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Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters

By Marilyn Monroe, Bernard Comment

Thunderclap: A memoir of art and life & sudden death

By Laura Cumming

Paul O'Grady's Country Life: Heart-warming and hilarious tales from Paul

By O'Grady, Paul

One and Two Halves to K2

By Jim Ballard

Her Name is Woman: Book 1

By G. Karssen

Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women

By Nura Maznavi, Ayesha Mattu, Maznavi, Nura, Mattu, Ayesha

Breaking Through: My Life In Science

By Katalin Kariko

The First Half

By Gabby Logan

Leading From The Back: My journey to the top of women's football - Shortlisted for the Charles Tyrwhitt Sports Autobiography of the Year Award

By Steph Houghton

So Tell Me What You Want: The must-read 2025 music memoir on life working with pop idols Take That, Prince, Amy Winehouse, the Spice Girls, David Bowie and more

By Nicki Chapman

The Race To Be Myself

By Caster Semenya

Adaptability: Seven Lessons to Thrive in a World of Competing Demands

By Denise Lewis

The Truth About Lisa Jewell

By Will Brooker

Jade Goody: How It All Began - My First Book: Fighting to the End

By Goody Ph.D, Jade

Essex Girls: The Scandalous History of the Women of Essex

By Karen Bowman

Ari: Life and Times of Aristotle Socrates Onassis

By Peter Evans

Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived

By Ralph Helfer

Mary Slessor: Forward into Calabar

By Geoff Benge, Janet Benge

The Best Defense: The Courtroom Confrontations of America's Most Outspoken Lawyer of Last Resort-- the Lawyer Who Won the Claus von Bulow Appeal

By Alan Dershowitz

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

By Jung Chang

Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche

By Luce Irigaray, Gillian Gill

Three Things You Need to Know About Rockets: A memoir

By Jessica Fox

Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life

By Queen Noor

The Good Good Pig

By Sy Montgomery

Sarah Lucas (Modern Artists)

By Matthew Collings

Nancy Wake: The gripping true story of the woman who became the Gestapo's most wanted spy

By Peter FitzSimons

Letter to My Younger Self: Inspirational Women

By Jane Graham, The Big Issue

Unbowed

By Wangari Muta Maathai

History Rocks: Women in Law

By Guy Fox, Blackstone Chambers Ltd, Mari Takayanagi

Men and Women of the New Testament

By Derek Thomas