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The Virago Book Of Erotic Myths And Legends by Shahrukh Husain 9780349005546
Booksplease Price: £18.99Uncovering a wealth of lore from diverse cultures around the world, Shahrukh Husain has gathered together an anthology that will delight and entice. Through subtle reworking, these erotic tales are... -
Becoming A Mother by Kate Mosse
Booksplease Price: £24.29Combining medical and historical information with real life accounts of ordinary women, this book is an essential guide to the facts, feelings and emotions experienced during pregnancy and birth. It... -
Paint It Black by Janet Fitch 9781860499715
Booksplease Price: £24.29Now a major film directed by Amber Tamblyn starring Alia Shawkat and Janet McTeer'Janet Fitch writes the way women think in a way that is so different and poetic and brutal' Amber Tamblyn, Fast... -
The Walk Home by Rachel Seiffert 9781844089956
Booksplease Price: £21.25Stevie comes from a long line of people who have cut and run. Just like he has.Stevie's been to London, taught himself to get by, and now he's working as a labourer not so far from his childhood home... -
The Song Of The Lark by Willa Cather 9781844084234
Booksplease Price: £26.60Thea Kronborg is born into poverty in a small desert town in the American Midwest. One of seven children, she is somehow set apart, a fact recognised by the discerning few, including Ray Kennedy, who... -
Flesh And Blood by Michele Roberts 9781860491306
Booksplease Price: £15.66Freddy thinks he has committed matricide, and his fantasies - or perhaps realities - become stories which twist back through time to varying landscapes. He searches for a home, only to find it in an... -
Towards Emotional Literacy by Susie Orbach 9781860498220
Booksplease Price: £18.69Emotional literacy means being able to recognise what you are feeling so that it enhances rather than interferes with thinking - a contrast with emotional expression which can mean one is driven by... -
Elements Of Italy by Lisa St. Aubin de Teran 9781860499241
Booksplease Price: £18.69The turnstile into Italy has clicked continually for centuries - Lord Byron loved here and continues to draw romantics in his wake, Stendhal concluded: 'The charm of Italy is akin to that of being in... -
The Diary Of 'Helena Morley' by Elizabeth Bishop
Booksplease Price: £21.25From Elizabeth Bishop's introduction: 'When I first came to Brazil, in 1952, I asked my Brazilian friends which Brazilian books I should begin reading ... They frequently recommended this little... -
All The Nice Girls by Joan Bakewell 9781844085316
Booksplease Price: £21.25It is 1942 and the war is not going well. As part of the war effort the Ashworth Grammar School for Girls signs up for the Merchant Navy's Ship Adoption Scheme. The headmistress, the lovely,... -
Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Marriages in Literary London 1910 -1939 by Katie Roiphe 9781844082711
Booksplease Price: £21.25Drawing on the memoirs, letters and diaries of a group of British intellectuals writing between 1910 and the Second World War, UNCOMMON ARRANGEMENTS paints a witty and insightful portrait of seven... -
Vindication: A Life Of Mary Wollstonecraft by Lyndall Gordon 9781844081417
Booksplease Price: £26.30In this stunning new biography of the eighteenth-century writer Mary Wollstonecraft, Lyndall Gordon explores the life of a woman often criticised by biographers, historians and feminists alike... -
Riding In Cars With Boys: Confessions of a Bad Girl Who Makes Good by Beverly Donofrio 9781860499470
Booksplease Price: £15.66Trouble began in 1963. I'm not blaming it on President Kennedy's assassination or its being the beginning of the sixties or the Vietnam War or The Beatles...The trouble I'm talking about was my first... -
Rebel Girls: How votes for women changed Edwardian lives Jill Liddington 9781844081684
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.73Rejecting the deadening conventions of their Victorian elders, the rebel girls demanded new freedoms and new rights. They took their suffrage message out to the remotest Yorkshire dales and fishing... -
Expecting: Everything You Need to Know about Pregnancy, Labour and Birth Anna McGrail 9781844087730
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.03Anna and Daphne have combined their many years of experience, producing an interesting and well written book based on fact rather than opinion, covering conception to postnatal. Most expecting... -
Keeping Hope Alive: How One Somali Woman Changed 90,000 Lives Dr. Hawa Abdi 9781844087884
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.73For the last twenty years, Dr Hawa Abdi and her daughters have run a refugee camp on their family farm not far from Mogadishu which has grown to shelter 90,000 displaced Somalis: men, women, and... -
Mary Anne by Daphne Du Maurier 9780349019390
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780349019390Author Daphne Du MaurierFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Virago Press LtdPublisher... -
Wounding the World: How Military Violence and War-Play Invade our Lives by Professor Joanna Bourke
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.03Wars are frequently justified 'in our name'. Militarist values and practices co-opt us, permeating our language, invading our dream space, entertaining us at the movies or in front of game consoles... -
Valaida Candace Allen 9781844081721
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.34Valaida listened hard. After the melody's intro and Earl's left-hand-to-right-hand cascades of piano sound, her space opened, and Valaida jumped in. She blew. She entered the music, saw the... -
Auguries Of Innocence by Patti Smith 9781844083411
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.49Auguries of Innocence is the first book of poetry from Patti Smith in more than a decade. It marks a major accomplishment from a poet and performer who has inscribed her vision of our world in... -
The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard 9781844080571
