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From MTV to Mecca

By Kristiane Backer

The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West

By Michelle Goldberg

A Voice Reborn

By Kyra Vayne, Sue Lawley

Zarifa: A Woman's Battle in a Man's World, by Afghanistan's Youngest Female Mayor. As Featured in the NETFLIX documentary IN HER HANDS

By Zarifa Ghafari, Hannah Lucinda Smith

Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral: A Novel

By Kris Radish

One Bright Child

By Patricia Cumper

Hidden Lights: Women of Courage

By Joan Blaney, Barbara Follett

Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy

By Anne Sebba

To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse: 1 of Pitchfork's 10 Best Music Books of 2023

By Howard Fishman

The Queen of Katwe: One Girl's Triumphant Path to Becoming a Chess Champion

By Tim Crothers

Diaries 1987-1992

By Edwina Currie

The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West

By Michelle Goldberg

Call the Nurse: True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle (the Country Nurse Series, Book One)

By Mary J MacLeod, Lady Claire MacDonald of MacDonald

Afloat: A Memoir

By Danie Couchman

Lighting the Fuse: Stories from Britain's first female bomb disposal expert

By Lucy Lewis

Sex Bomb: a 'hilarious, raw and poignant' memoir

By Sadia Azmat

Of Fortunes and War: Clare Hollingworth, first of the female war correspondents

By Patrick Garrett

The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper

By Maxim Jakubowski (Bookseller/Editor)

Seasons of My Life

By Hauxwell, Hannah

Christmas Around the Village Green: In a WWII 1940s rural village, family means the world at Christmastime

By Dot May Dunn

Whispering Hope: The True Story of the Magdalene Women

By Nancy Costello, Kathleen Legg, Diane Croghan, Marie Slattery, Marina Gambold

Madonna

By Andrew Morton

The Clearing: A memoir of art, family and mental health

By Samantha Clark

Farewell To The East End

By Worth, Jennifer

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World

By Lucette Lagnado

Winter In The Morning: A Young Girl's Life in the Warsaw Ghetto and Beyond

By Janina Bauman

The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life

By Amy Tan

Women Who Launch: The Women Who Shattered Glass Ceilings (Strong women)

By Marlene Wagman-Geller

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

By Harriet Jacobs

Elisabeth Sladen: The Autobiography

By Elisabeth Sladen, David Tennant