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In Your Prime: Older, Wiser, Happier

By Knight, India

The Life and Work of Barbara Hepworth

By Jayne Woodhouse

Daughter of the Yellow River

By Diana Lu

His Bright Light

By Danielle Steel

The Definitive Desert Island Discs: 80 Years of Castaways

By Ian Gittins, Lauren Laverne

Under the Wire

By Paul Conroy

A Message of Hope from the Angels: The Sunday Times No. 1 Bestseller

By Lorna Byrne

Lost Lands Forgotten Stories: A Woman's Journey to the Heart of Labrador

By Alexandra J. Pratt

In Search of Tiger: A Journey Through Golf with Tiger Woods

By Tom Callahan (Author)

The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

By Marianne Cronin

Breaking Night

By Liz Murray

The Philosopher Queens: The lives and legacies of philosophy's unsung women

By Rebecca Buxton, Lisa Whiting

O My America!: Second Acts in a New World

By Sara Wheeler

Case Histories: (Jackson Brodie)

By Atkinson, Kate, Kate Atkinson

Selected Letters of Edith Sitwell

By Dame Edith Sitwell, Richard Greene

Marvel Fearless and Fantastic! Female Super Heroes Save the World

By Sam Maggs, Emma Grange, Ruth Amos

Des hommes sans femmes

By Murakami, Haruki, Morita, Helene

Marcia Williams: The Life and Times of Baroness Falkender

By Linda McDougall

One of the Family: 40 Years with the Krays

By Maureen Flanagan

The Orpheus Clock: the search for my family's art treasures stolen by the Nazis

By Simon Goodman

A War Without Chocolate: One Woman's Journey Through Two Nations, Three Wars and Four Children

By Lisa Suhair Majaj, Betty Dagher Majaj

Zarifa: A Woman's Battle in a Man's World, by Afghanistan's Youngest Female Mayor. As Featured in the NETFLIX documentary IN HER HANDS

By Zarifa Ghafari, Hannah Lucinda Smith

Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of an Artist

By Carr, Emily

Justice Bertha Wilson: One Woman's Difference

By Kim Brooks

The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches

By MacArthur, Brian, MacArthur, Brian

Breaking the Limit: One Woman's Motorcycle Journey Through North America

By Karen Larsen

Long Rider to Rome: 1,400 Miles By Pilgrim Horse From Canterbury

By Mefo Phillips

Sharon Osbourne Survivor: My Story - the Next Chapter

By Sharon Osbourne

The Transferred Life of George Eliot

By Philip Davis (University of Liverpool)

The Dictionary People: The unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary

By Sarah Ogilvie