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One woman's extraordinary personal journey in the United States military and her triumphant effort to honor her predecessors with the Congressional Gold Medal Looking back on her remarkable career, Retired Army Colonel Edna W. Cummings can justly say that "the odds ain't good, but good stuff...

‘Emma’s moving and beautifully written memoir shows us that running isn't about pace or marathons; it’s about reclaiming your joy, your strength and yourself' – Bryony Gordon A book about running. And not running. Like many modern women, Emma Campbell has spent her whole life...

Who was Anaïs Nin? To some, she was a towering literary figure, whose late-life fame following the publication of her diaries changed the reading habits of a generation. To others, she was a failed novelist, better known for her affair with Henry Miller. Readers might know her best for her...

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.

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 Drucker-man’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...

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...

In the heart of Idaho's Salmon River Mountains, a woman unknowingly begins what becomes a journey of understanding. Haunted by personal loss and the complex history of the American West, she seeks beauty and understanding at alpine lakes, beside wild rivers, crosscountry skiing, on trails, and...

From the tennis court to the boxing ring, the athletics track to the football pitch, the visibility of women in sport has been gathering pace. Women's competitions are increasingly popular. In Roar Sam takes a deep dive into the experiences of some of sport's most high-profile female athletes -...

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...

'Boundaries might be an Angrez thing, [my mother] says. We Indians don't do boundaries, I'm sure of it. We're all still haunted by the ghosts of Partition. We would never create our own.' Think about what women choose to cut out or overlook as they approach the deep end of adulthood: Dessert...

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...

From historian Hayley Nolan comes the explosive narrative of an audacious young girl who conned her way to the center of King Henry VIII’s divorce scandal and went head-to-head with Anne Boleyn. This gripping new analysis tells of how Elizabeth Barton, a poverty-stricken housemaid-turned-nun...

You already know it in your gut: this isn't you. You just haven't said it out loud yet.Maybe you've been called troubled. Too much. Difficult. The one who'd never amount to anything. Maybe you've done everything you were supposed to do, built the career, earned the paycheck, created the...

"We tell these parts of our stories in order to heal from hurt and honor the ways we have been healing." ―Patrice Gopo, from the introduction Can Black women have thriving friendships with white women in a society steeped in the realities of racism? Can such friendships experience the presence...

An Original Audiobook Production by W. F. Howes. One in three women will experience physical or sexual violence—often at the hands of someone they know. But safety goes far deeper than direct violence. In this investigative documentary, Cherry Healey explores the hidden systems that shape...

The stories of America’s unsung computing women, brought out of the shadows and into their rightful place in the history of technology. The dearth of women in our histories of technology cannot be overstated. In Queens of Code, author and one of the female pioneers of computer science Eileen...

One of our most brilliant biographers illuminates the life and work of an incomparable, extraordinary and fascinating novelist. “Hermione Lee is a literary life-writer par excellence.” —The Atlantic Anita Brookner is famous for her quiet, incisive studies of solitary and emotionally...

A searing account of the personal cold case that plunged journalist, private investigator, and podcast host Catherine Townsend (Hell and Gone and Red Collar) into the world of true crime, exposing the hidden rules that govern murder investigations­—and the ones you must break to get to the...