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The Forgotten by Mary Chamberlain 9780861540327
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $13.65'The Forgotten is an utterly absorbing novel... The devastation of Berlin in 1945 is powerfully portrayed through the eyes of the women who are caught between the conquering forces.' Jennifer Saint,... -
The Hidden by Mary Chamberlain 9781786076441
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $16.91Her heart died in the war - can she breathe new life into it? Dora Simon and Joe O'Cleary live in separate countries, accepting of their twilight years. But their monochrome worlds are... -
The Forgotten Mary Chamberlain 9781786079077
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $11.53'The Forgotten is an utterly absorbing novel... The devastation of Berlin in 1945 is powerfully portrayed through the eyes of the women who are caught between the conquering forces.' Jennifer Saint,... -
The Hidden Mary Chamberlain 9781786076625
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $13.65Her heart died in the war - can she breathe new life into it? Dora Simon and Joe O'Cleary live in separate countries, accepting of their twilight years. But their monochrome worlds are... -
The Lie by Mary Chamberlain 9780861543588
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.95TWO SISTERS, ONE DANGEROUS LIE, AND A DEVASTATING TRUTH. Joan, once a singing star of the 1940s and 1950s, now ekes out a lonely, impoverished existence - until a chance encounter promises a... -
Narrative and Genre by Mary Chamberlain 9780415757034
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $93.18Any life story, whether a written autobiography or an oral testimony, is shaped not only by the reworkings of experience through memory and re-evaluation, but also art. Any communication has to use... -
Narratives of Exile and Return Mary Chamberlain 9780765808240
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $93.18In this original and compelling book, Mary Chamberlain explores the nature and meaning of migration for Barbadians who migrated to Britain and elsewhere. It is a unique oral and social history, based... -
Caribbean Migration: Globalized Identities by Mary Chamberlain 9781138988101
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $49.43This anthology represents important and original directions in the study of Caribbean migration. It takes a comparative perspective on the Caribbean people's migratory experiences to North America,... -
Fenwomen: A Portrait of Women in an English Village by Mary Chamberlain 9780956186959
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $38.58Originally published in 1975, Fenwomen was the first non-fiction book published by Virago. A vivid social and oral history of an isolated village in the Cambridgeshire Fens, it provides a unique... -
Fenwomen: A Portrait of Women in an English Village by Mary Chamberlain 9780349020419
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.8450th ANNIVERSARY EDITION - now a Virago Modern Classic with a new introduction by Alexandra Harris'Full of dignity, courage and humour, and as fresh and insightful as the day it was written, FENWOMEN... -
Old Wives' Tales: The History of Remedies, Charms and Spells by Mary Chamberlain
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.93A compendium of remedies and cures handed down from mother to daughter from the beginning of time, this work presents a challenge to orthodox medicine and a history of female wisdom which goes back... -
Family Love in the Diaspora: Migration and the Anglo-Caribbean Experience Mary Chamberlain 9781412808552
RRP: $107.08Booksplease Price: $95.82Colonial social policy in the British West Indies from the nineteenth century onward assumed that black families lacked morals, structure, and men, a void that explained poverty and lack of... -
Empire and Nation-Building in the Caribbean: Barbados, 1937-66 by Mary Chamberlain 9780719078767
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $157.92This original and exciting book examines the processes of nation building in the British West Indies. It argues that nation building was a more complex and messy affair, involving women and men in a... -
Imagining Home: Gender, Race and National Identity, 1945-1964 Wendy Webster (University of Huddersfield, UK) 9781032345208
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $39.35A vital work for its exploration of the way the very idea of home became white in Britain in the postwar periodAhead of its time when first published and reviewed in the Guardian Highly relevant in... -
Imagining Home: Gender, Race And National Identity, 1945-1964 Wendy Webster 9781857283518
RRP: $115.48Booksplease Price: $102.98Imagining Home offers a unique examination of ideas and images of home in Britain during a period of national decline and loss of imperial power. In exploring the relationship between gender, 'race'... -
Emancipation and the Remaking of the British Imperial World by Catherine Hall 9780719091834
RRP: $189.00Booksplease Price: $166.95Slavery and the slavery business have cast a long shadow over British history. In 1833, abolition was heralded as evidence of Britain's claim to be the modern global power. Yet much is still unknown... -
Narrative and Genre: Contexts and Types of Communication by Paul Thompson
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $94.98Any life story, whether a written autobiography or an oral testimony, is shaped not only by the reworkings of experience through memory and re-evaluation, but also by art. Any communication has to... -
The Shadow Hour by Kate Riordan 9781405917445
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.04It was in the shadow hours of deepest night that this tapestry of lies fell to rags . . .Harriet Jenner is just twenty-one when she walks through the gates of Fenix House. Reeling from a personal... -
The Rabbit Girls by Anna Ellory 9781542094191
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.11Berlin, 1989. As the wall between East and West falls, Miriam Winter cares for her dying father, Henryk. When he cries out for someone named Frieda-and Miriam discovers an Auschwitz tattoo hidden... -
The Girl From Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham Kathleen Dayus 9781844083022
