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The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy

By Rachel Cusk

The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches

By MacArthur, Brian, MacArthur, Brian

Justice Bertha Wilson: One Woman's Difference

By Kim Brooks

Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of an Artist

By Carr, Emily

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

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

By Lisa Suhair Majaj, Betty Dagher Majaj

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

By Simon Goodman

Woman: The Incredible Life of Yoko Ono

By Alan Clayson, Barb Jungr, Robb Johnson

Joan Littlewood: Dreams and Realities: The Official Biography

By Peter Rankin (Author)

Mary Robinson: The Woman Who Took Power in the Park

By Lorna Siggins

Quietly Hostile

By Samantha Irby

Lucy by the Sea

By Elizabeth Strout

You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost)

By Felicia Day, Joss Whedon

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

By Shrabani Basu

Dust in the Lion's Paw: Autobiography, 1939-46

By Freya Stark

Equal and Different: Male and Female in Church and Family

By Michael Harper

The Torn Veil: The Best-Selling Story of Gulshan Esther

By Esther, Gulshan

Dementia from the Inside: A Doctor's Personal Journey of Hope

By Dr Jennifer Bute, Louise Morse (Reader)

Christian Classics in Modern English

By Lawrence (Brother)

Queen of Our Times: The Life of Elizabeth II

By Robert Hardman

Princess: Stepping Out Of The Shadows

By Jean Sasson

Captive in Iran: A Remarkable True Story of Hope and Triumph Amid the Horror of Tehran's Brutal Evin Prison

By Maryam Rostampour

The Allure of Chanel

By Euan Cameron (Translator), Paul Morand (Author)

Fish of the Seto Inland Sea

By Ruri Pilgrim

Thin

By Grace Bowman

What It Takes: My Playbook on Life and Leadership

By Sarina Wiegman, Jeroen Visscher

Sisters of the East End

By Helen Batten

The Hiding Place

By Ten Boom, Corrie, Sherill, Elizabeth, Sherrill, John

An Extra Pair of Hands: A story of caring and everyday acts of love

By Kate Mosse

Female Fortune: The Anne Lister Diaries and Other Writings 1833-36

By Jill Liddington