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Who Knows Tomorrow: A Memoir of Finding Family among the Lost Children of Africa

By Lisa Lovatt-Smith

A Spoonful of Sugar

By Liz Fraser

Calling the Shots: My Autobiography

By Sue Barker

I Never Said Goodbye: A Mother's Memoir of Love and Brutal Loss Inside Saddam's Regime

By Pauline Knowles-Samarraie, Karen O'Brien

Aishah, the Beloved of Mohammed

By Nabia Abbott

City of Secrets: The Extraordinary True Story of the Woman Who Found Herself at the Heart of the Grail

By Patrice Chaplin

I Choose Myself

By Deepti Vempati

The Lies We Told

By Chamberlain, Diane, Diane Chamberlain

Acedia & me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life

By Kathleen Norris

And Then What?: Inside Stories of 21st Century Diplomacy

By Baroness Catherine Ashton

Gigorou: It's time to reclaim beauty. First Nations wisdom and womanhood.

By Sasha Sarago

My Father's Daughter: A Memoir

By Tina Sinatra, Jeff Coplon

Dear Dodie: Life of Dodie Smith

By Valerie Grove

Girl, Interrupted

By Susanna Kaysen

The Christmas Stocking and Other Stories

By Katie Fforde

Living History

By Hilary Rodham Clinton

Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race

By Margot Lee Shetterly

A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again

By Joanna Biggs

Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller

By Nadia Wassef

The Strangest Family: The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte and the Hanoverians

By Janice Hadlow

Passing

By Nella Larsen

The Girl with No Name: The Incredible True Story of a Child Raised by Monkeys

By Chapman, Marina, James, Vanessa

The Thing Around Your Neck

By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Book of Dead Philosophers

By Simon Critchley

The Favourite: The Life of Sarah Churchill and the History Behind the Major Motion Picture

By Ophelia Field

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings: The internationally bestselling classic

By Dr Maya Angelou

Maidens' Trip

By Emma Smith

Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s

By Jennifer Worth

A History of the World in 21 Women: A Personal Selection

By Jenni Murray

Shadows Of The Workhouse: The Drama Of Life In Postwar London (Call The Midwife)

By Jennifer Worth