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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£12.99 paperback (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781805330899 | ISBN 10: 1805330896
‘Conjures the rasp of the ski runner, the scent of burning blubber and the rippling iridescence of the Northern Lights’ Sara Wheeler
‘[An] astonishing, haunting memoir’ Isabella Tree
The rediscovered classic memoir – the m ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781914240478 | ISBN 10: 1914240472
WINNER, NON FICTION BOOK 2023, BOOKS ARE MY BAG AWARDS
SHORTLISTED BOOKSHOP.ORG INDIE CHAMPAIONS
AMAZON NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLIST
GOODREADS CHOICE BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLIST
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
‘An absolute riot. I ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781526169648 | ISBN 10: 1526169649
Since her death in 2011, the legendary Surrealist Leonora Carrington has been reconstructed and reinvented many times over. In this book, Gabriel Weisz Carrington draws on remembered conversations and events to demythologise his mother, revealing the ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781785633553 | ISBN 10: 1785633554
‘Fascinating…an enticingly interesting read’
Sayeeda Warsi
Born in rural Afghanistan, Shakardokht Jafari became a refugee aged just six, after a harrowing half-year trek to Iran.
There, at twelve, she discovered she ha ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780241482728 | ISBN 10: 0241482720
THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
A fitting tribute to the unsung work of women everywhere and the perfect Christmas gift!
'A marvellous book... I just loved it all, and have a permanently marked-up, dog-eared copy on my shelf for ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780300274158 | ISBN 10: 0300274157
A feminist reinterpretation of the myths surrounding Cleopatra casts new light on the Egyptian queen and her legacy.
“A lucid and persuasive reinterpretation. Readers won’t see Cleopatra the same way again.”—Publishers Weekly
“W ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780349727455 | ISBN 10: 0349727457
‘There’s no mistaking the writing of Sylvia Patterson’ Sunday Times
‘One of the finest writers in the world’ David Quantick
How does the big stuff in life truly change us?
In late 2019, Sylvia Patterson was a cele ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529149968 | ISBN 10: 1529149967
'A great read. I am honoured to have worked with such a legend' David Nott
'A role model for women' Independent
'A wonderful read' Julian Fellowes
'Remarkable' Lauren Laverne
'Charming' Guardian
We were occasionally expected to travel by ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529107791 | ISBN 10: 1529107792
Guardian Books to Watch 2022
Evening Standard Books to Watch 2022
Bookseller Editor's Choice
Climbing gives you the illusion of being in control, just for a while, the tantalising sense of being able to stay one move ahead of death.
... more
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£12.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781728240053 | ISBN 10: 1728240050
A daring and magnificent historical narrative nonfiction account of Iceland's most famous female sea captain who constantly fought for women's rights and equality-and who also solved one of the country's most notorious robberies.
Every day ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780753558263 | ISBN 10: 0753558262
'Beautifully written, wonderfully free-ranging and gloriously original, Femina makes us look into the mists of history in new, exciting and provocative ways. A joyous read' - Peter Frankopan, bestselling author of The Silk Roads
'This is bravura ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781911630258 | ISBN 10: 1911630253
There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.’ Hannah Gadsby, Nanette
Multi-awardwinning Hannah Gadsby transformed comedy with her show Nanette, even as she declared that she was quitting stand-up. Now, she takes us th ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529379877 | ISBN 10: 1529379873
"You live with someone for two years and then... they simply don’t exist."
Over 40 years, two British police units acted undercover to infiltrate activist groups. At least 20 of those officers deliberately targeted women and entered relationsh ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781839041211 | ISBN 10: 1839041218
In this candid and empowering A to Z of being an actor, Julie Hesmondhalgh draws on her decades of experience on stage and screen – including in massively popular television shows such as Broadchurch, Happy Valley and Coronation Street – to lift ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781839811791 | ISBN 10: 183981179x
‘An inspirational book.’ – Jojo Sutherland
‘Enjoy this great tale of determination, courage and joy. You won’t look back.’ – Kaye Adams
Approaching retirement and frustrated with her job, Siobhan Daniels made a BIG dec ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780863569364 | ISBN 10: 0863569366
1920s Cairo: singers were pressing hit records, dramatic troupes were springing up and cabarets were packed – a counterculture was on the rise. In bars, hash-dens and music halls, people of all backgrounds came together as a passionate group of art ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781780276663 | ISBN 10: 1780276664
'Balances detailed research with powerful storytelling to create a well-written and heart-wrenching account' - Nicole Gemine, Press and Journal
Jane Haining was undoubtedly one of Scotland’s heroines.
A farmer’s daughter from Galloway i ... more
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£30.00 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529409482 | ISBN 10: 1529409489
William Morris – poet, designer, campaigner, hero of the Arts & Crafts movement – was a giant of the Victorian age, and his beautiful creations and provocative philosophies are still with us today: but his wife Jane is too often relegated to a fo ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780008405359 | ISBN 10: 0008405352
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
‘A fascinating exploration into the lives of three women ignored by history... Eye-opening, engrossing’
Brit Bennett, bestselling author of The Vanishing Half
In her groundbreaking debut, Anna Malaika ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780735246003 | ISBN 10: 0735246009
A collection of first-hand accounts from courageous Afghan women who refuse to be silenced in the face of the Taliban, to be published for the first anniversary of the US leaving Afghanistan.
After decades of significant progress, the prospects ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529092196 | ISBN 10: 1529092191
'One brilliant woman writing about so many other brilliant women, this is a wonderful treasure chest of women’s lives, full of wit, verve and emotion... Epic, unputdownable, gripping. I loved it’ - Professor Kate Williams
“My hope is t ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780241993620 | ISBN 10: 0241993628
The powerful, urgent manifesto on never giving up from Booker prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine Evaristo.
In 2019, Bernardine Evaristo became the first black woman to win the Booker Prize since its inception fifty years earlier - a revolutio ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571366989 | ISBN 10: 0571366988
The rediscovered classic: a trailblazing Guyanese woman's memoir of post-war London, introduced by Bernardine Evaristo ('full of wit, perceptiveness, humour and compassion')
Denied teaching jobs due to the colour bar. Working in an office amidst ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781802792188 | ISBN 10: 180279218x
'Read this book. Then talk to your sons. It is essential reading' Jamie Theakston
'An extraordinary and important book. Read it immediately' Claudia Winkleman
'Superbly written, this deeply moving book underlines how truly precious ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780349006406 | ISBN 10: 0349006407
‘Part confession, part call to arms and wholly entertaining’ OBSERVER
‘Her writing style is as kooky and digestible as Bill Bryson’s... A fun-filled, fact-packed, memorable ride’ SUNDAY TIMES
‘Full of wit and wisdom’ RADIO TIM ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781472284839 | ISBN 10: 1472284836
‘Vivid and compelling and so moving... Kit’s depiction of her parents’ dynamic is both painful and comforting to read’ Marian Keyes
AS BROADCAST ON BBC RADIO 4
From the award-winning author of My Name is Leon comes a childhood mem ... more
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£18.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780745341941 | ISBN 10: 0745341942
A non-Eurocentric feminist perspective on the revolutionary Kurdish women's movement.
'One the foremost writers and participants in the Kurdish women's movement' - Harsha Walia
The Kurdish women's movement is at the heart of one ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781845235352 | ISBN 10: 1845235355
This frank, fearless and multi-layered debut centres on a privileged but dysfunctional Indian family, with themes of empire, migration, race, and gender.
