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Women's Biography and Autobiography - Recently published women's biographies. (To keep this list from getting too long, we remove older titles from it every so often - but you'll still find them in other booklists according to their subject)

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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 5 books in this booklist

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  A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor’s Story - by Polly Morland, illustrated by Richard Baker

  £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529071177 | ISBN 10: 1529071178

  Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize The Top Ten Bestseller Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month A Sunday Times Paperback of the Year  ‘If you want to read a book that moves you both at the level of sentence and the quality of lang ... more

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  Black is the Body: Stories From My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine - by Emily Bernard

  £14.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780857527851 | ISBN 10: 0857527851

  "Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its significance as an experience emerges randomly, unpredictably. Race is the story of my life, ... more

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  Black is the Body: Stories From My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine

  by Emily Bernard

  
  

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  Your Life in My Hands - by Rachel Clarke

  £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786068651 | ISBN 10: 1786068656

  To be a medical novice who makes decisions which - if you get them wrong - might forever alter, or end, a person's life? To toughen up the hard way, through repeated exposure to life-and-death situations, clinging on until your skills, expertise and ... more

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  The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington - by Joanna Moorhead

  £20.00   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780349008776 | ISBN 10: 0349008779

  A personal biography of Leonora Carrington, the debutante who ran away to Mexico and became one of the world's most significant surrealist artists.   In 2006 journalist Joanna Moorhead discovered that her father's cousin, Prim, who had disappe ... more

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  Princess: Secrets to Share - by Jean Sasson

  £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780857503084 | ISBN 10: 0857503081

  After the recent success of Princess, More Tears to Cry the Princess Al-Saud and Jean Sasson are collaborating on this new book to bring readers up to date not only with the Princess and her family but the stories and experiences of characters who fo ... more

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