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Doves of War: Four Women of Spain by Paul Preston 9780006386940
RRP: £12.99£9.96Love, 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... -
Women in Policing: A History through Personal Stories by Tom Andrews 9781803992495
RRP: £20.00£15.04The history of policing in Britain is a considerably under-researched subject, and the advancement of women within that history even more so. This book seeks to fill that gap, by tracking the progress of women in policing - a story that is longer and... -
Bess Of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth by Mary S. Lovell
RRP: £14.99£10.05Bess of Hardwick was one of the most remarkable women of the Tudor era. Gently-born in reduced circumstances, she was married at 15, wedded at 16 and still a virgin. At 19 she married a man more than twice her age, Sir William Cavendish, a senior auditor... -
Blood, Fire and Gold: The story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici by Estelle Paranque
RRP: £12.99£9.34'A story told with verve and passion' The Times, Book of the Week'An alternative and engaging biography...accessible and unpretentious' The Telegraph'A stunning portrayal of two of the most powerful women in European history' Tracy Borman'Exciting and... -
Nazi Wives: The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany by James Wyllie 9780750991223
RRP: £20.00£15.67Goering, Goebbels, Himmler, Heydrich, Bormann, Hess - names synonymous with power and influence in the Third Reich. Perhaps less familiar are Carin, Emmy, Magda, Margaret, Lina, Gerda and Ilse ... These are the women behind the infamous men - complex... -
She Speaks: Women's Speeches That Changed the World, from Boudica to Greta by Yvette Cooper
RRP: £8.99£6.28Fully 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 -... -
A Spell in the Wild: A Year (and six centuries) of Magic by Alice Tarbuck
RRP: £12.99£8.83'Witches occupy a clear place in contemporary imagination. We can see them, shadowy, in the corners of the past: mad, glamorous, difficult, strange. They haunt the footnotes of history - from medieval witches burning at the stake to the lurid glamour of... -
In Her Nature: How Women Break Boundaries in the Great Outdoors by Rachel Hewitt 9781784742898
RRP: £25.00£17.90**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... -
Sabine’s War: One woman. Three concentration camps. A remarkable true story of survival. by Eva Taylor
RRP: £9.99£6.84An astonishing tale of romance, resistance and bravery 'A sad and beautiful book, shining a light on quiet heroism in dark times.' Lucy Adlington, New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz ... -
Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol by Mallory O'Meara
RRP: £14.99£13.84Winner of the 2022 James Beard Book Award A Guardian Best History and Politics Book of 2022 Selected as one of the 25 Best Cookbooks of 2022 in Delicious Magazine Nominated for the 2022 Spirited Awards This is the forgotten history of women making,... -
100 Nasty Women of History: Brilliant, badass and completely fearless women everyone should know Hannah Jewell 9781473671249
RRP: £10.99£7.61'Vital reading' STYLIST'...hooting with laughter - what a swashbuckler that Hannah Jewell is' MARINA HYDE'Because 100 Nasty Women is so easy to read and witty, I didn't expect it to be the life changing, important book that I'm discovering it to be'... -
Bad Girls of Ancient Greece: Myths and Legends from the Baddies that Started it all by Lizzy Tiffin 9780008687083
RRP: £14.99£9.96You’ve heard all about the ‘brilliant men’ of ancient myth, but what about the scheming and scandalous women who were so often lost in their shadow? Bad Girls of Ancient Greece contains profiles of wayward wives, mad mothers, scandalous sisters and... -
Nazi Wives: The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany by James Wyllie 9780750997508
RRP: £12.99£9.87Goering, Goebbels, Himmler, Heydrich, Bormann, Hess - names synonymous with power and influence in the Third Reich. Perhaps less familiar are Carin, Emmy, Magda, Margaret, Lina, Gerda and Ilse ... These are the women behind the infamous men - complex... -
Queen of the Desert: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell by Georgina Howell
RRP: £14.99£11.30Archaeologist, 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... -
Queens of the Age of Chivalry by Alison Weir
RRP: £25.00£18.30From one of Britain's best selling historians, a sweeping and magisterial history of the extraordinary lives of five queens in England's turbulent Age of ChivalryMedieval queens were seen as mere dynastic trophies, yet many of the Plantagenet queens of... -
Bloody Brilliant Women: The Pioneers, Revolutionaries and Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention by Cathy Newman 9780008241674 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.65'A litany of fresh heroes to make the embattled heart sing' Caitlin Moran 'Newman is a brilliant writer' Observer A fresh, opinionated history of all the brilliant women you should have learned about in school but... -
Bloody Brilliant Women: The Pioneers, Revolutionaries and Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention by Cathy Newman
RRP: £10.99£7.46'A litany of fresh heroes to make the embattled heart sing' Caitlin Moran 'Newman is a brilliant writer' Observer A fresh, opinionated history of all the brilliant women you should have learned about in school but... -
The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World by Jennifer Higgie
RRP: £22.00£14.56'In effervescent and atmospheric prose, Jennifer Higgie explores some of history's most innovative artists and their spiritual investigations into this realm and the next. I was entranced from start to finish, as she takes us on both a personal and... -
'Unsuitable for Females': The Rise of the Lionesses and Women's Football in England by Carrie Dunn 9781913759094
RRP: £9.99£6.90Shortlisted for the 2023 Sports Book Awards for Best Football Writing of the Year Discover the origins of the Lionesses that brought football home. England's Lionesses are on the front and back pages; their stars feature on prime-time television;... -
The Radium Girls: They paid with their lives. Their final fight was for justice. by Kate Moore 9781471153884
