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Women's Biography and Autobiography - Recently published women's biographies. (To keep this list from getting too long, we remove older titles from it every so often - but you'll still find them in other booklists according to their subject)
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There are 224 books in this booklist
£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.
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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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£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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£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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£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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£16.99 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529107784 | ISBN 10: 1529107784
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.
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£20.00 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781911630234 | ISBN 10: 1911630237
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 (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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£16.99 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529379853 | ISBN 10: 1529379857
"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 relati ... 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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£8.99 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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£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.
... more
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£14.99 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241534991 | ISBN 10: 0241534992
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 revol ... more
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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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£12.99 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780571367733 | ISBN 10: 0571367739
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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£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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£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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£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: 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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£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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£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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£20.00 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780863563133 | ISBN 10: 0863563139
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 (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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£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781474610056 | ISBN 10: 1474610056
Nobel Peace Prize winner and bestselling author Malala Yousafzai introduces some of the faces behind the statistics and news stories we read or hear every day about the millions of people displaced worldwide.
Malala’s experiences visiting refu ... more
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£9.99 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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£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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£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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£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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£9.99 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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£8.99 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.
... more
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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: 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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£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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£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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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786894229 | ISBN 10: 178689422x
WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2016
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME PRIZE 2016
When Amy Liptrot returns to Orkney after more than a decade away, she is drawn back to the Outrun on the sheep farm where she grew up. Approaching the land that was ... 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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£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).
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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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£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: 9780571336807 | ISBN 10: 0571336809
Born in New York City in 1935, Peggy Seeger enjoyed a childhood steeped in music and politics. Her father was the noted musicologist Charles Seeger; her mother, the modernist composer Ruth Crawford; and her brother Pete, the celebrated writer of prot ... 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)
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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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£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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£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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£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