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A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again
Author: Joanna Biggs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 I took off my wedding ring - a gold band with half a line of 'Morning Song' by Sylvia Plath etched...
Invisible Women: the Sunday Times number one bestseller exposing the
The smash-hit bestseller which exposes the invisible bias in our everyday lives - 'HELL YES. This is one of those books that has the potential to change things' (Caitlin Moran)...
Uptown Girl: A Memoir
In 1974, a twenty-year-old Christie Brinkley was “discovered” outside a Paris phone booth, which set off a meteoric modeling career that would land her on the covers of hundreds of...
Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman's astonishing life of seduction,
An electrifying re-examination of one of the twentieth century's greatest unsung power players, from the bestselling author of A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR...
Women Who Run With The Wolves: Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman
'Everyone who can read should read this book' Maya Angelou Chosen by Emma Watson for her feminist book club 'Our Shared Shelf' 'Women Who Run With The Wolves is a...
Dressed: A Philosophy of Clothes
Perfect for readers of Women in Clothes , this beautifully designed philosophical guide to fashion explores art, literature, and film to uncover the hidden meaning of a well-chosen wardrobe. We...
Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine's Confessions
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Author: Kate Cooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 FINALIST: THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2023 The vibrant and surprising lives of the women in Augustine's Confessions While many know of...
Her Secret Service: The Forgotten Women of British Intelligence
'Groundbreaking' Sunday Times 'Beautifully written and elegiac . . . a masterpiece' Damien Lewis, Sunday Times bestselling author Since the inception of the Secret Service Bureau back in 1909, women...
The Second Sex (Vintage Feminism Short Edition)
Read Simone de Beauvoir's classic work of second wave feminism, in an abridged, digestible form. Vintage Feminism- classic feminist texts in short form WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NATALIE HAYNES When...
Hannah Wilke: Art for Life's Sake
Author: Tamara Schenkenberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 252 One of the most groundbreaking artists to emerge in American art in the 1960s, Hannah Wilke consistently challenged the prevailing narratives...
The Betrayal of the Duchess: The Scandal That Unmade the Bourbon
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Fighting to reclaim the French crown for the Bourbons, the duchesse de Berry faces betrayal at the hands of one of her closest advisors in this dramatic history of power...
Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses
A Book of the Year in The Times, Guardian, Independent, New Statesman, Bookseller and at Waterstones'He understands only the women he invents - the others not at all' Thomas Hardy...
Women Without Kids
What is "woman" if not "mother"?Anything she wants to be.Foregoing motherhood has traditionally marked a woman as "other." With no official place setting for her in our society, she has...
Women, Race & Class
The ground-breaking history of civil rights and inequality by legendary political activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis 'Black women were equal to their men in the oppression they suffered; they...
Mum Rage: The Everyday Crisis of Modern Motherhood
Author: Minna Dubin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Mothers aren't supposed to be angry. Still, Minna Dubin was an angry mum: exhausted by the gruelling, thankless work of full-time...
Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
The must-read memoir of the end of a marriage and the start of a personal revolution, based on the iconic 'Modern Love' essay in the New York Times and perfect...
Black and Female
Being categorised as black and female does not constrain my writing. Writing assures me that I am more than merely blackness and femaleness. Writing assures me I am.This paradigm shifting...
Sister Outsider
The essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it...
Love Letters: Vita and Virginia
The radical, relatable, and playful love story between two extraordinary twentieth-century writers, revealed in selected letters and diary entries. 'I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed...
Send Me: The True Story of a Mother at War
The extraordinary story of American special operator and trailblazer Shannon Kent, who hunted high value targets on classified missions in the most dangerous locales on earth while trying to balance...
Heroines: The essential feminist manifesto and 'One of the 50 greatest
'I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out feels like obeying a gag order - pretending...
The New Age of Sexism: How the AI Revolution is Reinventing Misogyny
'Laura Bates explains how they built the future - and forgot to put women in it' CAITLIN MORAN 'Fascinating and essential... I urge you to read every syllable' JO BRAND...
The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival
'Superb and timely' KATE MOSSE 'Impressive, important, deeply moving' SARAH WATERS 'Brilliant' ANTHONY HOROWITZ What role could music play in a death camp? What was the effect on those women...
Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
The definitive guide to the Female Body, Eve is the book women all over the world have been waiting for. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FOYLE'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE...
When I Dare to Be Powerful
Women so empowered are dangerous Written with a 'black woman's anger' and the precision of a poet, these searing pieces by the groundbreaking writer Audre Lorde are a celebration of...
