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The Kingdom of Women: Life, Love and Death in China's Hidden Mountains by Choo Waihong
RRP: £14.99£10.26In a mist-shrouded valley on China's invisible border with Tibet is a place known as the 'Kingdom of Women'. A small tribe called the Mosuo lives in a cluster of villages that have changed little in centuries. This is one of the last matrilineal... -
The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty by Natalie Livingstone 9781529366716
RRP: £25.00£17.38'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... -
Burial Rites: The BBC Between the Covers Book Club Pick by Hannah Kent 9781035038626
RRP: £9.99£6.52Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and a BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick!'Outstanding' - Madeline Miller, author of Circe'Gripping, intriguing and unique' - Kate Mosse, author of The Burning ChambersNorthern Iceland, 1829. A woman... -
Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries: A Campaign for Justice by Claire McGettrick 9781350452039
£25.15Between 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... -
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... -
Terms & Conditions: Life in Girls' Boarding Schools, 1939-1979 by Ysenda Maxtone Graham 9780349143064
RRP: £9.99£6.80'Brilliant, hilarious... My book of the year' INDIA KNIGHT'A wonderful book' CRAIG BROWN, Mail on Sunday'Funny, bloodcurdling and moving' Daily MailThe cruel teachers. The pashes on other girls. The gossip. The giggles. The awful food. The homesickness... -
The Secrets of Saffron Hall by Clare Marchant
RRP: £9.99£6.64Two 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 Suffragette Timeline: An introduction to the Suffragette's epic struggle to win Votes For Women by Suzanne Keyte 9781984220219
RRP: £7.99£6.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984220219Author Suzanne KeyteFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol by Mallory O'Meara
RRP: £14.99£13.64Winner 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,... -
Queens of the Age of Chivalry by Alison Weir
RRP: £25.00£18.02From 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... -
The Angel Makers: The True Story of the Most Astonishing Murder Ring in History by Patti McCracken
RRP: £16.99£15.11A Financial Times Best Summer Book 2023 A Waterstones Best True Crime Book Nagyrev, Hungary, 1929. Over 160 mysterious deaths. A group of local wives conspiring together, and one woman at the centre of it all... ... -
Damaged Goods: The Rise and Fall of Sir Philip Green (The Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller) by Oliver Shah
RRP: £9.99£7.11DISCOVER 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... -
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'... -
Boudica: Warrior Woman of Roman Britain by Caitlin Gillespie 9780197503652
RRP: £25.49£22.95In AD 60/61, Rome almost lost the province of Britain to a woman. Boudica, wife of the client king Prasutagus, fomented a rebellion that proved catastrophic for Camulodunum (Colchester), Londinium (London), and Verulamium (St Albans), destroyed part of a... -
Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach 9780803260979
RRP: £16.99£12.60"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... -
Suffragettes: The Fight for Votes for Women by Joyce Marlow 9780349007748 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£1.97Queen Victoria is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad wicked folly of women's rights, with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor sex is bent' - 1870It was a bloody and dangerous war lasting several... -
Suffragettes: The Fight for Votes for Women by Joyce Marlow
RRP: £10.99£7.40Queen Victoria is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad wicked folly of women's rights, with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor sex is bent' - 1870It was a bloody and dangerous war lasting several... -
Charlotte Bronte: A Life by Claire Harman
RRP: £14.99£10.95The definitive biography of an extraordinary novelist, by acclaimed literary biographer Claire Harman'There was no possibility of taking a walk that day . . .' With these words Charlotte Bronte began Jane Eyre and changed English literature irrevocably... -
Christmas with the Bomb Girls by Daisy Styles 9781405929806
RRP: £7.99£5.79Cosy up with the heartwarming and festive wartime story of a group of women finding joy in troubled times, from the beloved Bomb Girls series'It made me smile and it made me cry' 5***** Reader Review 'An absolute joy to read' Kate Thompson, bestselling... -
Jessica Ennis: Unbelievable - From My Childhood Dreams To Winning Olympic Gold: The life story of Team GB's Olympic Golden Girl by Jessica Ennis
RRP: £12.99£8.60On 4 August 2012 Jessica Ennis kicked off what some described as the greatest night in British sporting history. For her it was the end of a long, winding, and sometimes harrowing road.Hers is an inspiring tale of following your dreams no matter what... -
The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women by Rosalie Gilbert 9781642503074
RRP: £16.95£13.06What 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... -
The Pit Brow Women of Wigan Coalfield by Alan Davies
