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Cupid and the King: Five Royal Paramours

By Her Royal Highness Princess Michael of Kent

Shop Girl

By Portas, Mary

Further Under the Duvet

By Marian Keyes

Life in the Garden

By Lively, Penelope

Mother Angelica

By Raymond Arroyo

Georgette Heyer Biography

By Jennifer Kloester

Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius

By Nick Hornby

Great Women's Speeches: Empowering Voices that Engage and Inspire

By Anna Russell, Camila Pinheiro

My Sisters The Saints

By Colleen Carroll Campbell

Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

By Caroline Fraser

The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition of the World’s Most Famous Diary

By Frank, Anne

Aretha Franklin: Volume 44

By Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, Amy Blackwell

Nancy Cunard: Heiress, Muse, Political Idealist

By Lois Gordon

Re-educated: Why it's never too late to change your life

By Lucy Kellaway

In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law

By Sarah Langford

Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History

By Philippa Gregory

Mary Warnock: A Memoir - People and Places

By Mary Warnock

The Journey is My Home

By Lavinia Byrne

Victoria and Abdul: The True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant

By Shrabani Basu

Portraits of American Women: From Settlement to the Present

By G. J. Barker-Benfield (Department of History, Department of History, State University of New York, Albany), Catherine Clinton (Fellow, W.E.B. DuBois Institute, Fellow, Harvard University)

Motherwell: The moving memoir of growing up in 60s and 70s working class Scotland

By Deborah Orr

Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers

By Joseph P. Lash, Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr

Breaking & Mending: A junior doctor's stories of compassion & burnout

By Joanna Cannon

Bronner :Rosa Luxemburg (Paper)

By SE BRONNER

Daring to Hope: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter, 1946-1969

By Violet Bonham Carter, Mark Pottle, Mary Soames

Olive Schreiner

By Ruth First, Ann Scott, Nadine Gordimer

Eleanor Roosevelt: V.2

By Blanche Wiesen-Cook

Margery Kempe: and her world (The Medieval World)

By Goodman, A.E.

Them: A Memoir of Parents

By Francine du Plessix Gray

Memoirs from the Women's Prison

By Nawal El-Saadawi, Nawal el Sa'adawi, M. Booth