Women of Myth: From Deer Woman and Mami Wata to Amaterasu and Athena, Your Guide to the Amazing and Diverse Women from World Mythology
Author: Jenny Williamson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Uncover the fascinating and complex women from mythology and folklore with this collection of stories profiling powerful goddesses, mighty queens, and...
Forgotten Warriors: The Long History of Women in Combat
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The definitive history of women in war, revealing how women have always been an essential part of combat From Boudicca's rebellion to the war in Ukraine, battlefields have always contained...
The Lost Tudor Princess: The Life of Lady Margaret Douglas
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Sex Bomb: a 'hilarious, raw and poignant' memoir
For fans of Everything I Know About Love, Wrong Knickers and The Right Sort of Girl this is the incredibly honest and brilliantly raunchy memoir you don't want to miss.'Honest....
Renewal: From Crisis to Transformation in Our Lives, Work, and Politics
Author: Anne-Marie Slaughter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 From the acclaimed author of Unfinished Business, a story of crisis and change that can help us find renewed honesty and...
All About Love: The Deluxe Collector's Edition: New Visions
Now available in a special hardcover Deluxe Collector's Edition featuring beautiful new packaging, including cloth case stamping with red foil, bold endpapers, and red sprayed edges! A New York Times...
Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
The vivid and masterful story of Isabella Stewart Gardner-creator of one of America's most stunning museums-an American original whose own life was remade by art. Includes archival photos of Isabella's...
Others Like Me: The Lives of Women Without Children
'A must-read for everyone' Stylist 'Tender, emotive and quietly revelatory' Irish Times 'A vital work' Stella Duffy In a world that expects all women to become mothers, what happens to...
How to Read Literature Like a Professor [Third Edition]: A Lively and
Thoroughly revised and expanded for a new generation of readers, this classic guide to enjoying literature to its fullest-a lively, enlightening, and entertaining introduction to a diverse range of writing...
Unfinished Business: Sex, Freedom and Misogyny: Quarterly Essay 50
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Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages
A Washington Post Most Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year"Delicious and infuriating . . . unputdownable."-Sadie Stein, The New York Times"A tour de force. . . . The stories are...
Butts: A Backstory
"Winning, cheeky, and illuminating....What appears initially as a folly with a look-at-this cover and title becomes, thanks to Radke's intelligence and curiosity, something much meatier, entertaining, and wise." - The...
Watching Women & Girls
'A moving collection' GRAZIA'Danielle is a sharp new talent.' SIRIN KALE'Vibrant, intense and darkly comic' ABIGAIL BERGSTROM'Danielle Pender explores that impact on women's exterior and interior lives with brevity, depth...
Swimming Against the Current: Fighting for Common Sense in a World
Riley Gaines has been called many things: Collegiate athlete. All-American. Champion. But in 2022, everything changed. The narrative shifted. Now, critics smeared her as: Transphobic. Narrow-minded. Evil.What changed? Riley gave...
Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen
What happened when Jane Austen's heroines and heroes were finally wed? Marriage is at the centre of Jane Austen's novels. The pursuit of husbands and wives, advantageous matches, and, of...
Out of Her Mind: How We Are Failing Women's Mental Health and What
For centuries so called 'difficult women' have been labelled as 'hysterical' and 'out of their minds'. Today they wait longer for health diagnoses, often being told it's 'all in their...
The Story of Art without Men
The bestselling category killer comes to paperback with a new chapter and a full publicity and marketing campaign THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Book of the...
Women in Design
Author: Anne MasseyFormat: Paperback, 150mm x 210mm, 420g, 200 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2022A history of women designers and consumers from 1900 to the present day. The...
My Body
* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* A deeply honest investigation of what it means to be a woman and a commodity from Emily Ratajkowski, the archetypal, multi-hyphenate celebrity of our...
The Verso Book of Feminism: Revolutionary Words from Four Millennia of
Throughout written history and across the world, women have protested the restrictions of gender and the violence and limitations placed on women's bodies and women's lives. People-of any and no...
The Last Caravaggio
A focus on Caravaggio's last work, The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula , telling the story of an empowered female saint In early May 1610, Caravaggio finished painting The Martyrdom of...
Women in Intelligence: The Hidden History of Two World Wars
A groundbreaking history of women in British intelligence, revealing their pivotal role across the first half of the twentieth century From the twentieth century onward, women took on an extraordinary...
I Thought I Heard You Speak: Women at Factory Records
Factory Records has become the stuff of legend. The histories of the label have been told from many perspectives, from visual catalogues and memoirs to exhibitions. Yet no in-depth history...