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Two women, torn apart by war. One shared belief in the power of books... London, 1939. When war breaks out on librarian Joyce Kindred's doorstep and a call for help rings out across the libraries of London, she's determined to act. Joyce knows only the world of books can offer safety and comfort...

A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2025, as chosen by Martin Wolf 'Economica is an epic story . . . an important retelling of global economic history that puts women at the centre . . . Bateman is a great storyteller . . . a rare, long-term perspective on gender equality' - Financial Times 'This...

'One brilliant woman writing about so many other brilliant women, this is a wonderful treasure chest of women’s lives, full of wit, verve and emotion . . . Epic, unputdownable, gripping. I loved it’ - Professor Kate Williams “My hope is that this book will inspire as I have been inspired...

The incredible true story of Ana Montes, the most damaging female spy in US history, drawing upon never-before-seen material and to be published upon her release from prison, for readers of Agent Sonya and A Woman of No Importance. 'This spy tale reads like a new season of Homeland - except this...

Bloomsbury presents Sophia by Anita Anand, read by Tania Rodrigues. In 1876 Sophia Duleep Singh was born into Indian royalty. Her father, Maharajah Duleep Singh, was heir to the Kingdom of the Sikhs, one of the greatest empires of the Indian subcontinent, a realm that stretched from the lush...

Black women physicians’ stories have gone untold for far too long, leaving gaping holes in American medical history, in women’s history, and in black history. It’s time to set the record straight No real account of black women physicians in the US exists, and what little mention is made of...

An entertaining romp through Australian history that celebrates the badass sheroes we were never taught about in school and who deserve to be printed on our money, goddamn it! It's been said that 'well-behaved women seldom make history', but the handful of white boys who wrote our history books...

Exploring more than 100 of the most important ideas, organizations, and events to have defined the feminist movement, this is an essential introduction to feminism. Joining DK's bestselling Big Ideas series, The Feminism Book, narrated by Antonia Beamish, is a complete study of feminism. Trace...

Stephanie Racine narrates Women: Our History, which re-examines history from a female perspective. This audiobook celebrates the numerous important roles women have played in culture and society that are less often told. Packed full of evocative facts, and with a foreword by Lucy Worsley, this...

This is a history of the Second World War - as you have never heard it before. Dancer, singer and intelligence agent Josephine Baker German Nazi pianist Elly Ney British pianist Myra Hess Composer Avril Coleridge-Taylor Ballerina Tatiana Vecheslova Violinist Alma Rosé, conductor of the...

What makes a truly great eulogy? We need an exceptional life, made remarkable in some way - be it colourful, fruitful or meaningful. And then we need someone uniquely and perfectly placed to speak well of the dead. Having scoured the recent past for the funeral address's most powerful iterations...

What happens when a missing child leads one woman into a hidden world of corruption, murder, and child trafficking? RUN RUBY RUN: Inspired by True Crimes by Jean Thompson Kinsey, grippingly narrated by Catherine Divaris, and produced and published by Audiobook Publishing Services, is a powerful historical fiction and crime suspense audiobook inspired by the real-life crimes surrounding the notorious Tennessee Children’s Home Society and Georgia Tann.

Women Who Carried Ghosts follows fifteen women across twenty-five centuries—from a Roman atrium where a queen's body became the foundation of a republic, to a Nazi concentration camp where a young spy took her secrets to the grave. Between them: a pirate queen who refused to curtsy before Elizabeth I, an opera singer who burned down a convent for the woman she loved, Soviet pilots the Germans called "Night Witches," and the survivors of the siege of Leningrad who kept diaries in the dark while the city starved.

An award-winning young scholar explores how Black women have remade—and continue to remake—our understanding of the past. Across centuries, Black women have invented means to preserve what official history could not: friendship albums, kitchen-table philosophy, blogs, playlists, oral...

A bold investigation into how the beauty myth became the West's most seductive form of control hiding in plain sight In this explosive investigation, researcher and writer Saskia Alaïs exposes the hidden machinery of the beauty economy, detonating the old beauty myth and revealing what replaced...

What queens would England have had if firstborn daughters, not firstborn sons, had inherited the throne? We may think of princesses as dutiful, marital conveniences to build alliances, wearing long flowing dresses, but the eldest daughters of our kings have been very different. Political...

On 17 July 1918, four young women walked down twenty-three steps into the cellar of a house in Ekaterinburg. The eldest was twenty-two, the youngest only seventeen. Together with their parents and their thirteen-year-old brother, they were all brutally murdered. Their crime: to be the daughters...

'A thought-provoking, discursive survey by Mona Chollet, a bright light of Francophone feminism' – The New York Times 'Rousing . . . a very interesting take on contemporary feminist politics' – Irish Times A source of terror, a misogynistic image of woman inherited from the trials and the...

In Captive Queen: The Decrypted History of Mary, Queen of Scots, Jade Scott, a historian and expert on Mary’s correspondence, draws on hundreds of her encrypted letters to paint a vivid portrait of her years in captivity. A fascinating and revealing new biography of Mary Queen of Scots in...

Battlefields have always contained a surprising number of women. Tracing the long history of female fighters, Forgotten Warriors puts the record straight, exploring how war became an all-male space, and getting to the bottom of why women were allowed to be astronauts a full thirty years before they were allowed to fight in combat.