Poignant and inspiring, Women in the War tells the first-hand stories of ten of the last surviving members of Britain’s ‘Greatest Generation’.

Whether flying Spitfires to the frontline, aiding codebreaking at Bletchley Park, plotting the Battle of the Atlantic or working with Churchill in the Cabinet War Rooms, each of these women made a crucial contribution to the conflict overseas and helped to buttress the home front.

Here they recount their remarkable experiences during the Second World War, recalling how their formative years were shaped by danger and trauma, and how friendship and romance fortified their spirits.

Drawing on the insight that comes with age, they also contemplate how the conflict allowed women to prove their worth, transforming society and paving the way for later battles for equal rights.

With a reporter’s eye for detail, Lucy Fisher weaves together moving contemporary interviews with gripping wartime letters and diaries. This vivid oral history will stay with you long after you’ve put it down.

Published by HarperCollins NonFiction, with a foreword by Baroness Betty Boothroyd.

Due out September 2, 2021.

Emily Wilding Davison was the most famous suffragette to die in the battle for women’s rights, after colliding with the King’s horse at the Epsom Derby in 1913, but who was she, and how did she end up dying for her cause?

Her notorious final act of protest has for decades obscured her extraordinary life. Now, one hundred years on from the first British women winning the vote, this new biography reveals the story of the respectable governess who pivoted towards vandalism and violence in pursuit of female enfranchisement.

Journalist Lucy Fisher draws on the suffragettes’ own words, contemporary press reports and academic scholarship to paint a vivid picture of Davison's unusual tale and tragic finale.

First published in 2013, the biography was republished by Biteback Publishing in 2018 to mark the centenary anniversary of Votes for Women.