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Jobs for the Girls: How We Set Out to Work in the Typewriter Age by Ysenda Maxtone Graham
RRP: £22.00£13.10A unique take on women's history from the bestselling author of British Summer Time Begins'Witty, clever and warm-hearted' The Times'Maxtone Graham [has a] unique blend of high comedy and shrewd social observation' Spectator'Terrific' Daily... -
Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church by Nijay K. Gupta
RRP: £19.99£15.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514000748Author Nijay K. GuptaFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Daisy's War: A compelling wartime saga of love and friendship by Rowena Summers 9781804365441
RRP: £8.99£5.87With hope dwindling, can she find her way again?The three Caldwell sisters have split up. Imogen has joined the war effort, Elsie has married, and Daisy is living away from home and missing her sisters.Although busy making new friends and dancing with... -
Women vs Hollywood: The Fall and Rise of Women in Film by Helen O'Hara 9781472144447
RRP: £10.99£7.78'A fascinating polemic' Sunday Times 'A powerful, sobering and vital work' The Mail on Sunday 'A page-turning read, peppered with humour' Sight & Sound'A must read' Edgar WrightA call to arms from Empire magazine's 'geek queen', Helen O'Hara, that... -
When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt by Kara Cooney 9781426220883
RRP: £13.99£9.56This riveting narrative explores the lives of six remarkable female pharaohs, from Hatshepsut to Cleopatra--women who ruled with real power--and shines a piercing light on our own perceptions of women in power today. Female rulers are a rare... -
Well-behaved Women Seldom Make History: A Cultural History of Modern Feminism by Anna-Marie Crowhurst
RRP: £25.00£14.26Badly Behaved Women is the illustrated story of the past 100 years of the women's movement, from suffrage, alleged bra burning and the politics of hair to Beyonce, body positivity and #MeToo. In the early twentieth century, through ceaseless dedication... -
Queen of the Desert: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell by Georgina Howell 9781447286264 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.90Archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author, poet, photographer, mountaineer and nation builder, Gertrude Bell was born in 1868 into a world of privilege and plenty, but she turned her back on all that for her passion for the Arab peoples, becoming the... -
Queen of the Desert: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell by Georgina Howell
RRP: £14.99£11.13Archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author, poet, photographer, mountaineer and nation builder, Gertrude Bell was born in 1868 into a world of privilege and plenty, but she turned her back on all that for her passion for the Arab peoples, becoming the... -
The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich
RRP: £9.99£7.11'A must read' - Margaret Atwood'It would be hard to find a book that feels more important or original' - Viv Groskop, ObserverExtraordinary stories from Soviet women who fought in the Second World War - from the winner of the Nobel Prize in... -
A Big Important Art Book (Now with Women): Profiles of Unstoppable Female Artists--And Projects to Help You Become One by Danielle Krysa 9780762463794
RRP: £22.00£17.67Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women White Feminists Forgot by Mikki Kendall
RRP: £9.99£6.87'It is absolutely brilliant, I think every woman should read it' PANDORA SYKES, THE HIGH LOW 'My wish is that every white woman who calls herself a feminist will read this book in a state of hushed and humble respect ... Essential reading' ELIZABETH... -
Toxic by Sarah Ditum 9780349727134
RRP: £22.00£13.10'Brilliant . . . really made me realise how no one has pulled back and given an overall story to the last 20 years . . . It's clever because it makes me think about now' ADAM CURTIS, FILMMAKERBritney, Paris, Lindsay, Aaliyah, Janet, Amy, Kim, Chyna, Jen... -
A Dirty, Filthy Book: Sex, Scandal, and One Woman’s Fight in the Victorian Trial of the Century by Michael Meyer 9780753559925
RRP: £25.00£18.02London, 1877. A petite young woman stands before an all-male jury, about to risk everything. She takes a breath, and opens her defence.Annie Besant and her confidant Charles Bradlaugh are on trial for the sordid crime of publishing and selling a birth... -
The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe by Angela Kelly
