Women and the first world war
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Women and the First World War
In this revised version of a ground-breaking global history of women and the First World War, Susan Grayzel shows the multiple ways in which women fac
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Women and the First World War
The First World War was the first modern, total war, requiring the mobilization of civilians and combatants. It was also the first to demand the activ
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British Women's Histories of the First World War
This lively collection of essays showcases recent research into the impact of the conflict on British women during the First World War and since. This
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Women at War in the Classical World
The first full treatment of women and warfare in Classical Greece and Rome. Addresses the neglected subject of the role of women in war in the Classic
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Women in the Great War
The First World War was fought on two fronts. In a military sense it was fought on the battlefields throughout Europe, the Gallipoli peninsular and ot
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Bobby Girls' War
The third book in an uplifting, lively saga series centered around women entering the world of policing for the first time, set at the outbreak of the
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Copperettes at War
An uplifting, moving new saga from the talented Sue Wilsher set in Essex in during the First World War as two very different women tackle the challeng
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In Love and War
An emotional and enthralling historical novel following a group of women searching for the men they lost during the First World War.
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First Bright Thing
The Night Circus meets The Greatest Showman, as three magically gifted women try to build a circus – and home – in the ruins of World War I. The Fir
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Women in Love
The 'progress' of the modern industrialised world had led to the carnage of the First World War. What, then, did it mean to call ourselves 'human'? Wh
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Till the Boys Come Home
The untold story of the army of men and women who kept British theatre alive during the First World War, and how the theatre aided the war effort
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Women in England 1760-1914
A rich and fresh survey of women's lives between George III and the First World War
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Lumberjills
The first book to fully recognise and tell the tale of the efforts of the Lumberjills - the Women's Timber Corps - during the Second World War
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Female Tommies
This book tells the story of women in the First World War at the front line, under fire, and in combat.
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Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths (1509873147)
Kniha - autor Natalie Haynes, 320 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná The Greek myths are among the world's most important cultural building blocks and they have been retold many times, but rarely do they focus on the remarkable women at the heart of these ancient stories. Stories of gods and monsters are the mainstay of epic poetry and Greek tragedy, from Hom...
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Fox, The Captain's Doll, The Ladybird
Two young women living during the First World War find their solitary life interrupted. There exists a complex relationship between a German countess
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The Spring Girls : A Modern-Day Retelling of Little Women - Anna Todd
<p>Four sisters desperately seeking the blueprints to life-the modern-day retelling of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women like only Anna Todd (After, Imagines) could do. The Spring Girls-Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy-are a force of nature on the New Orleans military base where they live. As different as they are, with their father on tour in Iraq and their mother hiding som...
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The Witch's Kind (0356512568)
Kniha - autor Louisa Morgan, 480 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná An absorbing tale of love, sacrifice, family ties, and magic, set in the Pacific Northwest in the aftermath of World War II, by the author of A Secret History of Witches. Barrie Anne Blythe and her aunt Charlotte have always known that the other residents of their small coastal community find...
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The Tenth Muse - Chung Catherine
Anotace: The first thing I remember being said of me with any consistency was that I was intelligent - and I recognized even then that it was a comment leveled at me with as much disapproval as admiration. Still, I never tried to hide or suppress my mind as some girls do, and thank god, because that would have been the beginning of the end. From childhood, Katherine know...
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THE GIRL YOU LEFT BEHIND - Jojo Moyes
Anotace: France, 1916. Sophie Lefevre must keep her family safe whilst her adored husband Edouard fights at the front. When she is ordered to serve the German officers who descend on her hotel each evening, her home becomes riven by fierce tensions. Bertrams Buyer's Notes: The hauntingly romantic new weepy from Jojo Moyes, author of bestseller }Me Before You{. Set betw...
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The Girl You Left Behind - Jojo Moyes
<p>France, 1916. Sophie Lefevre must keep her family safe whilst her adored husband Edouard fights at the front. When she is ordered to serve the German officers who descend on her hotel each evening, her home becomes riven by fierce tensions. Bertrams Buyer's Notes: The hauntingly romantic new weepy from Jojo Moyes, author of bestseller }Me Before You{. Set betwe...
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The Dictionary of Lost Words - Pip Williams
<p>Sometimes you have to start with what's lost to truly find yourself... Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood at her father's feet as he and his team gather words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. One day, she sees a slip of paper containing a forgotten word flutter to the floor unclaimed. And so Esme begins to collect word...
