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This memoir by the political campaigner and Booker-winning author of God of Small Things, centres on her relationship with her mother.

Mother Mary Comes to Me

Arundhati Roy

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Shines a light on Maria of Modena and the circle of remarkable women she gathered around her (including Sarah Churchill, Queen Anne's 'favourite'). Educated and dynamic, they contrast sharpl... read more

The Graces: The Extraordinary Untold Lives of Women at the Restoration ...

Breeze Barrington

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From neolithic farming to modern computing: women as creators of wealth.

Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth and Power ...

Victoria Bateman

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A meticulous, fascinating account of the labour, scandal and chicanery beneath the fortunes of nine heiresses and their influence in politics and art.

Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance and Caribbean Slavery ...

Miranda Kaufmann

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After a penurious childhood in Liverpool and an unhappy stint in the merchant navy, AA became a model and socialite - until her success and jobs dried up after being outed in the press. She ... read more

Bonjour, Mademoiselle!: April Ashley and the Pursuit of a Lovely Life ...

Jacqueline Kent

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A biography of an extraordinary and tenacious woman - the Victorian proto-feminist who campaigned for women's education, rights and suffrage, and for the abolition of child prostitution and ... read more

When Courage Calls: Josephine Butler and the Radical Pursuit of Justic ...

Sarah Williams

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Clever and elegant, this dons' delight (Bowra, Berlin, Cecil) was a niece of Winston Churchill, a friend of Beaton, Berners, Connolly, Waugh, Garbo and Korda. She married the much older Anth... read more

Clarissa: Muse to Power, The Untold Story of Clarissa Eden, Countess o ...

Hugo Vickers

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From WW2, when her father-in-law Winston Churchill engaged her as a 'secret weapon', to her later support of Bill Clinton, Harriman was an extraordinarily powerful force in political and soc... read more

Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Seduc ...

Sonia Purnell

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Her year in China in 1924 has hitherto been not simply mysterious but invoked by the British Establishment as proof of Wallis's immoral character. This serious book by the author of Midnight... read more

Her Lotus Year: China, The Roaring Twenties and the Making of Wallis S ...

Paul French

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Who were 'The Flappers'? A generation of women who broke with social conventions; exotic, often despairing, and influential. By the author of the excellent Tales from the Colony Room: Soho's... read more

Queens of Bohemia: And Other Miss-Fits

Darren Coffield

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A novel based on the life of Mary Wortley Montagu.

A Woman of Opinion

Sean Lusk

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The distinguished historian uses neglected sources to present CdeM as a much-traduced campaigner for the peaceful coexistence of Catholics and Protestants, and as a patroness of the arts.

Catherine de’ Medici: The Life and Times of the Serpent Queen ...

Mary Hollingsworth

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Looks back to a group of brave women in the later C18th and onwards - at a time when women had no property and no rights: Elizabeth Montagu, who took on Voltaire and won; Catherine Macauley,... read more

Bluestockings: The First Women’s Movement

Susannah Gibson

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A characteristically particular and original look at social change from the author of the hugely successful Terms & Conditions: Life in Girls' Boarding Schools, 1939-1979 and others.

Jobs for the Girls: How We Set Out to Work in the Typewriter Age ...

Ysenda Maxtone Graham

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The first biography of one of the most important women in C20th British politics; Lady Forkbender - as Private Eye used to call her - was Harold Wilson's political secretary and ran Downing ... read more

Marcia: The Life of Lady Falkender

Linda McDougall

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From the author of The White King, the excellent book on her HM's uxorious husband.

Henrietta Maria: Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen ...

Leanda de Lisle

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Mathilde Carre joined the French Resistance in 1940 but was captured by the Germans a year later and betrayed her network. She survived working as as a double agent and then - possibly - a t... read more

Victoire: A Wartime Story of Resistance, Collaboration and Betrayal ...

Roland Philipps

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Vice President Harris, lawyer and consummate politician, is the daughter of two graduate immigrants, born in segregated California in 1964.

Kamala’s Way

Dan Morain

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A global anthology of poems, novels, memoirs and manifestos.

The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing

Hannah Dawson

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