Mom and Me and Mom by Maya Angelou - £12.99
For the first time, Maya Angelou - one of America's most celebrated memoirists and poets, a living legend treasured by presidents, world leaders, entertainers, and book lovers of all ages - shares the deepest personal story of her life: the story of ... more
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Is it Just Me? by Miranda Hart - £7.99
Well hello to you dear browser. Now I have your attention it would be rude if I didn't tell you a little about my literary feast. So, here is the thing: is it just me or does anyone else find that adulthood offers no refuge from the unexpected horror ... more
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Keeping Hope Alive: How One Somali Woman Changed 90,000 Lives by Hawa Abdi - £13.99
The truly inspiring and moving story of a female doctor in war torn Somalia who refuses to leave her country and her people.
For the last twenty years, Dr Hawa Abdi and her daughters have run a refugee camp on their family farm not far from Mo ... more
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After Auschwitz: A Story of Heartbreak and Survival by the Stepsister of Anne Frank by Eva Schloss - £20.00
Eva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday and sent to Auschwitz. Her survival depended on endless strokes of luck, her own determination and the love and protection of her mother Fritzi, who was deported with her.
When Auschwitz w ... more
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Tomorrow Is Now by Eleanor Roosevelt - £9.99
As relevant and influential now as it was when first published in 1963, Tomorrow Is Now is Eleanor Roosevelt's manifesto and her final effort to move America toward the community she hoped it would become.
In bold, blunt prose, one of the gr ... more
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A Lady of Cotton: Hannah Greg, Mistress of Quarry Bank Mill by David Sekers - £9.99
In 1789 Hannah Lightbody, a well-educated and intelligent young woman of means, married Samuel Greg and found herself at the centre of his cotton empire in the industrial heart of England. It was a man's world, in which women like Hannah were barred ... more
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The Trials of Radclyffe Hall by Diana Souhami - £12.99
Radclyffe Hall was born in 1880 in Bournemouth in a house inappropriately named ‘Sunny Lawn’. Her mother drank gin in an attempt to terminate the pregnancy, and her father fled the family home.
At the mercy of a violent mother and sexually a ... more
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My Animals and Other Family by Clare Balding - £8.99
'I had spent most of my childhood thinking I was a dog, and I suspect I had aged in dog years. By the time I was ten I had discovered the pain of unbearable loss. I had felt joy and jealousy. Most important of all, I knew how to love and how to let m ... more
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Fifty Shades of Feminism by Lisa Appignanesi, Susie Orbach, and Rachel Holmes - £12.99
The antidote to the idea that being a woman is all about submitting to desire. There are many more shades than that and here are fifty women to explore them.
Fifty years after the publication of The Feminine Mystique, have women really exchang ... more
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Bedsit Disco Queen: How I Grew Up and Tried to be a Pop Star by Tracey Thorn - £16.99
Tracey Thorn was one half of internationally successful group Everything But the Girl and collaborated with Paul Weller, Massive Attack and dance legend Todd Terry. This is the funny, perceptive and candid story of her 30-year pop career.
I ... more
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A Month by the Sea: Encounters in Gaza by Dervla Murphy - £16.99
Over the summer of 2011, in her eightieth year, Dervla Murphy spent a month in the Gaza Strip. She met liberals and Islamists, Hamas and Fatah supporters, rich and poor. Used to western reporters dashing in and out of the Strip in times of crisis, th ... more
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Shadows of the Workhouse: The Drama of Life in Postwar London by Jennifer Worth - £7.99
The inspiration for the second series of the BBC's phenomenally popular Call the Midwife, starring Miranda Hart.
In this follow up to Call the Midwife, Jennifer Worth, a midwife working in the docklands area of East London in the 1950s tells ... more
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Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria by Noo Saro-Wiwa - £8.99
Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in England, but every summer she was dragged back to Nigeria - a country she viewed as an annoying parallel universe where she had to relinquish all her creature comforts and sense of individuality. Then her father, activ ... more
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Full Circle by Jane Hersey - £7.99
Full Circle continues the life story of Jane Hersey which began with Breath in the Dark. It tells the harrowing true tale of a socially isolated young woman, who is neglected, physically and emotionally abused and living in poverty and deprivation.
