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Tess of the D'urbervilles (The Penguin English Library)

By Hardy, Thomas, Thomas Hardy

The Duchess: The Untold Story – the explosive biography, as seen in the Daily Mail

By Penny Junor

Educated: The international bestselling memoir

By Westover, Tara

Shameless: How I Ditched the Diet, Got Naked, Found True Pleasure... and Somehow Got Home in Time to Cook Dinner

By Madsen, Pamela

Diary of an MP's Wife: Inside and Outside Power: 'riotously candid' Sunday Times

By Swire, Sasha

Son of Man: The Mystical Path to Christ: The Mystical Path of Christ

By Andrew Harvey

Spitfire Women of World War II

By Whittell, Giles

Women in Purple: Rulers of Medieval Byzantium (Women In History)

By Herrin, Judith

Half of a Yellow Sun: The Women’s Prize for Fiction’s ‘Winner of Winners’

By Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda

The Assassination Of Marilyn Monroe

By Donald H. Wolfe, WOLFE, Donald H.

My Life

By Clinton, Bill

The Queen's Story: The Woman Behind the Throne

By Blakeway, Denys, Kiggell, Marcus

Fortune's Daughters

By Kehoe, Elisabeth

The Diary of a Provincial Lady

By Delafield, E.M., Cooper, Jilly

The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick (New York Review Books Classics)

By Elizabeth Hardwick, Darryl Pinckney

The Penguin Dictionary of Saints (Penguin Reference Books)

By John, Catherine, Attwater, Donald

In the Wake of Mercedes Gleitze: Open Water Swimming Pioneer

By Doloranda Pember

Sex and the City and Us: How Four Single Women Changed the Way We Think, Live, and Love

By Armstrong, Jennifer Keishin

Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend

By Bostridge, Mark

The Imaginary Girlfriend

By Irving, John

Rainbow Bridge: A True Story About Rescue Cats

By Cilyk, Susan

Let IT Go: The Story of the Entrepreneur Turned Ardent Philanthropist

By Shirley, Stephanie, Askwith, Richard

Ms. Adventure: My Wild Explorations in Science, Lava and Life

By Phoenix, Jess

The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us

By Meg Lowman, Lowman, Dr Meg, Earle, Sylvia A

What Language Do I Dream In?: A Memoir

By Lappin, Elena

Half Broke: A Memoir

By Gaffney, Ginger

Sister Genevieve

By Rae, John

The Life and Times of Jane Austen

By Wilks, Brian

Relish: My Life on a Plate

By Leith, Prue

The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World

By Stewart Johnson, Sarah