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Slave: The True Story of a Girl's Lost Childhood and Her FIght for Survival Mende Nazer 9781844081165
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Mende Nazer's happy childhood was cruelly cut short at the age of twelve when the Mujahidin rode into her village in the remote Nuba mountains of Sudan. They hacked down terrified villagers, raped... -
The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture, 1830-1980 by Elaine Showalter
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48In this informative, timely and often harrowing study, Elaine Showalter demonstrates how cultural ideas about 'proper' feminine behaviour have shaped the definition and treatment of female insanity... -
Married To A Bedouin by Marguerite Van Geldermalsen
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.26'"Where you staying?" the Bedouin asked. "Why you not stay with me tonight - in my cave?"' Thus begins Marguerite van Geldermalsen's story of how a New Zealand-born nurse came to be married to... -
A Bright Red Scream: Self-mutilation and the language of pain by Marilee Strong
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.06As groundbreaking as REVIVING OPHELIA and Hope Edelman's MOTHERLESS DAUGHTERS, A BRIGHT RED SCREAM is a compelling investigation of why so many people deliberately hurt themselves and what can be... -
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.64Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a shy twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness when she meets Ernest Hemingway and is captivated by his energy, intensity and burning... -
Suffragettes: The Fight for Votes for Women by Joyce Marlow
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Queen 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' -... -
The Virago Book Of Women Gardeners by Deborah Kellaway
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.49From diggers and weeders, to artists and colourists, writers and dreamers to trend-setters, plantswomen to landscape designers, women have contributed to the world of gardening and gardens. Here... -
Letters Between Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry Katherine Mansfield 9780860689454
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.49A collection of the correspondence between Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry. Their lives were inextricably, and often painfully, intertwined until her tragically early death from... -
Traditional Chinese Medicine For Women: Reflections of the Moon on Water by Xiaolan Zhao
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.14In this inspirational book Xiaolan Zhao, internationally-renowned practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), shows us how making simple changes to our diet and lifestyle we can profoundly... -
Scapegallows by Carol Birch
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $12.99This is the story of Margaret Catchpole, born into a smugglers' world in Suffolk in the late 1700s. As the valued servant of a wealthy family and a friend of criminals, Margaret leads a double life... -
Leaving A Doll's House by Claire Bloom
Booksplease Price: $23.93In this memoir of personal discovery, loss and renewal, Claire Bloom looks beyond the stage and unveils her true identity. One of the most beautiful and gifted actresses of her generation, Claire... -
The Underground Girls Of Kabul: The Hidden Lives of Afghan Girls Disguised as Boys Jenny Nordberg 9781844087754
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06An Afghan woman's life expectancy is just 44 years, and her life cycle often begins and ends in disappointment: being born a girl and finally, having a daughter of her own. For some, disguising... -
My Place Sally Morgan 9780860681489
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $15.25In 1982 Sally Morgan travelled to her grandmother's birthplace, Corunna Downs Station in Western Australia. She wants to trace the experiences of her childhood andolescence in Perth in the 1950's. ... -
Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature Margaret Atwood 9781844080823
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.06Margaret Atwood's witty and informative book focuses on the imaginative mystique of the wilderness of the Canadian North. She discusses the 'Grey Owl Syndrome' of white writers going native; the... -
Fear: A Cultural History by Professor Joanna Bourke
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48Fear is one of the most basic and most powerful of all the human emotions. Sometimes it is hauntingly specific: flames searing patterns on the ceiling, a hydrogen bomb, a terrorist. More often,... -
The Centre Cannot Hold: A Memoir of My Schizophrenia Elyn R. Saks 9781844081677
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.49Elyn Saks is Professor of Law and Psychiatry at University of Southern California Law School. She's the author of several books. Happily married. And - a schizophrenic. Saks lifts the veil on... -
Me And Mine Anna May Mangan 9781844086733
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06As soon as they'd saved up for the three 'S's' - shoes, suitcase and a suit - they left rural Ireland. It might have been the London of the 1950s where 'No Blacks, No Irish No Dogs' was the welcome... -
You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation Deborah Tannen 9781853814716
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Why do so many women feel that men don't tell them anything, but just lecture and criticise? Why do so many men feel that women nag them and never get to the point? In this pioneering book Deborah... -
Mrs Cameron's Diary by Catherine Bennett
RRP: $19.50Booksplease Price: $5.40Dave's mobile went - poor Cleggsy, wanting to know what the Queen was like. "Incredibly nervous," Dave said. "But Sam soon put her at her ease."'We have heard, it seems, every opinion on the rise of... -
Child Of The Jungle Sabine Kuegler 9781844088874
