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Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love by Elizabeth Prioleau
RRP: £19.01£14.54In this road map to restoring feminine sexual power, Betsy Prioleau introduces and analyzes the stories and stratagems of history's greatest seductresses. These are the women who ravished the world-from such classic figures as Cleopatra and Mae West to... -
Drinking Like Ladies: 75 modern cocktails from the world's leading female bartenders; Includes toasts to extraordinary women in history by Misty Kalkofen
RRP: £18.99£12.75Drinking Like Ladies is dedicated to the proposition that a woman's place is behind the bar. . . or in front of it. . . or really any place she pleases. Acclaimed bartenders Kirsten Amann and Misty Kalkofen have scoured the globe commissioning cocktail... -
The Girl in the Glass Tower by Elizabeth Fremantle
RRP: £10.99£7.77Lost in history . . . losing her self. Uncover Tudor heroine Arbella Stuart's incredible story, reimagined by Elizabeth Fremantle in this tense, historical thriller.Hardwick Hall, sixteenth-century England. Formerly a beacon of wealth and power. Now a... -
The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
RRP: £27.00£21.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525560685Author Gayle Tzemach LemmonFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 493gDimensions(mm)... -
A History of Women in 100 Objects by Maggie Andrews 9780750967143
RRP: £20.00£16.83The history of the world has been told in objects. But what about the objects that tell the history of women? What are the items that symbolise the journey of women from second-class citizens with no legal rights, no vote and no official status to the... -
Sex: Lessons From History by Fern Riddell
RRP: £20.00£13.75Out now: the new book by Dr Fern Riddell, a powerful and entertaining history of sex. __________These are the facts: throughout history human beings have had sex. Sexual culture did not begin in the sixties. It has always been celebrated, needed, wanted... -
Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain by Nadine Akkerman
RRP: £14.99£13.33It would be easy for the modern reader to conclude that women had no place in the world of early modern espionage, with a few seventeenth-century women spies identified and then relegated to the footnotes of history. If even the espionage carried out by... -
Elizabeth I by Anne Somerset
RRP: £14.99£9.80An acclaimed biography of Elizabeth I and an examination of the politics and intrigues of her Tudor court.Elizabeth I ruled England in defiance of convention, exercising supreme authority in a man's world. With courage, brilliance and style, she reigned... -
Wayward Women: Female Offending in Victorian England by Lucy Williams 9781473844872
RRP: £12.99£9.09We most often think of the Victorian female offender in her most archetypal and stereotypical roles; the polite lady shoplifter, stowing all manner of valuables beneath her voluminous crinolines, the tragic street waif of Dickensian fiction or the... -
Bluestockings: The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education by Jane Robinson 9780141029719 [USED COPY]
RRP: £19.99£1.87The incredible story of the fight for female education in BritainIn 1869, when five women enrolled at university for the first time in British history, the average female brain was thought to be 150 grams lighter than a man's. When the Cambridge Senate... -
Bluestockings: The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education by Jane Robinson
RRP: £19.99£14.28The incredible story of the fight for female education in BritainIn 1869, when five women enrolled at university for the first time in British history, the average female brain was thought to be 150 grams lighter than a man's. When the Cambridge Senate... -
A Woman I Know: female spies, double identities, and a new story of the Kennedy assassination by Mary Haverstick 9781915590626
RRP: £25.00£16.59'A compelling real-life thriller, full of passion, free of writerly fuss, woven from the most intractable archival cat's cradle imaginable.' Simon Ings, The Telegraph The true story of a decade-long investigation that opens a new window onto Cold War... -
WRNS: The Women's Royal Naval Service by Neil R. Storey
RRP: £8.99£6.45From cooks and clerks to weapons analysts and air mechanics, generations of women have served in the Wrens (Women's Royal Naval Service or WRNS). The Royal Navy was the first of the UK armed services to admit women during the First World War with the... -
