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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World

By Lucette Lagnado

Women Who Launch: The Women Who Shattered Glass Ceilings (Strong women)

By Marlene Wagman-Geller

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

By Kate Summerscale

Women And The Family

Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding

By Joanna Wolfarth

The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House

By Kate Andersen Brower

Windswept: why women walk

By Annabel Abbs

First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies

By Kate Andersen Brower

We Should All Be Feminists

By Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda

She Speaks: Women's Speeches That Changed the World, from Pankhurst to Greta

By Yvette Cooper

Women Heroes of World War II-the Pacific Theater: 15 Stories of Resistance, Rescue, Sabotage, and Survival

By Kathryn J. Atwood

Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45

By Raynes Minns

A New Model: What Confidence, Beauty, and Power Really Look Like

By Ashley Graham, Rebecca Paley

Medieval Queenship

By John Carmi Parsons

Perfection Salad

By Laura Shapiro, Narcisse Chamberlain

Imagining Caribbean Womanhood: Race, Nation and Beauty Competitions, 1929-70

By Rochelle Rowe

Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

By Roxana Robinson

Mrs Jordan's Profession: The Story of a Great Actress And a Future King

By Tomalin, Claire

House of Glass: The story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish family

By Hadley Freeman

A Train in Winter: A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival in Auschwitz

By Caroline Moorehead

Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That Shook Europe

By John Guy, Julia Fox

The Heroines of SOE: Britain's Secret Women in France: F Section

By Squadron Leader Beryl E Escott

The Greatest Love Story Never Told: Liberating Jesus and Mary from Christianity

By Avi Raa

A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance

By Stella Dadzie

Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Following Writers and Rebels in the Spanish Civil War

By Sarah Watling

The Women's Suffrage Movement

By Molly Housego, Neil R. Storey

Victorian Women's Magazines: An Anthology

By Margaret Beetham, Kay Boardman

Infamous Essex Women

By Dee Gordon

A Century of Women

By Sheila Rowbotham

Vanishing Cornwall

By Daphne Du Maurier