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Simone de Beauvoir: A Beginner's Guide

By Alison Holland

Not for Turning

By Robin Harris

"Coming to Writing" and Other Essays

By Helene Cixous, Deborah Jenson, Susan Rubin Suleiman, Sarah Cornell, Ann Liddle

Alice Von Hildebrand: Memoirs of a Happy Failure

By Alice von Hildebrand

A Train in Winter: A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival in Auschwitz

By Caroline Moorehead

House of Glass: The story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish family

By Hadley Freeman

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

By Mary Seacole

Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina

By Georgina Pazcoguin

Oh William!: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022

By Elizabeth Strout

A Woman Loved

By Andrei Makine, Geoffrey Strachan

When Love Prevails

By Narinda Mehat, Margaret Wardell

Maria Fitzherbert: The Secret Wife of George IV

By James Munson

Family Secrets: Acts of Memory and Imagination

By Annette Kuhn

Essays in Idleness: and Hojoki

By Meredith McKinney, none Kenko, Kamo no Chomei

The Brontes

By Juliet Barker

The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World

By Claire Tomalin

Book of Awesome Women Writers: Medieval Mystics, Pioneering Poets, Fierce Feminists and First Ladies of Literature

By Becca Anderson

Survivor: The Shocking and Inspiring Story of a True Champion

By Fatima Whitbread

Listening Still: The Irish bestseller

By Anne Griffin

Little Leaders: Visionary Women Around the World

By Vashti Harrison

The Middle Kingdom

By Andrea Barrett

Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London

By Lauren Elkin

Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha who Seduced the West

By Lesley Downer

Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2013

By Carol Loomis

THE WOMEN’S HISTORY OF THE WORLD (Paladin Books)

By Miles

Dickens's Women: His Great Expectations

By Anne Isba

Elizabeth Gaskell

By Jenny Uglow

Brave, Not Perfect

By Reshma Saujani

Jane Campion

By Ellen Cheshire

Christine: A Search for Christine Granville

By MADELEINE MASSON