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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Biography by Marion Meade
RRP: £12.99£8.83Marion Meade portrays Eleanor of Aquitaine as a woman of great intelligence and titanic energy who lived in a passionate and creative age.A comprehensive account of the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine. The wife of King Louis VII of France and then of King... -
Women in Battle by Marta Breen & Jenny Jordahl
RRP: £9.99£7.05Freedom. Equality. Sisterhood. WOMEN IN BATTLE is the book for anyone who wants to learn as much as possible about the history of feminism in as short a time as possible.Presented as a graphic novel and spanning 150 years of recent history, WOMEN IN... -
Esther Simpson: The True Story of her Mission to Save Scholars from Hitler's Persecution by John Eidinow
RRP: £25.00£14.88Many of the academic refugees Esther Simpson helped rescue are well remembered. But who was she and why has history forgotten her?This is the story of Esther Simpson, a woman whose dedication to the cause of freedom in science and learning left an... -
Simone Weil: Late Philosophical Writings by Simone Weil
RRP: £15.99£14.24Although trained as a philosopher, Simone Weil (1909-43) contributed to a wide range of subjects, resulting in a rich field of interdisciplinary Weil studies. Yet those coming to her work from such disciplines as sociology, history, political science,... -
Women of Moray by Susan Bennet
RRP: £16.99£13.06Women have been sidelined throughout history in the rush to tell the stories of great wars, great battles and the achievements of great men. But in Moray - a part of Scotland encompassing both Highland and Lowland areas btween Inverness and Aberdeen - a... -
Hotbed: Bohemian New York and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism by Joanna Scutts 9780715655085
RRP: £12.99£8.87New York City, 1912: in downtown Greenwich Village, a group of women gathered, all with a plan to change the world. This was the first meeting of 'Heterodoxy', a secret social club. Its members were passionate advocates of women's suffrage, labour... -
Women and the Noose: A History of Female Execution by Richard Clark
RRP: £12.99£9.87Tracing the history of female crime and execution from 1726 to 1955, Women and the Noose presents the cases of over fifty women who met their end on the hangman's gallows. From the criminal act to the execution day itself, the women's stories illustrate... -
War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the War System and Vice Versa by Joshua S. Goldstein 9780521001809
RRP: £30.99£26.03Gender roles are nowhere more prominent than in war. Yet contentious debates, and the scattering of scholarship across academic disciplines, have obscured understanding of how gender affects war and vice versa. In this authoritative and lively review of... -
Queering Desire: Lesbians, Gender and Subjectivity by Róisín Ryan-Flood 9781032499048
RRP: £36.99£32.53Queering Desire explores, with unprecedented interdisciplinary scope, contemporary configurations of lesbian, bi, queer women’s, and non-binary people’s experiences of identity and desire. Taking an intersectional feminist and trans-inclusive approach,... -
The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany by Gwen Strauss 9781250853561
RRP: £17.99£13.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250853561Author Gwen StraussFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
The Women's History of the Modern World: How Radicals, Rebels, and Everywomen Revolutionized the Last 200 Years by Rosalind Miles 9780062444035
RRP: £16.99£9.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062444035Author Rosalind MilesFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint William Morrow & CompanyPublisher William Morrow & CompanyWeight(grams) 272g -
A Delusion Of Satan: The Full Story Of The Salem Witch Trials by Frances Hill
£14.99This acclaimed history illuminates the horrifying episode of Salem with visceral clarity, from those who fanned the crisis to satisfy personal vendettas to the four-year-old "witch" chained to a dank prison wall in darkness till she went mad. Antonia... -
Book of Awesome Women Writers: Medieval Mystics, Pioneering Poets, Fierce Feminists and First Ladies of Literature by Becca Anderson 9781642501223
RRP: £14.99£12.53Famous Female Authors Who Wrote Their Way Into History"An absolute 'must read' for anyone thinking that centuries of literature being almost exclusively dominated by men."-Library Bookwatch#1 Bestseller in SociologyFrom the first recorded writer to... -
Gender Rebels: 50 Influential Cross-Dressers, Impersonators, Name-Changers, and Game-Changers by Anneka Harry
RRP: £8.99£6.32Meet the unsung sheroes of history: the diverse, defiant and daring (wo)men who changed the rules, and their identities, to get sh*t done. You'll encounter Kit Cavanagh, the swaggering Irish dragoon who was the first woman to be buried in London with... -
The Merits of Women: Wherein Is Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men by Moderata Fonte
RRP: £15.00£14.87You would as well look for blood in a corpse as for the least shred of decency in a man . . . Without help from their wives, men are just like unlit lamps . . . Just think of them as an unreliable clock that tells you it's ten o'clock when it's... -
A Mother's Secret: The Battersea Tavern Series (Book 1) by Kitty Neale
RRP: £20.99£15.58The heartwrenching new novel from bestselling author Kitty NealeCan she put right the secrets of the past?London, 1939. Winnie Berry has been the landlady of the Battersea Tavern for nearly twenty-five years, and the pub is like home to her - a place of... -
Sisters in Arms by Julie Wheelwright
RRP: £18.99£13.82Shortlisted for the British Army Book of the Year 2021. 'A long overdue assertion on the role of women on the battlefield. This book is going straight on my daughter's bookshelf.' Dan Snow, historian, TV presenter and broadcaster 'Sisters in Arms... -
The Passionate Spies: How Gertrude Bell, St. John Philby and Lawrence of Arabia Led the Arab Revolt. And How Saudi Arabia Was Founded by John Harte
RRP: £16.99£14.32This is the true story of how three British Secret Service agents from the Arab Bureau in Cairo helped General Allenby defeat Germany's ally, the Turks, and end World War One. Lawrence of Arabia reignited a failing Arab Revolt by training and leading a... -
Strange Antics: A History of Seduction by Clement Knox 9780008285678
RRP: £25.00£7.40When is seduction about more than just sex? In this brilliantly original history, Clement Knox explores these questions as well as the philosophy, legality, politics, art and literature of a force that underwrites our world. ... -
