Women

The Queen is a timely book with beautiful photos and fascinating details about one of the most famous women of modern times: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the longest reigning British monarch in history. "Throughout all my life and with all my heart I...

The daughter of an illustrious Russian general, Lou von Salome left her home in the heart of Tsarist Russia to conquer intellectual Europe at the tender age of 18. Eventually settling in Germany, she became a best-selling novelist, a groundbreaking...

A beloved film comedienne who worked alongside the Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy, and dozens of others, Thelma Todd was a rare Golden Age star who successfully crossed over from silent films to talkies. This authoritative new biography traces Todd's...

'Every family has shadow people, the ones who slipped out of the story too soon, leaving a blank space where they should have been. In my father's family that person was his sister Kathleen.' So begins Heather Richardson's astonishing fragmentary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635420845Author Cristina De StefanoFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC

Little Girl Blue is an intimate profile of Karen Carpenter, a girl from a modest Connecticut upbringing who became a Southern California superstar. Karen was the instantly recognizable lead singer of the Carpenters. The top-selling American...

A NEW STATESMEN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 'A lasting work of social history' THE TIMES 'A genuinely new history of our nation' DAN JONES ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143123255Author Jennifer WorthFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 132mm...

Just the Funny Parts is a juicy and scathingly funny insider look at how pop culture gets made. For more than thirty years, writer, producer and director Nell Scovell worked behind the scenes of iconic TV shows, including The Simpsons, Late Night with...

Returning to the UK in September 2010 after serving in Iraq as the political adviser to the top American general, Emma Sky felt no sense of homecoming. She soon found herself back in the Middle East travelling through a region in revolt. In A Time of...

What does it mean to create, not in "a room of one's own" but in a domestic space? Do children and genius rule each other out? In The Baby on the Fire Escape, award-winning biographer Julie Phillips traverses the shifting terrain where motherhood and...

For ten years Gary McKinnon became the unwilling focus of Anglo-US diplomatic relations. A computer systems analyst living in London, he firmly believed that the US government was withholding vital information about the presence of UFOs. The unremarkable...

A New York Times Notable BookA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Boston Globe and LitHub Best Book of the YearWhen "The Fourth State of Matter," her now famous piece about a workplace massacre at the University of Iowa was published in The New...

Japan in the 10th century stood physically and culturally isolated from the rest of the world. Inside this bubble, a subtle and beautiful world was in operation, and its inhabitants were tied to the moment, having no interest in the future and disdain...

Berenice Abbott is to American photography what Georgia O'Keeffe is to painting or Willa Cather to letters. Abbott's sixty-year career established her not only as a master of American photography but also as a teacher, writer, archivist and inventor. A...

A GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, EVENING STANDARD AND COSMOPOLITAN BOOK OF THE YEAR'A jaw-dropping story, told deftly . . . a gripping, thought-provoking book' Sunday Times'A really engaging memoir about identity, race, family, secrets, lies and ultimately...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983358930Author R. StanleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 271Imprint Monkfish Book Publishing CompanyPublisher Monkfish Book Publishing Company

'Remarkably brought together, heartwarming and uplifting . . . showing that despite differences in age and background, geography and lifestyle, there is so much that binds up, so much we share' Kit de Waal'A stimulating collection of women's voices to...

I didn't know I was starting a life where I'd be asked to do three impossible things before breakfast, and be sworn at by four celebrities by lunch. I just thought, hey, I've got a job on a tabloid.'Sharon Marshall was a tabloid reporter for ten years...

The history of women in medieval Wales before the English conquest of 1282 is one largely shrouded in mystery. For the Age of Princes, an era defined by ever-increased threats of foreign hegemony, internal dynastic strife and constant warfare, the...

Kate Nicholls left England to raise her five children in Botswana: an experience that would change each of their lives. Living on a shoestring in a lion conservation camp, Kate home-schools her family under a camelthorn tree while they also learn at...

Bite–sized biographies of inspirational Christian women. Spanning two millennia and multiple continents, these stories will introduce you to great women in the history of the Christian faith. From Mary in first century Judea, to Catherine Booth in...

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The rage of women is at a high: sparked by the Women's March of early 2017, stoked by countless policies of the Trump administration, and finally reaching incineration levels over the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh in October 2018. But this issue isn't...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982129484Author Liza RodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 212mm * 140mm * 23mm

Growing up in the small town of Maden in Turkey, Fethiye Cetin knew her grandmother as a happy and respected Muslim housewife called Seher.Only decades later did she discover the truth. Her grandmother's name was not Seher but Heranus. She was born a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909623248Author Elizabeth RoddickFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Panoma PressPublisher Rethink PressWeight(grams) 203gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

Written and curated by Alicia Mariah Elfving, founder of TheMotoLady.com and the Women's Motorcycle Show, and arguably the most notable advocate for women in the motorcycling hobby, The MotoLady's Book of Women Who Ride subverts all the tired...

Celebrated novelist Daphne Du Maurier and her sisters, eclipsed by her fame, are revealed in all their surprising complexity in this riveting new biography. The middle sister in a famous artistic dynasty, Daphne du Maurier is one of the master...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954118461Author Margaret RenklFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Spiegel & GrauPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982127763Author Gabrielle KornFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm * 18mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593443163Author Katalin KarikoFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977746217Author Lois WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Lois WrightPublisher Lois WrightWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679732419Author Anne Morrow LindberghFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593242476Author Sabrina Orah MarkFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

'Beautifully told, this book brings a fascinating and compelling story to a wider public. A "must read" for those interested in women's lives in the past.' - June Purvis, Professor (Emerita) of Women's and Gender History, University of Portsmouth,...

'A life-changing book' Viv GroskopMarisa Meltzer was put on her first diet aged five: it was the beginning of a fraught relationship with food.Jean Nidetch was a housewife from Queens who defiantly lost 70 pounds after she was mistaken for being pregnant...

A captivating look at two centuries of surfing-"the Sport of Queens"-from Native Hawaiian royalty to the breakout style and jaw-dropping feats on the waves today.Few subjects in the world of sports and or the outdoors is more timely or compelling than...

Coco Chanel lived her own life as a romantic heroine. Fuelled by 19th century literature, she built a life which was partly myth and, partly, factual. She was the fashion designer everyone admired. The business woman whose fortune was impossible to...

When J. P. Morgan called a meeting of New York's financial leaders after the stock market crash of 1907, Hetty Green was the only woman in the room. The Guinness Book of World Records memorialized her as the World's Greatest Miser, and, indeed, this...