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The Daughters of Izdihar - Elsbai Hadeer
Anotace: `A gorgeous, clever feminist fantasy novel rich with magic, politics, hunger and fire. An absolute must-read` Tasha Suri, author of The Jasmine Throne Trapped in an arranged marriage to a man she does not love, Nehal dreams of attending the Weaving Academy. There, she can take control of her powers, bending any water to her will, and pursue a glorious future on ...
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The Secrets We Kept - Lara Prescott
Two female spies. A banned masterpiece. A book that changed history. A BANNED MASTERPIECE 1956. A celebrated Russian author is writing a book, Doctor Zhivago, which could spark dissent in the Soviet Union. The Soviets, afraid of its subversive power, ban it. But in the rest of the world it's fast becoming a sensation. TWO FEMALE SPIES The CIA plans to use the book to ...
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Sweet Caress - The Many Lives of Amory Clay - Boyd William
Anotace: THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Amory Clay's first memory is of her father doing a handstand - but it is his absences that she chiefly remembers. Her Uncle Greville, a photographer, gives her both the affection she needs and a camera, which unleashes a passion that irrevocably shapes her future. She begins an apprenticeship with him in London, photogra...
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Sweet Caress - The Many Lives of Amory Clay - William Boyd
<p>THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Amory Clay's first memory is of her father doing a handstand – but it is his absences that she chiefly remembers. Her Uncle Greville, a photographer, gives her both the affection she needs and a camera, which unleashes a passion that irrevocably shapes her future. She begins an apprenticeship with him in London, photographing ...
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, 1. vydání - Anne Bronteová
<p>One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'The Penguin English Library Edition of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte'She looked so like herself that I knew not how to bear it'In this sensational, hard-hitting and passionate tale of marital cruelty, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall sees a mysterious tenant, Helen Graham, unmasked not as a 'wicked woman'...
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Scars Upon My Heart
A diverse and moving collection of women's poetry and verse of the First World War.
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The Children of Gods and Fighting Men - Lawless Shauna
Anotace: The first in a gripping new historical fantasy series that intertwines Irish mythology with real-life history, The Children of Gods and Fighting Men is the thrilling debut novel by Shauna Lawless. They think they`ve killed the last of us...981 AD. The Viking King of Dublin is dead. His young widow, Gormflaith, has ambitions for her son - and herself - but Irelan...
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The Children of Gods and Fighting Men - Shauna Lawless
<p>The first in a gripping new historical fantasy series that intertwines Irish mythology with real-life history, The Children of Gods and Fighting Men is the thrilling debut novel by Shauna Lawless. They think they've killed the last of us... 981 AD. The Viking King of Dublin is dead. His young widow, Gormflaith, has ambitions for her son - and herself - but Ire...
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Endell Street
The forgotten and inspiring story of a London hospital during the First World War which was staffed entirely by women.
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The Librarians of Rue de Picardie: From the bestselling author, a powerful, moving wartime page-turner based on real events - Charles Janet Skeslien
<p>The New York Times bestselling author of the The Paris Library returns with a powerful, moving new novel based on the extraordinary true story of Jessie Carson, the American librarian determined to bring books to the children of war-torn France.'This is hands down my book of 2024. A rich, glorious life-affirming ode to the power of books and female solidarity. Si...
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Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5´s Secret Nazi Hunter - Hutton Robert
Anotace: June 1940. Britain is Europe`s final bastion of freedom - and Hitler`s next target. But not everyone fears a Nazi invasion. In factories, offices and suburban homes are men and women determined to do all they can to hasten it.Throughout the Second World War, Britain`s defence against the enemy within was Eric Roberts, a former bank clerk from Epsom. Equipped wit...
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Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5´s Secret Nazi Hunter - Robert Hutton
<p>June 1940. Britain is Europe's final bastion of freedom - and Hitler's next target. But not everyone fears a Nazi invasion. In factories, offices and suburban homes are men and women determined to do all they can to hasten it.Throughout the Second World War, Britain's defence against the enemy within was Eric Roberts, a former bank clerk from Epsom. Equipped with...
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Almost Impossible Thing
An Almost Impossible Thing follows the lives of six hitherto unknown women gardeners in the years before the First World War, and examines their lives
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ANZAC Cove to Afghanistan
As the first Anzacs to land at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915 and among the last to serve in Afghanistan 100 years later, the men and women of the Australian Armys 3rd Brigade have a long and proud history. Initially raised in 1903, the 3rd Brigade served as part of the Australian Imperial Force during World War I, suffering appalling losses at ...
