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The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History by Elizabeth Norton 9781681778044
RRP: £16.95£10.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681778044Author Elizabeth NortonFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 145mm... -
Food of Love by Sylvia Vetta 9781910461587
RRP: £11.99£7.59One of only four girls from the 160 children in her primary school to pass the eleven plus, Sylvia Vetta was the first in her family to enjoy higher education and got to enjoy that post-WWII wonder: upward mobility. While battling racism in Smethwick in... -
Charles Dickens and Georgina Hogarth: A Curious and Enduring Relationship by Christine Skelton
RRP: £20.00£14.53Charles Dickens called his sister-in-law Georgina Hogarth his 'best and truest friend'. Georgina saw Dickens as much more than a friend. They lived together for twenty-eight years, during which time their relationship constantly changed. The sister of... -
Saving Safa: Rescuing a Little Girl from FGM by Waris Dirie
RRP: £11.99£8.00Waris Dirie, the Somalia nomad who became a supermodel, and an anti-FGM activist, first came to the world's attention with the publication of her autobiography, Desert Flower. The book was subsequently made into a film and little Safa Nour, from one of... -
Good Mourning by Elizabeth Meyer 9781476783642
RRP: £16.00£10.25Elizabeth 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... -
The Reinvention of Humanity: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Remade Race, Sex and Gender by Charles King
RRP: £10.99£7.77*THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY NAYEF AL-RODHAN PRIZE 2020*The riveting story of the pioneers who redefined conceptions of 'normality' in the early twentieth century.Under the guiding eye of cultural anthropologist... -
Shine on: Empowering Affirmations for Extraordinary Women by Doreen Caven 9781646115471
RRP: £12.99£8.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646115471Author Doreen CavenFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Rockridge PressPublisher Rockridge PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 165mm * 163mm... -
My Three Dads: Patriarchy on the Great Plains by Jessa Crispin 9780226820101
RRP: £16.00£13.84Sharp and thought-provoking, this memoir-meets-cultural criticism upends the romanticism of the Great Plains and the patriarchy at the core of its ideals. For many Americans, Kansas represents a vision of Midwestern life that is good and wholesome and... -
Curriculum Vitae: A Volume of Autobiography by Muriel Spark 9781847771025
RRP: £12.99£8.94Muriel Spark in the autobiography traces how one of the great modern writers in English emerged. Beginning with luminous evocations of a 1920s childhood in Edinburgh and memories of school, taught by the original Miss Jean Brodie, Spark recalls her... -
Sleeping Around: Secrets of a Sexual Adventuress by Catherine Townsend 9780719563515 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.29'I relish every second of my sexual encounters: the good, the bad, the bizarre. Most of my serious relationships have started out as one-night stands.' Catherine Townsend describes herself as 'part slut, part hopeless romantic'. Her quest is to have her... -
Sleeping Around: Secrets of a Sexual Adventuress by Catherine Townsend
RRP: £10.99£7.40'I relish every second of my sexual encounters: the good, the bad, the bizarre. Most of my serious relationships have started out as one-night stands.' Catherine Townsend describes herself as 'part slut, part hopeless romantic'. Her quest is to have her... -
The Mammoth Book of Erotic Confessions by Barbara Cardy
RRP: £12.99£8.60Over 100 first-person accounts of the most daring and 'outrageous' sex experiences the contributors have ever had. From a good old-fashioned spanking to bondage, from solo to foursomes, from watersports to... and more. Some will make you laugh, some... -
My Forbidden Face by Latifa
RRP: £9.99£6.80Latifa was born into an educated middle-class Afghan family in Kabul in 1980. She dreamed of one day of becoming a journalist, she was interested in fashion, movies and friends. Her father was in the import/export business and her mother was a doctor... -
Zarifa: A Woman's Battle in a Man's World. As Featured in the NETFLIX documentary IN HER HANDS by Zarifa Ghafari 9780349017020
RRP: £10.99£7.40A 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... -
A Bite of the Apple: A Life with Books, Writers and Virago by Lennie Goodings
RRP: £19.99£14.28'The moment I got my job at Virago in 1978 I knew it would be a long time before I would leave. I certainly wouldn't have had the brazen hope then-only twenty-five and very recently new to Britain-that I would ever become the Publisher, but I did know... -
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs 9780198709879
RRP: £8.99£6.61'The degradations, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe.' Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in the American South and went on to write one of the most extraordinary slave narratives. First published... -
The Bronte Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects by Deborah Lutz
RRP: £12.99£11.46The story of the Brontes is told through the things they wore, stitched, wrote on and inscribed at the parsonage in Haworth. From Charlotte's writing desk and the manuscripts it contained to the brass collar worn by Emily's dog, Keeper, each object opens... -
Rise: My Story by Lindsey Vonn 9780062889454
RRP: £17.99£10.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062889454Author Lindsey VonnFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Zarifa: A Woman's Battle in a Man's World by Zarifa Ghafari
RRP: £20.00£13.35'Zarifa will break your heart' Christina Lamb, author of Our Bodies, Their Battlefields and I Am MalalaZarifa Ghafari was two years old when the Taliban banned girls from schools, and she began her education in secret. She was seven when American... -
Marie Antoinette's Darkest Days: Prisoner No. 280 in the Conciergerie by Will Bashor
