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Two Lipsticks and a Lover

By Helena Frith Powell

Spreading My Wings: One of Britain's Top Women Pilots Tells Her Remarkable Story from Pre-War Flying to Breaking the Sound Barrier

By Walker, Diana Baranto

Charlotte Bronte: The Girl Who Turned Her Life Into A Book

By Hubbard, Kate

Queen Victoria: The woman who ruled the world (Great Victorians)

By Hubbard, Kate

Forget You Had a Daughter: Doing Time in the Bangkok Hilton - Sandra Gregory's Story

By Gregory, Sandra, Tierney, Michael

Yourcenar (Life & Times)

By G.S. Rousseau

Letters From The Edge: 12 Women of the World Write Home

By Chris Brazier (ed)

The White Masai

By Corinne Hofmann, Hofmann, Corinne, Millar, Peter

Call Me Madam: From Mother to Madam

By Dawn Annandale

50 Over 50: Extraordinary Women, Extraordinary Lives

By Debbie Rowe, Tracey Larcombe

Golda Meir: The Iron Lady of the Middle East: The First Woman Prime Minister in the West

By Elinor Burkett

Little Book of Jane Austen (Little Books)

By Emily Wollaston

Navi Pillay: Working For Human Rights and the Law (Blackamber Inspirations): Realising Human Rights for All

By Samantha Naidu

Chanel: Her Life, Her World, and the Woman Behind the Legend She Herself Created

By Edmonde Charles-Roux, Nancy Amphoux

Thank Heaven ... : My Autobiography: Thank Heaven, Her Frank and Intimate Autobiography

By Leslie Caron

Past-it Notes

By Maureen Lipman

Not a Proper Child

By Nicky Nicholls, Elizabeth Sheppard

365 Reasons to be Proud to be British: Great British Moments of Greatness: Magical moments in our great history

By Richard Happer, Happer, Richard

The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired

By Prose, Francine

One Woman Walks Wales

By Ursula Martin

Rugby's Strangest Matches: Extraordinary but true stories from over a century of rugby

By Griffiths, John

Cricket's Strangest Matches: Extraordinary but true stories from over a century of cricket

By Ward, Andrew

Tornado Boys: Thrilling Tales from the Men and Women who have Operated this Indomintable Modern-Day Bomber (The Jet Age Series)

By Ian Hall

Milkshakes and Morphine: A Memoir of Love and Loss

By Fox, Geneviève

Secret Slave: Kidnapped and abused for 13 years. This is my story of survival.

By Anna Ruston

The Joy of Big Knickers: (or learning to love the rest of your life)

By Garraway, Kate

The Not So Subtle Art of Being a Fat Girl: Loving the Skin You're In

By Holliday, Tess

Running For My Life: How I built a better me one step at a time

By Cullen, Rachel Ann

Me Life Story: The funniest book of the year!

By Moffatt, Scarlett

I Miss You When I Blink: Dispatches from a Relatively Ordinary Life

By Mary Laura Philpott