Set in India, England, Trinidad and St Lucia, Love the Dark Days follows the story of ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780349014678 | ISBN 10: 0349014671
‘She is the cur’s cods, the terrier’s testicles, the business. I will go farther and declare that Atkins is the finest actor appearing in the world right now’ – A. A. Gill
‘Yes, she will: this vivid, honest memoir by a great actress ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781784744106 | ISBN 10: 1784744107
On an island at the eastern edge of India, rural, remote and dense with jungle, is a Muslim village. In an ever-shifting landscape of mangroves and rivers, the women here dwell among contradictions, constrictions and change in a place where one's nei ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780241481851 | ISBN 10: 0241481856
WINNER OF THE ONDAATJE PRIZE
THE SUNDAY TIMES MEMOIR OF THE YEAR
'Wonderfully funny and poignant...a tale of family secrets and political awakening amid a crumbling regime. One of the nonfiction titles of the year' Luke Harding, Observer
... more
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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529379907 | ISBN 10: 1529379903
BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a myriad of unforgettable characters from Lady Whiteadder to Professor Sprout, Miriam Margolyes, OBE, is the nation's favourite (and naughtiest) treasure ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781913183776 | ISBN 10: 1913183777
‘Silvia Vasquez-Lavado is a warrior. I’m in awe of her strength and courage.’ – Selena Gomez
‘an incredibly powerful story’ Sunday Independent
‘powerful’ – New York Times
In the In the Shadow of the Mounta ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529347555 | ISBN 10: 1529347556
* SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 COSTA BOOK AWARDS: BIOGRAPHY *
‘If her moving, engrossing, elegantly written memoir does not win prizes, there really is no justice in the literary world.’ Lucy Atkins, Sunday Times
All happy families are alik ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781728239583 | ISBN 10: 1728239583
The Untold Story of the Globetrotting Women Who Trekked, Flew, and Fought Their Way Around the World.
Never tell a woman where she doesn't belong.
In 1932, Roy Chapman Andrews, president of the men-only Explorers Club, boldly stated to hund ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780349011585 | ISBN 10: 0349011583
One of the most important untold stories of World War II, The Light of Days is a soaring landmark history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who inspired Poland’s Jewish youth groups to resist the Nazis.
... more
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£20.00 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781398503731 | ISBN 10: 1398503738
This is Martha Wainwright’s heartfelt memoir about growing up in a bohemian musical family and her experiences with love, loss, motherhood, divorce, the music industry and more.
Born into music royalty, the daughter of folk legends Kate McGarr ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781788164436 | ISBN 10: 1788164431
1910, Wellington, New Zealand. Lydia Harvey is sixteen, working long hours for low pay, when a glamorous couple invite her to Buenos Aires. She accepts - and disappears.
London, England. Amid a global panic about sex trafficking, detectives ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780349015682 | ISBN 10: 0349015686
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
‘Fascinating and intimate’ OBSERVER
‘Lucid, distilled, honest’ MAGGIE NELSON
‘Gorgeous, symphonic, tender’ CARMEN MARIA MACHADO
How do you tell the real story of someone misremember ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781909770690 | ISBN 10: 1909770698
"An incredibly moving, truly inspiring story of the power of determination. An absolutely stunning read."(Katharine Birbalsingh)
"Fascinating and poignant… an astoundingly honest and intimate memoir."(Angela Petch)
Perhaps it’s true that ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529108316 | ISBN 10: 1529108314
Groomed. Gaslighted. Ghosted.
They thought they'd found their soulmate. They had no idea he was spying on them.
These five motivated, independent women each thought they'd met their perfect partner - someone who shared their values, ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781844885428 | ISBN 10: 1844885429
THE LANDMARK MEMOIR OF A GLOBAL MUSIC ICON.
Sinead O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made her famous by the age of twenty-one. Her recording of Prince's Nothing Compares 2 U made her a global icon. She outraged millions when she tore up ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781800181021 | ISBN 10: 1800181027
100 Voices is an anthology of writing by women across the country on what achievement means for them, and how they have come to find their own voice.
Featuring poetry, fiction and memoir, the pieces range from notes on making lemon curd, to tale ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529371819 | ISBN 10: 1529371813
“It became untenable for me to remain silent about a part of my life I had long kept secret. I had to follow the persistent, uncomfortable pull of truth, wherever it would lead me.”
From the outside looking in, the young life of Mia Dör ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780241977583 | ISBN 10: 0241977584
From one of the great thinkers and writers of our time, comes the unmissable final instalment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed 'Living Autobiography'.
'I began to wonder what myself and all unwritten and unseen women would possess in t ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529342895 | ISBN 10: 1529342899
*** ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S ‘BEST BOOKS OF 2021’ ***
I have lived in disaster and disaster has lived in me. Our shared languages are thunder and reverberation.
When Nadia Owusu was two years old her mother abandoned her and her ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781838606633 | ISBN 10: 1838606637
Uncontrollable Women is a history of radical, reformist and revolutionary women between the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 and the passing of the Great Reform Act in 1832. Very few of them are well-known today; some were unknown even in th ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781472261205 | ISBN 10: 1472261208
"Painfully raw and incredibly funny"(Simon Amstell)
From award-winning comedian and writer Katy Wix comes Delicacy - a different kind of memoir from an astonishing new voice. Twenty-one snapshots of a life - some staccato, raw and shocking, ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781472274366 | ISBN 10: 1472274369
'It has taken me several years of exploration, but I am at a place now where I see autism as neither an affliction nor a superpower. It's just the blueprint for who I am. There is no cure, but that's absolutely fine by me.
To cure me of my autism ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780062936806 | ISBN 10: 0062936808
A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most.
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£12.99 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781908745934 | ISBN 10: 1908745932
We dreamed about what our new cabin would look like. The room would have four windows, one in each wall. Towards the south-east we’d need to see the big storms that rage right across the island, on the east we’d see the moon’s reflection in the ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781408880456 | ISBN 10: 1408880458
Born into one of Britain's most famous activist families, Sylvia Pankhurst was a natural rebel. A free spirit and radical visionary, history placed her in the shadow of her famous mother, Emmeline, and elder sister, Christabel.
Yet artist Sylvia P ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781789464054 | ISBN 10: 1789464056
It is 1937 in a northern mill-town and a class of twelve- and thirteen-year-old girls are writing about their lives, their world, and the things that matter to them. They tell of cobbled streets and crowded homes; the Coronation festivities and holid ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780008486976 | ISBN 10: 0008486972
The British comedian of Nigerian heritage and co-executive producer and writer of the CBS hit series Bob Hearts Abishola chronicles her odyssey to get to America and break into Hollywood in this lively and humorous memoir.
According to fami ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529102772 | ISBN 10: 1529102774
A decade ago, Caitlin Moran thought she had it all figured out.
Her instant bestseller How to Be a Woman was a game-changing take on feminism, the patriarchy, and the general 'hoo-ha' of becoming a woman. Back then, she firmly believed 'the diff ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781409184119 | ISBN 10: 1409184110
'I was born with a warped sense of humour and when I was carried home from being born it was Coronation Day and so I was called Victoria but you are not supposed to know who wrote this anyway it is about time I unleashed my pent-up emotions in a bitt ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780297871002 | ISBN 10: 0297871005
Ethel Rosenberg's story has been called America's Dreyfus Affair: a catastrophic failure of humanity and justice that continues to haunt the national conscience, and is still being played out with different actors in the lead roles today.
O ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780571351459 | ISBN 10: 057135145x
A memorial collection of writings by the murdered young journalist Lyra McKee - from viral articles to unpublished material - that celebrates her life, work and creative legacy: one that will live on.
When Northern Irish writer Lyra McKee w ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781780277158 | ISBN 10: 1780277156
In a life stranger than any fiction, Grace O'Malley, daughter of a clan chief in the far west of Ireland, went from marriage at fifteen to piracy on the high seas. She soon had a fleet of galleys under her commander, but her three decades of plunderi ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781787836822 | ISBN 10: 1787836827
Fearlessness has got nothing to do with being unafraid. It’s about doing things anyway, getting on with it, living, whether you’re afraid or not.
