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Four Sisters:The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses by Helen Rappaport
RRP: £14.99£11.13On 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... -
The Nuns of Sant' Ambrogio: The True Story of a Convent in Scandal by Hubert Wolf 9780198732198
RRP: £22.99£17.28Discovered in a secret Vatican archive, this is the true, never-before-told story of poison, murder, and lesbian initiation rites in a nineteenth century convent. In 1858, Katherina von Hohenzollern, a German princess recently inducted into the... -
A Brief History of the Amazons: Women Warriors in Myth and History by Lyn Webster Wilde
RRP: £10.99£7.40'Golden-shielded, silver-sworded, man-loving, male-child slaughtering Amazons,' is how the fifth-century Greek historian Hellanicus described the Amazons, and they have fascinated humanity ever since. Did they really exist? For centuries, scholars... -
Mobilising Hate: The Story of Hitler's Final Solution by Martin Davidson
RRP: £22.00£14.96'Finally, eight decades on, there comes a convincing reason as to how an entire nation was able to swallow and then endorse the warped ideology of Hitler and the Nazis. Not only a brilliantly argued book, Mobilising Hate is also a grimly compelling and... -
The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts and Harrimans - A Story of Love and War by Catherine Grace Katz
RRP: £12.99£8.48The brilliant untold story of three daughters of diplomacy: Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, glamorous, fascinating young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference with Stalin in the waning... -
The Lives of Tudor Women by Elizabeth Norton
RRP: £10.99£7.77The turbulent Tudor age never fails to capture the imagination. But what was it actually like to be a woman during this period? This was a time when death in infancy or during childbirth was rife; when marriage was usually a legal contract, not a matter... -
Women Forgotten in History by Emily Rice 9781398462922
RRP: £12.99£9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398462922Author Emily RiceFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams)... -
The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor 9780691170275
RRP: £15.99£13.31Amazons--fierce warrior women dwelling on the fringes of the known world--were the mythic archenemies of the ancient Greeks. Heracles and Achilles displayed their valor in duels with Amazon queens, and the Athenians reveled in their victory over a... -
Gender, Family, and Politics: The Howard Women, 1485-1558 by Nicola Clark 9780198784814
£95.39Gender, Family, and Politics is the first full-length, gender-inclusive study of the Howard family, one of the pre-eminent families of early-modern Britain. Most of the existing scholarship on this aristocratic dynasty's political operation during the... -
Cleopatra's Daughter: Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen by Jane Draycott 9781800244825
RRP: £12.99£8.32Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Cleopatra VII of Egypt and Mark Antony, was the only member of the Ptolemaic dynasty to survive after her parents were defeated by the future Roman emperor Augustus at the Battle of Actium. Paraded as a prisoner in a... -
The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton: A 19th Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women by Lady Antonia Fraser 9781474610926
RRP: £25.00£17.62'Before biography was fashionable, Antonia Fraser made the past popular' Guardian'As a pure storyteller, Antonia Fraser has few equals' Sunday TimesCAROLINE NORTON, a nineteenth-century heroine who wanted justice for women.Poet, pamphleteer and artist's... -
Lara: The Untold Love Story That Inspired Doctor Zhivago by Anna Pasternak
RRP: £9.99£6.64'Riveting, tragic tale' New Yorker 'Anna Pasternak has produced an irresistible account of joy, suffering and passion' Financial Times The heartbreaking story of the passionate love affair between Boris Pasternak and... -
Daughters of Chivalry: The Forgotten Children of Edward I by Kelcey Wilson-Lee
RRP: £9.99£7.27'She imagines the experiences of the sisters with empathy and patience ... and ably manages to coax the few sparks of evidence into flames of personality ... Whoop, whoop! If anyone can find me another clutch of rebel princesses, let's get crowd-funding... -
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) by Virginia Woolf
RRP: £8.99£6.45'Brilliant interweaving of personal experience, imaginative musing and political clarity' Kate Mosse Virginia Woolf exposes the prejudices and constraints against which women writers struggled for centuries, and argues for a more equal literary ... -
