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Slouching Towards Bethlehem

By Joan Didion

Rust: One woman's story of finding hope across the divide

By Eliese Colette Goldbach

Napoleon and Josephine: The Improbable Marriage

By Evangeline Bruce

The Glass Mother: A Memoir

By Rosie Jackson

The Serial Killer's Daughter (Serial Killer Series)

By Alice Hunter

Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography

By Loraine Fletcher

The Stone Diaries: Pulitzer Prize Winner (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

By Carol Shields, Penelope Lively

God? of course

By Aron Andersson

Men and Women of the New Testament

By Derek Thomas

History Rocks: Women in Law

By Guy Fox, Blackstone Chambers Ltd, Mari Takayanagi

Unbowed

By Wangari Muta Maathai

Letter to My Younger Self: Inspirational Women

By Jane Graham, The Big Issue

Nancy Wake: The gripping true story of the woman who became the Gestapo's most wanted spy

By Peter FitzSimons

Sarah Lucas (Modern Artists)

By Matthew Collings

The Good Good Pig

By Sy Montgomery

So Tell Me What You Want: The must-read 2025 music memoir on life working with pop idols Take That, Prince, Amy Winehouse, the Spice Girls, David Bowie and more

By Nicki Chapman

All that Glitters

By Pearl Lowe

Rememberings

By Sinead O'Connor

Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was, and Who God Has Always Been

By Jackie Hill Perry

My Story

By Marilyn Monroe, Ben Hecht

Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters

By Marilyn Monroe, Bernard Comment

Thunderclap: A memoir of art and life & sudden death

By Laura Cumming

Paul O'Grady's Country Life: Heart-warming and hilarious tales from Paul

By O'Grady, Paul

One and Two Halves to K2

By Jim Ballard

Her Name is Woman: Book 1

By G. Karssen

Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women

By Nura Maznavi, Ayesha Mattu, Maznavi, Nura, Mattu, Ayesha

Breaking Through: My Life In Science

By Katalin Kariko

The First Half

By Gabby Logan

Leading From The Back: My journey to the top of women's football - Shortlisted for the Charles Tyrwhitt Sports Autobiography of the Year Award

By Steph Houghton

Mary Slessor: Forward into Calabar

By Geoff Benge, Janet Benge