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Blood Sisters: The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses by Sarah Gristwood
19.99 AUD
Category: History
We know how the Wars of the Roses ended - with Richard III's body under a Leicester car park - but this is a thrilling history of the extraordinary noblewomen who lived through the battles and bloodshed. The events of the Wars of the Roses are usually described in terms of the men involved: Richard Duke ...Show more
Fabulous Frocks by Sarah Gristwood
27.99 AUD
Category: Fashion & Textiles
No item of clothing has endured for longer than the dress. Yet the last century alone has seen the most radical changes of style - hemlines swinging from ankle to thigh; outlines alternating between the body-hugging and the bell - and our fascination with the 'frock' has not gone away. From Gres' drapin ...Show more
Fabulous Frocks - A Celebration of Dress Design by Jane Eastoe; Sarah Gristwood
29.99 AUD
Category: Fashion & Textiles
A celebration of the dress in all its forms, Fabulous Frocks is sure to fire any fashionista's imagination. Since Coco Chanel invented the little black dress in 1926 it has become a wardrobe staple. Even considering the many decades it's been since women discovered trousers and separates, many still ...Show more
Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe by Sarah Gristwood
19.99 AUD
Category: History
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Secret Voices: Women's Diaries: A Daily Anthology by Sarah Gristwood
49.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies
A captivating collection of extracts from women's diaries, looking back over four centuries to discover how women's experience--of men and children, sex and shopping, work and the natural world--has changed down the years. And, of course, how it hasn't. In this fascinating anthology, with a selection ...Show more
The Story of Beatrix Potter by Sarah Gristwood
35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: National Trust History & Heritage
To this day, Beatrix Potter's tales delight children and grown-ups around the world. But few people realise how extraordinary her own story is. She was a woman of contradictions. A sheltered Victorian daughter who grew into an astute modern businesswoman. A talented artist who became a scientific expert ...Show more
The Tudors in Love by Sarah Gristwood
39.99 AUD
Category: History
'One of the most important books to be written about the Tudors in a generation.' Tracy Borman 'A riveting, pacy page-turner... the Tudors as you've never seen them before.' Alison Weir Why did Henry VIII marry six times? Why did Anne Boleyn have to die? Why did Elizabeth I's courtiers hail her as a g ...Show more
The Tudors in Love: The Courtly Code Behind the Last Medieval Dynasty by Sarah Gristwood
22.99 AUD
Category: History
A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year 2021 'One of the most important books to be written about the Tudors in a generation.' Tracy Borman Why did Henry VIII marry six times? Why did Anne Boleyn have to die? Why did Elizabeth I's courtiers hail her as a goddess come to earth? The dramas of courtly love ...Show more
Vita and Virginia: A Double Life by Sarah Gristwood
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A double biography of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, their friendship and love affair. Virginia Woolf is one of the world's most famous writers - a leading light of literary modernism and feminism - and a British icon. During the 1920s she had a passionate affair with a fellow author, Vita Sa ...Show more
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