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.06In 1980 seven-year-old Sabine Kuegler and her family went to live in a remote jungle area of West Papua among the recently discovered Fayu - a tribe untouched by modern civilisation. Her childhood... -
Red Dust Gillian Slovo 9781860499159
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.64There was probably only one person who could make Sarah Barcant, successful prosecutor, leave New York and return home to Smitsrivier, the small town in South Africa she left years before. Ben. Her... -
Peggy Guggenheim: Mistress of Modernism by Mary Dearborn
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48This new biography of Peggy Guggenheim charts the life of the infamous, multi-talented art collector and personality. Great-granddaughter of Swiss immigrant Simon Guggenheim, and daughter of Benjamin... -
Getting Colder by Amanda Coe
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $6.61They were colour-supplement darlings of the 1980s: Patrick, the sexy, ferocious young playwright, scourge of an enthralled establishment, and Sara, who abandoned her two children to fulfil her... -
Little Sister by Carol Birch
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $6.61She's come to steal my thunder again, hasn't she? Dying, my foot. She's probably just being dramatic. Dying for dramatic effect. She would.' Cathy Wren, aged 37, lives alone in a small... -
Be Safe I Love You by Cara Hoffman
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $7.20Be Safe I Love You tells the story of Lauren Clay, a woman soldier returned from Iraq, and her beloved younger brother Danny,obsessed with Arctic exploration and David Bowie, whom she has looked out... -
Naked at the Albert Hall: The Inside Story of Singing by Tracey Thorn
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.06In her bestselling autobiography Bedsit Disco Queen, Tracey Thorn recalled the highs and lows of a thirty-year career in pop music. But with the touring, recording and extraordinary anecdotes, there... -
Jasmine Bharati Mukherjee 9781853812781
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64When Jasmine Vijh is suddenly widowed at seventeen, she seems fated to a future of quiet isolation in a small Indian village. But, voracious for life, she flees to America. Six years on she has... -
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Dr Maya Angelou 9780349017068
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64A beautiful new edition of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS, the iconic, beloved and deeply moving first volume of Maya Angelou's autobiography. The international classic and bestseller, Maya... -
Scenes of a Graphic Nature: 'A perfect page-turner . . . I loved it' - Dolly Alderton Caroline O'Donoghue 9780349018843
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $12.75THE RACHEL INCIDENT - Caroline O'Donoghue's bestselling new novel* - is out nowCharlie's life isn't going forward - so she's decided to go backAfter a tough few years floundering around the British... -
Lesbianism Made Easy by Helen Eisenbach 9781860494659
Booksplease Price: $40.37These days, who doesn't want to be a lesbian? In literature and life, entertainment and sport, lesbians are the arbiters of what's hot and what's chic. However, like anything which requires a major... -
The House In South Road by Joyce Storey 9781844080465
Booksplease Price: $46.14In this new edition of Joyce Storey's autobiography, the previous three editions are amalgamated and the complete story of her life is told. Born near Bristol in 1917, Joyce began her autobiography... -
The Voluptuous Delights Of Peanut Butter And Jam by Lauren Liebenberg 9781844084685
Booksplease Price: $35.45Nyree and Cia live on a remote farm in the east of what was Rhodesia in the late 1970s. Beneath the dripping vines of the Vumba rainforest, and under the tutelage of their heretical grandfather,... -
The New Feminism by Natasha Walter 9781860496394
Booksplease Price: $35.45Where has British feminism gone? Has it retreated into the academy, did it burn out at Greenham Common, has it emigrated to the United States? Natasha Walter discovers that there is a new feminism... -
The Wife's Tale by Lori Lansens 9781844086177
Booksplease Price: $40.37On the eve of her wedding anniversary, Mary Gooch is waiting for her husband to come home, listening for his car along the dark, icy roads. As the night draws on, and he fails to appear, Mary... -
Living With Mother - Right To The Very End by Michele Hanson 9781844083848
Booksplease Price: $40.37** Winner of the 2006 MIND Book Award**In Michele Hanson's bittersweet columns in the Guardian, collected here, she explored the physical deterioration of her spirited and resilient elderly mother... -
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston 9780349019680
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. When, at sixteen, Janie is caught kissing shiftless Johnny... -
The Reef by Edith Wharton 9780860683728
Booksplease Price: $40.37Anna Leath is a young widow, an American living in France. Behind her lies an arid marriage and a life deeply influenced by the rigid code of Old New York. Ahead lies new hope: a chance encounter in... -
At Work: How We Can Reimagine 21st Century Life and Work Hilary Cottam 9780349017471
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $30.23Drawing from a fascinating range of sources, from Richard Scarry to Siri Hustvedt, from historians to trade unionists, philosophers and crucially, to hours of original research through workshops,... -
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier 9780349019253
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64'The moment I finished this story, I turned to page one and started it over again' MALORIE BLACKMAN'Excellent entertainment . . . du Maurier created a scale by which modern women can measure their... -
The Dirty Bits - For Girls by India Knight 9781844082285
Booksplease Price: $35.45One day someone came back from half-term with Delta of Venus, by Anais Nin . . .Well. Well. The book briskly did the rounds, getting tattier and tattier with each reading.Mouths dropped open in shock...