Authors
- Penny Armstrong
- Sheryl Feldman
Publication date: 2006-09-20
Dewey code: 618.20092
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.28
Review A Midwife's Story / Pinter & Martin Ltd.:
Publication date: 2008-06-02
RRP: £25.00
Price: £11.99
Review The Pain and the Privilege: The Women in Lloyd George's Life / HarperPress:
Publication date: 2008-05-01
RRP: £18.99
Price: £9.89
Review The Bolter: Idina Sackville - The Woman Who Scandalised 1920s Society and Became White Mischief's Infamous Seductress / Virago Press Ltd:
Creator: Philip Boehm
Edition: New
Publication date: 2006-04-06
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.96
Review A Woman in Berlin: Diary 20 April 1945 to 22 June 1945 / Virago Press Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-09-27
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.83
Review Diary of an On-call Girl: True Stories from the Front Line / Monday Books:
Publication date: 2006-06-08
Dewey code: 306.7092
RRP: £7.99
Price: £1.80
Review The Butcher, the Baker, The Candlestick Maker: An Erotic Memoir / Virgin Books:
Publication date: 2007-10-30
Dewey code: 955.0542092
RRP: £12.70
Price: £7.34
Review The Complete Persepolis / Pantheon Books:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2001-03-01
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.63
Review Elizabeth / Vintage:The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, Good Queen Bess; Elizabeth I holds a unique place in the English imagination as one of the nation's most powerful, charismatic and successful monarchs. Elizabeth is usually imagined as the icy, untouchable figure memorably recreated on screen by Bette Davis and Judi Dench, but that vision of Elizabeth ignores the turbulent years of her early life, from her birth as the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn in 1533, until her accession to the throne in 1558 following the death of her sister Mary. It is these early years which are the subject of David Starkey's fascinating Elizabeth I, written to accompany his television series about the life of Elizabeth. Starkey argues that in her first 25 years Elizabeth "had experienced every vicissitude of fortune and ever extreme of condition. She had been Princess and inheritrix of England, and bastard and disinherited; the nominated successor to the throne and an accused traitor on the verge of execution; showered with lands and houses and a prisoner in the Tower". He draws on his skills as a respected Tudor historian to produce a deft account of the religious, political and dynastic maelstrom of mid-16th century England that reads "like a historical thriller". The book carefully picks its way through the finer points of contemporary religious conflict and the peculiarities of Tudor court ceremony, whilst also exploring the formation of Elizabeth's character in relation to a murdered mother, a charismatic father, a tortured sister, and a predatory guardian. Highly readable and written with verve and pace, this is a fascinating account of the young Elizabeth. -Jerry Brotton.
Publication date: 2008-06-02
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.05
Review Journey to Nowhere: One Woman Looks for the Promised Land / Granta Books:
Publication date: 2008-03-20
Dewey code: 781
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.23
Review All That Glitters / Hodder Paperbacks:
Publication date: 2008-05-15
Dewey code: 941.085092
RRP: £18.99
Price: £8.01
Review Speaking for Myself: The Autobiography / Little, Brown:
Edition: First
Publication date: 2008-07-17
RRP: £17.99
Price: £11.87
Review Golda Meir: The Iron Lady of the Middle East: The First Woman Prime Minister in the West / Gibson Square Books Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-06-06
Dewey code: 362.87092
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.00
Review What Is She Doing Here?: A Refugee's Story / Picador:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2007-03-05
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.98
Review Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC:
Edition: 1st edition
Publication date: 2008-06-23
Dewey code: 338
RRP: £16.99
Price: £8.68
Review Bearly Believable: My Part in the Paddington Bear Story / Harriman House Publishing:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2003-06-05
Dewey code: 305
RRP: £7.99
Price: £1.75
Review The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices / Vintage:Xinran's The Good Women of China continues the tradition of Chinese women writing in recent years. Jung Chang, in Wild Swans, and Aiping Mu, in Vermilion Gate, for example, have written of the effect of recent Chinese history on themselves and their families. However, both of these books, and others like them, have been by women from the upper echelons of Chinese society. What of ordinary Chinese women? How are their voices to be heard?Xinran worked for eight years as a well-known presenter at a Chinese radio station. As a public figure, she received many letters. Most of them were from women. Moved by the stories she was hearing in the letters, she decided to go in search of more of the truths about Chinese women's lives. What she found was terrible suffering; women who had endured lengthy sexual abuse during the Cultural Revolution, women whose wretched poverty was made more miserable by the dictates of a male-centred society, women who had had their children taken from them or who had lost them in earthquakes and other natural disasters. And, amid all the suffering, she found their capacity to endure and somehow survive. Xinran is not a diffident or modest journalist. [+]The reader gets to hear quite a lot of people in the course of her book, telling her how honest and humane and famous she is. This is, unsurprisingly, exasperating. However, someone more modest, and with a less robust sense of her own importance and the importance of what she was doing, would not have gathered the material that she has done. She would not have gone to those places she needed to go in order to record the stories in her book. The voices of the many women to whom she listened would not have been heard. -Nick Rennision.
