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Voleurs de Reves (Les)

By Bachir Hadjadj

The Herectic: A Study In The Life Of John William Colenso 1814-1883

South Africa: The First Man, the Last Nation

By R. W. Johnson

Exploring the World: Two centuries of remarkable adventurers and their journeys

By Alexander Maitland

A Soldier's Story: Neville 'Timber' Wood's War, from Dunkirk to D-Day

By Mike Wood

A Soldier's Story: Neville 'Timber' Wood's War, from Dunkirk to D-Day

By Mike Wood

Rebel Englishwoman: The Remarkable Life of Emily Hobhouse

By Elsabe Brits

Long Walk To Freedom: 'Essential reading' Barack Obama

By Nelson Mandela

The Illustrated Long Walk To Freedom

By Nelson Mandela

Six Years a Hostage: The Extraordinary Story of the Longest-Held Al Qaeda Captive in the World

By Stephen McGown

The Wife’s Tale: A Personal History: Winner of the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2019

By Edemariam, Aida

Abba Eban: A Biography

By Asaf Siniver

A Tree Without Roots: The Guide to Tracing British, African and Asian Caribbean Ancestry

By Paul Crooks

Chasing Chaos: My Decade in and Out of Humanitarian Aid

By Alexander, Jessica

The White Masai

By Corinne Hofmann, Peter Millar

Hitler: 1936-45 : Nemesis

By Ian Kershaw (University of Sheffield)

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World

By Lucette Lagnado

Long Walk to Freedom

By Nelson Mandela

A Just Defiance: The Bombmakers, the Insurgents and a Legendary Treason Trial

By Harris, Peter

One Day I Will Write About This Place

By Binyavanga Wainaina

Mungo Park: Surgeon and West African Explorer

By Mark Duffill

Mansa Musa and the Empire of Mali

By P James Oliver

An Ordinary Man: The True Story Behind 'Hotel Rwanda'

By Paul Rusesabagina, Tom Zoellner

Francois Mitterrand: A Study in Political Leadership

By Alistair Cole (Cardiff University, UK.)

Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall

By Spike Milligan

Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years

By Nelson Mandela, Mandla Langa, Graca Machel

The Great Belzoni: The Circus Strongman Who Discovered Egypt's Ancient Treasure

By Stanley Mayes

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight:: An African Childhood / Alexandra Fuller.

By Alexandra Fuller

When A Crocodile Eats the Sun

By Peter Godwin

Hatchepsut: Female Pharaoh

By Joyce A. Tyldesley