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Seduced by a Sociopath by Chrissy Handy
RRP: $18.88$13.06A devastating true story of love, betrayal, and deceit. Chrissy: attractive, successful 40-year-old divorcee with three amazing children. Alexander Marc d'Ariken de Rothschild-Hatton: international financier, wealthy, charming and... -
Confidence: The Secret Katie Piper 9781784295202
RRP: $23.08$15.98'Confidence is about empowerment. It's about valuing who you are, not what you want to do or how you look. It's about finding the courage to live the life you want, the way you want. Don't look for happiness in other people, find it in yourself.' Katie... -
Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography by Lady Margaret Thatcher 9780062012340
RRP: $48.28$29.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062012340Author Lady Margaret ThatcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 788Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
One Step Sideways, Three Steps Forward: One Woman’s Path to Becoming a Biologist by B. Rosemary Grant 9780691260594
RRP: $52.50$39.38The story of the unorthodox and inspiring life and career of a pioneering biologist Scientist Rosemary Grant’s journey in life has involved detours and sidesteps—not the shortest or the straightest of paths, but one that has led her to the top of... -
Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings by Aung San Suu Kyi
RRP: $33.58$24.38Freedom from Fear - collected writings from the Nobel Peace prize winner Aung San Suu KyiAung San Suu Kyi's collected writings - edited by her late husband, whom the ruling military junta prevented from visiting Burma as he was dying of cancer - reflects... -
Running Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory by Sarah Polley 9781914613210
RRP: $31.48$21.11'Fascinating, harrowing, courageous, and deeply felt, these explorations of "dangerous stories", harmful past events and trials of the soul speak to all who've encountered dark waters and have had to navigate them.' Margaret Atwood FROM THE DIRECTOR AND... -
Lara: The Untold Love Story That Inspired Doctor Zhivago by Anna Pasternak
RRP: $20.98$14.36'Riveting, tragic tale' New Yorker 'Anna Pasternak has produced an irresistible account of joy, suffering and passion' Financial Times The heartbreaking story of the passionate love affair between Boris Pasternak and... -
Spitfire Women of World War II by Giles Whittell
RRP: $23.08$15.67The story of the unsung heroines who flew the newest, fastest, aeroplanes in World War II - mostly in southern England where the RAF was desperately short of pilots. Why would the well-bred daughter of a New England factory-owner brave the... -
Mary Chesnut's Diary by Mary Boykin Chesnut 9780143106067
$23.46One of the most compelling personal narratives of the Civil War, "Mary Chesnut's Diary" was written between 1861 and 1865. As the daughter of a wealthy plantation owner and the wife of an aide to the Confederate President, Jefferson Davis, Chesnut was... -
Myself When Young: The Shaping of a Writer Daphne Du Maurier 9781844080960
RRP: $23.08$15.98'A delightful book, full of amusing and charming stories' THE TIMES'Daphne du Maurier has no equal' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'An intimate view of a creative personality . . . as richly evocative as any of her novels' LOS ANGELES TIMESIn Myself When Young, based... -
Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Margaret Forster
RRP: $35.68$26.19This biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, written with reference to Browning correspondence only recently available, argues that the poet was a strong and determined woman largely responsible for her own incarceration in Wimpole Street. The author... -
Forbidden Wife: The Life and Trials of Lady Augusta Murray by Julia Abel Smith
RRP: $42.00$32.07On the night of 4 April 1793, two lovers were preparing to compel a cleric to perform a secret ceremony. The wedding of the sixth son of King George III to the daughter of the Earl of Dunmore would not only be concealed - it would also be illegal.Lady... -
I Heard My Country Calling: Elaine Madden, the Unsung Heroine of SOE by Sue Elliott
RRP: $27.28$20.73After a tragic childhood among the Great War cemeteries of Flanders Fields, a troubled young woman searches for love and meaning in war-ravaged Europe. Elaine Madden's quest takes her from occupied Belgium through the chaos of Dunkirk, where she flees... -
Be My Baby by Ronnie Spector
RRP: $39.88$29.86Hailed by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the greatest rock memoirs of all time, Be My Baby is the true story of how Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Ronnie Spector carved out a space for herself against tremendous odds amid the chaos of the 1960s music scene... -
Ashes and Stones: A Scottish Journey in Search of Witches and Witness Allyson Shaw 9781529395457
RRP: $39.88$23.73'Beautiful... A moving reminder for us all to connect with what's gone before' STYLISTA moving and personal journey, along rugged coasts and through remote villages and cities, in search of the traces of those accused of witchcraft in seventeenth-century... -
Appointment in Arezzo: A friendship with Muriel Spark by Alan Taylor
RRP: $18.88$13.19This book is an intimate, fond and funny memoir of one of the greatest novelists of the last century. This colourful, personal, anecdotal, indiscreet and admiring memoir charts the course of Muriel Spark's life revealing her as she really was. Once, she... -
Dressed to Kill by Charlotte Madison 9780755319626
RRP: $23.08$16.34'My fingers close around the trigger. I pause for a split second to think about the bullets I am about to spray across the ground. After today, I'll no longer be the new girl.'Captain Charlotte Madison is blonde, beautiful and flies Apache helicopters... -
Female Secret Agents by Douglas Boyd 9781803993751
RRP: $31.48$24.26Forget the adventure stories of James Bond, Kim Philby, Klaus Fuchs and co. - espionage is not just a boys' game. As long as there has been conflict, there have been female agents behind the scenes. In Belgium and northern France in 1914-18 there were... -
The Truth About Lisa Jewell by Will Brooker
RRP: $35.68$26.19*For those aspiring authors who are interested in the path to success*'I read this yesterday in one glorious sitting! What an absolute treat of a book!' Lesley Kara'Illuminating, revealing and absolutely fascinating, Will Brooker offers us the keys to... -
Ariel by Sylvia Plath 9780571351169