Women and Museums 1850-1914: Modernity and the Gendering of Knowledge by Kate Hill 9781526136671
RRP: £25.00£21.79This book recovers the significant contribution made by women to museums, not just in obvious roles such as workers, but also as donors, visitors, volunteers and patrons. It suggests that women persistently acted to domesticate the museum, by importing... -
The Women Who Spied for Britain: Female Secret Agents of the Second World War by Robyn Walker
RRP: £9.99£6.64Espionage is one of the world's oldest professions, and it played an integral role in Allied successes and failures during the Second World War. Equal to men in both their bravery and in the sacrifices they made, the female undercover operatives of the... -
The Women Who Shaped Politics: Empowering stories of women who have shifted the political landscape by Sophy Ridge
RRP: £10.99£7.40Sophy Ridge, presenter for Sky News, has uncovered the extraordinary stories of the women who have shaped British politics. Never has the role of women in the political world ever been more on the news agenda, and Sophy has interviewed current and former... -
Forgotten Women by Zing Tsjeng
RRP: £30.00£19.40'To say this [book] is "empowering" doesn't do it justice. Buy a copy for your daughters, sisters, mums, aunts and nieces - just make sure you buy a copy for your sons, brothers, dads, uncles and nephews, too.' - indy100'Here's to no more forgotten women... -
The Mistress of Mayfair: Men, Money and the Marriage of Doris Delevingne by Lyndsy Spence 9780750984249
RRP: £9.99£7.55The 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... -
Queens of the Underworld: A Journey into the Lives of Female Crooks by Caitlin Davies
RRP: £20.00£15.44'This book is an extremely important part of women's social history. Read it!' - Maxine PeakeRobin Hood, Dick Turpin, Ronnie Biggs, the Krays ... All have become folk heroes, glamorised and romanticised, even when they killed. But where are their female... -
Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Iconic Poet by Marta McDowell 9781604698220
RRP: £18.99£14.92"A visual treat as well as a literary one...for gardeners and garden lovers, connoisseurs of botanical illustration, and those who seek a deeper understanding of the life and work of Emily Dickinson." -The Wall Street Journal Emily Dickinson was a keen... -
The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America by Elizabeth Letts 9780525619321
RRP: £25.00£16.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525619321Author Elizabeth LettsFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc -
Objects of Love and Regret: A Brooklyn Story by Richard Rabinowitz
RRP: £24.95£19.89An award-winning historian and museum curator tells the story of his Jewish immigrant family by lovingly reconstructing its dramatic encounters with the memory-filled objects of ordinary life.At a pushcart stall in East New York, Brooklyn, in the spring... -
The History of Women's Football by Jean Williams
RRP: £25.00£18.02A complete history of women's football, from its Victorian games beginning in 1881, to the plans for England to host the Euro Finals in England 2022, this book demonstrates how women's football began as a professional sport, and has only recently... -
Fashion Sourcebook 1920s by Charlotte Fiell
RRP: £20.00£14.95'There isn't a more comprehensive source to Twenties fashion that I can think of ... An absolute must for anyone interested in Twenties fashion or art deco' Style High Club'A source of all the styles, colours, shapes, and silhouettes of the Golden... -
No Place for a Woman: The Spiritual and Political Power Abuse of Women within Catholicism by Debra Maria Flint 9781590567227
RRP: £18.99£13.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590567227Author Debra Maria FlintFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,US -
The Rebel Suffragette: The Life of Edith Rigby by Beverley Adams
RRP: £19.99£14.28The 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... -
Fortune's Many Houses: A Victorian Visionary, a Noble Scottish Family, and a Lost Inheritance by Simon Welfare
RRP: £25.00£16.24A unique and fascinating look at Victorian society through the remarkable lives of an enlightened and philanthropic aristocratic couple, the Marquess and Marchioness of Aberdeen, who tried to change the world for the better but paid a heavy price. This... -