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.60The Great Fire is Shirley Hazzard's first novel since The Transit of Venus, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981. The conflagration of her title is the Second World War. In... -
Climbing The Bookshelves: The autobiography of Shirley Williams Shirley Williams 9781844084753
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.75The role of women in our society has changed out of all recognition. But it has changed least in the House of Commons. I want to describe those changes and the resistances to them through the... -
Strong At The Broken Places: Overcoming the Trauma of Childhood Abuse by Linda T. Sanford
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.23In this moving and authoritative work which combines dedicated research and interviews with victims of childhood abuse and neglect, psychotherapist Linda Sanford passionately refutes the received... -
The Clothes On Their Backs by Linda Grant
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.34SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEIn a red brick mansion block off the Marylebone Road, Vivien, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from both past and present by her timid refugee parents... -
Brilliant Careers: The Virago Book of 20th Century Fiction Ali Smith 9781860498428
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.34A seminal fiction collection that stretches from Gertrude Stein to Grace Paley, from Edith Wharton to Angela Carter, from Mae West to Margaret Atwood, from Zora Neale Hurston to Joyce Carol Oates. ... -
The Long Goodbye: A Memoir Meghan O'Rourke 9781844086771
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.34Meghan O'Rourke was thirty-two when her mother died of cancer on Christmas Day, 2008. As a writer, even in the depths of her grief, she was fascinated by what she observed of herself in the... -
A Particular Place Showcard by Maryann D'Agincourt 9780999400685
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £10.69The effects of World War II resonate through the lives of two families--one American and one European--living outside of Boston. As Jenny grows up in the shadow of her parents' dark experiences in... -
Amphibian by Tyler Wetherall 9780349017945
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780349017945Author Tyler WetherallFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Virago Press LtdPublisher... -
The Door Margaret Atwood 9781844084951
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.85By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace THE DOOR is Margaret Atwood's first book of poetry since the 1995 MORNING IN THE BURNED HOUSE. Its lucid yet urgent poems range in tone from... -
On the Wilder Shores of Love: A Bohemian Life Lesley Blanch 9780349005461
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.23Most famous for The Wilder Shores of Love, her book about four women travellers, Lesley Blanch was a scholarly romantic and a bold writer. Her lifelong passion was for Russia, the Balkans and the... -
The Woman Upstairs Claire Messud 9781844087334
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.60Nora Eldridge has always been a good girl: a good daughter, colleague, friend, employee. She teaches at an elementary school where the children and the parents adore her; but her real passion is her... -
Suddenly by Bonnie Burnard
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.60A phone call in the night, an unexpected diagnosis, a shocking revelation - suddenly life can change forever.'It's been here, in this bedroom, with Jack and without him, that she has found her only... -
Funeral Games: A Novel of Alexander the Great: A Virago Modern Classic by Mary Renault 9780349018638
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780349018638Author Mary RenaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Virago Press LtdPublisher... -
Under The Hawthorn Tree Ai Mi 9781844087037
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.34Jingqiu, an innocent young woman from a politically questionable family in the city, is selected as one of a small group of students to be sent to the countryside to work on a project that will... -
The Virago Book of Women and the Great War Joyce Marlow 9781860495595
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.49Joyce Marlow presents a fascinating and varied collection of women's writing on the Great War drawn from diaries, newspapers, letters and memoirs from across Europe and the States. Starting with... -
The Lifeboat Charlotte Rogan 9781844087549
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.60I was to stand trial for my life. I was twenty-two years old. I had been married for ten weeks and a widow for six.It is 1914 and Europe is on the brink of war. When a magnificent ocean liner suffers... -
Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country Gillian Slovo 9781844085996
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.49A passionate witness to the colossal upheaval that has transformed her native South Africa, Gillian Slovo has written a memoir that is far more than a story of her own life. For she is the daughter... -
These Wonderful Rumours!: A Young Schoolteacher's Wartime Diaries 1939-1945 May Smith 9781844088119
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.49May Smith is twenty-four at the outbreak of World War Two; at night, the sirens wail, and the young men of the village leave to fight. But still, ordinary life goes on: May goes shopping, plays... -
A Mighty Heart - The Daniel Pearl Story Mariane Pearl 9781844084593
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.97The tragic murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is well known. Why he was in Karachi; how he saw his role as an international journalist; why he was singled out for kidnapping; and... -
Daughters Of Decadence: Stories by Women Writers of the Fin-de-Siecle Elaine Showalter 9781853815904
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.49At the turn of the century, short stories by- and often about- 'New Women' flooded the pages of English and American magazines like The Yellow Book, The Savoy, Atlantic Monthly and Harpers. This...