRP: £15.99£14.28Overlooked by historians for over half a century following her death, Ernestine L. Rose (1810 1892) was one of the foremost orators and social reformers of her era. A fearless human rights activist, she fought for racial equality, women's rights,... -
Camera Girl: The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy by Carl Sferrazza Anthony
RRP: £20.00£17.62An illuminating new biography of the young Jackie Bouvier Kennedy that covers her formative adventures abroad in Paris; her life as a writer and photographer at a Washington, DC, newspaper; and her romance with a dashing, charismatic Massachusetts... -
A Woman of Firsts: The midwife who built a hospital and changed the world by Edna Adan Ismail
RRP: £9.99£6.01'The Muslim Mother Teresa' Huffington Post Winner of the 2023 Templeton Prize Imprisonment. Mutilation. Persecution. Edna Adan Ismail endured it all - for the women of Africa. ... -
What Have I Done?: 2020's must read memoir about motherhood and mental health by Laura Dockrill 9781529112542
RRP: £8.99£6.65'Such a raw, honest and important book' Giovanna FletcherLike any new mum, Laura Dockrill felt rather overwhelmed after the birth of her son. But a slow recovery, sleep deprivation and anxiety quickly escalated into postpartum psychosis, and she had to... -
Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story by Alice Bag 9781936239122
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936239122Author Alice BagFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 508g -
Happy Single Mother: Real advice on how to stay sane and why things are better than you think Sarah Thompson 9781909770799
RRP: £8.99£6.39Being a single mother wasn't always part of the plan. The fear of it kept me and my family in a situation that wasn't good for any of us. I never thought it could be the life change we all needed. Yes, it can be exhausting, lonely, and financially tough... -
From My Sisters' Lips by Na'ima B. Robert
RRP: £10.99£7.99Covered from head to toe with only her eyes visible, the sight of a Muslim woman on a western city street rarely fails to provoke a strong reaction. Feelings of shock, horror, repulsion, pity or even fear are not uncommon. But have you ever wondered who... -
Ashes and Stones: A Scottish Journey in Search of Witches and Witness by Allyson Shaw 9781529395495
RRP: £12.99£8.83'Beautiful... A moving reminder for us all to connect with what's gone before' STYLIST'Atmospheric, scholarly - and gripping . . . Shocking and important' Laline Paull, author of PodRoaming the ragged coasts and remote villages of Scotland, Ashes &... -
The Woman Beyond the Attic: The V.C. Andrews Story by Andrew Neiderman 9781982182632
RRP: £20.00£12.86**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... -
All In: The Autobiography of Billie Jean King by Billie Jean King
RRP: £14.99£10.95An inspiring and intimate self-portrait of the champion of equality that encompasses her brilliant tennis career, unwavering activism, and an ongoing commitment to fairness and social justice.'A constant role model in my life, Billie Jean King is a... -
The Edinburgh Seven: The Story of the First Women to Study Medicine by Janey Jones 9781399099233
RRP: £20.00£14.51Women have healed since the beginning of time, but accessing a formal degree in medicine was impossible for them in Britain until the late 19th century. In 1869, a group of women began arriving in Edinburgh to study at the medical faculty, led by the... -
Free Spirit: A Memoir of an Extraordinary Life Tanya Sarne 9781784728465
RRP: £20.00£14.91"I read Free Spirit all in one go as I literally couldn't put it down.Tanya Sarne's courage and resilience are utterly awe-inspiring.You could read no better book than this on the zeitgeist of London and Hollywood in the Sixties and Seventies and the...