Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A blazing, genre-bending masterpiece from one of the most inventive writers of our time. "So, she will live writing the letters she did - six to her best friend, and three to her husband. I know where she was when she wrote them. I know that the dishes were frozen in the sink, that she was bleeding, t ...Show more
Introducing the Women's Suffrage Petition 1893 (BWB Texts) by Barbara Brookes and Jared Davidson
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
In 1893 New Zealand became the first country in the world with universal suffrage: all New Zealand women now had the right to vote. This achievement owed much to an extraordinary document: the 1893 Women’s Suffrage Petition. Over 270 metres long, with the signatures of some 24,000 women (and at least tw ...Show more
What Women Want by Maxine Mei-Fung Chung
$40.00 NZD
Category: Gender
From a leading psychotherapist comes an electrifying examination into female desire told through the stories of seven very different women. After thirty years of research, Sigmund Freud still felt the great unanswered question was: 'What does a woman want?' Fifteen years into her own journey as a psych ...Show more
Good Girls: A story and study of anorexia by Hadley Freeman
$35.00 NZD
Category: Gender
From Hadley Freeman, the bestselling author of House of Glass, comes her searing and powerful memoir about mental ill health and her experience with anorexia.This is how the Anorexia Speak worked in my head:'Boys like girls with curves on them' - If you ever eat anything you will be mauled by thuggish b ...Show more
The Missing Piece: A Woman's Guide to Understanding, Diagnosing and Living with ADHD for readers of Gwendoline Smith and Chanelle Moriah by Julie Legg
$38.00 NZD
Category: Health & Wellbeing
Everything you need to know about recognising and diagnosing ADHD in women, and how to live a full and fulfilling life after. When Julie Legg was diagnosed with ADHD at age 52, suddenly her life made sense. Bringing together her own experience along with research studies and personal stories from othe ...Show more
Make Her Praises Heard Afar: The Untold story of New Zealand Women in WW1 by Jane Tolerton
$30.00 NZD
$60.00 (50% off)
Category: NZ History | Series: 1st | Reading Level: very good
The history books tell us that about 550 New Zealand nurses went to World War One while other women stayed home, knitting, fundraising and looking after families and farms while the men were away. But many women went too, as doctors and ambulance drivers, munitions workers and mathematicians, civil serv ...Show more
It's The Menopause: What you need to know in your 40s, 50s and beyond by Kaz Cooke
$50.00 NZD
Category: Health & Wellbeing
A reassuring, practical go-to book from trusted author Kaz Cooke in her laugh-out-loud style, informed by menopause doctors & other experts, and the voices of thousands of real women. Here's help for the mental & physical challenges of perimenopause, menopause, 'early' menopause and is-this-eve ...Show more
Dear Rebel: 125+ Women Share Their Best Advice for the Girls of Today (HB) by Rebel Girls
$65.00 NZD
Category: YA Health & Wellbeing
More than 125 extraordinary teens and women share their advice, experiences, and the secrets of their success--in their own words. Through letters, poems, essays, self-portraits, and more, the authors tackle topics like overcoming obstacles, discovering your passion, and dreaming big. Learn how Ms. Marv ...Show more
Honouring Our Ancestors - Takatapui, Two-Spirit and Indigenous LGBTQI+ Well-being by Edited by Alison Green and Leonie Pihama
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Essays | Reading Level: near fine
In these rigorous and challenging essays, writers from Aotearoa and Turtle Island (Canada and the United States of America) explore the well-being of takatāpui, two-spirit, and Māori and Indigenous LGBTQI+ communities. Themes include resistance, reclamation, empowerment, transformation and healing. Cen ...Show more
Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History by Tracy Borman
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
'(A)sensational book by one of our greatest and best-loved historians... Astoundingly good.' - Alison Weir 'Masterful, captivating, page-turning, this is solid gold history at its best.' - Nicola Tallis '(A) thought-provoking, impeccably researched, and moving account uncovering how Anne's family, intel ...Show more
A History of Women in 101 Objects: A walk through female history by Annabelle Hirsch
$55.00 NZD
Category: History
The way we remember the past today remains dishearteningly patriarchal: a place where women have always been oppressed by men, from ancient times to the present day. A History of Women in 101 Objects tells a new story of female history, revealing the evolution of the role women have played in society th ...Show more
Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power by Leah Redmond Chang
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and Mary, Queen of Scots - three queens exercising power in a world dominated by men. Sixteenth-century Europe - Renaissance masters paint the ceilings of Florentine churches, kings battle for control of the C ...Show more