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She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen: British Women in India

By Hickman, Katie

Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman’s Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan

By Stanley, Amy

The Singing Warrior - Finding Happiness After a Life Filled with Pain and Abuse: Finding Happiness After a Past Filled with Pain

By Ni Bhroin, Niamh

The Rector's Wife

By Trollope, Joanna, Joanna Trollope

A Field Full of Butterflies by Rosemary Penfold

By Rosemary Penfold

CONFESSIONS

By Saint Augustine, Pine-Coffin, R. S., Saint Bishop of Hippo Augustine, R. S Pine-Coffin

Angelina Jolie

By Mercer, Rhona

Instead of a Letter

By Diana Athill

21st Century Lives: Writers

By Foy, Debbie

Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology

By Remini, Leah, Paley, Rebecca

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

By Tolentino, Jia

Daring to Hope: Finding God's Goodness in the Broken and the Beautiful

By Katie Davis Majors

The Girl From Aleppo: Nujeen’s Escape From War to Freedom

By Mustafa, Nujeen, Lamb, Christina

Rumer Godden: A Storytellers's Life

By Chisholm, Anne

Letters to Sir William Temple (Classics)

By Osborne, Dorothy, Parker, Kenneth

Blackbird: A Childhood Lost

By Lauck, Jennifer

Successful Lawns

By John Mortimer, Mortimer, John, Roy Hay

Zoya's Story: A Woman's Struggle for Freedom in Afghanistan

By Zoya, Follain, John, Cristofari, Rita

Girls Who Rocked the World: Heroines from Joan of Arc to Mother Teresa

By Michelle Roehm McCann, Amelie Welden, Daniel Hahn

Unbreakable

By Jess Halloran, Jelena Dokic

Rosa Parks and Emily Davison (Comparing People from the Past)

By Hunter, Nick

Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History (Vintage)

By Ulrich, Three-Hundredth Anniversary University Professor Laurel Thatcher

Nancy Wake

By Braddon, Russell

What Have I Done?: 2020’s must read memoir about motherhood and mental health

By Dockrill, Laura

I Never Said I Loved You: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

By Samadder, Rhik

Golem Girl: A Memoir - 'A hymn to life, love, family, and spirit' DAVID MITCHELL

By Lehrer, Riva

Mama Said There'd be Days Like This: My Life in the Jazz World

By Wilmer, Valerie

My Heart in a Suitcase (Library of Holocaust Testimonies)

By Anne L. Fox

Rogue Warrior of the SAS: The Blair Mayne Legend

By Dillon, Martin, Bradford, Roy

Time's Witnesses: Women's Voices from the Holocaust

By Jakob Lothe, Translated by Anne Marie Hagen