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Suffragettes and the Fight for the Vote

By Ridley, Sarah

Isambard Kingdom Brunel: The Life of an Engineering Genius

By Maggs MBE, Colin

King of All Balloons: The Adventurous Life of James Sadler, The First English Aeronaut

By Davies, Mark, Branson, Sir Richard, Cameron, Don

Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World

By Shen, Ann

What the Grown-Ups Were Doing

By Michele Hanson

The Secret History of the Blitz

By Levine, Joshua

The Co-Op's Got Bananas: A Memoir of Growing Up in the Post-War North

By Davies, Hunter

Flesh and Blood: A History of My Family in Seven Maladies

By McGann, Stephen

The Book of Gutsy Women: Favourite Stories of Courage and Resilience

By Clinton, Hillary Rodham, Clinton, Chelsea

Girls Who Changed the World

By McCann, Michelle Roehm

Women in Battle

By Jordahl, Marta Breen & Jenny

A Woman Lived Here: Alternative Blue Plaques, Remembering London's Remarkable Women

By Vale, Allison

Out of Time: 1966 and the End of Old-Fashioned Britain (Wisden Sports Writing)

By Chapman, Peter

Notes from the Cévennes

By Adam Thorpe

Nowhere's Child: The inspiring story of how one woman survived Hitler's breeding camps and found an Irish home

By Rosvall, Kari, Linehan, Mrs Naomi

The Women Who Shaped Politics: Empowering stories of women who have shifted the political landscape

By Ridge, Sophy

Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire - The Sunday Times Bestseller

By Akala

Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire - The Sunday Times Bestseller

By Akala

100 Nasty Women of History: Brilliant, badass and completely fearless women everyone should know

By Jewell, Hannah

To War With the Walkers: One Family's Extraordinary Story of the Second World War

By Venning, Annabel

Born Lippy: How to Do Female

By Brand, Jo

The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York

By de Courcy, Anne

The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York

By de Courcy, Anne

Out of the Woods

By Turner, Luke

The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983–1992

By Brown, Tina

The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983–1992

By Brown, Tina

Voices of History: Speeches that Changed the World

By Montefiore, Simon Sebag

Cubed: The Puzzle of Us All

By Rubik, Erno

Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving

By Rocca, Mo

She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World

By Vice Chair of the Clinton Foundation and a Lecturer at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia Chelsea Clinton