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Patti Smith Winner of the 2010 Non-Fiction National Book Award Patti Smith's evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age story of her extraordinary relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe | Rebecca Skloot The internationally bestselling story of a young woman whose death in 1951 changed medical science for ever ... |
Ayaan Hirsi Ali A vivid memoir telling the story of Hirsi Ali's life in America as she reconciles the contradictions of her Islamic past and her enlightenment beliefs | Germaine Greer A new cover re-issue of the ground-breaking, worldwide bestselling feminist tract. |
Mary Seacole; Sara Salih Written in 1857, this is the autobiography of a Jamaican woman whose fame rivalled Florence Nightingale's during the Crimean War. Seacole travelled widely before eventually arriving in London, where her... | Eve Ensler A phenomenon: a play that has changed thousands of lives and inspired a dynamic new women's movement With a foreword by Gloria Steinem |
Mark Bostridge Whether honoured and admired or criticized and ridiculed, Florence Nightingale has invariably been misrepresented and misunderstood. As the Lady with the Lamp, ministering to the wounded and dying of Crimean... | Claire Wilcox 'You have a much better life if you wear impressive clothes', according to Vivienne Westwood. A global icon, Vivienne Westwood's career has spanned three decades from the early days of... |
Annie Leibovitz The most celebrated photographer of our time discusses portraiture, fashion photography, lighting, and digital cameras. Leibovitz describes how her pictures were made, starting with Richard Nixon's resignation and ending with... | Wangari Maathai Presents a story, spanning different worlds and changing times, and revealing what the courage, determination, tenacity and humour of one good woman can achieve; how as small a thing as... |
Aung San Suu Kyi Reveals the impact of political decisions on the people of Burma, from the terrible cost to the children of imprisoned dissidents - allowed to see their parents for only fifteen... | Arundhati Roy What happens once democracy has been used up? When it has been hollowed out and emptied of meaning? This title provides an exploration of the political picture in India. It... |
Mary S. Lovell A revealing - amusing and sad - biography of a unique family | Temple Grandin A groundbreaking book from one of the world's most celebrated animal scientists that will revolutionise our understanding of how animals think and feel |
David Brun-Lambert The epic story behind the composer of some of the best-known popular songs. | Susan Sontag A selection from Susan Sontag's diaries (from 1947-1963) that takes us from early adolescence though to when Sontag was in her early thirties. It is an honest self-portrait which is... |