Fuzzy-haired, free-spirited, cello-playing Catrina is devastated when her lover, Jack, leav ... more
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£14.95 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781911036753 | ISBN 10: 1911036750
Doony, Ryder, Wyatt, Bodhi. The names of Kristin Hersh's sons are the only ones included in her new memoir, Seeing Sideways. As the book unfolds and her sons voices rise from its pages, it becomes clear why: these names tell the story of her life.
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£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529106862 | ISBN 10: 1529106869
Born in the tough East End of Glasgow and married into one of the city's most notorious criminal families, Janey Godley's young life was far from ordinary. From the grim and far-from-swinging 60s, to the discos of the 70s, to the tidal wave of ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241982976 | ISBN 10: 0241982979
Now in paperback featuring a new introduction by Michelle Obama, a letter from the author to her younger self, and a book club guide with 20 discussion questions and a 5-question Q&A, an intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First La ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780571362929 | ISBN 10: 0571362923
Bessie Smith: singer, icon, pioneer.
Scotland's National Poet Jackie Kay brings to life the tempestuous story of the greatest blues singer who ever lived.
Bessie Smith was born in Tennessee in 1894. Orphaned by the age of nine, sh ... more
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£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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£10.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781838905064 | ISBN 10: 1838905065
‘The earth’s most powerful force is not its quake, but rather its ability to be home for myriad creatures to grow’
An iron-willed mother, an ageing grandmother, a pair of mismatched dogs and 90 mu of less-than-ideal farmland: thes ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781786694874 | ISBN 10: 1786694875
The extraordinary story of how a singular group of women in a pivotal time and place - Paris, Between the Wars - fostered the birth of the Modernist movement.
Sylvia Beach, Bryher, Natalie Barney, and Gertrude Stein. A trailblazing publisher; a ... more
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£14.95 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781542044691 | ISBN 10: 1542044693
Meet the unsung sheroes of history: the diverse, defiant and daring (wo)men who changed the rules, and their identities, to get sh*t done.
You’ll encounter Kit Cavanagh, the swaggering Irish dragoon who was the first woman to be buried in ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781526611642 | ISBN 10: 1526611643
All Lina wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn't touch her?
All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a relationship with her teacher and then in court, a hated ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780735225190 | ISBN 10: 0735225192
A memoir by the celebrated singer-songwriter and social activist Ani DiFranco.
In her new memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, Ani DiFranco recounts her early life from a place of hard-won wisdom, combining personal expression, the power of ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781526614766 | ISBN 10: 1526614766
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.
Following a run of New Year's concerts at ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781787478664 | ISBN 10: 1787478661
The story of a personal housing crisis that led to a discovery of the true value of home.
*LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE*
Aged thirty-one, Catrina Davies was renting a box-room in a house in Bristol, which she shared with fou ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780241428290 | ISBN 10: 0241428297
Chanel Miller's story changed our world forever. In 2016 Brock Turner was sentenced to just six months in jail after he was caught sexually assaulting her on Stanford's campus. His light sentencing, and Chanel's victim impact statement, which was rea ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781785904769 | ISBN 10: 1785904760
Courageous women change history and remould our culture. For centuries, rebel ladies have been punching up, fighting for freedoms and equality, challenging the world order. Today, the next generation continue the fight, boldly marching, banners flyin ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780008305383 | ISBN 10: 0008305382
Imprisonment. Mutilation. Persecution. Edna Adan Ismail endured it all - for the women of Africa. A Woman of Firsts tells the inspirational story of a remarkable daughter, nurse and First Lady. The indomitable Edna Adan Ismail survived imprisonment ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786893499 | ISBN 10: 1786893495
A timely, provocative and personal examination of the refugee experience.
What is it like to be a refugee? It is a question many of us do not give much thought, and yet there are more than 25 million refugees in the world. To be a refugee is to ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781982148201 | ISBN 10: 1982148209
Now a Netflix original series!
Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman’s escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Infidel and Carolyn Jessop’s Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author. ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529105001 | ISBN 10: 1529105005
The autumn 2002 publication of Ruby Wax's memoirs was greeted with shock - and delighted acclaim. In the tradition of the best memoirs, such as The Moon's a Balloon and Billy, Ruby Wax revealed, surprised and captured the public more than was ever pr ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781783964956 | ISBN 10: 1783964952
Shortlisted for Travel Memoir Book of the Year, Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2020 / Winner – GOLD in Personality of the Year, SILVER in The Extra Mile Award as well as SILVER in Book of the Year all in The Great Outdoor Awards 2019
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781784162344 | ISBN 10: 1784162345
THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 2019
Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolv ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529103380 | ISBN 10: 152910338x
“Everyone has their price. It’s just not always monetary. Mine is though. 20 quid.”
Single mum. ‘Stain on society’. Caught in a poverty trap.
It’s a luxury to afford morals and if you’re Cash Carraway, you do what you can to survi ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781784164379 | ISBN 10: 1784164372
From her first life-changing solo trip to Australia as a young graduate, Rosita Boland was enthralled by travel. In the last thirty years she has visited some of the most remote parts of the globe carrying little more than a battered rucksack and a d ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780198828754 | ISBN 10: 0198828756
'The moment I got my job at Virago in 1978 I knew it would be a long time before I would leave. I certainly wouldn't have had the brazen hope then - only twenty-five and very recently new to Britain - that I would ever become the Publisher, but I did ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781529404869 | ISBN 10: 152940486x
Triumphant and uplifting – a queer Muslim memoir about forgiveness and freedom.
A memoir of hope, faith and love, Samra Habib’s story starts with growing up as part of a threatened minority sect in Pakistan, and follows her arrival in Cana ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781473684058 | ISBN 10: 1473684056
28-year-old Zeba Talkhani charts her experiences growing up in Saudi Arabia amid patriarchal customs reminiscent of The Handmaid’s Tale, and her journey to find freedom in India, Germany and the UK.
Talkhani offers a fresh perspective on liv ... more
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£19.99 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780807012628 | ISBN 10: 0807012629
A searingly honest memoir of one young woman’s journey toward self-acceptance as she comes to see her body as a symbol of rebellion and hope and chooses to live her life unapologetically.
Ever since she was little, Leah Vernon was told what to ... more
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£15.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780399581793 | ISBN 10: 0399581790
A bold and gripping graphic history of the fight for women’s rights.
The ongoing struggle for women’s rights has spanned human history, touched nearly every culture on Earth, and encompassed a wide range of issues, such as the right to v ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784703950 | ISBN 10: 1784703958
The gripping life story of the great war correspondent Marie Colvin told by one of her closest friends.
Winner of the James Tait Black Award
Marie Colvin was glamorous, hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a troubled and racket ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781473687738 | ISBN 10: 147368773x
HOLD MY CHIPS, THE WOMEN ARE REVOLTING! A darkly funny guide to life as a woman from Britain's favourite comedian.
Sometimes it's hard to be a woman and sometimes it's time to be a hard woman... This is a book for all those times.
Once upon ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780241986226 | ISBN 10: 0241986222
THE EXTRAORDINARY #1 BESTSELLER - a word-of-mouth literary phenomenon.
'I am afraid of being the disruptive woman. And of not being disruptive enough. I am afraid. But I am doing it anyway.'
In this dazzling debut, Emilie Pine speak ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781783526604 | ISBN 10: 1783526602
'Women have won their political independence. Now is the time for them to achieve their economic freedom too.'
