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Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life

By Angela V John

Reminiscences of a Student's Life

By Jane Ellen Harrison

An Almost Impossible Thing: The radical lives of Britain's pioneering women gardeners

By Fiona Davison

I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections

By Nora Ephron

Sins of My Father: A Guardian Book of the Year 2022 - A Daughter, a Cult, a Wild Unravelling

By Lily Dunn

The Illusion of Life

By Ollie Johnston, Frank Thomas

A Quick Ting On: Black British Businesses

By Tskenya-Sarah Frazer

The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain

By Bill Bryson

High Tide in Tucson: Author of Demon Copperhead, Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction

By Barbara Kingsolver

GETTING TO KNOW:GEORGIA O'KEEFE

By Venezia, Mike

Bring Up the Bodies: The Booker Prize Winning Sequel to Wolf Hall (The Wolf Hall Trilogy)

By Mantel, Hilary

Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country

By Gillian Slovo

Einstein in Love

By Dennis Overbye

The Measure of My Powers: A Memoir of Food, Misery, and Paris

By Jackie Kay Ellis

The Midwife’s Here!

By Fairley, Linda

No Time to Die

By Liz Tilberis

Siri, Who Am I?

By Sam Tschida

Army Wives: From Crimea to Afghanistan: the Real Lives of the Women Behind the Men in Uniform

By Midge Gillies

Empress Josephine

By Ernest John D. Knapton

The Girl in the Wicker Basket

By Ann Kenny

Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA

By Brenda Maddox

Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love

By Xinran, Nicky Harman

Moving Beyond Words

By Gloria Steinem

The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon: The Diary of a Courtesan in Tenth Century Japan

By Arthur Waley, Dennis Washburn

Slipstream: A Memoir

By Howard, Elizabeth Jane.

Secrets of a Woman's Heart: Later Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett, 1920-69

By HILARY SPURLING

Remember Me?

By Sophie Kinsella

Drums on the Night Air: A Woman's Flight from Africa's Heart of Darkness

By Veronica Cecil

Why She Wrote: A Graphic History of the Lives, Inspiration, and Influence Behind the Pens of Classic Women Writers

By Hannah K. Chapman, Lauren Burke, Kaley Bales

The Art of Deception (Mills & Boon Special Releases)

By Nora Roberts