RRP: £14.99£11.53This compelling book begins on the 2nd of August 1793, the day Marie Antoinette was torn from her family's arms and escorted from the Temple to the Conciergerie, a thick-walled fortress turned prison. It was also known as the "waiting room for the... -
I Give You My Heart by Wendy Holden 9789493231719
RRP: £17.95£11.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493231719Author Wendy HoldenFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Amsterdam PublishersPublisher Amsterdam PublishersWeight(grams) 366gDimensions(mm)... -
The Horror of Love: Nancy Mitford and Gaston Palewski in Paris and London by Lisa Hilton
RRP: £9.99£6.80The compelling love story of two extraordinary individuals - Nancy Mitford and Free French commander Gaston Palewski - living in extraordinary times - immortalised in THE PURSUIT OF LOVE'A delicious mix of drama, melancholy and enchantment' DAILY... -
Cartimandua: Queen of the Brigantes by Nicki Howarth
RRP: £14.99£11.55This is the first major study of Cartimandua, queen of the Brigantes tribe in Northern Britain in the first century AD. Little is known about the tribal ruler, who fought off rebellion and civil war and managed to keep her lands when many other British... -
The Girl from Lamaha Street: A Guyanese girl at a 1950s English boarding school and her search for belonging by Sharon Maas
RRP: £8.99£6.20'An incredibly moving, truly inspiring story of the power of determination. An absolutely stunning read.' Katharine Birbalsingh'Fascinating and poignant... an astoundingly honest and intimate memoir.' Angela PetchPerhaps it's true that absence makes the... -
Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir by Marina Warner
RRP: £16.99£11.47A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. 'Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination' JENNY UGLOW Inventory of a Life... -
West End Girls by Barbara Tate
RRP: £9.99£6.80A vivid and compelling memoir recounting the real lives, loves and friendship of 1940s Soho and its working girls.Barbara Tate was 17 when she heard the whispered word that would change her life: Soho. It would take four years for Barbara to escape her... -
A Time in Arabia: Living in Yemen's Hadhramant in the 1930s by Doreen Ingrams 9781906011802
RRP: £14.99£9.80Doreen Ingrams and her husband were the first Europeans ever to live in the Hadhramaut, an extraordinary, isolated region of southern Arabia. Married to an Arabic-speaking British official, she arrived by boat, and during their ten-year residency... -
The Girl on the Balcony: Olivia Hussey Finds Life after Romeo and Juliet by Olivia Hussey
RRP: £14.99£13.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496717085Author Olivia HusseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing -
A Place for Everything by Anna Wilson 9780008342531
RRP: £16.99£15.51'Painful, raw and with an honesty that rings clear as a bell' Catherine Simpson, author of When I Had a Little Sister A searing account of a mother's late-diagnosis of autism - and its reaching effects on a whole family. ... -
If You Ask Me: (and of Course You Won't) by Betty White
RRP: £20.00£14.80The New York Times bestseller from the beloved actress and Hollywood icon who's made us laugh on shows from The Mary Tyler Moore Show to Golden Girls to Saturday Night Live!In this candid take on everything from the unglamorous reality behind red-carpet... -
Where There’s Muck, There’s Bras: True Stories of the Amazing Women of the North by Kate Fox
RRP: £9.99£6.64From rebels to writers, athletes to astronauts, join Kate Fox takes on an entertaining and eye-opening journey through the lives of these extraordinary women whose lives and achievements have too long been hidden. ... -
A Rose for Mrs. Miniver: The Life of Greer Garson by Michael Troyan 9780813191508
RRP: £32.50£28.64In this first-ever biography of Greer Garson, Michael Troyan sweeps away the many myths that even today veil her life. The true origins of her birth, her fairy-tale discovery in Hollywood, and her career struggles at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer are revealed for... -
Valentine Ackland: A Transgressive Life by Frances Bingham
RRP: £15.99£11.04'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... -
In Full Flight: Story of Africa and Atonement by John Heminway
RRP: £13.99£9.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525434535Author John HeminwayFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf -
The Secret History Of The Mongol Queens by Jack Weatherford
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307407160Author Jack WeatherfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm)... -
Daddy’s Little Earner: A heartbreaking true story of a brave little girl's escape from violence by Maria Landon 9780007268771
RRP: £10.99£8.29The shocking story of a young girl forced into prostitution by her own father, and her painful journey to escape her horrific childhood and build a new life for herself and her sons. Maria's dad was a pimp, living in a world of thieves and... -
The God of No Good by Sita Walker 9781761152559
RRP: £16.99£11.76Traversing decades and continents - from Iran to India, Sri Lanka to the Czech Republic, Adelaide to the Torres Strait - The God of No Good is a beautifully lyrical and funny intergenerational memoir about six women and how their lives intertwine. Filled... -
A Little Give: the unsung, unseen, undone work of women by Marina Benjamin
RRP: £14.99£9.80Featured in Stylist's 'Can't Miss' Books of 2023 Sometimes I think that carrying - other people, the continuity of history, generational identity, the emotional load of the everyday - is the main thing that women do. In Marina Benjamin's new set of... -
The Language Of Baklava by Diana Abu-Jaber
RRP: £14.99£13.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age.Book InformationISBN 9781400077762Author Diana Abu-JaberFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House... -
Yoga Bitch: One Woman's Quest to Conquer Skepticism, Cynicism, and Cigarettes on the Path to Enlightenment by Suzanne Morrison 9780307717443
RRP: £13.99£12.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307717443Author Suzanne MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm)...