This was the great rallying cry of the pioneers who, in 1919, created the Women's Engineering Society. Spearheaded by Katharine an ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781941367643 | ISBN 10: 194136764x
Mini-biographies of unstoppable women and non-binary activists — from Malala Yousafzai to Susan B. Anthony, Emma Gonzalez to Gloria Steinem, Wangari Maathai to Amythest Schaber — offer windows into what it takes to stand up for a cause, rally oth ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780349012193 | ISBN 10: 0349012199
A Washington Post Notable Book of 2017.
Deborah Tannen’s bestselling You Just Don’t Understand: Conversations Between Women and Men made us aware of the deep and subtle meanings behind the words we say. She has since explored the way we ... more
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£19.99 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781448217496 | ISBN 10: 1448217490
Shelagh Delaney • Edna O’Brien • Lynne Reid-Banks • Charlotte Bingham • Nell Dunn • Virginia Ironside • Margaret Forster
In London in 1958, a play by a 19-year-old redefined women's writing in Britain. It also began a movement ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781908906380 | ISBN 10: 1908906383
THE BIOGRAPHY OF WALLY FUNK, AS SEEN IN THE ACCLAIMED MAJOR NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY MERCURY 13.
In 1961, Wally Funk was the youngest of thirteen American female pilots in the Woman in Space programme. Her mission was to become one of the first women a ... more
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£14.99 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786892553 | ISBN 10: 1786892553
“I'm not the only person to have grown up stifled and bored in suburbia, it's almost the law.”
A Sunday Times top ten bestseller. An exploration of suburbia from music icon Tracey Thorn; singer-songwriter and bestselling author of Bedsit ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781642730210 | ISBN 10: 1642730211
Billie Holiday, one of the greatest jazz singers of all time, had a troubled life: a childhood in poverty, brothels, jail, broken love, and a dependence on alcohol and heroin. Her first performances in the night clubs of prohibitionist America was wh ... more
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£18.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781770463455 | ISBN 10: 1770463453
A profound and personal exploration of the intersections of womanhood, femininity and creativity.
This Woman’s Work is a powerfully raw autobiographical work that asks vital questions about femininity and the assumptions we make about gender. ... more
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£15.99 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780762466641 | ISBN 10: 0762466642
A celebration of the most groundbreaking women in comedy who used humor to shake up the status quo and change perceptions of gender and comedy forever.
The League of Extraordinarily Funny Women celebrates the outstanding contributions of fifty ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781999894122 | ISBN 10: 199989412x
This is Us captures a lifetime of lived experiences from Black British women, retelling their stories of challenges and hardships, triumphs and strengths. Collected by Kafayat Okanlawon from strangers, acquaintances, friends and family, the book ties ... more
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£6.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780571351343 | ISBN 10: 0571351344
In 1970, Viv Albertine knew she wanted to be in a band, but had never seen a woman play electric guitar. Seven years later, she was the guitarist in the hugely influential all-female punk band, the Slits. This is the story of how, through sheer will, ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781405938143 | ISBN 10: 1405938145
Follow Sue Perkins' extraordinary adventures across southern Asia in this fabulously funny travelling tale.
'A few years ago I was asked if I'd like to make a documentary on the Mekong River, travelling from the vast delta in Vietnam to the rem ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781785944048 | ISBN 10: 1785944045
'There are more ways than one of being happy… I am living proof of this.'
Anne Lister was remarkable. Fearless, charismatic and determined to explore her lesbian sexuality, she forged her own path in a society that had no language to defin ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780571326228 | ISBN 10: 0571326226
LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2018
What was I fighting for? Even now I’m not sure. Something so old and so deep, it has no words, no shape, no logic.
Every memoir is a battle between reality and invention - but in her follow up to ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781788160995 | ISBN 10: 1788160991
Anne Lister was a Yorkshire heiress, an intrepid world traveller and a proud lesbian during a time when it was difficult simply to be female. She chose to remain unmarried, dressed all in black and spoke openly of her lack of interest in men. The fir ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781526604507 | ISBN 10: 1526604507
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Winner of the Whiting Award for Non-Fiction
Selected by Emma Watson as an Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick
Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on an Indian Reservation in the Pac ... more
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£12.99 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780525574545 | ISBN 10: 0525574549
A charmingly illustrated and timely tribute to the women who broke glass ceilings in film and television, debuting during an historic time of change in the entertainment industry.
Renegade Women in Film and TV blends stunning illustrations, ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784709228 | ISBN 10: 1784709220
When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up different worlds and cast new light on this one.
She was whisked away to Narnia – and Kirrin Island – and Wonderland. She ventured down rabbit holes and womble burrows ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786893055 | ISBN 10: 1786893053
“Twelve. That was the year that I learned that being Black and poor defined me more than being bright and hopeful and ready.”
The powerful memoir of one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter which explores how the movement was born.
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£12.99 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781911617778 | ISBN 10: 191161777x
‘There are no stupid questions, nor any forbidden ones, but there are some questions that have no answer.’
Hédi Fried was nineteen when the Nazis snatched her family from their home in Eastern Europe and transported them to Auschwit ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780241978726 | ISBN 10: 0241978726
Little Lien wasn't taken from her Jewish parents - she was given away in the hope that she might be saved. Hidden and raised by a foster family in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation, she survived the war only to find that her real parents had not. ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786090508 | ISBN 10: 1786090503
When Clemantine Wamariya was six years old, her world was torn apart. She didn't know why her parents began talking in whispers, or why her neighbours started disappearing, or why she could hear distant thunder even when the skies were clear.
... more
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£10.00 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781999619503 | ISBN 10: 1999619501
In 1979, Nasrin Parvaz returned from England, where she had been studying, and became a member of a socialist party in Iran fighting for a non-Islamic state in which women had the same rights as men. Three years later, at the age of 23, she was betra ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784706883 | ISBN 10: 1784706884
"It made me cry. It made me think. It made me laugh. It encouraged me to appreciate this most underappreciated of professions more than ever"(Adam Kay, author of This is Going to Hurt)
Christie Watson was a nurse for twenty years. Taking us from b ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781788313070 | ISBN 10: 1788313070
Alice Bacon was one of the twentieth-century's most remarkable female politicians. Born and raised in the Yorkshire town of Normanton, she defied the odds to be elected Labour MP for Leeds North East in the 1945 General Election. Famed in her h ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780008241711 | ISBN 10: 0008241716
A fresh, opinionated history of all the brilliant women you should have learned about in school but didn’t.
For hundreds of years we have heard about the great men of history, but what about herstory?
In this freewheeling history of modern ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781846045127 | ISBN 10: 1846045126
THE AWARD-WINNING INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER by Edith Eger, as seen on BBC Breakfast.
Little dancer', Mengele says, ‘dance for me’
In 1944, sixteen-year-old ballerina Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. Separated from her parents on ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781781255292 | ISBN 10: 1781255296
Mary Shelley was brought up by her father in a house filled with radical thinkers, poets, philosophers and writers of the day. Aged sixteen, she eloped with Percy Bysshe Shelley, embarking on a relationship that was lived on the move across Britain a ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781788785952 | ISBN 10: 1788785959
Georgie was just a typical teenager when it happened; she was studying hard for a place at her dream university and having fun with her friends on weekends. She always knew what was coming next. She had her entire life planned, until one night and on ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781909347106 | ISBN 10: 1909347108
Older lesbians talk about their lives.
Now You See Me draws on a unique new archive of life stories, recorded by Jane Traies. In their own words, women from across the UK recreate a time when being lesbian meant hiding your true identity – or ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781526715333 | ISBN 10: 1526715333
Keeping it to just 100 was a struggle. But we figured that any more miscast, missing and misunderstood women in one sitting would push you over the edge in your righteous, indignant fury. So actually, we’re thinking of you. (You're welcome).
  ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780349009773 | ISBN 10: 0349009775
'Telling my story of first, surviving genocide and then, as a captive of ISIS is not easy, but people must know.'