Female Secret Agents by Douglas Boyd 9781803993751
RRP: £14.99£11.55Forget the adventure stories of James Bond, Kim Philby, Klaus Fuchs and co. - espionage is not just a boys' game. As long as there has been conflict, there have been female agents behind the scenes. In Belgium and northern France in 1914-18 there were... -
The Light Over London: The most gripping and heartbreaking WW2 page-turner you need to read this year by Julia Kelly
RRP: £7.99£2.91A forgotten diary, a forbidden love affair, a desperate fight to save her country2017 When Cara Hargreaves discovers a diary from the 1940s, its contents will change her life forever...1941 When Louise Keene meets dashing RAF pilot, Paul Bolton, she is... -
The Diaries of Kathleen Lynn: A Life Revealed through Personal Writing by Mary McAuliffe 9781910820018
RRP: £40.00£37.43The diaries of Dr Kathleen Lynn, 1916–1955, cover her involvement in the 1916 Rising, the War of Independence, the Civil War, and the formative three and a half decades of the Irish Free State. They demonstrate the revolutionary, socialist and feminist... -
Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women by Christina Lamb 9780008300043
RRP: £10.99£7.25SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 'A wake-up call' Amal Clooney 'Devastating... rape and... -
The Nine Hundred: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz by Heather Dune Macadam
RRP: £12.99£8.60'Books such as this are essential: they remind modern readers of events that should never be forgotten' - Caroline MooreheadOn March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of... -
The Voices of Women in Witchcraft Trials: Northern Europe by Liv Helene Willumsen
RRP: £45.99£40.13Women come to the fore in witchcraft trials as accused persons or as witnesses, and this book is a study of women's voices in these trials in eight countries around the North Sea: Spanish Netherlands, Northern Germany, Denmark, Scotland, England, Norway,... -
A History of the World with the Women Put Back in by Kerstin Lucker 9780750989091
RRP: £20.00£15.44'Who says that daughters cannot be heroic?' Once upon a time, history was written by men, for men and about men. Women were deemed less important, their letters destroyed, their stories ignored. Not any more. This is the story of women who went to war,... -
Women of the Durham Coalfield in the 19th Century: Hannah's Story by Margaret Hedley 9780750989886
RRP: £14.99£11.55The success of the Durham Coalfield and its important role in the Industrial Revolution is attributed to men of influence who owned the land and the pits, and men who worked in the coal-mining industry during the Victorian period. There has been very... -
A Force To Be Reckoned With: A History of the Women's Institute by Jane Robinson
RRP: £10.99£7.40Everyone knows three things about the Women's Institute: that they spent the war making jam; the sensational Calendar Girls were WI; and, more recently, that slow-handclapping of Tony Blair. But there's so much more to this remarkable Movement. Over... -
The Women in the Room: Labour's Forgotten History by Nan Sloane
RRP: £40.00£30.38In February 1900 a group of men representing trade unionists, socialists, Fabians and Marxists gathered in London to make another attempt at establishing an organisation capable of getting working-class men elected to Parliament. The body they set... -
Nancy Wake: World War Two's Most Rebellious Spy by Russell Braddon 9781542021661
£9.92'Of all the variously talented women SOE sent to France, Nancy Wake was perhaps the most formidable' -Sebastian Faulks This is the incredible true story of the greatest spy you've never heard of-as told to the author by the woman herself. At the... -
100 Great Black Britons by Patrick Vernon
RRP: £12.99£8.60'An empowering read . . . it is refreshing to see somebody celebrate the role that black Britons have played in this island's long and complicated history'DAVID LAMMY, author of Tribes, in 'The best books of 2020', the Guardian'Timely and so important . ... -
A Pinch of Salt: Escape to the Highlands with a story of love, loss and family this Christmas by Eileen Ramsay
RRP: £9.99£6.85For fans of Catherine Cookson comes Eileen Ramsay's tale of heartbreak, hope and family - the perfect read to curl up with this Christmas.'He saw the intelligence in her eyes and the beauty and strength of character in her face . . . 'Since the death of... -
Scotland: Her Story: The Nation's History by the Women Who Lived It by Rosemary Goring
