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The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women

By Mo Moulton

White King: Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr

By Leanda de Lisle

All My Mother's Secrets: A Powerful True Story of Love, Loss and a Family Torn Apart

By Beezy Marsh

Stranger Things: Worlds Turned Upside Down: The Official Behind-The-Scenes Companion

By Gina McIntyre, Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer

In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology

By Lucy Moore

Jessica Ennis: Unbelievable - From My Childhood Dreams To Winning Olympic Gold: The life story of Team GB's Olympic Golden Girl

By Jessica Ennis

Women in the War

By Lucy Fisher

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women White Feminists Forgot

By Mikki Kendall

Women Under Apartheid

Women Under Apartheid

Women for Hire: Prostitution and Sexuality in France after 1850

By Alain Corbin, Alan Sheridan

Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World

By Kate Mosse

The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

By Melinda Gates

Lady Fanshawe's Receipt Book: An Englishwoman's Life During the Civil War

By Lucy Moore

Wait for Me!: Memoirs

By Mitford, Deborah

Cleopatra

By Hughes Hallett

Harem Years: The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist, 1879-1924

By Huda Shaarawi, Margot Badran

A History of the World in 21 Women: A Personal Selection

By Jenni Murray

The Favourite: The Life of Sarah Churchill and the History Behind the Major Motion Picture

By Ophelia Field

Aishah, the Beloved of Mohammed

By Nabia Abbott

Slave Women in Caribbean Society, 1650-1838

By Barbara Bush

Philomena (Movie Tie-In): A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search

By MARTIN SIXSMITH, Dame Judi Dench

This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President

By Sirleaf, Ellen Johnson

The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan

By Kim Barker

The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty

By Natalie Livingstone

Toxic

By Sarah Ditum

Back to the Broads: Britain in Old Photographs

By David Holmes

Yes She Can: Why Women Own The Future

By Ruth Davidson

Postcolonial Representations: Women, Literature, Identity

By Francoise Lionnet

Free the Tipple: Kickass Cocktails Inspired by Iconic Women

By Jennifer Croll, Kelly Shami