The remarkable and courageous story of Nadia Murad, a twenty-three-year-old Yazidi woman who is working with Amal Clooney to chall ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781912362929 | ISBN 10: 1912362929
Lucy Deane was from an upper class military family and was appointed in 1893, aged 28, by Herbert Asquith; then the Home Secretary, and she was sent across the British Isles, to the dismay of male factory inspectors, to inspect and report on the cond ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780349008370 | ISBN 10: 034900837x
Souad Mekhennet is a German-born Moroccan Muslim, a Washington Post correspondent, still based in Germany. This is her brave and powerful memoir. Her life and her quest are nothing less than THE modern story.
I was told to come alone. I was not ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781999683306 | ISBN 10: 1999683307
A leading writer of Zimbabwe’s ‘born-free’ generation reflects on the November 2017 ousting of Robert Mugabe, radically reframing the history of Zimbabwe to include the perspectives of workers, women and urban movements
In November 20 ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780141986654 | ISBN 10: 0141986654
Rich girl, street punk, lost girl and icon ... scholar, stripper, victim and media-whore: The late Kathy Acker's legend and writings are wrapped in mythologies, created mostly by Acker herself. The media storm that surrounded Kathy Acker's books was ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784708443 | ISBN 10: 1784708445
The Oscar-nominated Precious star and Empire actress delivers a much-awaited memoir which is wise, complex, smart and funny.
This Is Just My Face is the whirlwind tour of Gabourey Sidibe’s life so far. In it, we meet her polygamous father, ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781909762855 | ISBN 10: 1909762857
From the author of Black Poppies, Fighting Proud and Evelyn Dove comes a timely new account exploring Britain’s diverse history from the Second World War to the Empire Windrush and beyond, told through the experiences of black British women.
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781471164422 | ISBN 10: 147116442x
The story of the woman who inspired change with her call for greater freedoms for women.
Manal al-Sharif was born in Mecca the year fundamentalism took hold in Saudi Arabia. As a young girl she would burn her brother's boy band CDs in the ov ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780141986616 | ISBN 10: 0141986611
From activist, Pussy Riot member and freedom fighter Maria Alyokhina, a raw, hallucinatory, passionate account of her arrest, trial and imprisonment in a penal colony in the Urals for standing up for what she believed in.
People who believe in f ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781846149825 | ISBN 10: 1846149827
"A major literary talent... speaks about the power and powerlessness that young women are subject to in a wholly fresh, clear-eyed way... you'll find it hard to come away from The Terrible without a stab of recognition in your chest."(Stylist)
'You ... more
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£14.99 hardback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781911547204 | ISBN 10: 1911547208
‘My stories, my family’s stories, were not stories in India. They were just life.
When I left and made new friends in a new country, only then did the things that happened to my family, the things we had done, become stories. Stories wor ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781409174325 | ISBN 10: 1409174328
Sarah Millican's autobiography will make you laugh, feel normal and probably sniff your leggings.
Hilarious, heartwarming and inspirational, this is the number 1 Sunday Times bestselling autobiography by comedian Sarah Millican. The funniest ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781908745569 | ISBN 10: 1908745568
Translated from Swedish by Silvester Mazzarella.
The Finnish-Swedish writer and artist Tove Jansson achieved worldwide fame as the creator of the Moomin stories, written between 1945 and 1970 and still in print in more than twenty languages. ... more
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£15.00 hardback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781844039838 | ISBN 10: 1844039838
Putting 48 pioneering and innovative female scientists firmly back on the modern map.
The women who shaped and were erased from our history.
The Forgotten Women series will uncover the lost histories of the influential women who hav ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781912109500 | ISBN 10: 1912109506
This insightful and revealing collection of essays focuses on seven Welsh women who, in a range of imaginative ways, resisted the status quo in Wales, England and beyond during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Written by an acclaimed biographi ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781760632687 | ISBN 10: 1760632686
In 1908 Muriel Matters, known as ‘that daring Australian girl’, chained herself to an iron grille in the House of Commons to demand votes for women, thus becoming the first woman to make a speech in the House. The following year she made headline ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781472941459 | ISBN 10: 1472941454
Karin Bojs grew up in a small, broken family. At her mother's funeral she felt this more keenly than ever. As a science journalist she was eager to learn more about herself, her family and the interconnectedness of society. After all, we're all relat ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781473671003 | ISBN 10: 1473671000
The life story of Coretta Scott King, wife of Martin Luther King Jr. and singular twentieth-century American civil and human rights activist.
"Coretta is more relevant today than ever... a female who takes responsibility for creating something bet ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571328529 | ISBN 10: 0571328520
Art Sex Music is the autobiography of a musician who, as a founding member of the avant-garde group Throbbing Gristle and electronic pioneers Chris & Cosey, has consistently challenged the boundaries of music over the past four decades.
It is th ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780241342466 | ISBN 10: 0241342465
"Some of the more heart-shaking writing about love and grief I've ever read"(Kamila Shamsie, from the introduction)
Meatless Days is a searing memoir of life in the newly-created country of Pakistan. When sudden and shocking tragedies hit the a ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784702946 | ISBN 10: 1784702943
*Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award 2017*
*Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2017*
*Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2018*
*Selected as a 2017 Book of the Year in the Sunday Times*
Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780008291082 | ISBN 10: 000829108x
"My life, as you will read, has taken me from one cult to another. BRAVE is the story of how I fought my way out of these cults and reclaimed my life. I want to help you do the same."(Rose McGowan)
A revealing memoir and empowering manifesto – A ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781781257760 | ISBN 10: 1781257760
'By the summer of 1998, it had become clear that there was something wrong with my hearing. It didn't happen suddenly but softly, so softly I almost wasn't aware of it happening; sound seemed to have stolen away ...'
For twelve years, Bella ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780141983868 | ISBN 10: 0141983868
When Harriet Harman started her career, men-only job adverts and a 'women's rate' of pay were the norm, female MPs were a tiny minority - a woman couldn't even sign for a mortgage. But, she argues, we should never just be grateful that things are bet ... more
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£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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£14.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781473671263 | ISBN 10: 1473671264
100 fascinating and brilliantly written stories about history's bravest, baddest but little known 'nasty' women from across the world.
These are the women who were deemed too nasty for their times, too nasty to be recognised, too nasty to be pai ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781472947338 | ISBN 10: 1472947339
Dame Beryl Bainbridge was one of the most popular and recognisable English novelists of her generation. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, and her critically acclaimed novels The Dressmaker (1973), The Bottle Factory Outing (1974), ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780008209193 | ISBN 10: 0008209197
WINNER OF THE 2017 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD
In the vein of Bad Blood and Why be Happy when you can be Normal?: an enthralling, at times shocking, and deeply personal family memoir of growing up in, and breaking away from, a fundamentalist Chris ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780008168889 | ISBN 10: 0008168881
The remarkable story of Helen Forrester, author of Twopence to Cross the Mersey, and how she turned tragedy to triumph.
When Helen Forrester’s father went bankrupt in the 1930’s, she and her six siblings fell from a comfortable middle-clas ... more
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£17.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781683960140 | ISBN 10: 1683960149
Born on the cusp of WWII in 1938, at a time when other little girls dreamed of being nurses and secretaries, Trina Robbins’s ambition was to be a bohemian; and indeed she did. She chronicles a life of sex, drugs, rock ’n’ roll — and comics ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780099575726 | ISBN 10: 0099575728
WINNER OF THE SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD
Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in The Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Financial Times, Spectator and Observer
Angela Carter’s life was as unconventional as anything in her fiction ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780007548200 | ISBN 10: 0007548206
#1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel returns with a captivating, little-known true story of women in science.
