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Reading the Bronte Body: Disease, Desire and the Constraints of Culture

By Beth Torgerson

Stealing Buddha's Dinner

By Bich Minh Nguyen

Women and Spirituality in the Writing of More, Wollstonecraft, Stanton, and Eddy

By A. Ingham

Statecraft

By Margaret Thatcher

A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East

By Terzani, Tiziano, Tiziano Terzani

Prisoner of Tehran: The End of Childhood in Iran

By Marina Nemat

Wicked Women of Tudor England: Queens, Aristocrats, Commoners

By R. Warnicke

The Lady: Aung San Suu Kyi: Nobel Laureate and Burma's Prisoner

By Barbara Victor

Wandering Through Life: A Memoir

By Donna Leon

The Diamond Queen: Elizabeth II and her People

By Andrew Marr

Inside Vogue: My Diary Of Vogue's 100th Year

By Alexandra Shulman

The Spirit of London

By Johnson, Boris

An American Childhood

By Annie Dillard

The Night the Angels Came: Miracles Of Protection And Provision In Burundi

By Chapman, Chrissie, Coombs, Barney

Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

By Susan Cain

The Safekeep

By Yael van der Wouden

Lady Gaga: Me and You

By Posy Edwards

Moranifesto

By Caitlin Moran

Thank You, Madagascar: The Conservation Diaries of Alison Jolly

By Alison Jolly, Hilary Bradt, Margaretta Jolly

J K Rowling

By Shaun McCarthy

Baba of Karo: A Woman of the Muslim Hausa

By Baba, of Karo, Mary F. Smith

The Churchills: A Family at the Heart of History - from the Duke of Marlborough to Winston Churchill

By Mary S. Lovell

Inside African Anthropology: Monica Wilson and her Interpreters

By Andrew Bank (University of the Western Cape, South Africa), Leslie J. Bank (University of Fort Hare

Twenties Girl

By Sophie Kinsella

Cleopatra: A Biography

By Duane W. Roller (Professor Emeritus of Greek and Latin, Professor Emeritus of Greek and Latin, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH)

The Wife's Tale: A Personal History

By Aida Edemariam

Women in Southern Africa

By Christine N. Qunta

Wayward Women

By Jane Robinson

Virago Book of Women and the Great War

By JOYCE MARLOW

Mozambique Mysteries

By Lisa St. Aubin De Teran