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A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance

By Stella Dadzie

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

By Avi Raa

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

By Squadron Leader Beryl E Escott

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

By John Guy, Julia Fox

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

By Caroline Moorehead

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

By Hadley Freeman

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

By Tomalin, Claire

Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

By Roxana Robinson

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

By Rochelle Rowe

Perfection Salad

By Laura Shapiro, Narcisse Chamberlain

Medieval Queenship

By John Carmi Parsons

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

By Ashley Graham, Rebecca Paley

Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45

By Raynes Minns

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

By Kathryn J. Atwood

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

By Yvette Cooper

We Should All Be Feminists

By Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda

The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family and Identity in Imperial Germany

By Marion A. Kaplan (Professor of History, Queens College, Professor of History, City University of New York)

Bad Girls: The Rebels and Renegades of Holloway Prison

By Caitlin Davies

Gender: The Key Concepts

By Mary Evans, Carolyn Williams

Testament Of Youth: Film Tie In (Virago Modern Classics)

By Brittain, Vera

If This Is A Woman: Inside Ravensbruck: Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women

By Sarah Helm

Windswept: why women walk

By Annabel Abbs

Rise Up Women!: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes

By Dr Diane Atkinson

A House Full of Daughters

By Juliet Nicolson

The Mysterious Mrs Hood: A True Victorian Mystery of Scandal, Arson, Murder & Betrayal

By Kim Donovan

The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House

By Kate Andersen Brower

Women And The Family

Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding

By Joanna Wolfarth

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

By Kate Summerscale

Windswept: why women walk

By Annabel Abbs