Before they even had the right to vote, a group of remarkable women were employed by Harvard College Observatory as Human ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781408879948 | ISBN 10: 1408879948
The future flashed before my eyes in all its pre-ordained banality. Embarrassment, at first, to the exclusion of all other feelings. But embarrassment curled at the edges with a weariness...
I got a joke in.
'So - we'd better get cooking the meth,' ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781683830153 | ISBN 10: 1683830156
"There I was sitting in a booth at the co-op of Glassboro State College, a bucolic school in the farmlands of South Jersey... Suddenly, the double doors of the co-op swung open and standing there in the vacuum created was an incredible apparition, a ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786071583 | ISBN 10: 1786071584
The history of Britain, presented as you've never seen it before, through twenty-one women whose lives enthral and beguile, intrigue and inspire.
They were famous queens, unrecognised visionaries, great artists and trailblazing politicians. ... more
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£19.99 hardback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9783791383880 | ISBN 10: 3791383884
The perfect subject for a graphic novel, Frida Kahlo’s brief life was dramatic and romantic, tragic and painful.
In this illustrated “biography”, Vanna Vinci captures the spirit of Kahlo’s world in boldly colored, minutely detailed ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780099593379 | ISBN 10: 0099593378
'Flâneuse [flanne-euhze], noun, from the French. Feminine form of flâneur [flanne-euhr], an idler, a dawdling observer, usually found in cities.
That is an imaginary definition.'
If the word flâneur conjures up visions of Baudelaire, boule ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784702755 | ISBN 10: 1784702757
In August 2014, Farida Khalaf was just a normal Yazidi girl, living in a village high in the mountains of northern Iraq. Then her village was attacked and swiftly taken by ISIS fighters, and her whole world changed. The jihadists murdered the men and ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786071194 | ISBN 10: 1786071193
A Sunday Times Book of the Year
As featured on the BBC Radio 2 Book Club
Dr James Barry: Inspector General of Hospitals, army surgeon, duellist, reformer, ladykiller, eccentric. He performed the first successful Caesarean in the British E ... more
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£17.99 hardback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781681120935 | ISBN 10: 1681120933
Born in Philadelphia in 1915, and dead too early in New York in 1959, Billie Holiday became a legendary jazz singer, even mythical. With her voice even now managing to touch so many people, we follow a reporter on the trail of the artist on beh ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781473659186 | ISBN 10: 1473659183
A touching and very human portrait of Jo Cox: daughter, mother, wife, sister, MP and aidworker.
"Jo Cox's selfless service to others made the world a better place"(Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States)
THE NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES B ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780750979481 | ISBN 10: 0750979488
A pioneering aviator and advocate of women’s equality, Amelia Earhart was, and continues to be, an inspiration to people the world over. Her fierce determination to break records and push the boundaries of aviation led her to become the first woman ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781785781889 | ISBN 10: 178578188x
"A sublime piece of literary detective work that shows us once and for all how to be precisely the sort of reader that Austen deserves."(Caroline Criado-Perez, Guardian)
Almost everything we think we know about Jane Austen is wrong. Her novels do ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781846043734 | ISBN 10: 1846043735
Nobel Peace Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, is a symbol of supreme courage in the face of tyranny. Released from house arrest in 2010, she led her party to a dramatic victory in Burma’s first free general election in a generation.
Acclaime ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780062435095 | ISBN 10: 0062435094
Author and Guardian US columnist Jessica Valenti has been leading the national conversation on gender and politics for over a decade. Now, in a darkly funny and bracing memoir, Valenti explores the toll that sexism takes from the every day to the exi ... more
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£13.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781408708958 | ISBN 10: 1408708957
A Gift from Darkness is the harrowing yet inspirational story of a young, pregnant Nigerian girl and the hell she endured for the sake of her unborn child when she was kidnapped by Boko Haram.
When Patience Ibrahim's husband died, she feare ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571332274 | ISBN 10: 0571332277
If I had not kissed anyone, or danced with anyone, or had a reason to cry, the music made me feel as if I had gone through all that anyway... the music attracted and repelled, organised and disturbed and then let us into the night, clusters of emotio ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780863561467 | ISBN 10: 0863561462
From established literary heavyweights to emerging spoken word artists, the writers in this ground-breaking collection blow away the narrow image of the ‘Muslim Woman’.
Hear from users of Islamic Tinder, a disenchanted Maulana working as ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780995623828 | ISBN 10: 0995623821
"An essential window into many of the hazard-strewn worlds younger women are living in right now."(Margaret Atwood, Twitter)
With intolerance and inequality increasingly normalised by the day, it's more important than ever for women to share their ... more
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£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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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780224100434 | ISBN 10: 0224100432
The inspirational story of athlete Jo Pavey, the runner and mum who ran at a record-breaking fifth Olympic Games at Rio 2016.
'Come-back races? I've had more than a few, the night of 10 May 2014 was the ultimate long shot. I was a forty-year ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780349006208 | ISBN 10: 0349006202
A frank, illuminating and incandescent memoir by a trailblazing scientist; a moving portrait of a longtime collaboration in work and life; and a book that casts a whole new light on the natural world.
Lab Girl is a book about work and about ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571325061 | ISBN 10: 0571325068
The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise is the extraordinary story, in her own words, of Brix Smith Start. Best known for her work in The Fall at the time when they were perhaps the most powerful and influential anti-authoritarian postpunk band in the world ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781509800810 | ISBN 10: 1509800816
"Armed with a squash racket and enormous will, Maria Toorpakai has risen from the turmoil of tribal life in Pakistan to become not only a world-class athlete, but a true inspiration, a pioneer for millions of other women struggling to pave their own ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780711237896 | ISBN 10: 0711237891
Modern Women is a celebration of some of the influential and inspiring women who have changed the world through their lives, work and actions. From suffragettes to scientists, activists to artists, politicians to pilots and writers to riot grrrls, ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780349006116 | ISBN 10: 0349006113
Now in her eighties, one of Britain's finest and most spirited women looks back on her life.
Joan Bakewell has led a varied, sometimes breathless life: she has been a teacher, copywriter, studio manager, broadcaster, journalist, the governme ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780807047880 | ISBN 10: 0807047880
A lively exploration of the struggles faced by women in law enforcement and mystery fiction for the past 175 years.
In 1910, Alice Wells took the oath to join the all-male Los Angeles Police Department. She wore no uniform, carried no weapon ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781911231059 | ISBN 10: 1911231057
A memoir of mothers and daughters, traced through four generations, from Paris to New York and back again.
More than Nadja Spiegelman’s famous father, Maus creator Art Spiegelman, and more than most mothers, hers — French-born New Yorker a ... more
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£13.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781621069690 | ISBN 10: 1621069699
Soviet Daughter provides a window into the life of a rebellious, independent woman coming of age in the USSR, and the impact of her story and her spirit on her American great-granddaughter, two extraordinary women swept up in the history of their tum ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780349134512 | ISBN 10: 0349134510
A memoir of parenthood by poet Hollie McNish�
There were many things that Hollie McNish didn't know before she was pregnant. How her family and friends would react; that Mr Whippy would be off the menu; how quickly ice can melt on a stomach. These ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781782118749 | ISBN 10: 1782118748
Inspired by the Oscar-nominated Netflix documentary, this is the story of the real Miss Simone.
What Happened, Miss Simone? tells the story of incandescent soul singer and Black Power icon Nina Simone, one of the most influential, provocativ ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571330997 | ISBN 10: 0571330991
Her Again is an intimate look at the artistic coming of age of the greatest actress of her generation, from the homecoming float at her suburban New Jersey high school to her star-making roles in The Deer Hunter, Manhattan, and Kramer vs. Kramer. &nb ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781473632042 | ISBN 10: 1473632048
"Nothing makes me happier than talking about depression. Packed with stories, humour and a bit of the serious stuff, I will literally write the book on how it feels to be told "Cheer up, Love"'"(Susan Calman)
Susan Calman is a well known comedian ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781785781667 | ISBN 10: 1785781669
Having escaped domestic servitude in Germany by teaching herself to sing, and established a career in England, Caroline Herschel learned astronomy while helping her brother William, then Astronomer Royal.
