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A Novel
by Paula McLain
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by Maggie Shipstead
Published Apr 2022
Read ReviewsAn unforgettable story of a daredevil female aviator determined to chart her own course in life, at any cost - Great Circle spans Prohibition-era Montana, the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, New Zealand, wartime London, and modern-day Los Angeles.
by M.J. Rose, Fiona Davis
Published Mar 2022
Read ReviewsStories from Suffragette City is a collection of short stories that all take place on a single day: October 23, 1915.
The Blind Astronomer's Daughter
by John Pipkin
Published Sep 2017
Read ReviewsA novel of the obsessions of the age: scientific inquiry, geographic discovery, political reformation, but above all, astronomy, the mapping of the solar system and beyond. It is a novel of the quest for knowledge and for human connection - rich, far-reaching, and unforgettable.
by Laurie Notaro
Published Jun 2017
Read ReviewsSoar back to the fearless 1920s with #1 New York Times bestselling writer Laurie Notaro - beloved author of The Idiot Girls' Action Adventure Club - in a stunning historical novel that tells the true, little-known story of three aviatrixes in a race to be the first woman to fly across the Atlantic.
by Liza Klaussmann
Published Jun 2016
Read ReviewsA dazzling novel set in the French Riviera based on the real-life inspirations for F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is The Night.
by Amy Stewart
Published May 2016
Read ReviewsAn enthralling novel based on the forgotten true adventures of one of the nation's first female deputy sheriffs.
by Jennifer McVeigh
Published Feb 2014
Read ReviewsThe Fever Tree is a compelling portrait of colonial South Africa, its raw beauty and deprivation alive in equal measure.
by André Brink
Published Feb 2013
Read ReviewsIn Philida, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, André Brink"one of South Africa's greatest novelists" (The Telegraph)gives us his most powerful novel yet; the truly unforgettable story of a female slave, and her fierce determination to survive and to be free.
by Paula McLain
Published Nov 2012
Read ReviewsA deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, The Paris Wife captures a remarkable period of time and a love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley.
by Robyn Scott
Published Mar 2009
Read ReviewsA glorious new voice on Africa, Robyn Scott's adventures growing up in Botswana in a loving but eccentric family will be one of the season's most talked-about memoirs
by Michelle Moran
Published May 2008
Read ReviewsLove, betrayal, political unrest, plague, and religious conflict Nefertiti brings ancient Egypt to life in vivid detail. Fast-paced and historically accurate, it is the dramatic story of two unforgettable women living through a remarkable period in history.
by Wangari Maathai
Published Sep 2007
Read ReviewsHugely charismatic, humble, and possessed of preternatural luminosity of spirit, Wangari Maathai, recounts her extraordinary life as a political activist, feminist, and environmentalist in Kenya.
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