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Rhubarb Rhubarb
Mary Jane Paterson and Jo Thompson
A correspondence between a hopeless gardener and a hopeless cook
34% funded
Bad News From The Stars: The Life and Music of Serge Gainsbourg
Jeremy Allen
The most comprehensive account yet of the French genius.
18% funded
Mud, Maul, Mascara: How I Led My Country, and Lived to Tell the Tale
Catherine Spencer
The inspirational story of a woman who just wanted to have fun, find love and win the rugby World Cup
73% funded
Girl With a Gun: A Teenage Freedom Fighter in Iran
Diana Nammi and Karen Attwood
A gripping and moving first-hand account of one woman’s fight to change the world around her
95% funded
Agrippina: Empress, Exile, Hustler, Whore
Emma Southon
A biography of the most extraordinary woman in the Roman world
157% funded
Head Shot
Victoria Nixon
How does it feel to be a Vogue model with the world at your feet, confronting a double family suicide and fighting for your life?
71% funded
Gunpowder and Glory: From Fireworks to Zeebrugge – The Short Explosive Life of Frank Brock 1884 – 1918
H W Smee and Henry Macrory
An extraordinary hidden history and the story of a WWI war hero and inventor
4% funded
Good Taste: A Decorator's Cookbook
Nicky Haslam
Part memoir, part recipe book, part visual history and part intimate revelation by the celebrated interior designer
36% funded
From Crimea with Love
Jason Salkey
A memoir from the actor who played Rifleman Harris on Sharpe's Rifles
11% funded
Magnificent Women and their Revolutionary Machines
Henrietta Heald
The true story of Britain’s early women engineers
114% funded
The Ethical Stripper
Stacey Clare
Forget everything you’ve heard about strippers: this book is an antidote to stigma, shame and stereotyping
14% funded
Like an Orange
Wallis Eates
A collaborative graphic novel about brain injury survivors incorporating their words and pictures.
35% funded
Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear?
Lev Parikian
A lapsed and hopeless birdwatcher’s attempt to see 200 birds in a year
131% funded
The Elegant Art Of Falling Apart
Jessica Jones
Sometimes we have to lose everything to understand this moment is all we have
105% funded
113% funded
The Irish Pasha
Louise Foxcroft
The astonishing private and public lives of a maverick Edwardian Egyptologist
106% funded
105% funded
Rinse, Spin, Repeat
Edie Fassnidge
A graphic novel about my experience of the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004
115% funded
117% funded
Place-making: The Art of Capability Brown, 1716-1783
John Phibbs
Leading authority on Brown publishes long-awaited celebration to mark his 300th anniversary
103% funded
Angel Dorothy
Jane Brown
A new biography of the woman behind Dartington Hall, American heiress Dorothy Elmhirst
102% funded
First in the World Somewhere
Penny Pepper
A unique memoir of creative purpose, sexual discovery, activism - driven by defiance
106% funded
Different Class : Fashion, Football & Funk The Story of Laurie Cunningham
Dermot Kavanagh
A biography of England's first professional black footballer, who represented Leyton Orient, West Bromwich Albion and became the first Englishman to play for Real Madrid
111% funded
Encounters With Harriet Martineau
Stuart Hobday
A biography of Harriet Martineau, the first female journalist
107% funded
Pop Stars in My Pantry
Paul Simper
A memoir of pop folk and clubbing in the 1980s (Formerly known as Just Got Lucky: My Life in Pop)
110% funded