Soon making scientific discoveries i ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9789350297117 | ISBN 10: 9350297116
From Bankimchandra Chatterjee to G.V. Desani to Vikram Seth, Indian writing in English has come a long way over the last hundred years. And Nilanjana Roy – voracious eater of books and sharpest of critics – has taken stock of it all.
On ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781909762350 | ISBN 10: 1909762350
A pioneer and a trailblazer, Evelyn Dove left a mark in the arts industry. She was the first black female singer on BBC Radio and the first black British female singer to work in America, a quarter of a century before Shirley Bassey.
In a ca ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781925228632 | ISBN 10: 1925228630
"Gavron has written a book as brave and honest as it is heart-stopping and gripping. With the meticulousness of a detective and the heart and soul of an abandoned son, he sets out to examine a family tragedy so raw and agonising that it is rarely tal ... more
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£12.99 hardback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781594749254 | ISBN 10: 1594749256
Ever heard of Allied spy Noor Inayat Khan, a Muslim woman whom the Nazis considered “highly dangerous”? Or German painter and entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian, who planned and embarked on the world’s first scientific expedition? How about Huan ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781780749204 | ISBN 10: 1780749201
Gloria Steinem had an itinerant childhood. Every fall, her father would pack the family into the car and they would drive across the country, in search of their next adventure. The seeds were planted: Steinem would spend much of her life on the road, ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408867709 | ISBN 10: 1408867702
M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village caf� where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, pa ... more
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£25.00 hardback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784785888 | ISBN 10: 1784785881
Sheila Rowbotham's Rebel Crossings tells the transatlantic story of six radical pioneers at the turn of the twentieth century. Radicalised by the rise of socialism, Helena Born, Miriam Daniell, Gertrude Dix, Robert Nicol and William Bailie cross the ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780141978826 | ISBN 10: 0141978821
The definitive illustrated biography of one of the most unique and beloved children's authors of the 20th century, the creator of the Moomins.
Tove Jansson (1914-2001) led a long, colourful and productive life, impacting significantly the politi ... more
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£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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£24.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781138786882 | ISBN 10: 1138786888
Born into slavery in 1862, Ida B. Wells went on to become an influential reformer and leader in the African American community. A Southern black woman living in a time when little social power was available to people of her race or gender, Ida B. Wel ... more
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£14.99 hardback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780349008653 | ISBN 10: 0349008655
From diggers and weeders, to plantswomen and landscape designers, women have contributed greatly to the world of gardening. This book contains collected extracts from the 18th century to the present day, from writers including Colette, Germaine Greer ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781472925565 | ISBN 10: 1472925564
Hope Powell was a skinny little black girl from South London who only ever wanted to play football. Brought up in a violent home, she was actively discouraged from playing. The original Bend It Like Beckham girl, this is the amazing story of how a ki ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781474600880 | ISBN 10: 1474600883
Isy Suttie - writer, comedian and actress - on not quite being a grown-up
"Isy Suttie turns the painful process of growing-up into something laugh-out-loud funny, and for that I could kiss her"(Bryony Gordon, author of The Wrong Knickers)
"A cr ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781785630194 | ISBN 10: 1785630199
"In the space of five years, I went from graduating at Harvard to becoming a psychiatric patient. I overcame the stranglehold of depression and chose not to die. Instead, I embraced life only to discover I am a good Greek girl at heart, albeit an unc ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781473637221 | ISBN 10: 1473637228
The reissue of four unforgettable books by acclaimed poet, novelist and dissident Irina Ratushinskaya.
If it ever falls to you, my reader (though God forbid!) to see your name written on a prison wall and followed by the letters 'LYMTL', that wi ... more
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£20.99 hardback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781942872528 | ISBN 10: 1942872526
The revelatory memoir of Lezley McSpadden — the mother of Michael Brown, the African-American teenager killed by the police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9, 2014 — sheds light on one of the landmark events in recent histor ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781783783021 | ISBN 10: 1783783028
The daughter of a successful paediatrician and a fashionable socialite, Margo Jefferson spent her childhood among Chicago's black elite. She calls this society 'Negroland': 'a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781447275220 | ISBN 10: 1447275225
With an introduction by Xiaolu Guo
A classic memoir set during the Chinese revolution of the 1940s and inspired by folklore, providing a unique insight into the life of an immigrant in America.
When we Chinese girls listened to the ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781607749769 | ISBN 10: 1607749769
A charmingly illustrated and educational book, Women in Science highlights the contributions of fifty notable women to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) from the ancient to the modern world. Full of striking ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781405918558 | ISBN 10: 1405918551
Spectacles is the hilarious, creative and incredibly moving memoir from much loved comedian, writer and presenter Sue Perkins.
When I began writing this book, I went home to see if my mum had kept some of my stuff. What I found was that she had ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781785031465 | ISBN 10: 1785031465
By the time she was 14, Chrissie Hynde knew she had to get out of Akron, Ohio. Her perfect 50s American childhood upturned by a newly acquired taste for rock n roll, motorbikes and the get down boys seen at gigs in and around Cleveland Mitch R ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780241973035 | ISBN 10: 0241973031
'I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.'
Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781783782727 | ISBN 10: 1783782722
Several years ago, Diana Athill accepted that she could no longer live entirely independently, and moved to a retirement home in Highgate. There, she found herself released from the daily anxieties of caring for her own property, and free to settle i ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781783350537 | ISBN 10: 1783350539
Emily Chappell never meant to be a cycle courier. She planned to earn her living using her mind rather than her legs. She thought it'd be a useful stopgap while searching for a 'real' job. Today, six years on, she's still pedalling. 'It's my most end ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781847178237 | ISBN 10: 1847178235
"A delightful evocation of Irishness and of the author's deep-rooted love of the very fields of home"(Publishers Weekly)
Alice Taylors classic account of growing up in the Irish countryside, the biggest selling book ever published in Ireland.
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£14.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781910593097 | ISBN 10: 1910593095
The remarkable story of Somali Olympian Samia Yusuf Omar.
In 2008, 17-year-old Samia Yusuf Omar stood alongside some of the fastest women in the world on the start line of the Olympic 200m. Four years later, she boarded a refugee boat to Eur ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781447238348 | ISBN 10: 1447238346
For fans of David Sedaris, Tina Fey and Caitlin Moran comes the new book from Jenny Lawson, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Let's Pretend This Never Happened...
In Let's Pretend This Never Happened, Jenny Lawson regaled readers with up ... more
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£3.95 (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780993224713 | ISBN 10: 0993224717
This pamphlet explores the role of women in trade unions, both in the past and in contemporary Britain.
This publication has been made possible by a grant from the Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust and the General Federation of Trade ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781849046602 | ISBN 10: 1849046603
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2014
In 1903 a Brahmin woman sailed from India to Guyana as a coolie, the name the British gave to the million indentured labourers they recruited for sugar plantations worldwide after slavery ended. The woman, ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781405919791 | ISBN 10: 1405919795
In this hilarious and candid memoir about twenty-first-century womanhood, Cherry Healey shares outrageous, poignant and eye-wateringly funny confessions.
"This book is a love letter, to my body. In fact it's several letters - to every part f ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780241976715 | ISBN 10: 0241976715
* * * WINNER OF THE 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS POPULAR NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR * * *
Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life by Nina Stibbe is the laugh-out-loud story of the trials and tribulations of a very particular family.
