Women

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143117391Author Kristin HershFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 139mm...

Apologies 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...

*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...

Longlisted for William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2020'This pioneering memoir . . . engagingly balances the highs of captaincy and grand slams with striking emotional honesty as to herregrets' Guardian Books of the Year'Her struggle is that of women's...

Revered as much for her independent spirit as she is for her art, Frida Kahlo stands today as a brazen symbol of female agency and daring creativity. She was a woman ahead of her time, who even decades after her passing has inspired Oscar-winning films,...

ONE OF PEOPLE MAGAZINE'S BEST SUMMER READS 20225* 'A jaw-dropping memoir' - THE TELEGRAPH'One of the maddest memoirs you'll read this year... a beautiful, warm, funny book.' -The Times'Extraordinary' -The Guardian'A wholly absorbing page-turner that...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON FICTION AND THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE. A GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR. An intimate, deeply reported account of the women who made a shocking decision: to leave their comfortable lives...

THE CHART-TOPPING MEMOIR______________________________________________________________________________________'This memoir is one of the smartest, funniest books I've read about love in a long, long time' - RED'illuminating' METROHaley McGee is in debt...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583225707Author Natalia GinzburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 275g

'The book is a gem: fresh, intelligent and assured' Sunday Times Nancy Mitford was, in the words of her sister Lady Diana Mosley, 'very, very complex'. Her biographies and novels, her journalism, and the vast body of letters to her family, friends such...

The 'steel rape' of women is a scandal that is almost forgotten today.In Victorian England, police forces were granted powers to force any woman they suspected of being a 'common prostitute' to undergo compulsory and invasive medical examinations, while...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. So runs one of the most famous opening lines in English literature. Setting the scene in Pride and Prejudice, it deftly introduces the...

Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary translatorTranslating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593329443Author Clare L. EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Malintzin was the indigenous woman who translated for Hernando Cortes in his dealings with the Aztec emperor Moctezuma in the days of 1519 to 1521. 'Malintzin', at least, was what the Indians called her. The Spanish called her dona Marina, and she has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345442888Author Alexandra MortonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501153273Author Carole Bayer SagerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm...

A 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...

What happens when angry young rebels become wary older women, ageing in a leaner, meaner time: a time which exalts only the 'new', in a ruling orthodoxy daily disparaging all it portrays as the 'old'? Delving into her own life and those of others who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593358412Author Evanna LynchFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

From 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. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632866585Author Melissa FebosFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Bloomsbury USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 346g

'The sky above our heads was uncaged and unlike us, free.'The Uncaged Sky is Kylie Moore-Gilbert's remarkable story of courage and resilience, and a powerful meditation on hope, solidarity and what it means to be free.On 12 September 2018...

For Eve, Irene, Betty and Rosemary, working at the exclusive Heyworth's department store in Cambridge is a dream come true. Once the girls step inside the elegant building - surrounded by luxurious dresses and beautiful accessories - the hardships of...

Love affairs, grief, unhappiness, the mess at the bottom of your handbag. This is a book about the things we hide from other people, and how we might find new ways to think about love and intimacy in the twenty-first century. ...

The women who wielded the real power behind the throne in Renaissance Italy, from a bestselling historian.This book is one of drama on a grand scale, a Renaissance epic, as Christendom emerged from the shadows of the calamitous 14th century. The sweeping...

'Like The Queen's Gambit, this isn't really about chess, but power ... Shahade is up for the fight' Sunday Times What does it take to make it to the top of your game? As a chess champion, Jennifer Shahade has travelled the world playing major...

'Entertaining...revealing, shocking' BERNARDINE EVARISTO'Sublime' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMSActor and director Zawe Ashton brings us a unique look at life, work and the absurdities of today's worldZawe Ashton has been acting since she was six. She has...

14 COUNTRIES, 42 WOMEN - FROM PERIODS TO ORGASMS TO FGM. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS OVERSHARING. 'Nimko's book is going to shift the conversation around women's bodies. Our bodies, and everything they do, make us who we are' - Amika George, founder of...

From the moment she uttered the brave and honest words, "I am an alcoholic," to interview George Stephanopoulos, Elizabeth Vargas began writing her story, as her experiences were still raw. Now, in BETWEEN BREATHS, Vargas discusses her accounts of...

From the author of the critically acclaimed THE VICEROY'S DAUGHTERS, the story of a glittering aristocrat who was also at the heart of political society in the interwar years.At the age of twenty-one, Edith Chaplin married one of the most eligible...

'You can reinvent yourself, you can change, you can grow, you can regress, you can be any number of things at any particular time. Please give yourself permission to do that, and be equally as open-minded to others who choose to do the same. Because...

* Shortlisted for the RSL Christopher Bland Prize *Honest, intelligent and unsentimental, Patient 1 is a startling self-portrait written with wit and vulnerability, and a unique testament to the power of hope in the face of illness.Charlotte Raven had...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307463531Author Glynis RidleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767914758Author Joan AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Lotta Dann was in trouble - her fun drinking habit had slowly morphed into an obsessive hunger for wine. One bottle a night was never quite enough. When she tried to cut down, she found it nearly impossible to have an alcohol-free day.Everyone around...

'Lying in the prison of my bed, his dark silhouette closes in, a pillow in his hands. My throat tightens in fear...'At the tender age of five, Madeleine was living a daily nightmare. In a dark, grey building on Jersey, she was just another orphan,...

How often have you thought you might like to chuck it all in, leave the steaming metropolis and its noise and dirt behind and make for pastures new, to begin your life again? We often talk about it but people rarely do it. Jackie Moffat is one of those...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645157802Author Christina Von DitfurthFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Christina Von DitfurthPublisher Christina Von DitfurthWeight(grams) 272g

In this fabulously confessional romp through the menopause, D'Souza tells us what it was like for her, and what it will be like for you. The Hot Topic is a treat of a book liberating, empowering and unexpectedly moving in its truth-telling.About the...