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New South Asian Feminisms: Paradoxes and Possibilities by Srila Roy (Editor) - £19.99
South Asian Feminism is in crisis. Under constant attack from right-wing nationalism and religious fundamentalism and co-opted by 'NGO-ization' and neoliberal state agendas, once autonomous and radical forms of feminist mobilization have been ideolog ... more
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She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Popular Music by Lucy O'Brien - £14.95
She Bop is the definitive in-depth study of women in popular music. Drawing on more than 250 firsthand interviews, it covers nine decades of musical history, from ragtime and vaudeville to punk and hip-hop, and features a remarkable cast of trailblaz ... more
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The Dance Claimed Me: A Biography of Pearl Primus by Peggy and Murray Schwartz - £15.00
Pearl Primus (1919-1994) blazed onto the dance scene in 1943 with stunning works that incorporated social and racial protest into their dance aesthetic. In The Dance Claimed Me, Peggy and Murray Schwartz, friends and colleagues of Primus, offer an in ... more
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Debunking Women's History: Myths & Legends About 101 Infamous Women Exploded by Ed Rayner & Ron Stapley - £12.99
History is not something that counts to men’s credit alone, though they have often claimed it as their exclusive achievement. This book deals with the part that women have played in history, and acknowledges their role, although at the time they may ... more
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Spit And Passion by Cristy C. Road - £11.99
At its core, Spit and Passion is about the transformative moment when music crashes into a stifling adolescent bedroom and saves you. Suddenly, you belong. At twelve years old, Cristy C. Road is struggling to balance tradition in a Cuban Catholic fam ... more
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The Necessary Aptitude: A Memoir by Pam Ayres - £7.99
'Next, I applied to work in the accounts department, a sealed room where women operated clattering machines like enormous typewriters. After I had catastrophically and erroneously applied all the wrong information to several trolley loads of document ... more
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Sylvia Plath: Poems chosen by Carol Ann Duffy by Sylvia Plath - £14.99
Sylvia Plath was one of the defining voices of twentieth-century poetry, and one of the most appealing: few other poets have introduced as many new readers to poetry. Though she published just one collection in her lifetime, The Colossus, and a novel ... more
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Reaching Out with No Hands: Reconsidering Yoko Ono by Lisa Carver - £12.99
John Lennon once described her as “the world's most famous unknown artist: everybody knows her name, but nobody knows what she does.” Many people are aware of her art, and her music has always split crowds, from her caterwauling earliest work to her ... more
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The Unfinished Revolution: Voices from the Global Fight for Women's Rights by Minky Worden - £14.99
Women's rights have progressed significantly in the last two decades, but major challenges remain in order to end global gender discrimination. The Unfinished Revolution: Voices from the Global Fight for Women's Rights outlines the recent history of ... more
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Sex Matters for Women: A Complete Guide to Taking Care of Your Sexual Self (2nd Edition) by Sallie Foley, Sally A. Kope, and Dennis P. Sugrue - £11.99
Sex is talked about more openly today than ever before, but if you still struggle with sexual myths, self-doubt, and "embarrassing" questions, you're in good company.
Now in a fully updated second edition, this trusted guide has already hel ... more
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Welcome to Biscuit Land: A Year in the Life of Touretteshero by Jessica Thom - £12.00
“It is the hippies of outrageous fortune that weigh heavy on the minds of dogs,”
Meet Jess, aka Touretteshero. Jess has Tourettes Syndrome, which means she makes sounds and movements over which she has no control. Jess swears – she’s one of ab ... more
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Revolution At Point Zero by Silvia Federici - £11.99
Written between 1974 and the present, Revolution at Point Zero collects forty years of research and theorizing on the nature of housework, social reproduction, and women’s struggles on this terrain — to escape it, to better its conditions, to reconst ... more
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Breathe in the Dark: A Childhood Lost by Jane Hersey - £7.99
Jane Hersey’s biography is told through the thoughts and voice of a traumatized, isolated child, enduring the stresses and strains of day-to-day life under difficult circumstances in 1960s Manchester. As a six year old child with sole care of a mothe ... more
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Blasphemy: The True, Heartbreaking Story of the Woman Sentenced to Death Over a Cup of Water by Asia Bibi - £10.99
Punjab, Pakistan, June 2009.
The temperature is 45 - and Asia has been out picking fruit for several hours. It's exhausting, sweaty work, but Asia and her husband have five children to feed. At midday she goes to the nearest well, picks up ... more
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Instead of a Book: Letters to a Friend by Diana Athill - £9.99
Diana Athill has corresponded with the American poet Edward Field for over thirty years, freely sharing jokes, pleasures and pains with her old friend, and writing with an intimacy and spontaneity even more revealing than the candour of her celebrate ... more
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Ice by Gillian Clarke - £9.95
In Ice Gillian Clarke turns to the real winters of 2009 and 2010. In their extremity they redefined all the seasons for her. Nature asserted itself and renewed the environment for the imagination. The poem ‘Polar’ is the poet’s point de repčre, evoki ... more
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A Century of Wisdom: Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer by Caroline Stoessinger - £8.99
An inspiring story of resilience and the power of optimism - the true story of Alice Herz-Sommer, the world's oldest living Holocaust survivor.
At 108 years old, the pianist Alice Herz-Sommer is an eyewitness to history. She has seen it all, ... more
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A Force to be Reckoned With: A History of the Women's Institute by Jane Robinson - £9.99
Everyone knows three things about the Women’s Institute: that they spent the war making jam; the sensational Calendar Girls were WI; and, more recently, that slow-handclapping of Tony Blair.
215,000 women in the UK belong to the WI. Their ... more
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The Summer My Father Died by Yudit Kiss - £8.99
Yudit Kiss grew up a communist in Budapest, soaking up her father's ideology unquestioningly. As a child she is puzzled when others refer to her as Jewish; she only knows that her family doesn't believe in God. How can they?
As her father li ... more
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The Jane Austen Miscellany by Lauren Nixon - £9.99
Jane Austen is the world’s bestselling novelist – 200 years after her death.
