Les Parisiennes - How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s (Sebba Anne)(Paperback / softback)

Les Parisiennes - How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s (Sebba Anne)(Paperback / softback)

For readers of Suite Francaise and Paris Echo, Les Parisiennes recounts the true stories of Parisian women during and after the Second World

The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany (Strauss Gwen)(Pevná vazba)

Utterly gripping. --Anne Sebba, author of Les Parisiennes A compelling, beautifully written story of resilience, friendship and survival. The story of Women's resistance during World War II needs to be told and The Nine accomplishes this in spades. --Heather Morris, New York Times bestselling

Private Lives Of The Impressionists (Roe Sue)(Paperback / softback)

Shows how the early leaders of the group first met in the Paris studios and lived and worked closely together for nearly twenty years. Painting outdoors, meeting in cafes, they supported each other and shared emotional and financial difficulties. This account takes us into their homes as well as

Agatha - The International Bestseller (Bomann Anne Cathrine)(Paperback / softback)

Set in 1940s Paris, this bittersweet international bestseller this is the perfect novel for fans of A Man Called Ove, My Name is Lucy Barton and The Guest CatA psychiatrist is counting down towards his upcoming retirement. He lives alone in his childhood home and has neither friends nor

The New Parisienne: The Women & Ideas Shaping Paris (Tramuta Lindsey)(Pevná vazba)

In a follow-up to the popular The New Paris, Lindsey Tramuta explores the impact that the women of Paris have had on the rapidly evolving culture of their city The New Parisienne focuses on one of the city's most prominent features, its women. Lifting the veil on the mythologized Parisian

Exiled Collector - William Bankes and the Making of an English Country House (Sebba Anne)(Paperback / softback)

Pocket with a Hole - A Birmingham Childhood of the 1940s and 1950s (Bullock Brenda)(Paperback / softback)

Reflecting Birmingham in the 1940s and 1950s, this work tells of the games played then in the streets: hopscotch, queenie, marbles, skipping, roller skating. It takes us back to school life during and after the war, to what it was like to be sick before the advent of the NHS and antibiotics; and

How Did I Get Here? (Bunting Philip)(Paperback / softback)

From the quirky and much-loved author/illustrator of Mopoke and Kookaburras Love to Laugh comes this funny, warm non-fiction picture book about life on Earth - from the Big Bang to your own

The Queen and the Heretic: How Two Women Changed the Religion of England (Wilson Derek)(Paperback)

Catherine Parr and Anne Askew: united in faith and danger, divided in

How Sleep the Brave - Complete Stories of Flying Officer 'X' (Bates H.E.)(Paperback / softback)

Bates lived among the painfully young pilots and recorded their lives, and those of their loved ones, with an emotional attention that deeply moved the generation that lived through the war, and an intensity that reverberates down the

Ethel Rosenberg: The Short Life and Great Betrayal of an American Wife and Mother - Sebba Anne

Ethel Rosenberg was a supportive wife, loving mother to two small children and courageous idealist who grew up during the Depression with aspirations to become an opera singer.On 19 June 1953 she became the first woman in the US to be executed for a crime other than murder. She was thirty-seven

That Woman - The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor (Sebba Anne)(Paperback / softback)

Bestselling biography of the enduringly fascinating Wallis

Survival as Victory: Ukrainian Women in the Gulag (Kis Oksana)(Pevná vazba)

Of the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian women were sentenced to the Gulag in the 1940s and 1950s, only half survived. In Survival as Victory, Oksana Kis has produced the first anthropological study of daily life in the Soviet forced labor camps as experienced by Ukrainian women prisoners. Based

Ludlow Ladies' Society (O'Loughlin Ann)(Paperback / softback)

A story of friendship, resilience and compassion, and of how women hold each other up through the most difficult times, this is a tale which will have you crying one minute and laughing the

Jennie Churchill - Winston's American Mother (Sebba Anne)(Paperback / softback)

The classic biography of Winston Churchill's American

How She Died, How I Lived (Crockett Mary)(Paperback)

Girl in Pieces meets The Way I Used to Be in this poignant and thought-provoking novel about a girl who must overcome her survivor's guilt after a fellow classmate is brutally murdered.I was one of five. The five girls Kyle texted that day. The girls it could have been. Only Jamie--beautiful,

Defiance - The Life and Choices of Lady Anne Barnard (Taylor Stephen)(Paperback / softback)

Poet and musician, artist and hostess, Lady Anne Barnard lived at the heart of Georgian society. Written with full access to her previously unseen private papers and unpublished memoirs, Defiance shows Lady Anne to be one of the unheralded chroniclers and pioneering women of her

Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation - Anna Malaika Tubbs

In her groundbreaking debut, Anna Malaika Tubbs tells the incredible storIES of three women who raised three world-changing men. Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther and Louise Little's son Malcolm. But virtually nothing has been said about

Five Days In Paris (Steel Danielle)(Paperback / softback)

when her son died, a piece of Olivia died too. On the night of a bomb threat, Olivia and Peter meet accidentally in Paris. Peter, once so sure of his marriage and success, is faced with his professional career in jeopardy - Olivia, no longer sure of anything, knows that she cannot go on any

1940s Home (Evans Paul)(Paperback / softback)

The history of the British home in the 1940s is dominated by the Second World War. In the first five years of the decade homes were adapted to better survive the affects of bombing. The 1930s home became the wartime home with the addition of anti-blast tape to the windows, sandbags round the door,

Ladies of the Manor: How Wives & Daughters Really Lived in Country House Society Over a Century Ago (Horn Pamela)(Paperback)

The real lives of women in Britain's country

Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars (Holt Nathalia)(Paperback)

The riveting true story of the women who launched America into space. In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocities and plot trajectories, they didn't turn to male graduates. Rather, they recruited an elite group

Colonial Metropolis: The Urban Grounds of Anti-Imperialism and Feminism in Interwar Paris (Boittin Jennifer Anne)(Paperback)

World War I gave colonial migrants and French women unprecedented access to the workplaces and nightlife of Paris. After the war they were expected to return without protest to their homes-either overseas or metropolitan. Neither group, however, was willing to be discarded. Between the world wars,

Trailblazers: Harriet Tubman (Agard Sandra A.)(Paperback / softback)

Discover the lives of pioneers, past and present, in the TRAILBLAZERS series. How did Harriet Tubman help hundreds of enslaved people reach freedom? Find out how this amazing abolitionist overcame every obstacle in the fight for