Women

Despite her prolific output, ageless writer and wit Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) never penned an autobiography (although if she had, she said that it would have been titled Mongrel). Combing through her stories, poems, articles, reviews, correspondence,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788305464Author Vera HemsleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

'If I can start to run at 50 and become the oldest British woman to complete an Ironman, everyone should realise it's never too late'At the age of 50, Eddie Brocklesby decided to run her first half marathon. Until that point, she'd done little running,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593762995Author Sean YseultFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft Skull PressWeight(grams) 792g

A candid, comical memoir about coming of age in the decade of bad dates, worse hair and non-stop Carrie Bradshaw. Lauren Rae thought she had it all sussed out. Leaving her awkward teenage years in the past, the future was hers for the taking. Why...

A National Book Award finalist, the mesmerizing, landmark illustrated biography Radioactive is finally available in a stunning paperback edition. Through words and her own gorgeously crafted illustrations, artist and journalist Lauren Redniss tells the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679643258Author Maya AngelouFormat HardbackPage Count 1184Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1168gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143119395Author Rosanne CashFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICKA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'An example of how one woman can change the world by telling the truth about her life with unflinching, relentless courage' GLENNON DOYLEAustin Channing Brown's first encounter with racism in America...

Can you imagine what your life would be like if you abandoned the idea of perfection and decided to embrace your whole self - and even better - love yourself? Imagine if you stopped putting your happiness in the hands of others. Imagine you stopped...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538716052Author Amy Shira TeitelFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)...

'While I don't have any choice in how long I have to live, I do have a choice in how I spend the time I have. And I've chosen not to spend it constantly stressing about cancer. I've chosen to enjoy the little things. I've chosen to laugh. And I've chosen...

'One November evening in 1925, two young women from London arrived at the village of Chaldon, in Dorset. They brought with them two suitcases, a gramophone, and a wooden boxful of records; the bare necessities. Both wore trousers and had Eton-cropped...

Despite gold medals, WNBA championships, and a list of accolades, A'ja Wilson knows how it feels to be swept under the rug - to not be heard, to not feel seen, to not be taken seriously. As a fourth grader going to a primarily white school in South...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063056237Author Molly ShannonFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

'A heart-piercingly brilliant book about a woman whose personal life put her in the cross-hairs of history' HADLEY FREEMAN'Totally riveting. I couldn't put it down' VICTORIA HISLOP'Ethel sings out for all women who have been misunderstood and wronged,...

'Seated at a cafe table, in the syrupy warmth of out-of-season Nice, he reviewed his life and found it to be alarmingly empty.'George Bland had planned to spend his retirement in leisurely travel and modest entertainment with his friend Putnam. When...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990489726Author Aziza KibibiFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint Aziza Kibibi McGill AyindePublisher Aziza Kibibi McGill AyindeDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography: the story of the mystifying relationship between the brilliant and affable Gertrude Stein and her brooding companion, Alice B. Toklas"Janet Malcolm deftly captures Alice B. Toklas's legendary...

Based on her hugely popular sex blog, Abby Lee's Girl With a One Track Mind was a publishing phenomenon. Unfortunately for Abby, her true identity was revealed shortly after publication andher private life - now public - was thrown into disarray...

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Did you know that Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka was the first woman in the world to become a democratically elected prime minister? That Tina Anselmi was a wartime resistance fighter who became the first woman to serve as a cabinet minister in...

A balanced biography of Golda Meir, who was both adored and abhorred, from award-winning author Deborah E. Lipstadt "Comprehensive. . . . Always thoughtful. . . . A nuanced account of a leader whose influence endures in the Middle East."-Kirkus Review ...

I want to live, not be a witness of my life. Beautiful. Cultured. Refined. Enviable. Admirable. Adored. Journalist. Philanthropist. Publisher. Jackie Kennedy was many things - amongst them, she was and remains the most iconic First Lady the United...

'This book is an extremely important part of women's social history. Read it!' - Maxine PeakeRobin Hood, Dick Turpin, Ronnie Biggs, the Krays ... All have become folk heroes, glamorised and romanticised, even when they killed. But where are their female...

Margery 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603863261Author Elizabeth Von ArnimFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Watchmaker PublishingPublisher Watchmaker PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781888375961Author Sister Dang NghiemFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Parallax PressPublisher Parallax PressWeight(grams) 153gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

The Mother Who Sued to Save Her Children from Slavery-Sojourner Truth The Mother of Rock n' Roll-Sister Rosetta Tharpe The Mother of Holocaust Children-Irena Sendler The Mother of Free Burma-Aung San Suu Kyi ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374538064Author David YaffeFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Sarah Crichton BooksPublisher Sarah Crichton BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 208mm...

In October 1726, newspapers began reporting a remarkable event. In the town of Godalming in Surrey, a woman called Mary Toft had started to give birth to rabbits. Several leading doctors - some sent directly by King George I - travelled to examine the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887792741Author Barbara AnslowFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith Books

In 1982 Sally Morgan travelled to her grandmother's birthplace, Corunna Downs Station in Western Australia. She wants to trace the experiences of her childhood andolescence in Perth in the 1950's. Through memories and images, hints and echoes begin to...

People always seemed amused whenever Gretchen Ryan recounted tales of her transformative experiences as an air hostess in days gone by. Many even suggested she write a book about it. So she did. These were the debauched days of flying in the 80s, when...

A moving and inspiring memoir by Afghanistan's youngest female mayor and campaigner for human rights, as seen in Netflix's In Her Hands documentary.'Zarifa will break your heart' Christina Lamb, author of Our Bodies, Their Battlefields and I Am...

Reissued for the 40th Anniversary of the Oscar-winning, Sissy Spacek-starring film of the same name, COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER recounts Loretta Lynn's astonishing journey to become one of the original queens of country music. Loretta grew up dirt poor in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528920018Author Ellie RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

The long-awaited memoir of a trailblazer and role model who is telling her story for the first time. Eileen Collins was an aviation pioneer her entire career, from her crowning achievements as the first woman to command an American space mission as well...

Richard Burton was a brilliant, charismatic man - a unique blend of erudite scholar and daring adventurer. Fluent in twenty-nine languages, he found it easy to pass himself off as a native, thereby gaining unique insight into societies otherwise closed...

Elizabeth Meyer's "sweet, touching, and funny" (Booklist) memoir reads as if "Carrie Bradshaw worked in a funeral home a la Six Feet Under" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).Good Mourning offers a behind-the-scenes look at a legendary funeral chapel on...