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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 19 books in this booklist
£10.99 paperback (2024) - ISBN 13: 9780241994320 | ISBN 10: 0241994322
'A captivating account of lives previously ignored' Sunday Independent 'An important, impeccably researched though eminently readable book that charts new territory' Irish Examiner Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth cen ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781805330899 | ISBN 10: 1805330896
‘Conjures the rasp of the ski runner, the scent of burning blubber and the rippling iridescence of the Northern Lights’ Sara Wheeler ‘[An] astonishing, haunting memoir’ Isabella Tree The rediscovered classic memoir – the m ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780300274158 | ISBN 10: 0300274157
A feminist reinterpretation of the myths surrounding Cleopatra casts new light on the Egyptian queen and her legacy. “A lucid and persuasive reinterpretation. Readers won’t see Cleopatra the same way again.”—Publishers Weekly “W ... more
View book details£25.00 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781399803359 | ISBN 10: 1399803352
'Oh Miriam! risks the curse of the sequel, and pulls it off... A force of nature, a tour de farce. Bold, brave and bright, but also revealing, shocking and touching. Miriam is an icon, a cocksucker - and the star of her show' ROBERT McCRUM, Independe ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780008472924 | ISBN 10: 0008472920
From rebels to writers, athletes to astronauts, join Kate Fox takes on an entertaining and eye-opening journey through the lives of these extraordinary women whose lives and achievements have too long been hidden. From Cartimandua, the forgo ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781911630258 | ISBN 10: 1911630253
There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.’ Hannah Gadsby, Nanette Multi-awardwinning Hannah Gadsby transformed comedy with her show Nanette, even as she declared that she was quitting stand-up. Now, she takes us th ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781839041211 | ISBN 10: 1839041218
In this candid and empowering A to Z of being an actor, Julie Hesmondhalgh draws on her decades of experience on stage and screen – including in massively popular television shows such as Broadchurch, Happy Valley and Coronation Street – to lift ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780241993620 | ISBN 10: 0241993628
The powerful, urgent manifesto on never giving up from Booker prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine Evaristo. In 2019, Bernardine Evaristo became the first black woman to win the Booker Prize since its inception fifty years earlier - a revolutio ... more
View book details£20.00 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529108316 | ISBN 10: 1529108314
Groomed. Gaslighted. Ghosted. They thought they'd found their soulmate. They had no idea he was spying on them. These five motivated, independent women each thought they'd met their perfect partner - someone who shared their values, ... more
View book details£16.99 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780008486976 | ISBN 10: 0008486972
The British comedian of Nigerian heritage and co-executive producer and writer of the CBS hit series Bob Hearts Abishola chronicles her odyssey to get to America and break into Hollywood in this lively and humorous memoir. According to fami ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781787836822 | ISBN 10: 1787836827
Fearlessness has got nothing to do with being unafraid. It’s about doing things anyway, getting on with it, living, whether you’re afraid or not. Fuzzy-haired, free-spirited, cello-playing Catrina is devastated when her lover, Jack, leav ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781474610056 | ISBN 10: 1474610056
Nobel Peace Prize winner and bestselling author Malala Yousafzai introduces some of the faces behind the statistics and news stories we read or hear every day about the millions of people displaced worldwide. Malala’s experiences visiting refu ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781526614766 | ISBN 10: 1526614766
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year. Following a run of New Year's concerts at ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781784162344 | ISBN 10: 1784162345
THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 2019 Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolv ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529103380 | ISBN 10: 152910338x
“Everyone has their price. It’s just not always monetary. Mine is though. 20 quid.” Single mum. ‘Stain on society’. Caught in a poverty trap. It’s a luxury to afford morals and if you’re Cash Carraway, you do what you can to survi ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780241978726 | ISBN 10: 0241978726
Little Lien wasn't taken from her Jewish parents - she was given away in the hope that she might be saved. Hidden and raised by a foster family in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation, she survived the war only to find that her real parents had not. ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781781255292 | ISBN 10: 1781255296
Mary Shelley was brought up by her father in a house filled with radical thinkers, poets, philosophers and writers of the day. Aged sixteen, she eloped with Percy Bysshe Shelley, embarking on a relationship that was lived on the move across Britain a ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780141983868 | ISBN 10: 0141983868
When Harriet Harman started her career, men-only job adverts and a 'women's rate' of pay were the norm, female MPs were a tiny minority - a woman couldn't even sign for a mortgage. But, she argues, we should never just be grateful that things are bet ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780995623828 | ISBN 10: 0995623821
"An essential window into many of the hazard-strewn worlds younger women are living in right now."(Margaret Atwood, Twitter) With intolerance and inequality increasingly normalised by the day, it's more important than ever for women to share their ... more
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