RRP: £25.00£17.43Platinum Jubilee edition 'Full of gems ... Angela Kelly is a jewel in the crown'Daily Telegraph 'Entertaining and beautifully illustrated'The Sunday Times 'For real intel, [The Crown] can't come... -
The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches by Brian MacArthur
RRP: £14.99£10.95From Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama, discover the most significant speeches of the modern era!Whether it was Churchill rousing the British to take up arms or the dream of Martin Luther King, Fidel Castro inspiring the Cuban revolution or Barack Obama... -
A Woman In Berlin by Anonymous
RRP: £10.99£7.40'This is a devastating book. It is matter-of-fact, makes no attempt to score political points, does not attempt to solicit sympathy for its protagonist and yet is among the most chilling indictments of war I have ever read. Everybody, in particular every... -
The Great Book of Badass Women: 15 Fearless and Inspirational Women that Changed History by Rachel Walsh 9781648450662
RRP: £9.95£7.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648450662Author Rachel WalshFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Lak PublishingPublisher Lak PublishingWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Queen of Codes: The Secret Life of Emily Anderson, Britain's Greatest Female Code Breaker by Dr Jackie Ui Chionna 9781472295507
RRP: £12.99£8.60'One of the greatest codebreakers of the twentieth century' Suzannah Lipscomb An astounding story of codebreaking, personal sacrifice and a life lived in the shadows. The history of British codebreaking is often considered a men-only preserve, ignoring... -
In Her Nature: How Women Break Boundaries in the Great Outdoors by Rachel Hewitt 9781784742898
RRP: £25.00£17.62**An Economist Book of the Year**** A Critic Book of the Year**A trail-blazing book about women's fights to access the great outdoors - and a very personal book about how running through the landscape helped the author in her journey from bereavement... -
Vita: The Life of Vita Sackville-West by Victoria Glendinning
RRP: £16.99£13.16The Whitbread Prize-winning biography of Vita Sackville-West. Vita Sackville-West was a vital, gifted and complex woman. A dedicated writer, she made her mark as poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, journalist and broadcaster. She was also one... -
Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights by Helen Lewis
RRP: £10.99£7.77Well-behaved women don't make history: difficult women do. 'This is the antidote to saccharine you-go-girl fluff. Effortlessly erudite and funny' Caroline Criado-Perez Strikers in saris. Bomb-throwing suffragettes. The pioneer of the refuge movement who... -
Outspoken: 50 Speeches by Incredible Women from Boudicca to Michelle Obama by Deborah Coughlin
RRP: £18.99£13.61History didn't listen to women, but that never stopped them from speaking out ...A lot of history is made up of speeches. Speeches about big ideas, celebratory speeches, rousing speeches to inspire soldiers to fight to the death, comic speeches to help... -
The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty by Natalie Livingstone
RRP: £12.99£7.51'Captivating, intimate, dazzling epic and revelatory' SIMON SEBAG-MONTEFIORE The story of the family who rose from the Frankfurt ghetto to become synonymous with wealth and power has been much mythologized. Yet half the Rothschilds, the women, remain... -
Messalina: A Story of Empire, Slander and Adultery by Honor Cargill-Martin
RRP: £27.99£24.27This is the story of Messalina - third wife of Emperor Claudius and one of the most notorious women to have inhabited the Roman world. The scandalous image of the Empress Messalina as a ruthless and sexually insatiable schemer, derived from the work... -
Women of the Durham Coalfield in the 20th Century: Hannah's Daughter by Margaret Hedley 9780750995047
RRP: £14.99£11.55Life in the early twentieth-century coalmining communities changed very little for the women who dedicated their lives to their miner husbands. The women's working days were much longer than the miners, who typically worked an 8-hour shift. Their living... -
Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began - Winner of the Scottish Book of the Year Award by Leah Hazard 9780349015804
RRP: £10.99£6.47*WINNER OF THE SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2023* A landmark book on the womb - its history, its present and the possibilities for its future - by the bestselling author of Hard Pushed: A Midwife's Story'A gripping exploration of the science of the... -
Space Below My Feet by Gwen Moffat
