International Women's Day 8th March 2025

A selection of Fiction and non-fiction titles for adult readers as we promote and celebrate International Women's Day (IWD) 8th March 2025.

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IWD belongs to all who care about women's equality.

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Updated March 7, 2025
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My thoughts exactly
Allen, Lily
Paper Book
So, this is me. Lily Allen. I am a woman. I am a mother. I was a wife. I drink. I have taken drugs. I have loved and been let down. I am a success and a failure. I am a songwriter. I am a singer. I am all these things and more. ...
I want to die but I want to eat tteokbokki
Paek, Se-hŭi
Paper Book
The internationally bestselling therapy memoir translated by International Booker shortlistee Anton Hur. PSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you? ME: I don't know, I'm-what's the word-depressed? Do I have to go into detail? Baek Sehee is a...
Women & power : a manifesto
Beard, Mary
Paper Book
Mary Beard's feminist manifesto.
Becoming
Obama, Michelle
Paper Book
An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States   #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WATCH THE EMMY-NOMINATED NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY * OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER * ONE OF...
Butter
Yuzuki, Asako
Paper Book
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING SENSATION WINNER OF WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2025 A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK 'A full-fat, Michelin-starred treat' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'A...
I am an island
Calidas, Tamsin
Paper Book
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Memoir of the year' - Vogue 'A wondrous, sensuous memoir of salt-stung survival . . . clear-eyed and poetic prose' Sunday Times 'A fascinating memoir' - Daily Mail
The silence factory
Collins, Bridget
Paper Book
*PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY OF BRIDGET COLLINS' STUNNING NEW NOVEL, THE NAKED LIGHT* The Sunday Times bestseller, from the author of The Binding 'Utterly original... ensnared me from the very first page' EMILIA HART 'Storytelling at its most immersive' ERIN KELLY The whole...
Her Majesty's Royal Coven : a novel
Dawson, Juno
Paper Book
"Superb and almost unbearably charming, Her Majesty's Royal Coven... expertly launches an exciting new trilogy." --The New York Times Book Review   "Talk about a gut punch of a novel. ...A provocative exploration of intersectional feminism,...
The shadow cabinet
Dawson, Juno
Paper Book
The follow-up to the sensational #1 Sunday Times bestseller Her Majesty's Royal Coven All is not as it seems within the halls of Her Majesty's Royal Coven... Despite thinking they've thwarted the prophecy, the witches are still reeling from the events of the past few...
Gentleman Jack : the biography of Anne Lister, regency landowner, seducer and secret diarist
Steidele, Angela
Ebook
Anne Lister was a wealthy Yorkshire heiress, a world traveller and an out lesbian during the Regency era - a time when it was difficult simply to be female. She wrote her diary in code derived from Ancient Greek, including details of her liaisons with women. Liberated by her money, she remained...
The wren, the wren
Enright, Anne
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE WRITERS' PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024 TAKE FLIGHT WITH THE IRRESISTIBLE NEW NOVEL FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE WINNER 'A magnificent novel' SALLY ROONEY Nell is a young woman with adventure on her mind. As she sets out into the world,...
More than a woman
Moran, Caitlin
Paper Book
A Good Morning America Book Pick The author of the international bestseller How to Be a Woman returns with another "hilarious neo-feminist manifesto" (NPR) in which she reflects on parenting, middle-age, marriage, existential crises--and, of course, feminism. A decade ago,...
Face it
Harry, Debbie
Paper Book
'I was saying things in songs that female singers didn't really say back then. I wasn't submissive or begging him to come back, I was kicking his ass, kicking him out, kicking my own ass too. My Blondie character was an inflatable doll but with a dark, provocative, aggressive side. I was playing...
It's not about the burqa : Muslim women on faith, feminism, sexuality and race
Khan, Mariam
Paper Book
An anthology of essays by Muslim women about the contemporary Muslim female experience.In 2016, Mariam Khan read that British Prime Minister David Cameron had linked the radicalization of Muslim men to the "traditional submissiveness" of Muslim women. Mariam felt pretty sure she didn't know a...
Guest house for young widows : among the women of ISIS
Moaveni, Azadeh
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON FICTION AND THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE. A GUARDIANAND OBSERVERBOOK OF THE YEAR. An intimate, deeply reported account of the women who made a shocking decision: to leave their comfortable lives behind and...
Endell Street : the trailblazing women who ran World War One's most remarkable military hospital
Moore, Wendy
Paper Book
The forgotten and inspiring story of a London hospital during the First World War which was staffed entirely by women.
Forgotten women : the scientists
Tsjeng, Zing
Paper Book
Forgotten Women is a new series of books that uncover the lost herstories of influential women who have refused over hundreds of years to accept the hand theyve been dealt and, as a result, have formed, shaped and changed the course of our futures. From leaders and scientists to artists and writers,...

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