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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

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

By Chapman, Peter

Notes from the CĂ©vennes

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