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The Daylight And The Dust: Selected Short Stories

By Janet Frame, Michele Roberts

Is This Love or Dopamine?: A deeply unofficial study of dating in the digital age

By Iona David

The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran

By Masih Alinejad

Love Like Salt: A Memoir

By Helen Stevenson

In My Own Time: Thoughts and Afterthoughts

By Jane Miller

Amelia to Zora: Twenty-Six Women Who Changed the World

By Cynthia Chin-Lee, Megan Halsey, Sean Addy

Women of Tarot: An Illustrated History of Divinators, Card Readers, and Mystics

By Cat Willett

Busy Being Free: Starting Again on Your Own

By Emma Forrest

The Ballast Seed: A story of motherhood, of growing up and growing plants

By Rosie Kinchen

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

By Chimene Suleyman

Live. Laugh. Love.: Lessons I've Learned

By Coleen Nolan

Three Times a Countess: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Raine Spencer

By Tina Gaudoin

Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin

By David Ritz

The Chicken Chronicles: A Memoir

By Alice Walker

The Great Philosophers: Socrates

By Anthony Gottlieb

Young Elizabeth: The Making of our Queen

By Kate Williams

The Same River Twice

By Alice Walker

Between Stone and Sky: Memoirs of a Waller

By Whitney Brown

The League of Wives: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the US Government to Bring Their Husbands Home

By Heath Hardage Lee

That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour

By Sunita Puri

Life on Other Planets: A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe

By Aomawa Shields

The Gender Games: The Problem With Men and Women, From Someone Who Has Been Both

By Juno Dawson

The Sheep Stell: Memoirs of a Shepherd

By Janet White

Live. Laugh. Love.: Lessons I've Learned

By Coleen Nolan

Spinning Plates: SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR talks Music, Men and Motherhood

By Sophie Ellis-Bextor

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

By Simon Garfield

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