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The Lady at the Lodging House is the incredible final act in the WW2 lodging house series. Natalie’s exquisite writing honours the beauty of friendship, women seizing power at work, their battles against the patriarchy and prejudice and the difficulties of family and love. She explores the tussle between fighting …

Three extraordinary queens, Lakshmibai, Hürrem, and Nur Jahan, were fierce, brave, and cunning – but they weren’t born royal. Sufiya skilfully finds out how these young women became powerful rulers. Out now with Big Cat at Collins!

We’re remembering the great Anne McCaffrey on what would have been her 100th birthday. Born on April 1st, 1926, Anne was a prolific science fiction and fantasy writer, who was most famous for her Dragonriders of Pern series. She was the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction in 1968 and …

In a series of personal reflections on power inspired by the story of Jesus’ Passion, six essays tracing the hidden currents of power in everyday life: how it shapes us, how it works, how it wounds, and how it can be resisted, claimed, and reclaimed. Mina Smallman is a retired …

Homemaking and Housekeeping: Forgotten Wisdom for Modern Times celebrates the rites and rituals that for centuries have marked the seasons around the world, from natural spring cleaning to the planting of seeds, through the summer months where home and garden can be enriched with floral and edible bounty, from rose …