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Sybil Pye Bindings / Lion’s Den / Pencil Case /
This striking Art Deco design comes from the celebrated British bookbinder Sybil Pye (1879-1959). It was crafted to hold a collection of William Wordsworth's poems illustrated by Pye's lifelong friend Thomas Sturge Moore. One of the youngest pre-First World War women binders, Pye was the only binder in England who specialized in inlaid leather bindings. With this series, ...
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Mirror Image - Danielle Steel
<p>From Manhattan high-society to warn-torn France, Mirror Image is a compelling story about the mysterious bond between twin sisters. For twins Olivia and Victoria, their bond was mysterious, marvellous, and often playful - a secret realm only they inhabited. Shy, serious Olivia, born eleven minutes before her sister, had taken over the role of mother in their lu...
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Anthem For Doomed Youth - Wilfred Owen
<p>'Tonight he noticed how the women's eyes Passed from him to the strong men that were whole.' The true horror of the trenches is brought to life in this selection of poetry from the front line. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from a...
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Furyborn (anglicky), 1. vydání - Claire Legrand
<p>The first book in the instant New York Times bestselling series, the Empirium Trilogy! Furyborn is an epic YA fantasy about two fiercely independent young women, centuries apart, who hold the power to save their world...or doom it. When assassins ambush her best friend, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing herself as one of a pair of prophesied ...
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Tenth Muse
The first thing I remember being said of me with any consistency was that I was intelligent - and I recognized even then that it was a comment leveled at me with as much disapproval as admiration. Still, I never tried to hide or suppress my mind as some girls do, and thank god, because that would have been the beginning of the end. From childhood, Katherine knows she is...
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Sons and Lovers - David Herbert Lawrence
<p>This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Sons and Lovers" by D. H. Lawrence. '"She was a brazen hussy." "She wasn't. - And she was pretty, wasn't she?" "I didn't look...And tell your girls, my son, that when they're running after you, they're not to come and ask your mother for you - tell them that - brazen ba...
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SPRING GIRLS PA - neuveden
Anotace: Four sisters desperately seeking the blueprints to life-the modern-day retelling of Louisa May Alcott`s Little Women like only Anna Todd (After, Imagines) could do.The Spring Girls-Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy-are a force of nature on the New Orleans military base where they live. As different as they are, with their father on tour in Iraq and their mother hiding some...
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Violeta (anglicky) - Allende Isabel
Anotace: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING NOVEL FROM LITERARY LEGEND ISABEL ALLENDE`Epic, beautifully crafted . . . Gripping from start to finish` DAILY TELEGRAPH`A moving exploration of both the pain and the freedom of being an outsider` NEW STATESMAN`A new novel by Isabel Allende is always a treat` DAILY MAILOne extraordinary woman.One hundred years of history.One unforget...
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Violeta (anglicky), 1. vydání - Isabel Allende
<p>THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING NOVEL FROM LITERARY LEGEND ISABEL ALLENDE 'Epic, beautifully crafted . . . Gripping from start to finish' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A moving exploration of both the pain and the freedom of being an outsider' NEW STATESMAN 'A new novel by Isabel Allende is always a treat' DAILY MAIL One extraordinary woman. One hundred years of history. One u...
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Furyborn (anglicky) - Legrand Claire
Anotace: The first book in the instant New York Times bestselling series, the Empirium Trilogy!Furyborn is an epic YA fantasy about two fiercely independent young women, centuries apart, who hold the power to save their world...or doom it.When assassins ambush her best friend, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing herself as one of a pair of prophesied q...
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Furyborn (anglicky), 1. vydání - Claire Legrand
<p>The first book in the instant New York Times bestselling series, the Empirium Trilogy!Furyborn is an epic YA fantasy about two fiercely independent young women, centuries apart, who hold the power to save their world...or doom it.When assassins ambush her best friend, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing herself as one of a pair of prophesied qu...
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Spitfire : A Very British Love Story - John Nichol
<p>THE SUNDAY TIMES NON FICTION BESTSELLER 'The best book you will ever read about Britain's greatest warplane.' Patrick Bishop, bestselling author of Fighter Boys. 'A rich and heartfelt tribute to this most iconic British machine. By focussing on the men (and women) who flew the Spitfire, John Nichol has brought a fresh and powerful perspective to the story. And ...
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