Club member Henrietta Heald, whose William Armstrong: Magician of the North was shortlisted for the Best First Biography Prize (then sponsored by HW Fisher) in 2011, has written Magnificent Women and Their Revolutionary Machines, due from Unbound on the 19th September. It is a portrait of the women, largely unrecognised, who were pioneering members of the Women’s Engineering Society. The society celebrates its centenary this year.