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Women of the 1960s

By Sheila Hardy

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

Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s

By Virginia Nicholson

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

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

By Cat Bohannon

Young Elizabeth: The Making of our Queen

By Kate Williams

The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World

By Jennifer Higgie