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Strong Female Character - by Fern Brady

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

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

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

£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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Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain - by Margaret Willson

£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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The Girl from Lamaha Street - by Sharon Maas

£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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Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels - by Sara Gibbs

£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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Fearless: A Story of Love, Loss and The Midnight Sun - by Catrina Davies

£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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Becoming - by Michelle Obama

£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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Born Lippy: How to Do Female - by Jo Brand

£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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Notes to Self: Essays - by Emilie Pine

£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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This Woman's Work - by Julie Delporte

£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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Questions I Am Asked About the Holocaust - by Hédi Fried, translated by Alice E. Olsson

£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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Alice in Westminster: The Political Life of Alice Bacon - by Rachel Reeves

£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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First Time Ever: A Memoir - by Peggy Seeger

£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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Forgotten Women: The Scientists - by Zing Tsjeng

£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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Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy - by Coretta Scott King and Rev. Dr. Barbara Reynolds

£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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Beryl Bainbridge: Love by All Sorts of Means: A Biography - by Brendan King

£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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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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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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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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£12.00 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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Traditionally, a woman�s 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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Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography - by Claire Harman

£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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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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