RRP: £12.99£7.51A classic mountaineering memoir by one of the UK's foremost female climbers.'A story of climbing and compulsive love of mountains ... magnificent' OBSERVERIn 1945, when Gwen Moffat was in her twenties, she deserted from her post as a driver and dispatch... -
Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior by Catherine Hanley
RRP: £12.99£11.46A life of Matilda-empress, skilled military leader, and one of the greatest figures of the English Middle Ages "[Matilda] will attract a growing audience interested in stories of women challenging the male-dominated European past."-Alexandra Locking,... -
Etta Lemon: The Woman who Saved the Birds by Tessa Boase
RRP: £12.99£8.60Read the fascinating story of one of the greatest unsung figures of the nature conservation movement, founder of the RSPB and icon of early animal rights activism, Etta Lemon. A heroine for our times, Etta Lemon campaigned for fifty years against the... -
The Rival Queens: Catherine de' Medici, her daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal That Ignited a Kingdom by Nancy Goldstone
RRP: £12.99£7.51'A gripping tale of royal feuds and divided kingdoms' - AMANDA FOREMANParis, 1572. Catherine de' Medici, the infamous queen mother of France, is a consummate pragmatist and powerbroker who has dominated the throne for thirty years. Her youngest daughter,... -
Born Survivors: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Wendy Holden
RRP: £9.99£4.11The Sunday Times bestseller now updated with a new forewordAmong millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each passed through its infamous gates with a secret. Strangers to each other, they were newly... -
She Speaks: Women's Speeches That Changed the World, from Boudica to Greta by Yvette Cooper
RRP: £8.99£6.08Fully updated with new preface and five new speeches for paperback edition.A Guardian Book of the Year.Looking at lists of the greatest speeches of all time, you might think that powerful oratory is the preserve of men. But the truth is very different -... -
Women and the Piano: A History in 50 Lives by Susan Tomes 9780300266573
RRP: £25.00£20.92Women are an essential part of the history of the piano-but how many women pianists can you name? Throughout most of the piano's history, women pianists lacked access to formal training and were excluded from male-dominated performance spaces. Even the... -
Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend by Meryl Gordon
RRP: £14.99£9.80When Bunny Mellon died at age 103 on March 17th, she was the last embodiment of a Gilded Age lifestyle. Born into money (her grandfather invented Listerine), she married into even more money (the Mellon banking and oil fortune) and went on to build,... -
Doves of War: Four Women of Spain by Paul Preston 9780006386940
RRP: £12.99£9.70Love, war, duty, faith, betrayal and belief - a revolutionary new view of the Spanish Civil War through the eyes and experiences of the women who endured it, by the greatest historian of Spain: 'Passionate and deeply moving... when Preston writes about... -
Christmas Hope for the Steel Girls (The Steel Girls, Book 2) by Michelle Rawlins
RRP: £9.99£5.82With the country at war, can they come together this winter? 'A heart-warming story perfect for saga lovers', Nancy Revell,Sunday Times bestselling author of The Shipyard Girls series 'Heartwarming, hopeful and... -
The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende
RRP: £9.99£6.87** The wise, warm, defiant meditation on what it means to be a woman - from literary legend Isabel Allende ** 'Allende combine[s] wit with anger as she picks apart the patriarchy' Independent 'Full of Isabel's wisdom and warm words' Grazia ... -
Ashes and Stones: A Scottish Journey in Search of Witches and Witness by Allyson Shaw 9781529395495
RRP: £12.99£8.60'Beautiful... A moving reminder for us all to connect with what's gone before' STYLIST'Atmospheric, scholarly - and gripping . . . Shocking and important' Laline Paull, author of PodRoaming the ragged coasts and remote villages of Scotland, Ashes &... -
Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life by Justine Picardie 9780007318995
RRP: £27.00£20.57Justine Picardie spent years puzzling over the truth about Coco Chanel, peeling away the accretions of romance and lies. Since its publication in 2010, hers has become the definitive Chanel biography. With a new foreword and previously unseen images,... -
How the Girl Guides Won the War by Janie Hampton
RRP: £12.99£8.48A completely original history of one of the most extraordinary movements in the world - the Girl Guides - and how they helped win the war. Mention Girl Guides to any woman and the reaction will be strong. They either loved them or hated them;...