Queen of Codes: The Secret Life of Emily Anderson, Britain's Greatest Female Code Breaker
By: Jackie Ui Chionna
4.19
Format: 456 pages, Kindle Edition
'One of the greatest codebreakers of the twentieth century' Suzannah Lipscomb An astounding story o…
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1. The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
By: Simon Singh
4.30
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
In his first book since the bestselling Fermat’s Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping hist… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Po první světové válce se Spojenci nebáli nikoho."-Simon Singh, The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
"...říká se, že zkratka NSA ve skutečnosti znamená „Never Say Anything"-Simon Singh, The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
"„Každý, kdo přemýšlí o kvantové mechanice, aniž by se mu zatočila hlava, jí nerozumí."-Simon Singh, The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
"Polský úspěch v prolomení Enigmy byl dán třemi faktory: strachem, matematikou a špionáží."-Simon Singh, The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
2. Clean Break (Kate Brannigan, #4)
By: Val McDermid
3.76
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Manchester-based, kick-boxing PI Kate Brannigan takes on the hard men of European organised crime a… read more
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3. Star Struck (Kate Brannigan, #6)
By: Val McDermid
3.80
Format: 240 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Bodyguarding had never made it to Manchester PI Kate Brannigan's wish list. But somebody's got to p… read more
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4. Bird by Bird
By: Anne Lamott
4.24
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
A newer edition of this title can be found here. "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten… read more
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- nonfiction
"Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
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6. Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
By: Anna Funder
4.20
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited, and East Germany ceas… read more
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- biography
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"People were crazy with pain and secrets."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"Why are some things easier to remember the more time has passed since they occurred?"-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"Ten days is time enough to die, to be born, to fall in love and to go mad. Ten days is a very long time."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
7. Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter
By: Ian Mortimer
4.00
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
The essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Gui… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
8. Murder on Lake Garda
By: Tom Hindle
3.55
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
One happy couple. Two divided families. A wedding party to die for. On the private island of C… read more
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9. Past Lying (Karen Pirie #7)
By: Val McDermid
4.26
Format: 452 pages, Hardcover
Val McDermid returns with DCI Karen Pirie in a new thriller of deceit and vengeance, set against th… read more
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10. Women & Power: A Manifesto
By: Mary Beard
4.03
Format: 115 pages, Hardcover
At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly att… read more
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"Nuestro modelo cultural y mental de persona poderosa sigue siendo irrevocablemente masculino"-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto
"I do wonder if, in some places, the presence of large numbers of women in parliament means that parliament is where the power is not."-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto
"It was not all quite so simple, that real equality between women and men was still a thing of the future, and that there were causes for anger as well as for celebration."-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto
"A verdade pura e dura é que as amazonas eram um mito grego masculino. (..) A ideia subjacente era que o dever dos homens consistia em salvar a civilização do domínio das mulheres."-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto
11. A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
By: Sonia Purnell
4.15
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The never-before-told story of one woman's heroism that changed the course of the Second World War … read more
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- world war ii
- history
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- nonfiction
12. A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)
By: Hafsah Faizal
3.57
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
Why save the world when you can have tea? On the streets of White Roaring, Arthie Casimir is a c… read more
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"Every good love story starts with a bullet to the heart."-Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)
"We understand what it's like to grieve with fire and not tears."-Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)
"It was hard not to watch Arthie Casimir. The way she worked and schemed, at times as still as stone, other times as restless as a bee. For the most part, Arthie obscured her femininity. She was, afte…"-Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)
13. Strong Female Character
By: Fern Brady
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
14. Snap
By: Belinda Bauer
3.81
Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition
On a stifling summer's day, eleven-year-old Jack and his two sisters sit in their broken-down car, … read more
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"... "That Rhod's an arse, isn't he?" "Total arse," she agreed ..."-Belinda Bauer, Snap
"He was only wearing trainers, but a kick in the face is a kick in the face."-Belinda Bauer, Snap
15. Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power
By: Leah Redmond Chang
4.18
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de’ Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and M… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
16. Messalina: Empress, Adulteress, Libertine: The Story of the Most Notorious Woman of the Roman World
By: Honor Cargill-Martin
4.06
Format: 432 pages, ebook
The shocking and scandalous story of Messalina—the third wife of Emperor Claudius—one of the most c… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
17. The Estate
By: Denzil Meyrick
4.05
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
Inheritance can be murder... Sebastian Pallander's death leaves behind a multi-billion-dollar fi… read more
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18. Arrangements in Blue
By: Amy Key
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by—and for—oneself. Inspired by Jon… read more
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19. Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter
By: Lizzie Pook
3.42
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For readers of The Light Between Oceans and The Island of Sea Women, a feminist adventure story set… read more
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20. How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History
By: Josephine Quinn
4.12
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning Oxford history professor overturns the way the West thinks about itself, tracing i… read more
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21. Guilty Creatures: A Menagerie of Mysteries
By: Martin Edwards
3.75
Format: 315 pages, Paperback
"Curiously enough," said Dr. Manners, "I know a story in which the detection of a murder turned on … read more
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22. The walls have ears : the greatest intelligence operation of World War II
By: Helen Fry
3.76
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A history of the elaborate and brilliantly sustained World War II intelligence operation by which H… read more
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23. We Solve Murders (We Solve Murders, #1)
By: Richard Osman
4.33
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A brand new series. An iconic new detective duo. And a puzzling new murder to solve... Steve Whe… read more
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24. Queen B: The Story of Anne Boleyn, Witch Queen (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #0.5)
By: Juno Dawson
3.76
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The next enchanting instalment of the sensational #1 SUNDAY TIMES bestselling HER MAJESTY’S ROYAL C… read more
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25. Queen of Codes: The Secret Life of Emily Anderson, Britain's Greatest Female Code Breaker
By: Jackie Ui Chionna
4.19
Format: 456 pages, Kindle Edition
'One of the greatest codebreakers of the twentieth century' Suzannah Lipscomb An astounding story o… read more
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- history
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26. Women in Intelligence: The Hidden History of Two World Wars
By: Helen Fry
4.06
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the twentieth century onwards, women took on an extraordinary range of roles in intelligence, … read more
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27. Rewitched
By: Lucy Jane Wood
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Belladonna Blackthorn hasn’t lost her magical spark . . . but she hasn’t seen it in a while, either… read more
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28. Secret Voices: A Year of Women's Diaries
By: Sarah Gristwood
4.30
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A captivating collection of extracts from women’s diaries, looking back over four centuries to disc… read more
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29. The Scandal of the Century
By: Lisa Hilton
3.25
Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1682, a young woman in the throes of a passionate affair flees her parents’ home in Surrey to se… read more
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30. A Dirty, Filthy Book: Sex, Scandal, and One Woman’s Fight in the Victorian Trial of the Century
By: Michael Meyer
3.68
Format: 387 pages, Kindle Edition
London, 1877. A petite young woman stands before an all-male jury, about to risk everything. She ta… read more
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