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.75The Girl from Hockley is a new, revised edition bringing together in one new volume this remarkable story. Born into the industrial slums of Birmingham in 1903, Kathleen Dayus became a legend in her... -
House of Shades by Lianne Dillsworth 9781529152159
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $31.16London, 1833Doctress Hester Reeves has been offered a life-changing commission.But it comes at a price. She must leave behind her husband and their canal-side home in Kings Cross and move to Tall... -
The Nightingale's Castle by Sonia Velton 9780349146102
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $27.34'I was blown away by this dark, enchanting story of witchcraft, power and injustice. ..nothing short of brilliant' Mary ChamberlainErzsebet Bathory, whose infamous place in history characterises her... -
The Nightingale's Castle by Sonia Velton 9780349146096
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $28.62'I was blown away by this dark, enchanting story of witchcraft, power and injustice' Mary Chamberlain'A mesmerising combination of gothic horror and elegant restraint' Francesca Haig, author of The... -
The Bench: An uplifting love story from the Richard & Judy Book Club bestselling author Saskia Sarginson 9780349419992
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $8.42'With echoes of David Nicholls's One Day, this romance has just the right mix of heart-melting moments and heart-rending near misses' Good Housekeeping 'A wonderful, heart-tugging... -
The Nightingale's Castle: A thrillingly evocative and page-turning gothic historical novel for fans of Stacey Halls and Susan Stokes-Chapman Sonia Velton 9780349146119
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54'Absorbing' Sunday Times, Historical Fiction Picks'I was blown away by this dark, enchanting story of witchcraft, power and injustice' Mary Chamberlain'A mesmerising combination of gothic horror and... -
The Bench: The most romantic novel of 2020 by Saskia Sarginson
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.84'With echoes of David Nicholls's One Day, this romance has just the right mix of heart-melting moments and heart-rending near misses' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING'Intensely romantic' SUNDAY MIRROR'Wonderful,... -
Three Apples Fell from the Sky by Narine Abgaryan 9780861541119
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $15.48The Russian bestseller about love and second chances, brimming with warmth and humour In the tiny village of Maran nestled high in the Armenian mountains, a place where dreams, curses and... -
House of Shades Lianne Dillsworth 9781529160604
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12'A wonderful, gothic mystery' Elodie Harper 'Intensely moving' Rosie Andrews 'Gripping' Louise Hare_______________London, 1833Doctress Hester Reeves has been offered a life-changing commission.But it... -
The Other Side of Paradise Vanessa Beaumont 9780861547784
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.95For fans of Downton Abbey, Gosford Park and After the Party. Duty, scandal, and a mother's desperate attempt to protect her sons from a secret that will destroy them. 'A breathtakingly good,... -
Negotiating Boundaries in the City: Migration, Ethnicity, and Gender in Britain by Joanna Herbert 9781138272811
RRP: $115.48Booksplease Price: $102.98Using in-depth life-story interviews and oral history archives, this book explores the impact of South Asian migration from the 1950s onwards on both the local white, British-born population and the... -
Theatre of Marvels: A thrilling and absorbing tale set in Victorian London Lianne Dillsworth 9781529151459
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $25.37'Richly evocative and glittering with atmosphere, this tale of ambition and identity had me gripped from start to finish' STACEY HALLS _________________________________Crowds gather at Crillick's... -
Mussolini's Island Sarah Day 9781472238207
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.84SHORTLISTED FOR THE BETTY TRASK AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA DEBUT CROWNLONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST NOVEL PRIZESarah Day's MUSSOLINI'S ISLAND is a novel of sexuality and desire, of hidden... -
Theatre of Marvels: A thrilling and absorbing tale set in Victorian London Lianne Dillsworth 9781529158595
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73'Richly evocative and glittering with atmosphere, this tale of ambition and identity had me gripped from start to finish' STACEY HALLS, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Familiars'Theatre of... -
Surviving the Bosnian Genocide: The Women of Srebrenica Speak by Selma Leydesdorff
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.67In July 1995, the Army of the Serbian Republic killed some 8,000 Bosnian men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica-the largest mass murder in Europe since World War II. Surviving the Bosnian... -
To Go On Living: Stories Narine Abgaryan 9781636081526
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $27.68Set in an Armenian mountain village immediately after the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the early 1990s, these thirty-one linked short stories trace the interconnected lives of villagers... -
The House of Whispers: The thrilling new novel from the bestselling author of The Clockwork Girl! by Anna Mazzola 9781398703858
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.24*Picked as one of the best historical novels of 2023 by The Times!*'A creepy, chilling story - another Anna Mazzola triumph!' JENNIFER SAINT'Chilling and compelling, with echoes of Daphne du... -
The Story Keeper by Anna Mazzola
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84From the author of THE UNSEEING comes a sizzling, period novel of folk tales, disappearances and injustice set on the Isle of Skye, sure to appeal to readers of Hannah Kent's BURIAL RITES or Beth... -
How We Disappeared by Jing-Jing Lee
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.95A beautiful tale of endurance, identity, and memory in WWII Singapore, for fans of Min Jin Lee's Pachinko and Nguyen Phan Que Mai's The Mountains Sing Singapore, 1942. As Japanese troops...