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Stephen Hawking (A Life Story)

By Sheehan, Nikki

The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity

By Ferreira, Professor Pedro G.

Did She Kill Him? A Victorian Tale of Deception, Adultery & Arsenic: A Victorian tale of deception, adultery and arsenic

By Colquhoun, Kate

The Riviera Set

By Lovell, Mary S.

Mrs Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady

By Summerscale, Kate

Cairo: My City, Our Revolution

By Soueif, Ahdaf

A Spy Among Friends: Philby and the Great Betrayal

By MacIntyre, Ben

Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe

By Cadbury, Deborah

Thatcher Stole My Trousers

By Sayle, Alexei

Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World: 1

By Pankhurst, Kate, Kate Pankhurst

Mudlarking: The Sunday Times Bestseller

By Maiklem, Lara

The Haunting of Alma Fielding: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020

By Summerscale, Kate

Fantastically Great Women Who Saved the Planet

By Pankhurst, Kate, Pankhurst, Kate

Girls Will Be Girls: Dressing Up, Playing Parts and Daring to Act Differently

By O'Toole, Emer

In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

By Levy, Steven

Mohandas Gandhi (TIME FOR KIDS(R) Nonfiction Readers)

By Rice, Dona

Trains and Buttered Toast

By Betjeman, John

The Prince, the Princess and the Perfect Murder: An Untold History

By Rose, Andrew

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