The Ascent Of Woman: A History of the Suffragette Movement by Melanie Phillips 9780349116600 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.29The story of the fight to gain the vote for women is about much more than a peripheral if picturesque skirmish around the introduction of universal suffrage. It is an explosive story of social and sexual revolutionary upheaval, and one which has not yet... -
The Ascent Of Woman: A History of the Suffragette Movement by Melanie Phillips
RRP: £14.99£10.05The story of the fight to gain the vote for women is about much more than a peripheral if picturesque skirmish around the introduction of universal suffrage. It is an explosive story of social and sexual revolutionary upheaval, and one which has not yet... -
A Woman's Place, 1910-1975 by Ruth Adam 9781903155097
RRP: £17.00£15.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903155097Author Ruth AdamFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books LtdDimensions(mm) 194mm * 138mm * 28mm -
Henry VIII's Imprisoned Women: The Women of the Tower by Neha Roy
RRP: £22.00£17.90The year is 1534. Henry VIII sits on the throne of England. He has set aside his first wife, Queen Katharine of Aragon, and has married a second time. The marriage to Anne Boleyn brings a new wave of Reformation in England dividing the people and even... -
Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir by Madeleine Albright 9780062802279
RRP: £10.99£7.46"Richly detailed. . . an intimate portrait of a diplomat." -New YorkerNow in paperback with a new epilogueIn this revealing, funny, and inspiring memoir, seven-time New York Times bestselling author and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright-among... -
Magnificent Women and their Revolutionary Machines by Henrietta Heald
RRP: £9.99£7.05'Women have won their political independence. Now is the time for them to achieve their economic freedom too.'This was the great rallying cry of the pioneers who, in 1919, created the Women's Engineering Society. Spearheaded by Katharine and Rachel... -
Protecting Diana: A Bodyguard's Story by Lee Sansum 9781635767919
RRP: £18.99£12.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635767919Author Lee SansumFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Diversion BooksPublisher Diversion BooksWeight(grams) 140g -
Wedlock: The True Story of the Disastrous Marriage and Remarkable Divorce of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore by Wendy Moore 9780307383372
RRP: £22.00£15.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307383372Author Wendy MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Sisters In Arms: British Army Nurses Tell Their Story Nicola Tyrer 9780753825679
RRP: £10.99£7.61The remarkable true story of the Queen Alexandra frontline nurses in the Second World War.The amazing experiences of the Queen Alexandra nurses in the Second World War form one of the greatest adventure stories of modern times, and - incredibly - remain... -
Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History by Philippa Gregory 9780008601713
RRP: £14.99£13.18A NEW STATESMEN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 'A lasting work of social history' THE TIMES 'A genuinely new history of our nation' DAN JONES ... -
Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries: A Campaign for Justice by Claire McGettrick 9781350452039
£25.55Between 1922 and 1996, over 10,000 girls and women were imprisoned in Magdalene Laundries, including those considered 'promiscuous', a burden to their families or the state, those who had been sexually abused or raised in the care of the Church and... -
Young Elizabeth: The Making of our Queen Kate Williams 9781780222431
RRP: £9.99£7.00The story of how Elizabeth II became queen.'Rich with princess anecdotes... Williams's book weaves the Second World War, vast social change and the royal upheaval of abdication and celebration of coronation into energised, nostalgic storytelling' SUNDAY... -
Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology by Deirdre Cooper Owens 9780820354750
£26.38The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimental caesarean sections, ovariotomies,... -
Queenship in Medieval Europe by Theresa Earenfight 9780230276468
£30.33Medieval queens led richly complex lives and were highly visible women active in a man's world. Linked to kings by marriage, family, and property, queens were vital to the institution of monarchy. In this comprehensive and accessible introduction to the... -
Mirror in the Sky: The Life and Music of Stevie Nicks by Simon Morrison 9780520401266
RRP: £16.99£13.56A stunning musical biography of Stevie Nicks that paints a portrait of an artist, not a caricature of a superstar. Reflective and expansive, Mirror in the Sky situates Stevie Nicks as one of the finest songwriters of the twentieth century. This biography... -
The Real Coco Chanel by Rose Sgueglia 9781526761019
RRP: £19.99£14.28Coco 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... -
Amazons of Black Sparta: The Women Warriors of Dahomey by Stanley B. Alpern
RRP: £14.99£13.84History is rife with tales of fighting women. More often than not, these stories prove more legend than history. Dating back to the Amazons of ancient Asia Minor, myths of fierce, autonomous women of martial excellence abound. And yet, the only... -
The Science of Murder: The Forensics of Agatha Christie by Carla Valentine
RRP: £16.99£14.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Agatha Awards (Best Nonfiction) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9781728251844Author Carla ValentineFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint SourcebooksPublisher... -
Her Dior: Maria Grazia Chiuri's New Voice by Maria Grazia Chiuri 9780847870295
RRP: £80.00£78.88Since being appointed the first female creative director of Dior in 2016, Maria Grazia Chiuri has infused the illustrious fashion brand with a strong current of femi-nism. Her approach is at once refreshing and needed, while still paying homage to the... -
A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Berry
RRP: £15.99£11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807001998Author Daina BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
Radicals and Rogues: The Women Who Made New York Modern by Lottie Whalen 9781789147865
RRP: £20.00£14.51This is the story of a group of women whose experiments in art and life set the tone for the rise of New York as the twentieth century's capital of modern culture. Across the 1910s and '20s, through provocative creative acts, shocking fashion, political...