In 1982 Ni ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780224102346 | ISBN 10: 0224102346
Set against the background of violence and state repression in a turbulent period of French history, The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia chronicles the incredible and outrageous life of Louise Michel, the revolutionary feminist dubbed The Red Vi ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780571278916 | ISBN 10: 0571278914
I've Always Kept a Unicorn tells the story of Sandy Denny, one of the greatest British singers of her time and the first female singer-songwriter to produce a substantial and enduring body of original songs. Sandy Denny laid down the marker for folk ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781785780608 | ISBN 10: 1785780603
Here She Comes Now brings together some of Americas best music writers such as Susan Choi, recipient of the inaugural PEN / W.G. Sebald award, Daniel Walters, whose credits include the screenplay for Heathers, and Alina Simon, whose novel Note to ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408707937 | ISBN 10: 1408707934
A powerful and moving account of the treatment of Raif Badawi, the Saudi blogger sentenced to 1000 lashes, as well as the story of his wife and their family's struggle.
The whole world knows the face of the young man with the bright black ey ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781910463253 | ISBN 10: 1910463256
Aged 30, Sharon Blackie found herself weeping in the car park of the multinational corporation where she worked, wondering if this was what a nervous breakdown felt like. Somewhere along the line, she realised, she had lost herself and so began her ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099592624 | ISBN 10: 0099592622
When eighteen-year-old Billie Holiday stepped into Columbia studios in November of 1933 to record Riffin the Scotch and Your Mothers Son-in-Law, it marked the beginning of what is arguably the most remarkable and important career in twentieth-c ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408859261 | ISBN 10: 1408859262
LONGLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD
Katharine Norbury was abandoned as a baby in a Liverpool convent. Raised by loving adoptive parents, she grew into a wanderer, drawn by the beauty of the British countryside. One summer, following ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781760293260 | ISBN 10: 1760293261
In 1987, 17-year old Niromi de Soyza shocked her middle-class Sri Lankan family by joining the Tamil Tigers. Equipped with a rifle and cyanide capsule she was one of the rebels' first female soldiers. Now married and living in suburban Sydney, this i ... more
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£12.00 hardback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780711237162 | ISBN 10: 0711237166
This beautifully illustrated biography follows Frida Kahlo's exceptional life and work, and celebrates the Mexican icon's immense legacy.
From a young age, Kahlo forged her own path, overcoming polio as a child, and stoically battling the a ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099592396 | ISBN 10: 0099592398
***AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4***
"A gripping account of the heartbreaks and triumphs of two of history's most formidable female intellectuals, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. Gordon has reunited mother and daughter through biography, beautifully ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780349005249 | ISBN 10: 0349005249
Tracey Thorn, musician and author of the bestselling autobiography Bedsit Disco Queen, offers a unique insider's take on the art of singing: why and how we sing, and the voice's power to captivate.
In her bestselling autobiography Bedsit Disco Quee ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784700591 | ISBN 10: 1784700592
In her twenties Alexandra Fuller embarked on a new journey, into a long, tempestuous marriage to Charlie Ross, the love of her life. In this frank, personal memoir, she charts their twenty years together, from the brutal beauty of the Zambezi t ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781551526003 | ISBN 10: 155152600x
A transformative memoir by a queer disabled woman of colour and abuse survivor.
In 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, carrying only two backpacks, caught a Greyhound bus in America and ran away to Canada. She ended up in Toronto, where sh ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781409158295 | ISBN 10: 1409158292
The harrowing account of five women who were confined in Magdalene Laundries in Ireland.
"At the conclusion of my discussions with one group of the Magdalene Women one of those present sang 'Whispering Hope'. A line from that song stays in my mind ... more
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£25.00 hardback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781472908537 | ISBN 10: 1472908538
Dame Beryl Bainbridge was one of the most popular and recognisable English novelists of her generation. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, and her critically acclaimed novels The Dressmaker (1973), The Bottle Factory Outing (1974), ... more
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£20.00 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780752488783 | ISBN 10: 0752488783
Traditionally, a womans place was never on stormy seas. But actually thousands of dancers, purserettes, doctors, stewardesses, captains and conductresses have taken to the waveson everything from floating palaces to battered windjammers. Their darin ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781471135217 | ISBN 10: 1471135217
Born in 1948 into a family of ministers in Kingston, Jamaica, the statuesque and strikingly beautiful Grace Jones lived with her family in Syracuse, NY, before launching a career as a model in New York City. Gaining fame as the cover girl for such pu ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780349007922 | ISBN 10: 0349007926
From the guitarist of the pioneering band Sleater-Kinney, a candid, funny, and deeply personal look at making a life - and finding yourself - in music.
Before Carrie Brownstein became a music icon, she was a young girl growing up in the Pacific Nor ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780571309351 | ISBN 10: 0571309356
There are few artists who inspire such reverence as Kim Gordon. In Girl in a Band she tells with complete openness the story of her family, her work in the visual arts, her move to New York City, the men in her life, her marriage, her relationship wi ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781551525983 | ISBN 10: 1551525984
A funny, poignant graphic novel about a young woman's coming out amidst both Islamic and western cultures.
In this fresh, often funny autobiographical graphic novel, Beldan Sezen depicts her coming of age, and her coming out as lesbian, in bot ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781474602112 | ISBN 10: 1474602118
The highly anticipated memoir of Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl from Pakistan's Swat region who stood up to the Taliban.
I come from a country which was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday.
When the Taliban to ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784780999 | ISBN 10: 1784780995
A graphic novel of the dramatic life and death of German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg.
A giant of the political left, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the foremost minds in the canon of revolutionary socialist thought. But she was much more than just ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781859643969 | ISBN 10: 1859643965
Hannah Lowe's father "Chick", a half-Chinese, half-black Jamaican immigrant, worked long hours at night to support his family - except Chick was no ordinary working man. A legendary gambler, he would vanish into the shadows of East London to win at c ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408852897 | ISBN 10: 1408852896
Unrestrained by convention, lion-hearted and free, Eleanor Marx (1855-98) was an exceptional woman. Hers was the first English translation of Flaubert's Mme Bovary. She pioneered the theatre of Henrik Ibsen. She was the first woman to lead the Britis ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241964439 | ISBN 10: 0241964431
Winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
"One of the most shamefully under-read great British authors of the past 100 years"(Sarah Waters)
The poet Sylvia Townsend Warner rose to sudden fame with the publication of her classic feminist novel Lol ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781472912916 | ISBN 10: 1472912918
When Marie Marvingt decided to ride the 1908 Tour de France she was told 'absolument, non!' by M. Degranges and the Societe du Tour de France. Instead she rode each stage 15 minutes after the official race had departed and finished all 4,488 kms of t ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784871253 | ISBN 10: 1784871257
Emmeline Pankhurst grew up all too aware of the prevailing attitude of her day: that men were considered superior to women. When she was just fourteen she attended her first suffrage meeting, and returned home a confirmed suffragist. Throughout the c ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781473616257 | ISBN 10: 1473616255
An international bestseller, this is the extraordinary and moving memoir of a woman who learns that her grandfather was Amon Goeth, the brutal Nazi commandant depicted in Schindler's List.
When Jennifer Teege, a German-Nigerian woman, happ ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780143107378 | ISBN 10: 0143107372
The writings of one of the great woman adventurers of the twentieth century - the 'female Lawrence of Arabia' - and the subject of a new film starring Nicole Kidman.
In the last century, few people lived more astounding - or influential - li ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780306821202 | ISBN 10: 0306821206
The story of the Salem Witch Trials told through the lives of six women.
Six Women of Salem is the first work to use the lives of a select number of representative women as a microcosm to illuminate the larger crisis of the Salem witch trial ... more
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