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Molly Keane: A Life

By Sally Phipps

Bertie, May and Mrs Fish: Country Memories of Wartime

By Xandra Bingley

The Foghorn's Lament: The Disappearing Music of the Coast

By Jennifer Lucy Allan

America Over the Water

By Shirley Collins

Lush: A True Story, Soaked in Gin

By Gabrielle Fernie

Driving Forwards: An inspirational memoir of resilience and empowerment after life-changing injury

By Sophie L Morgan

Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded

By Hannah Hart

Nigella Lawson: A Biography

By Smith, Gilly

Windswept: why women walk

By Annabel Abbs

Rise Up Women!: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes

By Dr Diane Atkinson

Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

By Michelle Dean

One Pair of Feet: 'I envy anyone yet to discover the joy of Monica Dickens ... she's blissfully funny' Nina Stibbe

By Monica Dickens, Marina Lewycka

Thicker than Water

By Kerry Washington

Revolutionary Ride: On the Road in Search of the Real Iran

By Lois Pryce

Khiva to Samarkand: The Remarkable Story of a Woman's Adventurous Journey Alone Through the Deserts of Central Asia to the Heart of Turkestan

By Ella R. Christie

Edith Wharton and the French Riviera

By Elizabeth Collas

Comic Sans: The Biography of a Typeface (The ABC of Fonts)

By Simon Garfield

Spring Tides: Exploring Marine Life on the Isle of Man

By Fiona Gell

All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE

By Simon Garfield

Nina Simone

By David Brun-Lambert

Back from Africa

By Corinne Hofmann, Peter Millar

My Child and Other Mistakes: The hilarious and heart-warming motherhood memoir from the comedy star

By Ellie Taylor

One Born Every Minute: Real Stories from the Delivery Room

By Dore, Maria

SEX/LIFE: 44 Chapters About 4 Men: Now a series on Netflix

By BB Easton

Are We There Yet?: To indignity . . . and beyond!

By Emily Atack

A House Full of Daughters

By Juliet Nicolson

The Mysterious Mrs Hood: A True Victorian Mystery of Scandal, Arson, Murder & Betrayal

By Kim Donovan

Things I've Been Silent About: Memories of a Prodigal Daughter

By Azar Nafisi

A Cry from the Heart: A Biography of Edith Piaf

By Margaret Crosland

Magda Goebbels

By Anja Klabunde