Women

The acclaimed biography of Sarah Baartman, once a slave and later a showgirl 'A significant and timely book ... Holmes has produced a laceratingly powerful story' Frances Wilson, Literary Review 'Impeccable ... In telling her extraordinary story,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476777122Author Shonda RhimesFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint S&s/ Marysue Rucci BooksPublisher S&s/ Marysue Rucci BooksWeight(grams)...

One woman's story, every woman's nightmareDonna Marie Hayes had a fortitude and smarts. She already survived so much. In this gripping memoir, Hayes recounts the story of her impoverished Jamaican childhood and eventual immigration to the United States...

'FRANK, FILTHY and FEROCIOUSLY FUNNY' Sunday Mirror'I loved every HONEST and HILARIOUS second!' Carrie Hope Fletcher 'Made me CACKLE OUT LOUD on every single page' Daisy BuchananLush (adj.) Very rich and providing great sensory pleasure (Oxford English...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947701144Author Christine WatkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Queen of Peace MediaPublisher Queen of Peace MediaWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm)...

A hard-hitting memoir about a woman’s search to understand the man who raped her Joanna Connors was thirty years old when she was raped at knifepoint by a stranger. Many years later she realised she had to confront the fear that had ruled her life ever...

#1 New Release in Eating Disorders Winning My Battle With Eating DisordersFinding My FULL: This is my journey from starving to letting myself be FULL-physically & emotionally. What is living a FULL life? Having anorexia, bulimia, or vacillating...

This is the story of Elizabeth I's inner circle and the crucial human relationships which lay at the heart of her personal and political life. Using a wide range of original sources - including private letters, portraits, verse, drama, and state papers -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538734285Author Sutton FosterFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)...

With the flair for narrative and the meticulous research that readers have come to expect, in The Diamond Queen Andrew Marr turns his attention to the monarch - and to the monarchy, chronicling the Queen's pivotal role at the centre of the state, which...

Women in Filmmaking and Their Struggle Against Bias"After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels" -Ann Richards#1 Bestseller in Acting & Auditioning, Performing Arts, and Guides & Reviews...

The name Ada Lovelace perhaps is not a name that you would automatically link to computer science but she was in fact the first person to create a computer algorithm. Working with the renowned scientist Charles Babbage, Lovelace translated a set of notes...

The Oscar-nominated Precious star and Empire actress delivers a much-awaited memoir which is wise, complex, smart and funny.This Is Just My Face is the whirlwind tour of Gabourey Sidibe's life so far. In it, we meet her polygamous father, her gifted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939481146Author Jean SassonFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint LDAPublisher LDAWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312263935Author Caroline KettlewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)...

This is the never-before-told story of George Orwell's first wife, Eileen, a woman who shaped, supported, and even saved the life of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. In 1934, Eileen O'Shaughnessy's futuristic poem, 'End of the Century,...

This is a new edition of David Painting's biography of Amy Dillwyn, first published in 1987. This is a very accessible biography of a remarkable woman, Amy Dillwyn (1845 - 1935); who was born into one of Swansea's most distinguished families, and became...

Elinor Ostrom was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in economics. She has been at the forefront of New Institutional Economics and Public Choice revolutions, discovering surprising ways in which communities around the world have succeed in solving...

Radclyffe Hall was born in 1880 in Bournemouth in a house inappropriately named 'Sunny Lawn'. Her mother drank gin in an attempt to terminate the pregnancy, and her father fled the family home. At the mercy of a violent mother and sexually abusive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385315548Author Caroline KnappFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for National Book Awards (Nonfiction) 2021.Book InformationISBN 9781952177941Author Grace M. ChoFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Feminist Press at The City...

The Sunday Times BestsellerTHIS BOOK WON'T CHANGE YOUR LIFEBut it might just help you change it yourselfOnly you can take the steps you need to help yourself become the strong, independent, fearless person you dream of being. It took me a long time - and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250289650Author Christine Blasey FordFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454g

The formation and career of the first major woman artist of the RenaissanceSofonisba Anguissola (ca. 1535-1625) was the daughter of minor Lombard aristocrats who made the unprecedented decision to have her trained as a painter outside the family house...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541703124Author Jonna MendezFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 517g

A fascinating, forgotten story of the six brilliant women who launched modern computing. As the Cold War began, America's race for tech supremacy was taking off. Experts rushed to complete the top-secret computing research started during World War II,...

Photographers Darren and Elliott Bloom had a remarkably close working relationship with Amy Winehouse. Their photos appeared in the recent acclaimed documentary Amy and now they have opened up their archive for this lavish photo book. Five-time Grammy...

An uneducated youth, William Booth left home in 1849 at the age of twenty to preach the gospel for the New Methodist Connexion. Six years later he founded a new religious movement which succeeded to such a degree that the Salvation Army (which it became)...

Since the suffrage campaigns in the early twentieth century, the advancement of women's rights in the UK has been nonstop. Proponents of the cause have aimed for equality across all sectors: personal and civil rights, employment rights, equal pay - and...

John Alexander has provided the first popular biography of one of the most powerful, infamous, and colourful figures in modern history. Empress of the vast Russian Empire by the age of 33, Catherine's private and public life generated tremendous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805006032Author Edward AbbeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 225Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684846316Author Elisabeth Keubler-RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399589300Author Evan ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Following the acclaimed No Visible Bruises, a piercing account of the author's childhood in an evangelical Christian community, her teenage escape, and her career as a reporter at the frontline of the global epidemic of violence against women. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844012701Author Susan CilykFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams)...

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...

A memoir by an American who almost single-handedly introduced Soviet rock to the free world, [...] Stingray, who wrote this memoir with her daughter, Madison, nicely captures her daring amid an atmosphere of liberation and fear, and she's a study in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423655404Author Linda HoldenFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Gibbs M. Smith IncPublisher Gibbs M. Smith Inc

In her The New York Times best-selling Between You & Me (ISBN 978 0 393 352146), Mary Norris delighted readers with her irreverent tales of pencils, punctuation and punctiliousness over three decades in The New Yorker's celebrated copy department. In...

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Duong Van Mai Elliott's The Sacred Willow illuminates recent Vietnamese history by weaving together the stories of the lives of four generations of her family. Beginning with her great-grandfather, who rose from rural...