Rachel Holmes

24 books

African Queen: The Real Life of the Hottentot Venus by Rachel Holmes

African Queen: The Real Life of the Hottentot Venus

Rachel Holmes

176 pages • hardcover • 2008

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
Eleanor Marx: A Life by Rachel Holmes

Eleanor Marx: A Life

Rachel Holmes

528 pages • 2014

nonfiction biography feminism history informative medium-paced
Fat Is a Feminist Issue by Susie Orbach

Fat Is a Feminist Issue

Susie Orbach

269 pages • paperback • 1978

nonfiction feminism health psychology informative medium-paced
Fifty Shades of Feminism by Rachel Holmes, Susie Orbach, Lisa Appignanesi

Fifty Shades of Feminism

Rachel Holmes, Susie Orbach, Lisa Appignanesi

324 pages • hardcover • 2013

nonfiction essays feminism gender informative reflective slow-paced
I Call Myself A Feminist: The View from Twenty-Five Women Under Thirty by Rachel Holmes, Victoria Pepe, Alice Stride, Amy Annette, Martha Mosse

I Call Myself A Feminist: The View from Twenty-Five Women Under Thirty

Rachel Holmes, Victoria Pepe, Alice Stride, Amy Annette, Martha Mosse

269 pages • paperback • 2015

nonfiction essays feminism challenging informative inspiring medium-paced
Refugee Tales: Volume II by Rachel Holmes, Kamila Shamsie, Neel Mukherjee, Anna Pincus, David Herd, Ian Duhig, Marina Warner, Josh Cohen, Jackie Kay, Helen Macdonald, Olivia Laing, Vahni Capildeo

Refugee Tales: Volume II

Rachel Holmes, Kamila Shamsie, Neel Mukherjee, Anna Pincus, David Herd, Ian Duhig, Marina Warner, Josh Cohen, Jackie Kay, Helen Macdonald, Olivia Laing, Vahni Capildeo

144 pages • 2017

nonfiction poetry emotional informative inspiring slow-paced
Scanty Particulars: The Scandalous Life and Astonishing Secret of James Barry, Queen Victoria's Most Eminent Military Doctor by Rachel Holmes, James Barry

Scanty Particulars: The Scandalous Life and Astonishing Secret of James Barry, Queen Victoria's Most Eminent Military Doctor

Rachel Holmes, James Barry

384 pages • 2003

nonfiction biography history lgbtqia+ informative slow-paced
The Secret Life of Dr James Barry: Victorian England's Most Eminent Surgeon by Rachel Holmes

The Secret Life of Dr James Barry: Victorian England's Most Eminent Surgeon

Rachel Holmes

336 pages • paperback • 2007

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel by Rachel Holmes

Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel

Rachel Holmes

965 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction biography challenging informative reflective medium-paced
This is Not a Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature by Omar Robert Hamilton, Ahdaf Soueif

This is Not a Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature

Omar Robert Hamilton, Ahdaf Soueif

352 pages • paperback • 2017

nonfiction essays poetry politics challenging reflective medium-paced