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Soul Medicine: A Physician's Reflections on Life, Love, Death and Healing

By Judith Boice

The Dreamer: An Autobiography

By Cliff Richard

The Meaning of Mary Magdalene: Discovering the Woman at the Heart of Christianity

By Cynthia Bourgeault

Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds

By Huma Abedin

The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan

By Kim Barker

Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and Wework

By Reeves Wiedeman

My Child and Other Mistakes: The hilarious and heart-warming motherhood memoir from the comedy star

By Ellie Taylor

Virginia Woolf and Her World

By John Lehmann

Daughter of the River

By Hong Ying

Playing the Game: A Guide to Playing Netball

By Liz Ellis

Unbreakable: My New Autobiography

By Sharon Osbourne

Don't Believe the Hype: A totally laugh out loud and addictive page-turner

By Natalie Lewis

Wife, Interrupted

By Amy Molloy

Childhood Interrupted: Growing up in an industrial school

By Kathleen O'Malley

Amy Carmichael of Dohnavur

By F Houghton

The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold: Adventures Along the Iron Curtain Trail

By Moore, Tim

Desert Dawn

By Waris Dirie

You'll Be Sorry When I'm Dead

By Marieke Hardy

Going Solo: My choice to become a single mother using a donor

By Genevieve Roberts

Women by Design

By Penelope Swithinbank

Essex Girls: For Profane and Opinionated Women Everywhere

By Sarah Perry

Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture

By Amelia Abraham

The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith

By Joan Schenkar

Joni Mitchell: Both Sides Now

By Brian Hinton

Philomena (Movie Tie-In): A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search

By MARTIN SIXSMITH, Dame Judi Dench

Reeva: A Mother's Story

By June Steenkamp

Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and Toxic Masculinity

By Clementine Ford

How To Be a Medieval Woman

By Margery Kempe, Barry Windeatt

Oh, Carol!

By Carol McGiffin

Margaret Mead

By Jane Howard