RRP: $27.28$18.48The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963. 'If the poems are... -
All The Houses I've Ever Lived In: Finding Home in a System that Fails Us by Kieran Yates
RRP: $31.48$20.18'I tore through the pages. A book I'll read over and over again' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS, author of Queenie ____________________________________________We've all had our share of dodgy landlords, mould and awkward house shares. But journalist Kieran... -
Princess Mary: The First Modern Princess by Elisabeth Basford
RRP: $31.48$24.26Princess Diana is seen as the first member of the British royal family to tear up the rulebook, and the Duchess of Cambridge is modernising the monarchy in strides. But before them was another who paved the way.Princess Mary was born in 1897. Despite her... -
Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women by Christina Lamb 9780008300043 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08$5.96SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 'A wake-up call' Amal Clooney 'Devastating... rape and... -
Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women by Christina Lamb 9780008300043
RRP: $23.08$15.67SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 'A wake-up call' Amal Clooney 'Devastating... rape and... -
The Christian Watt Papers: Memoirs of a Fraserburgh Fishwife Christian Watt 9781780602127
RRP: $31.48$21.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780602127Author Christian WattFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Eland Publishing LtdPublisher Eland Publishing Ltd -
The Archaeology of Loss: Life, love and the art of dying by Sarah Tarlow
RRP: $35.68$24.93When you find your husband lying dead, you think you will not forget a single detail of that moment. As an archaeologist, I like to get my facts right, and I will try my best to do so, but five years have passed since that day in 2016 and I am excavating... -
A Woman in Arabia: The Writings of the Queen of the Desert by Gertrude Bell
RRP: $20.98$15.37The writings of one of the great woman adventurers of the twentieth century - the 'female Lawrence of Arabia' - and the subject of a new film starring Nicole Kidman.In the last century, few people lived more astounding - or influential - lives than... -
The Writings of Teresa de Cartagena by Dayle Seidenspinner-Nunez 9780859914468
RRP: $41.98$31.73Translation, with full explanatory notes, of the two works of Teresa de Cartagena, the fifteenth-century Spanish nun. This affordable, engaging and important translation of Teresa de Cartagena's works significantly expands and enriches the current... -
A Frog in the Fjord: One Year in Norway by Lorelou Desjardins 9788230349199
RRP: $52.48$37.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788230349199Author Lorelou DesjardinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint North PressPublisher North PressWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York Anne de Courcy 9781474601450
RRP: $23.08$15.98Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel of power, privilege and breeding in which the titled, land-owning governing class had barricaded itself for so... -
Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail by Andrea Lankford 9780306831959
RRP: $52.50$39.10** THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER **** AN AMAZON "BEST BOOKS OF THE MONTH" FOR AUGUST 2023 (Biographies & Memoirs) ** As a park ranger with the National Park Service's law enforcement team, Andrea Lankford led search and rescue missions in some of... -
My Rock 'n' Roll Friend by Tracey Thorn
RRP: $35.68$11.87'Entertaining, affectionate and righteous' Guardian'Says so much about being a woman' Cosey Fanni TuttiA TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEARIn 1983, backstage at the Lyceum in London, Tracey Thorn and Lindy Morrison first met. Tracey's music career was just... -
Althea: The Life of Tennis Champion Althea Gibson by Sally H Jacobs
RRP: $54.58$35.57In 1950, three years after Jackie Robinson first walked onto the diamond at Ebbets Field, the lily white, upper-crust National Lawn Tennis Association opened its door just a crack to receive the powerhouse player who would integrate 'the game of kings':... -
Gross Anatomy by Mara Altman 9780008292706 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98$4.75'Here is a book that will set you free, wake you up, and get you on your own team.' Chelsea Handler 'I love how Gross Anatomy delightfully reveals Mara Altman's upbeat and life-affirming obsession with the human body - our loveliness and... -
Gross Anatomy by Mara Altman
RRP: $20.98$16.78'Here is a book that will set you free, wake you up, and get you on your own team.' Chelsea Handler 'I love how Gross Anatomy delightfully reveals Mara Altman's upbeat and life-affirming obsession with the human body - our loveliness and... -
Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion by Professor of History Jean H Baker 9780809067572
RRP: $23.08$17.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809067572Author Professor of History Jean H BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams) 322g -
Daughters of Shame by Jasvinder Sanghera 9780340962077 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08$4.81'I listen to those stories - told by women who have been drugged, beaten, imprisoned, raped and terrorised within the walls of the homes they grew up in. I listen and I am humbled by their resilience.'Jasvinder Sanghera knows what it means to flee from... -
Daughters of Shame by Jasvinder Sanghera
RRP: $23.08$14.01'I listen to those stories - told by women who have been drugged, beaten, imprisoned, raped and terrorised within the walls of the homes they grew up in. I listen and I am humbled by their resilience.'Jasvinder Sanghera knows what it means to flee from... -
The Hungover Games Sophie Heawood 9781787330511
RRP: $31.48$28.69** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ** 'Indecently entertaining' Guardian 'Hilarious' The Times I had no idea how to commit to another human being. I could barely commit to reading a magazine, and I wrote for magazines for a living. My specialist subject... -
A Tangled Web: Mata Hari: Dancer, Courtesan, Spy by Mary Craig
RRP: $42.00$32.91In this new biography, published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of her execution, Mata Hari is revealed in all of her flawed eccentricity; a woman whose adult life was a fantastical web of lies, half-truths and magnetic sexuality that captivated...