RRP: £14.99£11.55This illustrated book tells the story of the female colliery surface workers, or pit brow women, of the Wigan coalfield. The numbers of women working in mines grew vastly after the expansion of the coal industry in the mid- to late eighteenth century... -
Blood, Fire and Gold: The story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici by Estelle Paranque
RRP: £12.99£9.09'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... -
Women on Wheels: The Scandalous Untold History of Women in Bicycling from the 1880s to the 1980s by April Streeter
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621062073Author April StreeterFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Microcosm PublishingPublisher Microcosm Publishing -
House of Glass: The story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish family by Hadley Freeman 9780008322663
RRP: £9.99£6.64The Sunday Times bestseller 'An utterly engrossing book' Nigella Lawson 'Remarkable and gripping' Edmund de Waal 'A near-perfect study of... -
The Diaries of Lady Anne Clifford by Anne Clifford 9780750931786 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.26Noblewoman, vividly documents both the great and the trivial events of her long life. They cover her life from her childhood days, when she witnessed the funeral of Queen Elizabeth I, to her last months, when she recalled her past from her room in... -
The Diaries of Lady Anne Clifford by Anne Clifford
RRP: £14.99£11.55Noblewoman, vividly documents both the great and the trivial events of her long life. They cover her life from her childhood days, when she witnessed the funeral of Queen Elizabeth I, to her last months, when she recalled her past from her room in... -
Toksvig's Almanac 2021: An Eclectic Meander Through the Historical Year by Sandi Toksvig by Sandi Toksvig
RRP: £14.99£10.95'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... -
How Was It For You?: Women, Sex, Love and Power in the 1960s by Virginia Nicholson
RRP: £9.99£7.11'One of the great social historians of our time. No one else makes history this fun' Amanda Foreman'How Was It For You? subtly but powerfully subverts complacent male assumptions about a legendary decade' David Kynaston--------------------------------"A... -
Strong Women: Inspirational athletes at the top of their game by Suzanne Wrack
RRP: £15.99£9.06Overpower. 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... -
The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women?s Roles in Society by Eleanor Janega
RRP: £23.99£20.11What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love and be? In this vibrant, high-spirited history, medievalist Eleanor Janega turns to the Middle Ages, the era that bridged the ancient world and modern society, to unfurl its suppositions about... -
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... -
A Train in Winter: A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival in Auschwitz by Caroline Moorehead
RRP: £10.99£7.77A moving and extraordinary book about courage and survival, friendship and endurance - a portrait of ordinary women who faced the horror of the holocaust together.On an icy morning in Paris in January 1943, a group of 230 French women resisters were... -
Madam Secretary: A Memoir by Madeleine Albright
RRP: £12.99£8.88A national bestseller on its first publication in 2003, "Madam Secretary" is the riveting personal story of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. For eight years, during Bill Clinton's two presidential terms, Albright was an active participant in... -
Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking World by Johanna Katrin Fridriksdottir
RRP: £14.99£11.75LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE Valkyries: the female supernatural beings that choose who dies and who lives on the battlefield. They protect some, but guide spears, arrows and sword blades into the bodies of others. Viking myths about... -
A Family Reunion by Patricia Scanlan
RRP: £8.99£5.82Previously published as The Liberation of Brigid Dunne*** THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER *** One explosive family reunion. A lifetime of secrets revealed.Spanning generations and covering seismic shifts in the lives of women, A Family Reunion is a... -
Wedded Wife: a feminist history of marriage by Ms. Rachael Lennon
RRP: £16.99£11.54In this fascinating and insightful book, feminist curator Rachael Lennon provides an intimate and accessible examination of the history of marriage, with a focus on the UK.Wedded Wife tells a remarkable story of how this institution has developed from... -
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 *... -
Deeds Not Words: The Story of Women's Rights - Then and Now by Helen Pankhurst 9781473646872
RRP: £12.99£8.60'An uplifting record of progress and strength... You'll lay the book down feeling not only informed, but galvanised to take action yourself.' Independent'An incredible book . . . with the potential to change women's lives.' Sandi ToksvigWhy is it taking... -
Noblewomen, Aristocracy and Power in the Twelfth-Century Anglo-Norman Realm by Susan M. Johns 9780719063053
RRP: £19.99£14.52The first major work on noblewomen in the twelfth century and Normandy, and of the ways in which they exercised power. Offers an important reconceptualisation of women's role in aristocratic society and suggests new ways of looking at lordship and the...