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Yes She Can: Why Women Own The Future by Ruth Davidson
RRP: £10.99£7.61'Modern, punchy and fresh' Sunday Times'A positive and fascinating read' Stylist 'A collection of unexpectedly revealing interviews with "mould-breaking women"... This optimistic volume also includes an intimate memoir from Davidson herself' Guardian... -
The Voices of Nimes: Women, Sex, and Marriage in Reformation Languedoc by Suzannah Lipscomb
RRP: £15.99£14.30Most of the women who ever lived left no trace of their existence on the record of history. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century women of the middling and lower levels of society left no letters or diaries in which they expressed what they felt or thought... -
Wayward Women: Female Offending in Victorian England by Lucy Williams 9781473844872
RRP: £12.99£9.34We most often think of the Victorian female offender in her most archetypal and stereotypical roles; the polite lady shoplifter, stowing all manner of valuables beneath her voluminous crinolines, the tragic street waif of Dickensian fiction or the... -
The Book of Awesome Women: Boundary Breakers, Freedom Fighters, Sheroes and Female Firsts by Becca Anderson
RRP: £12.95£10.98Get Inspired By The Powerful Sheroes In This Feminist Collection Of Short Biographies"This book is an antidote to the erasure of women from our history." Vicki Leon, author of Uppity Women of Ancient Times#1 Best Seller in Teen & Young Adult Social... -
100 Nasty Women of History: Brilliant, badass and completely fearless women everyone should know Hannah Jewell 9781473671256
RRP: £18.99£14.22'Vital reading' STYLIST'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' PHILIPPA PERRY* * * * * *These are the women who were deemed too nasty for their... -
The Land Army's Lost Women by Emily Ashworth 9781526785459
RRP: £22.00£15.87The Women's Land Army are probably one of the lesser-known branches of the women's forces that served their country during World War Two. Thousands of women faced losing their stories to history, but in The Land Army's Lost Women, countless memoirs from... -
Speed Queens: A Secret History of Women in Motorsport by Rachel Harris-Gardiner
RRP: £22.00£15.87Speed Queens is a history of women in motorsport, from the very beginning in 1897 to the modern era. Tracing the different ways that women have found into motor racing and rallying, it covers over a century of stories across the world. Each chapter takes... -
A Train in Winter: A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival in Auschwitz by Caroline Moorehead
RRP: £10.99£7.99A 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... -
Modern Women: 52 Pioneers Kira Cochrane 9780711237896
RRP: £22.00£14.37Modern Women is a celebration of influential and inspiring women who have changed the world through their lives, work and actions. From suffragettes to scientists, activists to artists, politicians to pilots and writers to riot grrrls, the women... -
Snow Widows: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition Through the Eyes of the Women They Left Behind by Katherine MacInnes
RRP: £12.99£8.56'An elegant, densely textured work, like a tapestry ... A welcome contribution to polar studies.' Sara Wheeler, Spectator '[MacInness] handles the whole thing with masterly skill...takes us to the heart of the hope, love, anguish and grief'... -
Women in the War by Lucy Fisher 9780008456115
RRP: £20.00£18.02'An important contribution to our recent history' ANDREW MARR 'Absorbing and important' JOAN BAKEWELL 'One of my favourite reads of 2021' GARETH RUSSELL ... -
Newspaper Confessions: A History of Advice Columns in a Pre-Internet Age by Julie Golia
RRP: £32.49£23.01What can century-old advice columns tell us about the Internet today? This book reveals the little-known history of advice columns in American newspapers and the virtual communities they created among their readers. Imagine a community of people who... -
Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World by Ann Shen
RRP: £14.99£11.94Looking for coffee table books that do more than look great on your table? Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World, delivers on both counts. Featuring 100 women who made history and made their mark on the world, it's a... -
The Angels of Englemere Wood: The uplifting and inspiring true story of a children’s home during the Blitz by Karen Farrington
RRP: £10.99£7.99The inspiring, uplifting true story of a group of London girls dispatched to a children's home in rural England during the Blitz, and meet the formidable nurse and Lady in Waiting who transformed their lives forever . . .'A heartwarming story of hope and... -
Queen Bees: Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Society Hostesses Between the Wars - A Spectacle of Celebrity, Talent, and Burning Ambition Sian Evans 9781473618053
RRP: £12.99£8.83'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... -
The Daughters of Kobani: The Women Who Took On The Islamic State by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
RRP: £9.99£6.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800750890Author Gayle Tzemach LemmonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Swift PressPublisher Swift Press -
Women of the Durham Coalfield in the 20th Century: Hannah's Daughter by Margaret Hedley 9780750995047
RRP: £14.99£11.72Life 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... -
A Nurse's War: A Diary of Heroism and Heartache on the Home Front by Patricia Malcolmson
RRP: £8.99£6.22The remarkable wartime diary of nurse Kathleen Johnstone 'Warm, chatty and endlessly absorbing, this delightful diary brims with intelligence and humour.' Wendy Moore, author of Endell Street: The Women... -
Headstrong by Rachel Swaby
RRP: £13.99£9.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553446791Author Rachel SwabyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher... -
Royal Witches: From Joan of Navarre to Elizabeth Woodville by Gemma Hollman
RRP: £12.99£9.87'An important and timely book.' - Philippa Gregory Joan of Navarre was the richest woman in the land, at a time when war-torn England was penniless. Eleanor Cobham was the wife of a weak king's uncle - and her husband was about to fall from grace. ... -