RRP: £9.99£6.61Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf book club choiceNew York Times bestseller 'Fascinating.' Sunday Times 'Thrilling.' Mail on SundayAll they wanted was the chance to shine. Be careful what you wish for...'The first thing we asked was, "Does this stuff... -
Toksvig's Almanac 2021: An Eclectic Meander Through the Historical Year by Sandi Toksvig Sandi Toksvig 9781398701632
RRP: £14.99£11.11'Fierce, funny and long overdue - I read this book out loud to anyone who'd listen.' Adam Kay'Toksvig's Almanac is intended merely as a starting point for your own discoveries. Find a fabulous (or infamous) woman mentioned and, please, go looking for... -
The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty Natalie Livingstone 9781529366730
RRP: £12.99£8.83'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... -
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... -
Women, Workplace Protest and Political Identity in England, 1968-85 by Jonathan Moss 9781526160430
RRP: £25.00£17.92This book draws upon original research into women's workplace protest to deliver a new account of working-class women's political identity and participation in post-war England. Focusing on the voices and experiences of women who fought for equal pay,... -
Damaged Goods: The Rise and Fall of Sir Philip Green (The Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller) by Oliver Shah
RRP: £9.99£7.32DISCOVER THE SHOCKING TRUTH BEHIND THE BUSINESS AND LIFESTYLE OF SIR PHILIP GREEN In this jaw-dropping expose, Oliver Shah uncovers the truth behind one of Britain's biggest business scandals, following Sir Philip Green's journey to the big time, the... -
British Summer Time Begins: The School Summer Holidays 1930-1980 Ysenda Maxtone Graham 9781408710562
RRP: £9.99£7.00British Summer Time Begins is about summer holidays of the mid-twentieth century and how they were spent, as recounted to Ysenda Maxtone-Graham in vividly remembered detail by people who were there. Through this prism, it paints a revealing portrait of... -
Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach 9780803260979
RRP: £16.99£12.83"Miss Beach's book is intimate, not scholarly, and thus full of interesting information. Her reminiscences are literally an index of everybody in the twenties, and she knew them all."-Janet Flanner, New YorkerSylvia Beach was intimately acquainted with... -
Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Time by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger
RRP: £35.00£29.55A major new biography of the iconic Austrian empress that challenges the many myths about her life and ruleMaria Theresa (1717-1780) was once the most powerful woman in Europe. At the age of twenty-three, she ascended to the throne of the Habsburg... -
Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers by Mary Wellesley
RRP: £12.99£8.83'This book is an expression of love... Sublimely conceived and beautifully written' Gerard DeGroot, The Times'Immersive, conversational and intensely visual' Helen... -
The Secrets of Saffron Hall by Clare Marchant
RRP: £9.99£6.84Two women. Five centuries apart.One life-changing secret about to be unearthed... 1538New bride Eleanor impresses her husband by growing saffron, a spice more valuable than gold. His reputation in Henry VIII's court soars - but... -
The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women by Rosalie Gilbert 9781642503074
RRP: £16.95£13.82What Was Sex Like for a Medieval Woman?"Wickedly entertaining, informative and thought-provoking. An insightful, modern look at the lives of women as they were." -Dr. Markus Kerr, PhD, MDR.#1 New Release in Etiquette Guides & AdviceAn inside look at... -
Four Sisters:The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses by Helen Rappaport
RRP: £14.99£11.30On 17 July 1918, four young women walked down into the cellar of a house in Ekaterinburg. The eldest was twenty-two, the youngest only seventeen. Together with their parents and their thirteen-year-old brother, they were all brutally murdered. Their... -
Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World by Kate Mosse
RRP: £20.00£13.50Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries is a celebration of unheard and under-heard women's history.'Excellent . . . bursting with extraordinary women' - Anita Anand'Brilliant' - Daisy Buchanan"My hope is that this book will inspire as I have been... -
Women in the War by Lucy Fisher
RRP: £9.99£6.72'An important contribution to our recent history' ANDREW MARR 'Absorbing and important' JOAN BAKEWELL 'One of my favourite reads of 2021' GARETH RUSSELL ... -
The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule by Angela Saini
RRP: £20.00£13.10SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023 A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR FOR POLITICS 2023 'I learned something new on every page of this totally essential book'... -
The Serpent Queen: Now a major TV series Leonie Frieda 9781399614207
RRP: £14.99£10.05NOW THE TV SERIES 'THE SERPENT QUEEN', STARRING SAMANTHA MORTONThe bestselling revisionist biography of one of the great women of the 16th centuryOrphaned in infancy, Catherine de Medici was the sole legitimate heiress to the Medici family fortune... -
Strong Women: Inspirational athletes at the top of their game by Suzanne Wrack
RRP: £15.99£9.30Overpower. Overtake. Overcome. - Serena WilliamsThroughout history, every woman pulling on spikes, lacing up boots and picking up a racquet has been a rebel - and this explosive book aims to uncover the often hidden histories behind 50 of these... -
I Am Not Afraid of Looking into the Rifles: Women of the Resistance in World War One by Rick Stroud 9781398507067
RRP: £22.00£14.05'A thrilling narrative that creates an extraordinary picture of female resistance' The Lady'Fascinating' Kavita Puri, BBC History Magazine'A fierce, intense picture of this aspect of the war . . . it will stay with me' Elizabeth Buchan, author of Two... -
FairBreak by Karen Motyka 9780645658309
RRP: £24.99£18.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645658309Author Karen MotykaFormat PaperbackPage Count 390Imprint Fairbreak Global Pty LtdPublisher Fairbreak Global Pty LtdWeight(grams) 699g -
House of Glass: The story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish family by Hadley Freeman 9780008322663
RRP: £9.99£6.84The Sunday Times bestseller 'An utterly engrossing book' Nigella Lawson 'Remarkable and gripping' Edmund de Waal 'A near-perfect study of...