Women

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629638737Author Margrit SchillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306825651Author Kathrine SwitzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Da Capo Press IncPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593237595Author Guinevere TurnerFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Award-winning beloved actress and talented singer/songwriter Katey Sagal crafts an evocative and gripping memoir told in essays-perfect for fans of Patti Smith's M Train and Mary-Louise Parker's Dear Mr. You.In Grace Notes, Katey Sagal chronicles the...

Vivienne Westwood is one of the icons of our age. Fashion designer, activist, co-creator of punk, global brand and grandmother; a true legend. Her career successfully spanned five decades and her work has influenced millions of people across the world...

'That politics was the most exciting of all the exciting things in the world I never doubted'Shirley Williams was born to politics. As well as being influenced by her mother, Vera Brittan, her father George Catlin, a leading political scientist,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061864513Author Ann KirschnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250099549Author Laura ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Picador/St. Martin's PressPublisher Picador/St. Martin's PressWeight(grams)...

Love and Liberation reads the autobiographical and biographical writings of one of the few Tibetan Buddhist women to record the story of her life. Sera Khandro Kunzang Dekyong Chonyi Wangmo (also called Dewe Dorje, 1892-1940) was extraordinary not only...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Make no mistake, Full Disclosure is a story for our times' - Guardian'Funny, candid, mischievous . . . and unapologetic' - TelegraphOn 6 March 2018 Stormy Daniels filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump over a...

The authorised biography of Shirley Hazzard, one of the greatest writers in the English language, author of The Transit of Venus and winner of the National Book Award'Lambent, discerning, deeply intelligent and empathetic' Lucy Scholes, Financial...

'Vintage Sharon . . . fiery and passionate' - HEAT 'The formidable Mrs O is just as honest and open in this second instalment of her life story as the first . . . a real page-turner' - WOMAN 'Shazza goes even deeper to reveal the secrets behind the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780895552952Author Margaret Mary,SaintFormat PaperbackPage Count 141Imprint Tan Books & Publishers Inc.Publisher Tan Books & Publishers Inc.Weight(grams)...

The Sunday Times bestseller From the bestselling authors of The Sugar Girls, G.I. Brides weaves together the real-life stories of four women who crossed the ocean for love, providing a moving true tale of romance and resilience. The...

Retracing my mother's footsteps in search of women's freedom 1974. A 22-year-old Jacqui French stands for a photograph in Omaha, Nebraska, thousands of miles from home. Behind a carefree smile lies a...

Traversing 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...

Charles 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...

When Natascha Kampusch made her bid for freedom on 23 August 2006 after eight years held captive in a seemingly ordinary Austrian suburban house, her story horrified and astonished the entire world. How did she survive a childhood locked in a cellar?...

"Hailed as the next Eat, Pray, Love" - CNN International "In this charming and highly readable memoir, the author takes a year off and tackles internships with gusto, proving that sometimes uprooting your entire life is the only way forward." -...

I WAS BORN, SEPTEMBER 1985, IN THE VORTEX OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE OF NEW YORK: THERE WERE FEW RULES OF LIFE AND ZERO CONTRAINTS ON BEHAVIOUR. IF YOU WERE NOT ECCENTRIC, YOU WERE WEIRD. It was a tenement building at the centre of the drug-addled,...

The suffragette movement swept the country in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Led by the Pankhurst's, the focus of the movement was in London with demonstrations and rallies taking place across the capital. But this was a nationwide movement with...

I WAS BORN, SEPTEMBER 1985, IN THE VORTEX OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE OF NEW YORK: THERE WERE FEW RULES OF LIFE AND ZERO CONTRAINTS ON BEHAVIOUR. IF YOU WERE NOT ECCENTRIC, YOU WERE WEIRD. It was a tenement building at the centre of the drug-addled,...

The 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312310028Author Anne EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524744014Author Bertsche RachelFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Over the course of her sixty-five-year career, the longest of any female filmmaker, Agnès Varda (1928–2019) wrote and directed some of the most acclaimed films of her era, from her tour de force Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), a classic of modernist cinema, to...

Asa Akira (28) has already had an extremely unusual life. Educated at the United Nations International School in Manhattan, she soon was earning a good living by stripping and working as a dominatrix at a sex dungeon. Akira has now built up a reputation...

Touching true stories from the heyday of the Butlin's holiday camps. 'When I got to the camp I felt as if I'd suddenly walked into Utopia - it was so colourful, so warm, so friendly. There were lights across the roads, there were banners...

The plot could have been inspired by Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies, but unlike Waugh's novel - which parodies the era of the 'Bright Young Things' - The Mistress of Mayfair is a real-life story of scandal, greed, corruption and promiscuity at the heart of...

'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...

Fay Taylour (1904-1983) remains the most successful female motorsports champion. She defeated the foremost male motorcycle speedway stars of the 1920s and 1930s. A household name in Britain and her native Ireland, she won further fame on the track in...

A BIG ISSUE BOOK OF THE YEAR Longlisted for the UKLA Book Awards This illuminating and defining biography from bestselling author Traci N. Todd, with illustrations from award-winner Christian Robinson, tells the story of Eunice Waymon, who grew up to...

This is the story of a close, loving family splintered by the violent ideologies of Europe between the world wars. Jessica was a Communist; Debo became the Duchess of Devonshire; Nancy was one of the best-selling novelists of her day; beautiful Diana...

Ilhan Omar's career is a collection of historic firsts: she is the first refugee, the first Somali-American and one of the first two Muslim women to serve in the United States Congress. Against a xenophobic and divisive administration, she has risen to...

Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Memoir of the Year Award'Extraordinary' Daily Telegraph'Breathtaking' Guardian Skybound by Rebecca Loncraine is a book for anyone who has looked up and longed to take flight. The day she flew in a glider for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780966132779Author Susan M. WatkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Moment Point Press Inc,USPublisher Moment Point Press Inc,USWeight(grams) 1g

A feminist reinterpretation of the myths surrounding Cleopatra casts new light on the Egyptian queen and her legacy "A lucid and persuasive reinterpretation. Readers won't see Cleopatra the same way again."-Publishers Weekly "Where Prose really...

'Lively history of British women aviators.' Daily Mail'Compelling stories of female pioneers whose soaring ambition achieved firsts in the field of aviation.' Britain Magazine'This lovely book offers a welcome and enjoyable read and provides a timely...

Dancer, singer, gang member, cocaine addict and artist's favourite: Betty May - aka the Tiger Woman - was a woman like no other. Born into abject poverty in Limehouse, Betty May used her striking looks and fierce street nous to become an unlikely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685890797Author Bell HooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing