#CrackingTheCode: Non Fiction

General Non Fiction

Updated February 26, 2023
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(M)otherhood : On the choices of being a woman
Agarwal, Pragya.
Paper Book
Part memoir and reflective analysis, Pragya Agarwal examines motherhood and fertility and how it shapes all our lives.
Fight like a girl
Ford, Clementine
Paper Book
  'This rallying cry will persuade you to battle for true equality' Stylist An incendiary debut taking the world by storm, Fight Like A Girl is an essential manifesto for feminists new, old and soon-to-be.
A secret sisterhood : the hidden friendships of Austen, Bront©±, Eliot and Woolf
Midorikawa, Emily
Paper Book
'In digging up the forgotten friendships chronicled in A Secret Sisterhood, Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney have done much service to literary history.' Margaret  Atwood   'A Secret Sisterhood will...
A thousand ships
Haynes, Natalie
Paper Book
Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020One of the Guardian's 'Best Books of 2019''With her trademark passion, wit, and fierce feminism, Natalie Haynes gives much-needed voice to the silenced women of the Trojan War' - Madeline Miller, author of CirceIn A Thousand Ships, broadcaster and...
A woman looking at men looking at women : essays on art, sex, and the mind
Hustvedt, Siri
Paper Book
Ambition redefined : why the corner office doesn't work for every woman & what to do instead
Sollman, Kathryn
Paper Book
"This is the playbook for how to get flexibility in your career." - Molly Beck, author, Reach Out and founder of MessyBun.com "Critical advice for women when the traditional office job doesn't fit family life." - Meredith Bodgas, Editor-in-Chief, Working Mother magazine...
Hag : forgotten folktales retold
Fačy, Bernard
Paper Book
'Engaging, modern fables with a feminist tang' Sunday Times DARK, POTENT AND UNCANNY, HAG BURSTS WITH THE UNTOLD STORIES OF OUR ISLES, CAPTURED IN VOICES AS VARIED AS THEY ARE VIVID. Here are sisters fighting for the love of the same...
I am Malala : the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban
Yousafzai, Malala
Paper Book
Born lippy : how to do female
Brand, Jo
Paper Book
Boudicca : brilliant biographies of the dead famous
Harrison, Paul
Paper Book
Read all about the Queen of the Iceni tribe, Boudicca, who led a rebellion against Roman rule that is still remembered to this day! From when she crowned Queen on the death of her husband, to her great battle against the Roman Army in which thousands were killed, and in which she was ultimately...
Catch and kill : lies, spies, and a conspiracy to protect predators
Farrow, Ronan
Paper Book
Dear Ijeawele : a feminist manifesto in fifteen suggestions
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Paper Book
From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today - written as a letter to a friend. A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise her...
Difficult women : a history of feminism in 11 fights
Lewis, Helen
Paper Book
*A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES AND DAILY TELEGRAPH* *SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* *BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK* *SHORTLISTED IN THE 2020 PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS* ...
Equal Power: And How You Can Make It Happen
Swinson, Jo
Ebook
A practical call to arms that challenges the persistent inequality of power between men and women.
Fat is a feminist issue
Orbach, Susie
Paper Book
THE ORIGINAL ANTI-DIET BOOK IS BACK - in one volume together with its best-selling sequel. When it was first published, Fat Is A Feminist Issuebecame an instant classic and it is as relevant today as it was then. Updated throughout, it includes a frank new...
Everywoman : one woman's truth about speaking the truth
Phillips, Jess
Paper Book
'Joyfully candid and very funny.' Guardian 'Jess Phillips knows the truth . . . and here she shows how scary and sad as well as joyful and liberating the answers can be.' Damian Barr 'Everywoman has all the laughs [of Lena Dunham and...
Gender : a graphic guide
Barker, Meg-John
Paper Book
