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Amelia to Zora: Twenty-Six Women Who Changed the World

By Cynthia Chin-Lee, Megan Halsey, Sean Addy

Women of Tarot: An Illustrated History of Divinators, Card Readers, and Mystics

By Cat Willett

Busy Being Free: Starting Again on Your Own

By Emma Forrest

The Ballast Seed: A story of motherhood, of growing up and growing plants

By Rosie Kinchen

The Chain: The Relationships That Break Us, the Women Who Rebuild Us

By Chimene Suleyman

Live. Laugh. Love.: Lessons I've Learned

By Coleen Nolan

Three Times a Countess: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Raine Spencer

By Tina Gaudoin

Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin

By David Ritz

The Chicken Chronicles: A Memoir

By Alice Walker

The Great Philosophers: Socrates

By Anthony Gottlieb

Young Elizabeth: The Making of our Queen

By Kate Williams

The Same River Twice

By Alice Walker

Between Stone and Sky: Memoirs of a Waller

By Whitney Brown

The League of Wives: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the US Government to Bring Their Husbands Home

By Heath Hardage Lee

That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour

By Sunita Puri

Life on Other Planets: A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe

By Aomawa Shields

The Gender Games: The Problem With Men and Women, From Someone Who Has Been Both

By Juno Dawson

The Sheep Stell: Memoirs of a Shepherd

By Janet White

Live. Laugh. Love.: Lessons I've Learned

By Coleen Nolan

Spinning Plates: SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR talks Music, Men and Motherhood

By Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Baskerville: The Biography of a Typeface (The ABC of Fonts)

By Simon Garfield

The Chain: The Relationships That Break Us, the Women Who Rebuild Us

By Chimene Suleyman

Albertus: The Biography of a Typeface (The ABC of Fonts)

By Simon Garfield

So Here's the Thing: Notes on Growing Up, Getting Older and Not Giving a Shit

By Alyssa Mastromonaco, Lauren Oyler

From the Ground Up: Stories from the men and women who built, serviced and flew aircraft in WWII

By Edward Smithies

Supper with the Crippens: The true story of one of the most notorious murderers of all time

By David James Smith

Brave Girl Eating: The inspirational true story of one family's battle with anorexia

By Harriet Brown

Manifesto: A radically honest and inspirational memoir from the Booker Prize winning author of Girl, Woman, Other

By Bernardine Evaristo

War Paint: Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein: Their Lives, their Times, their Rivalry

By Lindy Woodhead

When the Mountains Dance: Love, loss and hope in the heart of Italy

By Christine Toomey