Women

'Perfect' Lena Dunham 'This year's literary sensation' Evening StandardHow far would you travel to become a writer?8000 miles from home1085 calories a day3 months to write the novel that would make her nameAt least that was the plan. But when Nell...

'I adored this book. It's so Geena and so inspiring and such a wonderful read' Emma Thompson A Times Film and Theatre Book of the Year 2022 From two-time Academy Award winner and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385349949Author Sheryl SandbergFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 243mm...

Middle age took Jane Shilling by surprise. She hadn't seen it coming, and she certainly wasn't ready for it. Living a flawed, bittersweet version of the idyll she dreamed of in her twenties, in a tumbledown urban cottage by the Thames, with a son, a cat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671755140Author FISHERFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 10mm

Unquiet Women is an exquisitely crafted patchwork of the forgotten lives of some of the most remarkable women in history. History is polyphonic; it must be told by many voices. In Unquiet Women, Max Adams brings to life the voices and experiences of...

Revel in the enduring legacy of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo-from the self-portraits, to the flower crown, to her iconic eyebrows-with this fun and commemorative book!With her colorful style, dramatic self-portraits, hardscrabble backstory, and verve for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250835475Author Daniella Mestyanek YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681375892Author Hannah ArendtFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Remember when we hit it off so well that we decided We're Going to Need More Wine? Well, this time you and I are going to turn to our friend the bartender and ask, You Got Anything Stronger? I promise to continue to make you laugh, but with this round,...

Girl in the Woods is Aspen Matis's exhilarating true-life adventure of hiking from Mexico to Canada-a coming-of-age story, a survival story, and a triumphant story of overcoming emotional devastation. On her second night of college, Aspen was raped by a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615720555Author Tina SwithinFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Divorcing a Narcissist: One Mom's BattlePublisher Divorcing a Narcissist: One Mom's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Edgar Award Nominee 2021.Book InformationISBN 9781641292948Author Jacqueline WinspearFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Soho PressPublisher Soho Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770500372Author M BlanchetFormat HardbackImprint Whitecap Books LtdPublisher Whitecap Books LtdWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 150mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608196975Author Molly PeacockFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Bloomsbury PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 625g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884956034Author Grace Lee WhitneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 195Imprint Quill Driver Books, U.S.Publisher Quill Driver Books, U.S.Dimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743444293Author Mineko IwasakiFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 135mm * 22mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593493526Author Paulina PorizkovaFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint The Open FieldPublisher Random House USA Inc

An ancestry test suggesting she shared some DNA with the Sami people, the indigenous inhabitants of the Arctic tundra, tapped into Laura Galloway's wanderlust; an affair with a Sami reindeer herder ultimately led her to leave New York for the tiny town...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Awards. Nominated for National Book Critics Circle Awards.Book InformationISBN 9781400043149Author Joan DidionFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint...

At seventeen Lori Schiller was the perfect child - the only daughter of an affluent, close-knit family. Six years later she made her first suicide attempt, then wandered the streets of New York City dressed in ragged clothes, tormenting voices crying out...

When Betty Farmer married double agent Eddie Chapman, Agent Zigzag, she knew her life would never be ordinary. Yet even before her marriage to Eddie, her life involved incendiary bombs, serial killers, film roles and love affairs with flying aces. After...

When Betty Farmer married double agent Eddie Chapman, Agent Zigzag, she knew her life would never be ordinary. Yet even before her marriage to Eddie, her life involved incendiary bombs, serial killers, film roles and love affairs with flying aces. After...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062091918Author Loung UngFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 272g

'A mellow, gentle read with a lot of words of wisdom' IndependentLet Dawn French guide you through the year with her witty and wise seasonal insights. __________Me You: Not A Diary is a pocket diary without the diary part. Or the pocket. It includes...

Joanne Limburg thinks things she doesn't want to think, and does things she doesn't want to do. As a young woman, obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviours had come to completely dominate her life. She knew that something was wrong, but it would take...

An acclaimed biography of Elizabeth I and an examination of the politics and intrigues of her Tudor court.Elizabeth I ruled England in defiance of convention, exercising supreme authority in a man's world. With courage, brilliance and style, she reigned...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865435650Author Carla GottliebFormat PaperbackPage Count 119Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 216g

Maryse Conde is one of the best-known and most beloved French Caribbean literary voices. The author of more than twenty novels, she was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2015 and has long been recognized as a giant of black feminist...

When 18-year-old Mary Hazard touched down in post-war Putney to begin her nurse's training, she could never have known that it was the beginning of a colourful career that would still be going 60 years later - one of the longest ever serving NHS nurses. ...

The instant New York Times bestseller from the author of Furiously Happy and Let's Pretend This Never Happened. Now with a new bonus chapter.'Broken is the party of the year . . . I loved it' - Sarah Knight, bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic...

When you're pregnant you think: 'I'm having a baby', not a person who will eventually catch trains by themselves, share a fridge with ten strangers, go to a festival in Croatia without succumbing to a drug overdose, and one day, bring you a gin and tonic...

From age four to 18, Sue William Silverman was sexually abused by her father, a high-ranking government official. This is an often graphic memoir of those years which recounts how Silverman's mother ignored her distress, thus conspiring in an attempt to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506483160Author Shannon HarrisFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint Broadleaf BooksPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

For the past fifty years, Monday afternoons in New Haven have always been the same: Roz, Rhoda, Bea, Jackie and Bette - the Bridge Ladies. A card table with four folding chairs (and one dummy seat). A plate of homemade cookies or brownies on the kitchen...

Vivacious, confident and striking, young Australian Sheila Chisholm met her first husband, Lord Loughborough, in Egypt during the First World War. Arriving in London as a young married woman, she quickly conquered English society, and would spend the...

A beautiful, startling, and candid memoir about growing up without boundaries, in which Ariel Leve recalls with candor and sensitivity the turbulent time she endured as the only child of an unstable poet for a mother and a beloved but largely absent...

A compelling portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft that shows the intimate connections between her life and workMary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, first published in 1792, is a work of enduring relevance in women's rights advocacy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786885916Author Linda GreenlawFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374602390Author Tove DitlevsenFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...