My Own Story (Vintage Feminism Short Edition) by Emmeline Pankhurst
RRP: £5.99£4.46Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short formWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JESS PHILLIPSSoldier, criminal, militant, hooligan, revolutionary: these labels Emmeline Pankhurst took up and wore proudly in her long struggle for women's suffrage. This... -
The Regency Revolution: Jane Austen, Napoleon, Lord Byron and the Making of the Modern World by Robert Morrison
RRP: £12.99£8.56Shortlisted for the HWA Non-fiction Crown Award 2020'Superb' The Economist'Elegant, entertaining and frequently surprising' New York TimesThe fascinating story of the Regency period in Britain - an immensely colourful and chaotic decade that marked the... -
Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
RRP: £6.99£5.00American poet Emily Dickinson is revered around the world, and influenced many feminist artists and writers. Her work is some of the best known and most quoted or adapted:'Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune... -
Letters to Change the World: From Pankhurst to Orwell by Travis Elborough
RRP: £16.99£12.28'We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed' Martin Luther King, Jr.In an era where our liberties are often under threat, Letters to Change the World sends reminders... -
Queens Consort: England's Medieval Queens by Lisa Hilton
RRP: £12.99£8.60England from the perspective of its consort queens - a distaff history of the nation from 1066 to 1503.England's medieval queens were elemental in shaping the history of the nation. In an age where all politics were family politics, dynastic marriages... -
When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion by Julie Satow 9780385548755
RRP: £32.50£18.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385548755Author Julie SatowFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 635g -
Unquiet Women: From the Dusk of the Roman Empire to the Dawn of the Enlightenment by Max Adams
RRP: £10.99£7.77Unquiet Women is an exquisitely crafted patchwork of the forgotten lives of some of the most remarkable women in history. History is polyphonic; it must be told by many voices. In Unquiet Women, Max Adams brings to life the voices and experiences of... -
Maiden Voyages: women and the Golden Age of transatlantic travel by Sian Evans 9781473699045
RRP: £10.99£7.40HOW THE GOLDEN AGE OF TRANSATLANTIC TRAVEL BETWEEN THE WARS TRANSFORMED WOMEN'S LIVES ACROSS ALL CLASSES - A VIVID CROSS SECTION OF LIFE ON-BOARD THE ICONIC OCEAN LINERS FROM BELOW DECKS TO THE CAPTAIN'S TABLE.'In this riveting slice of social history,... -
War Paint: Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein: Their Lives, their Times, their Rivalry by Lindy Woodhead
RRP: £12.99£9.00War Paint is the story of two extraordinary women, Miss Elizabeth Arden and Madame Helena Rubinstein, and the legacy they left: a story of feminine vanity and marketing genius. Behind the gloss and glamour lay obsession with business and rivalry with... -
The Angels of Englemere Wood: The uplifting and inspiring true story of a children’s home during the Blitz by Karen Farrington
RRP: £10.99£7.77The inspiring, uplifting true story of a group of London girls dispatched to a children's home in rural England during the Blitz, and meet the formidable nurse and Lady in Waiting who transformed their lives forever . . .'A heartwarming story of hope and... -
Bletchley's Secret Source: The Wrens and the Y-Service in World War II by Peter Hore
RRP: £19.99£14.28The World War II codebreaking station at Bletchley is well-known and its activities documented in detail. Its decryption capabilities were vital to the war effort, significantly aiding Allied victory. But where did the messages being deciphered come from... -
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S Jones 9781541600256
RRP: £18.99£14.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541600256Author Martha S JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 28mm -
Frieda: the original Lady Chatterley by Annabel Abbs
RRP: £9.99£6.80A TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH AND PICK OF THE YEARThe extraordinary story of Frieda von Richthofen, wife of D. H. Lawrence and the inspiration for Lady Chatterley's Lover.'Effervescent' The Times'A convincing evocation of a remarkable...