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Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell

By David Yaffe

The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics)

By Plato, Tarrant, Harold, Tarrant, Harold, Tredennick, Hugh

Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America

By Brigitte Gabriel

The Shaking Woman or a History of My Nerves

By Siri Hustvedt

In The Pink

By Molly Watson

The Hour of the Women

By Christian Graf Von Krockow, Christian von Krockow, Krishna Winston

The Summer of the Great-Grandmother

By Madeleine L'Engle

The Irrational Season

By Madeleine L'Engle

A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines

By Janna Levin

Circle of Quiet

By Madelaine L'Engle

Mrs Funnybones: She's just like You and a lot like Me

By Twinkle Khanna

Love Has a Face: Mascara, a Machete, and One Woman's Miraculous Journey with Jesus in Sudan

By Michele Perry

The World of Louisa May Alcott

By William Anderson

Wishful Drinking

By Carrie Fisher

If Only

By Geri Halliwell

She Came to Stay: A page-turning novel of friendship, secrets and lies

By Eleni Kyriacou

Daphne du Maurier and her Sisters: The Hidden Lives of Piffy, Bird and Bing

By Jane Dunn

How to be Champion: The No.1 Sunday Times Bestselling Autobiography

By Sarah Millican

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

By Rebecca Hall, Hugo Martinez

Rosie: Scenes from a Vanished Life

By Rose Tremain

Astroturf Blonde: Taking on the Men at Their Own Game

By Alyson Rudd

Gods of Noonday: A White Girl's African Life

By Elaine Neil Orr

Emily Wilding Davison

By Lucy Fisher

Spider Woman: A Life - by the former President of the Supreme Court

By Lady Hale

The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy

By Sofia Tolstoy, Cathy Porter

When History Was Made: The Women of 1916

By Ruth Taillon

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

By Gertrude Stein

Jessica

By Bryce Courtenay

The Book of Negroes: The award-winning classic bestseller

By LAWRENCE HILL

In The Frame: My Life In Words And Pictures

By Helen Mirren