books by subject
Women's Biographies

Searching for Daddy

Shame

Spilling the Beans (The Hungry Student)

Broken

Unbroken Spirit: The true story of a girl's struggle to break free

The Wolf of Wall Street

Daughters of Shame

Tears of the Desert: One woman's true story of surviving the horrors of Darfur

The Shaking Woman or a History of My Nerves

Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel, Rabbit Remembered

My Just Desire: The Life of Bess Raleigh, Wife to Sir Walter

Running with the Bulls: My Years with the Hemingways

Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion

The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood

Naked at the Albert Hall: The Inside Story of Singing

Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus: the long-awaited memoir from the star of QI and The Great British Bake Off

The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington

Talking As Fast As I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between

Talking As Fast As I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of Virginia Hall, WWII’s Most Dangerous Spy

The Glass Castle

How to Start a Revolution: Young People and the Future of Politics

The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames: A Foundling's Story

If This Is a Man / The Truce

Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country

Iris: A memoir of Iris Murdoch

Blood and Fire: William and Catherine Booth and the Salvation Army

Iris and the Friends: A Year of Memories
