Non-fiction by women
There is no shortage of women writing brilliant, illuminating, compelling non-fiction. Take your pick from writing about health, science, maths, social history, travel, and more, from authors including Kate Mosse, Elif Shafak and Vicky Spratt.
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Tenants
Vicky Spratt
The urgent story of this country's biggest crisis, told through the lives of those it most affects
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Something Out of Place
Eimear McBride
A blistering, galvanising essay from Eimear McBride, award-winning author of A Girl is a Half-formed Thing
World of Wonders
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
An award-winning poet's nonfiction debut: a collection essays about the natural world, and the way its inhabitants can teach, support and inspire…
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Brainscapes
Rebecca Schwarzlose
A trailblazing journey into the brain, showing how perception, thought, and action all depend on 'maps' etched into your gray matter – and h…
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Mountain Tales
Saumya Roy
A city struggling with the cost of its appetites. A rubbish mountain eighteen stories high. And the people who call it home.
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Seva
Jasreen Mayal Khanna
How we can embrace Sikh principles in the real world for a more joyful life
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The Confidence Men
Margalit Fox
The astonishing true story of two First World War prisoners who pulled off one of the most ingenious escapes of all time.
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Speaking and Being
Kübra Gümüsay
What happens when our language is no longer fit for purpose, and how we can change the discourse
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Move!
Caroline F Williams
Exercise changes the brain. But which exercises have what effect? Time to get up to speed with the cutting-edge science of the mind-body connection an…
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An Extra Pair of Hands
Kate Mosse
An inspiring, moving story of caring from the bestselling author Kate Mosse
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Two-Way Mirror
Fiona Sampson
How Britain's most famous female poet invented herself and defied her times
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The Gun, the Ship and the Pen
Linda Colley
Award-winning historian Linda Colley shows the dawn of the modern world – through the advance of written constitutions
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The Sum of Us
Heather McGhee
The heartbreaking, liberating truth about what racism has cost all of us
Minor Feelings
Cathy Park Hong
A fearless work of creative non-fiction about racism in cultural pursuits by award-winning poet Cathy Park Hong
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The Artist's Way
Julia Cameron
'I love it. A practical, spiritual, nurturing book.' – Russell BrandSince its first publication, The Artist's Way has inspired the genius…
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How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
Elif Shafak
The Booker Prize-shortlisted author on how staying optimistic can make our world better
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff
THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSurveillance Capitalism: A new phase in economic history in which private companies and governments track your every…
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The Art of Logic
Eugenia Cheng
A survival guide for our post-truth world using the timeless methods of logic, from a Royal Society Prize shortlisted mathematician
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Chasing the Sun
Linda Geddes
The full story of how our relationship with light shapes our health, productivity and mood