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

By Ruth Coker Burks

Maid: A Barack Obama Summer Reading Pick and now a major Netflix series!

By Stephanie Land

Being Lolita: A Memoir

By Alisson Wood

The Fleet Street Girls: The women who broke down the doors of the gentlemen's club

By Julie Welch

Lighting the Fuse: Stories from Britain's first female bomb disposal expert

By Lucy Lewis

This Road I Ride: My incredible journey from novice to fastest woman to cycle the globe

By Juliana Buhring

You Don't Need a Dick to DJ

By Smokin Jo

Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style: The UK Edition

By Benjamin Dreyer

My Life

By Isadora Duncan

On the Front Line with the Women Who Fight Back

By Stacey Dooley

Lauren Conrad Beauty

By Lauren Conrad, Elise Loehnen

Freud's Women

By Lisa Appignanesi, John Forrester

Jam Butties and a Pan of Scouse

By Maggie Clarke, Cathryn Kemp

Maybe Baby: On the Mother Side

By Kate Lawler

Fed Up: Navigating and redefining emotional labour for good

By Gemma Hartley

Thicker than Water

By Kerry Washington

The Richer, The Poorer: Stories, Sketches and Reminiscences

By Dorothy West, Diana Evans

The Du Mauriers

By Daphne Du Maurier, Michael Holroyd

I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities and Other Stuff

By Abbi Jacobson

Voices from the Blue: The Real Lives of Policewomen

By Jennifer Rees, Robert J. Strange

Society's Queen: The Life of Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry

By Anne de Courcy

Alanbrooke War Diaries 1939-1945: Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke

By Lord Alanbrooke, Alex Danchev

The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives

By Jude Rogers

The Way Forward is with a Broken Heart

By Alice Walker

Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life

By Laura Thompson

Maybe Baby: On the Mother Side

By Kate Lawler

Army Girls: The secrets and stories of military service from the final few women who fought in World War II

By Tessa Dunlop

Love, Pamela: Her new memoir, taking control of her own narrative for the first time

By Pamela Anderson

How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone: 'A book of real power' STYLIST, Best Non-Fiction Books of 2024

By Cameron Russell

Salt Lane: the superb first book in the DS Alexandra Cupidi Investigations

By William Shaw