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The Chain: The Relationships That Break Us, the Women Who Rebuild Us

By Chimene Suleyman

Albertus: The Biography of a Typeface (The ABC of Fonts)

By Simon Garfield

So Here's the Thing: Notes on Growing Up, Getting Older and Not Giving a Shit

By Alyssa Mastromonaco, Lauren Oyler

From the Ground Up: Stories from the men and women who built, serviced and flew aircraft in WWII

By Edward Smithies

Supper with the Crippens: The true story of one of the most notorious murderers of all time

By David James Smith

Brave Girl Eating: The inspirational true story of one family's battle with anorexia

By Harriet Brown

Manifesto: A radically honest and inspirational memoir from the Booker Prize winning author of Girl, Woman, Other

By Bernardine Evaristo

War Paint: Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein: Their Lives, their Times, their Rivalry

By Lindy Woodhead

When the Mountains Dance: Love, loss and hope in the heart of Italy

By Christine Toomey

Jane Austen

By Carol Shields

Before the Light Fades: A Family Story of Resistance - 'Fascinating' Sarah Waters

By Natasha Walter

Sista Sister: The much-anticipated second book by the Sunday Times bestseller

By Candice Brathwaite

All On The Board: The Official Sunday Times Bestseller

By All on the Board

The Olive Farm: A Memoir of Life, Love and Olive Oil in the South of France

By Carol Drinkwater

Jane Boleyn: The Infamous Lady Rochford

By Julia Fox

Impossible Things Before Breakfast: Adventures in the Ordinary

By Rebecca Front

Mary Queen Of Scots

By Lady Antonia Fraser

Munkey Diaries: The extraordinary early years of an international icon

By Jane Birkin

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

By Joanna Biggs

Diana: The Ghost Biography

By Emma Tennant, Hillary Bailey

Amy Winehouse

By Kate Solomon

Beyonce

By Tshepo Mokoena

The Luxe Life: Everyday Luxuries for Lovers of Beauty, Fashion & Food

By Fleur De Force

Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World

By Lyndall Gordon

Nobody Told Me: Poetry and Parenthood

By Hollie McNish

Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of a Whore

By Julie Peakman

Overshare: Love, Laughs, Sexuality and Secrets

By Rose Ellen Dix, Rosie Spaughton

Victoria Wood Unseen on TV

By Jasper Rees, Victoria Wood

The Queen: The gripping true tale of a villain who changed history

By Josh Levin

All the Young Men: How One Woman Risked It All To Care For The Dying

By Ruth Coker Burks