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Curious: True Stories and Everyday Absurdities

By Front, Rebecca

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban

By Yousafzai, Malala, Lamb, Christina

Testament of Youth

By Brittain, Vera

My History: A Memoir of Growing Up

By Lady Antonia Fraser

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban

By Yousafzai, Malala, Lamb, Christina

Amy Amy Amy: The Amy Winehouse Story Updated Edition

By Nick Johnstone

A Mother's War: One Woman's Fight for the Truth Behind Her Son's Death at Deepcut

By Heath, Yvonne Collinson

I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

By Yousafzai, Malala, McCormick, Patricia

Beautiful Ever After

By Piper, Katie

Aiming High: The Life of Ski and Travel Pioneer Erna Low

By Mark Frary

Let Me Off at the Top!: My Classy Life and Other Musings

By Burgundy, Ron

Keep Smiling Through: My Wartime Story

By Lynn, Dame Vera, Lewis-Jones, Virginia

A Galaxy of Her Own: Amazing Stories of Women in Space

By Jackson, Libby

Jacob's Room is Full of Books: A Year of Reading

By Hill, Susan

First Lady: The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill

By Purnell, Sonia

Army Wives: From Crimea to Afghanistan: the Real Lives of the Women Behind the Men in Uniform

By Gillies, Midge

Wine, Women and Song: A Spitfire Pilot's Story Compiled from Doug Brown's Letters and Reminscences

By Hamish Brown

What Do Women Want?: Adventures in the Science of Female Desire

By Bergner, Daniel

The Outrun

By Amy Liptrot

Sarah Millican: The Biography of the Funniest Woman in Britain

By Tina Campanella

Secrets and Lies: Now Profumo is Dead, I Can Finally Reveal the Truth About the Most Shocking Scandal in British Politics.

By Christine Keeler, Douglas Thompson

The Unravelling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq

By Emma Sky

Fire Woman: The Extraordinary Story of Britain's First Female Firefighter

By Reynolds, Josephine

Laura Trott and Jason Kenny: The Inside Track

By Trott, Laura, Kenny, Jason

A World of Difference: 12 men and women whose faith helped change their world

By Bob Hartman

Lady Katherine Knollys: The Unacknowledged Daughter of King Henry VIII

By Sarah-Beth Watkins

Ada's Algorithm: How Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's Daughter, Launched the Digital Age Through the Poetry of Numbers

By James Essinger

Last Landlady: An English Memoir

By Laura Thompson

The Sober Revolution: Women Calling Time on Wine O'Clock: Volume 1 (- Addiction Recovery series)

By Turner, Sarah, Rocca, Lucy

Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things That Matter

By Diana Athill