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Gertrude Bell
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodShe mapped deserts, shaped nations, and moved through the corridors of imperial power at a time when women were barely permitted to enter them...
The Virago Book Of Women Travellers.
Some of the extraordinary women whose writings are including in this collection are observers of the world in which they wander; their prose rich in description, remarkable in detail. Mary...
A Woman in Arabia: The Writings of the Queen of the Desert
A portrait in her own words of one of the great woman adventurers of the 20th century--the "female Lawrence of Arabia"--and the subject of two upcoming major motion pictures A...
The Thousand And One Churches
$1,000.00 AUD
Author: Sir William M. Ramsay And Gertrude L. BellBinding: HardbackPublished: Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1909Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThe Thousand and One Churches by William M....
The Desert And The Sown
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the dawn of the twentieth century, one of history's most remarkable women saddled her horse and rode...
The Supreme Desire
$25.00 AUD
Author: Gertrude PageBinding: HardbackPublished: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, 1916Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThis compelling romantic drama, The...
For Whom the Bell Tolls
This series of war novels from Vintage Classics presents eight powerful stories about the horror and waste of war - each a passionate plea to prevent its repetition. Hemingway's great...
The Bell Jar
'I was supposed to be having the time of my life.' When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she...
In Search of the Nomads: An English Obsession from Hester Stanhope to
Some, like Lady Hester Stanhope and the Hon. Jane Digby, were exiles from 19th-century high society; others were footloose adventurers, like Richard Burton and T.E. Lawrence. There were distinguished literary...
The Essential Hemingway
'Hemingway's style is a superb vehicle for revealing tenderness of feeling beneath descriptions of brutality' Guardian The Essential Hemingway brings together a wide selection of Hemingway's works, providing the perfect...
The Second Lady Silverwood: 'If you're girding your loins for
1814. Following the tragic death of his wife, Sir Benedict Silverwood know shemust marry again. He desperately needs an heir, and his young daughter Lucyneeds a mother even more so....
Breaststrokes: 'A study of womanhood, vulnerability, and the secrecy
Sharply observed and painfully relatable, Breaststrokes is a novel that seems to emerge from the haze of our current time. This story of unexpected encounters and intimacies is perfect for...
Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East
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Murder on the Marlow Belle (The Marlow Murder Club Mysteries, Book 4)
The new cosy crime novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author. NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES starring Samantha Bond, Jo Martin, and Cara Horgan. Season 3 coming in 2026! 'Step...
Woman In The Mirror: An Australian Autobiography (SIGNED)
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: Signed with inscriptionA warm and candid work of Australian autobiography, "Woman in the Mirror" traces the life of Isabel Grace Bell across the...
The Bells of Westminster
* A TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR * * A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION PICK OF THE MONTH * 'A splendid romp from a wonderfully clever historical novelist'...
Queen Bee
Author: Ciara GeraghtyFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 300g, 384 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023'Bridget Jones meets menopause...sharp, funny and real' Cecelia Ahern Lay on the couch for a brief...
Three Lives
Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a privileged woman, but she was surrounded by women who were trapped...
Mama Bell's Big Family Cooking: 100+ Big-Batch Homestyle Recipes Your
Dig in to comforting and delicious big-batch recipes the whole family will love from social media star Heather Bell a.k.a. Mama Bell of @JusttheBells10. Gather around the table for a...
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
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Author: Gertrude Stein Format: Paperback Number of Pages: For Gertrude Stein and her companion Alice B. Toklas, life in Paris was based upon the rue de Fleurus and the Saturday...
Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife - 'Strikingly accomplished . . . utterly
'A total joy to read.' SARAH BAKEWELL 'Thrillingly intelligent and original . . . A breakthrough in biographical form.' EDMUND GORDON 'A discerning literary biography and a page-turning whodunit.' LISA...
Sister Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein
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Gertrude Lawrence As Mrs. A: An Intimate Biography Of The Great Star By Her Husband
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Author: Richard Stoddard AldrichBinding: HardbackPublished: Readers Book Club in association with The Companion Book Club, London, 1956Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis...
Gertrude Lawrence As Mrs. A
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: -This compelling biography, Gertrude Lawrence As Mrs. A, chronicles the extraordinary life...
The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton
$150.00 AUD
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Woman of the Year: A Novel
Author: Darcey Bell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 A deliciously twisty thriller about the dark side of female friendship and a revenge plot that gets a little out of...
Old English Household Life
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Author: Gertrude Jekyll And Sydney R. JonesBinding: HardbackPublished: B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1944Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis historical...
Life Work of Guilford Bell : Architect 1912 - 1992: The Life Work of Guilford Bell Architect 1912-1992
$100.00 AUD
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Alexander Graham Bell: The Spirit of Innovation
In 1876, at only 29 years old, Alexander Graham Bell completed the invention that would turn him into a household name: the telephone. What began as a tool for his...
Alexander Graham Bell: The Life and Times of the Man Who Invented the
Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) changed the world. This biography is a fully illustrated look at the man, his most famous invention - the telephone - and his myriad other achievements....
Miss Jekyll: Portrait Of A Great Gardener
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodShe wore heavy boots, carried a notebook everywhere, and saw the garden not as decoration but as art — Gertrude Jekyll was one of...
Endurance: 100 Tales of Survival, Adventure and Exploration
100 of the most astonishing stories of human survival, adventure and exploration, chosen by Levison Wood. We are always captivated by tales of courage and bravery, of world-firsts and death-defying...
On Liberty
Introduction by Gertrude Himmelfarb 'Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.' To this 'one very simple principle' the whole of Mill's essay On Liberty is...
Maiden Voyages: Writings of Women Travelers
This is a collection of women's travel writings, including work by Joan Didion, Edith Wharton, Mildred Cable, Willa Cather, Isak Dinesen, and others. In wry, lyrical, and sometimes wistful voices,...
The Dangerous Book of Heroes
$12.00 AUD
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The Bell Jar
Working in New York one hot summer, Esther Greenwood is on the brink of her future. Yet she is also on the edge of a darkness that makes her world...
Gertrude And Claudius
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Elizabethan Women and the Poetry of Courtship
This book offers an original study of lyric form and social custom in the Elizabethan age. Ilona Bell explores the tendency of Elizabethan love poems not only to represent an...
A Sign of Her Own: The vivid historical novel of a Deaf woman's role in the invention of the telephone
Author: Sarah Marsh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'Vivid. Eloquent. Offers insight as well as delight' Guardian 'An exquisite portrayal of the lonely dislocation of being deaf in a...
The Bells of Westminster
'Memorable and utterly engaging' - S.G. MACLEAN'Nattrass is a master storyteller' - JANICE HALLETT'One of my favourite historical fiction authors' - PHILIPPA EASTLondon, 1774. The opening of a royal tomb...
The Case Of Mary Bell
$50.00 AUD
Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn 1968, the city of Newcastle upon Tyne was shaken to its core when eleven-year-old Mary Bell was convicted of the manslaughter...