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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

The Village in Revolt: The Story of the Longest Strike in History

By Jeffery, Shaun

The Murders at White House Farm: Jeremy Bamber and the killing of his family. The definitive investigation.

By Lee, Carol Ann

Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown

By Glenconner, Anne

Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown

By Glenconner, Anne

Long Life, Honey in the Heart: A Story of Initiation and Eloquence from the Shores of a Mayan Lake

By Prechtel, Martin

The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun: A Mayan Tale of Ecstasy, Time, and Finding One's True Form

By Prechtel, Martin

Polar Explorers for Kids: Historic Expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic with 21 Activities

By Snowden, Maxine