RRP: £12.99£8.56Scotland's history has been told many times, but never exclusively by its women. This book takes a unique perspective on dramatic national events as well as ordinary life, as experienced by women down the centuries. From the saintly but severe medieval... -
Plucked: A History of Hair Removal by Rebecca M. Herzig
RRP: £74.00£64.45Uncovers the history of hair removal practices and sheds light on the prolific culture of beauty From the clamshell razors and homemade lye depilatories used in colonial America to the diode lasers and prescription pharmaceuticals available today,... -
Mother Country: Real Stories of the Windrush Children by Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
RRP: £12.99£8.60***LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 JHALAK PRIZE***A leading new exploration of the Windrush generation featuring David Lammy, Lenny Henry, Corinne Bailey Rae, Sharmaine Lovegrove, Hannah Lowe, Jamz Supernova, Natasha Gordon and Rikki Beadle-Blair.For the... -
A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War by Patricia Fara
RRP: £12.99£9.612018 marked a double centenary: peace was declared in war-wracked Europe, and women won the vote after decades of struggle. A Lab of One's Own commemorates both anniversaries by revealing the untold lives of female scientists, doctors, and engineers who... -
First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies by Kate Andersen Brower 9780062439666
RRP: £9.99£6.64From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the groundbreaking backstairs look at the White House, The Residence, comes an intimate, news-making look at the true modern power brokers at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: the First Ladies, from Jackie Kennedy... -
In Search of Us: Twelve Adventures in Anthropology by Lucy Moore
RRP: £10.99£7.32***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick***The story of the pioneering anthropologists and their adventures among civilisations that were first thought of as being primitive and savage. What they discovered, however, would change the way we think about... -
The Suffragette Bombers: Britain's Forgotten Terrorists by Simon Webb
RRP: £14.99£10.95In the years leading up to the First World War, the United Kingdom was subjected to a ferocious campaign of bombing and arson. Those conducting this terrorist offensive were members of the Women's Social and Political Union; better known as the... -
The Girl from the Tyne: Emotions run high in this gripping family saga! by Melody Sachs 9781785762871
£13.45You can't choose your family. Melody Sachs brings us her gritty and charming World War II saga, for fans of Kitty Neale and Nadine Dorries. We promise you won't be able to put it down!When ballroom dancer Alice Rooney seduces Jack Wood, he soon finds... -
On This Day She: Putting Women Back Into History, One Day At A Time by Tania Hershman 9781789462715 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00£2.80'A joyous and celebratory tribute to all those who battled to be heard, who fought for their achievements to be recognised and honoured, who simply kept going' Kate MosseThe tried and tested 'On This Day in History' format has elevated the stories of... -
On This Day She: Putting Women Back Into History, One Day At A Time by Tania Hershman
RRP: £25.00£17.79'A joyous and celebratory tribute to all those who battled to be heard, who fought for their achievements to be recognised and honoured, who simply kept going' Kate MosseThe tried and tested 'On This Day in History' format has elevated the stories of... -
Queen Bees: Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Society Hostesses Between the Wars - A Spectacle of Celebrity, Talent, and Burning Ambition by Sian Evans
RRP: £12.99£8.60'ENORMOUS FUN' GUARDIAN'SO ENTERTAINING' THE TIMES'GOSSIPY, LIGHT AND FUN' TLSQueen Bees looks at the lives of six remarkable women who made careers out of being society hostesses, including Lady Astor, who went on to become the first female MP, and Mrs... -
Women Design: Pioneers from the twentieth century to today by Libby Sellers
RRP: £15.99£11.33From architects and product designers to textile artists and digital innovators, Women Design profiles a selection of the most dynamic female designers from the modern era, showcasing their finest work and celebrating their enduring influence. Design... -
Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe by Nancy Goldstone
RRP: £10.99£7.40The four beautiful, cultured and clever daughters of the Count and Countess of Provence made illustrious marriages and lived at the epicentre of political power and intrigue in 13th-century Europe. Marguerite accompanied her husband, King Louis IX of...