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From Stephanie Land, critically acclaimed author of bestselling memoirs Maid and Class, a series of autobiographical essays based on the bureaucratic forms that shaped her life. An exploration of the trauma of poverty and finding hope in the face of an American system increasingly devoid of...

From an acclaimed New Yorker writer, The Comet is the thrilling true story of Dédée de Jongh, the young woman who led a crucial World War II escape network, risking her life to rescue hundreds of Allied airmen. During the Second World War, there was no more dangerous activity for a civilian in...

A luminous and deeply relatable essay collection about the transformative first decade of motherhood, for readers of Mary Laura Philpott and Maggie Smith. I may not have had a job, but I had never had more work to do. With humor, vulnerability, and lyrical precision, Caroline Langerman...

A multigenerational memoir of working-class womanhood in 20th century Britain, centring on the extraordinary family history of one of our greatest living novelists - Pat Barker Patricia Margaret Drake was not a wanted child. Born in 1943 in the working-class north-east of England, her arrival...

Read by the author. What we need is a little more love. A little more hope. And a lot more Warwick, please. From six-time Grammy Award–winning musical icon and global ambassador Dionne Warwick comes What the World Needs Now—a compilation of essays and affirmations to bring hope and peace to...

Discover the real-life magic behind Eva Ibbotson’s beloved stories in this unique and moving biography. Eva Ibbotson’s classic books – full of warmth, wit, and yearning – have captivated readers for generations. Bestselling author Laura Wood is one of her biggest fans, and in this...

The unmissable memoir of a life at the heart of 60s culture – from Lennon and McCartney, to the Mersey Beat Poets and more. Who was John Lennon’s first girlfriend? Who is the only woman to have dated Lennon and McCartney? And Tom Wolfe. And Anthony ‘Madchester’ Wilson. And married Roger...

Unquiet Women is an exquisitely crafted patchwork of the forgotten lives of some of the most remarkable women in history. History is polyphonic; it must be told by many voices. In Unquiet Women, Max Adams brings to life the voices and experiences of women living between the last days of Rome and...

A raw, exhilarating memoir of life at the frontier of punk music, from the inimitable bassist of 90s punk rock legends L7, Jennifer Finch. Jennifer Finch ran away from an unstable home at the age of twelve. She turned to hustling and drug dealing before migrating to the streets of LA’s 80s...

The extraordinary activism of towering literary figure and great American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe, after publishing the novel that changed American history. Alone among American novels, Uncle Tom’s Cabin forever changed the social fabric of the United States. It sold more than a million...

From Jennifer Finch (1966-2026), the bassist of L7, comes a disarmingly candid memoir that stands apart from the rest with its grounded perspective and bracing, edgy wisdom. If overcoming obstacles makes for great art, then Jennifer Finch was the consummate artist. She was a recovering addict, a...

The story of how America’s garden clubs became an unexpected force for social change—powered by a diverse cast of extraordinary women with big personalities, fabulous hats, and dirt under their fingernails who fought for suffrage, civil rights, environmental justice, and more. During World...

A book about running. And not running. Like many modern women, Emma Campbell has spent her whole life ‘running’: to keep up, to hold everything together, ‘running’ because the alternative, slowing down or (god forbid) stopping is actually quite terrifying. It took her third cancer...

READ BY THE AUTHOR In this humorous yet deeply earnest reflection on love and relationships, the author of How to Date Men When You Hate Men and America the Beautiful? explores one of life’s greatest trials: actually loving a man. In her twenties, Blythe Roberson was a woman who exclusively...

A marriage memoir from the bestselling author of Bringing Up Bébé On the eve of her fiftieth birthday, Pamela Druckerman’s life has stalled. She was in her early thirties when she moved to Paris, married a dashing fellow journalist, and became a celebrated author. Yet now, it’s her husband...

Ten years after her E! reality TV show Rob & Chyna aired, the entrepreneur and actress formerly known as Blac Chyna is subverting expectations and sharing where her faith walk leads her. For years, Angela White’s public persona and private life was that of the Kardashian-adjacent Blac Chyna...

What kind of mother gives up her son? Bernadette Murphy grew up the “miracle child” of her immigrant Irish Catholic family, arriving unexpectedly after her mother’s difficulty conceiving and her parents’ adoption of her older brother. Three more siblings followed, and as her once-glamorous mother sank deeper into depression, and her father struggled to support the family, Bernadette was forced to grow up quickly and care for her brothers and sister.

A memoir-in-vignettes recalling a poet's early years and memories from a literary household. More than a consecutive memoir, The Fair Fields presents a set of linked vignettes about what it was like to grow up in a white, liberal, literary household in Connecticut in the 1950s and early 1960s...

Pulitzer Prize Board citation to Ida B. Wells, as an early pioneer of investigative journalism and civil rights icon From a thinker who Maya Angelou has praised for shining “a brilliant light on the lives of women left in the shadow of history,” comes the definitive biography of Ida B...

A landmark biography of a singular and important Australian photographer, Olive Cotton, by an award-winning writer - beautifully written and deeply moving. Winner 2022 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, Non Fiction Award Winner of the 2020 Canberra Critics' Circle Award for Biography...