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Book of Awesome Women Writers: Medieval Mystics, Pioneering Poets, Fierce Feminists and First Ladies of Literature

By Becca Anderson

Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London

By Lauren Elkin

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

Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

By Cat Bohannon

Reminiscences of a Student's Life

By Jane Ellen Harrison

An Almost Impossible Thing: The radical lives of Britain's pioneering women gardeners

By Fiona Davison

Don't Know Much about the Bible

By Kenneth C. Davis

Army Wives: From Crimea to Afghanistan: the Real Lives of the Women Behind the Men in Uniform

By Midge Gillies

Empress Josephine

By Ernest John D. Knapton

Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love

By Xinran, Nicky Harman

The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture, 1830-1980

By Showalter, Elaine, Elaine Showalter

Feminist Foremothers in Women's Studies, Psychology, and Mental Health

By Ellen Cole (Alaska-Pacific University, Anchorage, Ak, USA), Esther D Rothblum (San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, Phyllis Chesler

Why She Wrote: A Graphic History of the Lives, Inspiration, and Influence Behind the Pens of Classic Women Writers

By Hannah K. Chapman, Lauren Burke, Kaley Bales

The Woman's Hour

By Elaine Weiss

Brilliant Women: 18th-century Bluestockings

By Elizabeth Eger, Lucy Peltz