`An outstanding work¿ ¿ CN Lester, author of Trans Like Me Join the creators of Queer: A Graphic History (`Could totally change the way you think about sex and gender¿ VICE) on an illustrated journey of gender exploration. Is masculinity `toxic¿? Why are public toilets such a political issue? How...
Give birth like a feminist : your body your baby your choices
Hill, Milli
Paper Book
As featured on BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 5 Live Selected as one of the Independent's 10 best pregnancy books for expectant parents Birth is a feminist issue. It's the feminist issue nobody's talking about. For too long women have been told, 'a healthy baby is...
Her again : becoming Meryl Streep
Schulman, Michael
Paper Book
A portrait of Meryl Streep that explores her beginnings as a young woman of the 1970s grappling with love, feminism, and her astonishing talent.
How it was
Ellis, Janet, (Novelist)
Paper Book
'IMMERSIVE, AMAZING, REMARKABLE' MARIAN KEYES 'WONDERFUL' EMMA KENNEDY 'JANET ELLIS WRITES WITH TENDERNESS AND WISDOM' ERIN KELLY 'AN ATMOSPHERIC, CLEVER NOVEL THAT WILL GET UNDER YOUR SKIN' RED Marion Deacon sits by the hospital bed of...
I know why the caged bird sings
Angelou, Maya.
Paper Book
It's not about the burqa : Muslim women on faith, feminism, sexuality and race
Khan, Mariam
Paper Book
When was the last time you heard a Muslim woman speak for herself without a filter? It's Not About the Burqa is an anthology of essays by Muslim women about the contemporary Muslim female experience. Now in paperback.In 2016, Mariam Khan read that David Cameron had linked the...
Make more noise!
Carroll, Emma
Paper Book
An incredible collection of brand new short stories, from ten of the UK's very best storytellers, celebrating inspirational girls and women, being published to commemorate the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage in the UK.
Let her fly : a father's journey and the fight for equality
Yousafzai, Ziauddin
Paper Book
In this intimate and extraordinary memoir, Ziauddin Yousafzai, the father of Malala, gives a moving account of fatherhood and his lifelong fight for equality - proving there are many faces of feminism. "Whenever anybody has asked me how Malala became who she is, I...
Living a feminist life
Ahmed, Sara
Paper Book
In Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist at home and at work. Building on legacies of feminist of color scholarship in particular, Ahmed offers a poetic and personal meditation on how...
Malala's magic pencil
Yousafzai, Malala
Paper Book
** Shortlisted for the Little Rebels Children's Book Award! ** As a child in Pakistan, Malala made a wish for a magic pencil that she could use to redraw reality. She would use it to give gifts to her family, to erase the smell from the rubbish dump near her house, to sleep an...
My body
Ratajkowski, Emily
Paper Book
*THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* A deeply honest investigation of what it means to be a woman and a commodity from Emily Ratajkowski, the archetypal, multi-hyphenate celebrity of our time. _____________...
My life in full
Nooyi, Indra
Paper Book
'A must-read for working women and the men who work with us, love us and support us' Hillary Rodham Clinton 'Surprising and compelling' Financial Times The much-anticipated and inspiring memoir by Indra Nooyi, the trailblazing former CEO of PepsiCo...
My Past Is a Foreign Country
Talkhani, Zeba
Paper Book
'Brilliant and brutally honest, this memoir ropes you in with every page. The intimacy that Zeba evokes will remind you of your own sister opening her heart to you.' Meena Kandasamy, author of When I Hit You, shortlisted for The Women's Prize 28-year-old Zeba Talkhani...
Rebel writers : the accidental feminists : Shelagh Delaney, Edna O'Brien, Lynne Reid-Banks, Charlotte Bingham, Nell Dunn, Virginia Ironside, Margaret Forster
Brayfield, Celia
Paper Book
'Make this your next inspirational read. Trust us, it's Oprah's Book Club worthy' Vice In London in 1958, a play by a 19-year-old redefined women's writing in Britain. It also began a movement that would change women's lives forever. The play was A Taste of...

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