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Adaptability: Seven Lessons to Thrive in a World of Competing Demands

By Denise Lewis

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

Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life

By Queen Noor

Three Things You Need to Know About Rockets: A memoir

By Jessica Fox

Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche

By Luce Irigaray, Gillian Gill

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

By Jung Chang

The Best Defense: The Courtroom Confrontations of America's Most Outspoken Lawyer of Last Resort-- the Lawyer Who Won the Claus von Bulow Appeal

By Alan Dershowitz

Mary Slessor: Forward into Calabar

By Geoff Benge, Janet Benge

Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived

By Ralph Helfer

Ari: Life and Times of Aristotle Socrates Onassis

By Peter Evans

Essex Girls: The Scandalous History of the Women of Essex

By Karen Bowman

Jade Goody: How It All Began - My First Book: Fighting to the End

By Goody Ph.D, Jade

The Truth About Lisa Jewell

By Will Brooker

One and Two Halves to K2

By Jim Ballard

A Woman of Aran

By Bridget Dirrane

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

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

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

The First Half

By Gabby Logan

The Race To Be Myself

By Caster Semenya