Books by Clare Mulley
“This is really an incredible story. Elżbieta Zawacka was a resistance fighter during the Second World War. She came to London from Warsaw, where she was secretly trained in the British countryside. Then she joined the Polish elite special forces and was parachuted behind enemy lines into Nazi-occupied Poland, where she was hunted by the Gestapo and was part of the Warsaw Uprising and the liberation of Poland. You can’t quite believe that you don’t already know this story, or that it hasn’t been made into a film. Mulley’s extraordinary research has brought this historical figure back into the public eye.” Read more...
The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2025 Women’s Prize for Nonfiction
Kavita Puri, Journalist
Interviews where books by Clare Mulley were recommended
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A Thousand Threads: A Memoir
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The Story of a Heart
by Rachel Clarke -
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Raising Hare
by Chloe Dalton -
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Agent Zo: The Untold Story of a Fearless World War II Resistance Fighter
by Clare Mulley -
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What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World’s Ocean
by Helen Scales -
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Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China
by Yuan Yang
The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2025 Women’s Prize for Nonfiction, recommended by Kavita Puri
The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2025 Women’s Prize for Nonfiction, recommended by Kavita Puri
Now in its second year, the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction aims to highlight the very best new nonfiction books written by women. We asked Kavita Puri, the journalist and chair of this year’s judging panel, to talk us through the shortlist: from a gentle lockdown animal memoir to a thrilling true story of a WW2 secret agent.