Publication date: 2008-05-19
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.96
Review The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: How a Remarkable Woman Crossed Seas and Empires to Become Part of World History / HarperPerennial:
Creator: Mark Bostridge
Edition: New Edition with new cover
Publication date: 1933-01-01
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.69
Review Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 (Virago Classic Non-fiction) / Virago Press Ltd:In 1914 Vera Brittain was 21 years old, and an undergraduate student at Somerville College, Oxford. When war broke out in August of that year, Brittain "temporarily" disrupted her studies to enrol as a volunteer nurse, nursing casualties both in England and on the Western Front. The next four years were to cause a deep rupture in Brittain's life, as she witnessed not only the horrors of war first hand, but also experienced the quadruple loss of her fiancé, her brother, and two close friends. Testament of Youth is a powerfully written, unsentimental memoir which has continued to move and enthral readers since its first publication in 1933. Brittain, a pacifist since her First World War experiences, prefaces the book with a fairy tale, in which Catherine, the heroine, encounters a fairy godmother and is given the choice of having either a happy youth or a happy old age. She selects the latter and so her fate is determined: "Now this woman," warns the tale, "was the destiny of poor Catherine. " And we find as we delve deeper into the book that she was the destiny of poor Vera too.
Creator: Suzie Fleming
Publication date: 2006-11-16
Dewey code: 305
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.50
Review Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of 'Housewife 49' / Profile Books Ltd:
Creator: Nicola Beauman
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1984-11-15
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.49
Review The Diary of a Provincial Lady / Virago Press Ltd:
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A Midwife's Story, The Pain and the Privilege: The Women in Lloyd George's Life, The Bolter: Idina Sackville - The Woman Who Scandalised 1920s Society and Became White Mischief's Infamous Seductress, A Woman in Berlin: Diary 20 April 1945 to 22 June 1945, Diary of an On-call Girl: True Stories from the Front Line, The Butcher, the Baker, The Candlestick Maker: An Erotic Memoir, The Complete Persepolis, Elizabeth, Journey to Nowhere: One Woman Looks for the Promised Land, All That Glitters, Speaking for Myself: The Autobiography, Golda Meir: The Iron Lady of the Middle East: The First Woman Prime Minister in the West, What Is She Doing Here?: A Refugee's Story, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything, Bearly Believable: My Part in the Paddington Bear Story, The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices, The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: How a Remarkable Woman Crossed Seas and Empires to Become Part of World History, Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 (Virago Classic Non-fiction), Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of 'Housewife 49', The Diary of a Provincial LadyTop headlines: Bush heckled at new citizen ceremony: President Bush invoked the memory of Thomas Jefferson Friday in welcoming new U.S. citizens at a naturalization ceremony, saying "I'll be proud to call you a fellow American." ›15:11, 4.07 Jesse Helms: Polarizer, not a compromiser: "Compromise, hell!" 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