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Eva Cassidy: Songbird: By Those Who Knew Her Authorised by Hugh and Barbara Cassidy

By Burley, Rob, Maitland, Jonathan

Dona Gracia of the House of Nasi

By Professor Cecil Roth

Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life

By Henri J.M. Nouwen, Nouwen, Henri J.M.

Irene Nemirovsky: Her Life and Works

By Jonathan Weiss

George Eliot, Voice of a Century: A Biography

By Frederick R. Karl (New York University.)

Young Stalin

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

The Rat Pack: Neon Nights with the Kings of Cool

By Lawrence J. Quirk

Kathryn Kuhlman

By Benny Hinn

Jennie Churchill

By Anne Sebba

Chanel

By Axel Madsen

With All Due Respect: Defending America with Grit and Grace

By Nikki Haley

Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War

By Hal Vaughan

My Feudal Lord

By Tehmina Durrani

Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist

By Yossi Klein Halevi

Alek.: The extraordinary life of a Sudanese Refugee

By Alek Wek

Molly Keane: A Life

By Sally Phipps

Bertie, May and Mrs Fish: Country Memories of Wartime

By Xandra Bingley

The Foghorn's Lament: The Disappearing Music of the Coast

By Jennifer Lucy Allan

America Over the Water

By Shirley Collins

Lush: A True Story, Soaked in Gin

By Gabrielle Fernie

Driving Forwards: An inspirational memoir of resilience and empowerment after life-changing injury

By Sophie L Morgan

Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded

By Hannah Hart

Nigella Lawson: A Biography

By Smith, Gilly

Windswept: why women walk

By Annabel Abbs

Rise Up Women!: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes

By Dr Diane Atkinson

Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

By Michelle Dean

One Pair of Feet: 'I envy anyone yet to discover the joy of Monica Dickens ... she's blissfully funny' Nina Stibbe

By Monica Dickens, Marina Lewycka

Thicker than Water

By Kerry Washington

Revolutionary Ride: On the Road in Search of the Real Iran

By Lois Pryce

Khiva to Samarkand: The Remarkable Story of a Woman's Adventurous Journey Alone Through the Deserts of Central Asia to the Heart of Turkestan

By Ella R. Christie