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Joan of Arc

By Stanley, Diane

A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age

By Soni, Jimmy, Goodman, Rob

Believe: Boxing, Olympics and my life outside the ring

By Adams OBE, Nicola

More Myself: A Journey

By Keys, Alicia

Your Life in Your Hands: Understanding, Preventing and Overcoming Breast Cancer

By Plant, Jane A.

Anna Sewell: The Woman Who Wrote Black Beauty

By Chitty

Anne Frank: Her Life

By Marian Hoefnagel

Mansfield Park (Collins Classics)

By Austen, Jane

Matilda: Wife of the Conqueror, First Queen of England

By Borman, Tracy

Daughter of the East: An Autobiography

By Bhutto, Benazir

Victorian Girls: Lord Lyttelton's Daughters

By Sheila Fletcher

Barbara Hepworth: A Life of Forms

By Festing, Sally

Grace Darling: 12 (Life Stories)

By Tarbuck, Cheryl

Living with Cannibals and Other Women's Adventures

By Slung, Michele B.

The Veiled Kingdom

By Carmen Bin Ladin

Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Home Front in World War II

By Colman, Penny

Portrait of a Marriage

By Nicolson, Nigel

Loitering with Intent

By Spark, Muriel

Frida: The Biography of Frida Kahlo

By Hayden Herrera, Herrera, Hayden

George Eliot: A Life

By Ashton, Rosemary

Pilgrimage 1 (Virago Modern Classics)

By Richardson, Dorothy

Close Encounters of the Furred Kind

By Tom Cox

A Leap of Faith: Memoir of an Unexpected Life

By Noor, Her Majesty Queen

Swan Song: Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019

By Greenberg-Jephcott, Kelleigh

Dear Cancer, Love Victoria: A Mum's Diary of Hope

By Victoria Derbyshire

Mother Teresa (Revised Edition): An Authorized Biography

By Spink, Kathryn

Antonia White: A Life

By Dunn, Jane

Secrets of a Woman's Heart: A Later Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett, 1920-69 (Penguin Literary Biographies)

By HILARY SPURLING

The Necessary Aptitude: A Memoir

By Pam Ayres, Ayres, Pam

The Commonsense Book of a Countrywoman

By Hannah Hauxwell, Barry Cockcroft