All My Mother's Secrets: A Powerful True Story of Love, Loss and a Family Torn Apart by Beezy Marsh
RRP: £7.99£6.13THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Beautifully-penned story on the harshness of life and how hope survives' - Sun'Absorbing . . . Marsh writes with a novelistic flair' - Daily Mail From the grimy streets of Acton and Notting Hill to the bright lights of the... -
Forgotten Women Zing Tsjeng 9781914240690
RRP: £30.00£19.70'To say this [book] is "empowering" doesn't do it justice. Buy a copy for your daughters, sisters, mums, aunts and nieces - just make sure you buy a copy for your sons, brothers, dads, uncles and nephews, too.' - indy100'Here's to no more forgotten women... -
A Victorian Lady's Guide to Fashion and Beauty by Mimi Matthews
RRP: £14.99£11.11What did a Victorian lady wear for a walk in the park? How did she style her hair for an evening at the theatre? And what products might she have used to soothe a sunburn or treat an unsightly blemish? Mimi Matthews answers these questions and more as... -
The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage in America by Lara Freidenfelds
RRP: £26.99£22.80When a couple plans for a child today, every moment seems precious and unique. Home pregnancy tests promise good news just days after conception, and prospective parents can track the progress of their pregnancy day by day with apps that deliver a stream... -
The Nine Hundred: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz Heather Dune Macadam 9781529329353
RRP: £12.99£8.83'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... -
Olga Prof Bernhard Schlink 9781474611152
RRP: £8.99£6.39THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Bernhard Schlink speaks straight to the heart' New York TimesOlga is an orphan raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village around the turn of the 20th century. Smart and precocious, she fights against the prejudices of... -
The Museum Makers: From Old Boxes of Dark Family Secrets to a Golden Era of Museums by Rachel Morris 9781912836826
RRP: £9.99£7.00Part memoir, part detective story, part untold history of museums - this is a fascinating and moving family story. Museum expert Rachel Morris had been ignoring the boxes under her bed for decades. When she finally opened them, an entire bohemian family... -
A History of the World with the Women Put Back in by Kerstin Lucker 9780750989091
RRP: £20.00£15.67'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,... -
Heiresses: The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies by Laura Thompson 9781788548229
RRP: £25.00£22.14Heiresses is a glorious book, endlessly entertaining and about much more than its stated subject. Thompson is a fabulous writer' Caroline O'Donoghue 'Witty, insightful, deliciously gossip-laden and slightly scandalous... Heiresses makes for an... -
Women in War: From Home Front to Front Line Celia Lee 9781526766618
RRP: £12.99£9.34The changing role of women in warfare, a neglected aspect of military history, is the subject of this collection of perceptive, thought-provoking essays. By looking at the wide range of ways in which women have become involved in all the aspects of war,... -
Fashion Sourcebook 1920s by Charlotte Fiell
RRP: £20.00£13.43'There isn't a more comprehensive source to Twenties fashion that I can think of ... An absolute must for anyone interested in Twenties fashion or art deco' Style High Club'A source of all the styles, colours, shapes, and silhouettes of the Golden... -
The Suffragettes In Pictures by Diane Atkinson
RRP: £22.50£17.45This book draws extensively on the little-known but important Suffragette Fellowship Collection of archive photographs, newspapers, personal correspondence, artefacts and memoirs, to present a vivid picture of Suffragette life. The strength of the book... -
Mother Country: Real Stories of the Windrush Children Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff 9781472261915
RRP: £12.99£8.83***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... -
Women Our History by DK 9780241353929 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£7.71Re-examining history from a female perspective, this book celebrates the numerous important roles women have played in culture and society that are less often told.Packed full of evocative images, this gloriously illustrated book reveals the key events... -
Queen Victoria's Gene: Haemophilia and the Royal Family by D. M. Potts
RRP: £10.99£8.47Queen Victoria's son, Prince Leopold, died from haemophilia, but no member of the royal family before his generation had suffered from the condition. Medically, there are only two possibilities: either one of Victoria's parents had a 1 in 50,000 random... -
The Diaries of Kathleen Lynn: A Life Revealed through Personal Writing by Mary McAuliffe 9781910820018
RRP: £40.00£37.72The 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... -
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder Caroline Fraser 9780708898680
RRP: £18.90£13.27Millions of readers of Little House on the Prairie believe they know Laura Ingalls - the pioneer girl who survived blizzards and near-starvation on the Great Plains where 'as far as a man could go to the north in a day, or a week, or a whole month, there... -
The #MeToo Effect: What Happens When We Believe Women by Leigh Gilmore
RRP: £25.00£19.59The #MeToo movement inspired millions to testify to the widespread experience of sexual violence. More broadly, it shifted the deeply ingrained response to women's accounts of sexual violence from doubting all of them to believing some of them. What... -
Shelter: 'One of the year's hottest debuts' by Sarah Franklin 9781785762826
RRP: £7.99£5.78An S Magazine MUST HAVE'Beautiful' Adele Parks'Life affirming and compelling!' Clare Mackintosh'Tender and illuminating' Carys Bray'Its characters pulse with life and energy . . . vividly rendered' Daily Mail'Highly recommended' Viv GroskopSpring 1944... -
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£18.30London, 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...