We seem to have a never-ending appetite for the swooning of Sense & Sensibility; smouldering passion of Pride & Prejudice – resulting in a near constant supply of film ad ... more
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Anti-Porn: The Resurgence of Anti-Porn Feminism by Julia Long - £14.99
Anti-porn feminism is back. Countering the ongoing ‘pornification’ of Western culture and society, with lads’ mags on the middle shelf and lap-dancing clubs in residential areas, anti-porn movements are re-emerging among a new generation of feminist ... more
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Call The Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s by Jennifer Worth - £7.99
Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished surroundings ... more
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Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou - £8.99
Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and living a life with meaning. Told in her own inimitable style, this book transcends genres and categories: it's part ... more
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Things I Couldn't Tell My Mother by Sue Johnston - £7.99
'There was a lot that we kept from my mother. My dad would say to me as a teenager 'Don't tell your mother.' We couldn't face the disapproval.'
Sue Johnston always seemed to be disappointing her mother. As a girl she never stayed clean and tidy l ... more
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Miranda Hart: The Biography by Sophie Johnson - £7.99
For the first time, author Sophie Johnson reveals the story behind Miranda's rise to fame.
The comedian was born in Torquay in 1972, yet despite graduating with a degree in politics, she always wanted to be a comedian. In 2002 she performed ... more
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Please, Miss: The True Story of a Trainee Teacher in 1960s Liverpool by Bernadette Robinson - £6.99
Bernadette was just ten years old when her father packed her off to a convent school in Dublin. Seven gruelling years later, she returned home to Liverpool at the start of the swinging sixties. Bernadette had dreamed of being a teacher ever since she ... more
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Women Make Noise: Girl Bands from Motown to the Modern by Julia Downes - £15.99
As more and more female solo artists hit the mainstream the question arises: where are the girl bands? Why aren't they getting the attention they deserve?
While the media continues to ignore them, in Women Make Noise Julia Downes invites mus ... more
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Life As We Have Known It: The Voices of Working-Class Women by Margaret Llewelyn Davies - £7.99
'I was born in Bethnal Green ...a tiny scrap of humanity. I was my mother's seventh, and seven more were born after me ...When I was ten years old I began to earn my own living.'
Told in the distinctive and memorable voices of working cl ... more
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Trafficked: The Terrifying True Story of a British Girl Forced into the Sex Trade by Sophie Hayes - £6.99
He’d been her friend for years. He said he loved her. Then she realised she didn’t know him at all...
When everything seemed to be falling apart in Sophie’s life, she was thankful for her friend Kas, who was always at the end of a phone, ... more
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No One But a Woman Knows: Stories of Motherhood Before the War by Margaret Llewelyn Davies - £7.99
Reissued with a stunning new jacket design, the Virago classic about motherhood for working class women at the turn of the last century
'I was married at twenty and a mother of three by twenty-three . . . When I look back at the first three ... more
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Coal to Diamonds by Beth Ditto - £18.99
Born and raised in Judsonia, Arkansas-a place where indoor plumbing was a luxury, squirrel was a meal, and sex ed was taught during senior year in high school (long after many girls had gotten pregnant and dropped out) Beth Ditto stood out. Beth was ... more
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Moranthology by Caitlin Moran - £18.99
Possibly the only drawback about the bestselling How To Be A Woman was that its author, Caitlin Moran, was limited to pretty much one subject: being a woman.
Moranthology is proof that Caitlin can actually be ‘quite chatty’ about many other ... more
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Sex, Race & Class, The Perspective of Winning: A Selection of Writings 1952-2011 by Selma James - £14.95
Men and women work. But they labor under conditions of coercion. That fact is in force in and out of the home. Both settings are the concern of Selma James, 81, Brooklyn-bred in a Jewish-American, leftist working-class family, and a self-defined acti ... more
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Black by Design: A 2-Tone Memoir by Pauline Black - £8.99
Probably best-known for her role as lead singer in The Selecter, one of the best British ska / 2 tone bands of the early 1980s, Pauline Black has lived a life rich in contradictions. Mixed-race, adopted to a middle-aged white couple, tracing some of ... more
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Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture by Peggy Orenstein - £13.99
The acclaimed author of the groundbreaking bestseller Schoolgirls reveals the dark side of pink and pretty: the rise of the girlie-girl, she warns, is not that innocent.
Sweet and sassy or predatory and hardened, sexualized girlhood influen ... more
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Vegan Pregnancy Survival Guide by Sayward Rebhal - £11.99
The Vegan Pregnancy Survival Guide is a fun, informative, and totally comprehensive reference manual. Leave the heavy textbooks at home! This is a "pocket guide" with quick answers to all your most pressing pregnancy questions - from straightforward ... more
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The Lancashire Witches: A Chronicle of Sorcery and Death on Pendle Hill by Philip C. Almond - £19.99
In the febrile religious and political climate of late sixteenth-century England, when the grip of the Reformation was as yet fragile and insecure, and underground papism still perceived to be rife, Lancashire was felt by the Protestant authorities t ... more
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