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The Islamist: Why I joined radical Islam in Britain, what I saw inside and why I left

By Husain, Ed

More Than Just a Coincidence (My Story)

By Julie Wassmer

Her Ladyship's Girl: A Maid's Life in London

By Anwyn Moyle

All the Devils are Here

By Seabrook, David

To the Edge of the Sea: Schooldays of a Crofter's Child

By Hall, Christina

A Hundred Years in the Highlands

By Osgood Hanbury Mackenzie

The Road to Wigan Pier (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Orwell, George, Davison, Peter, Hoggart, Richard

Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle

By Of Carnarvon, Countess

Cromwell (Reputations)

By Saraga, Jessica

Once in a House on Fire (Birthday Edition)

By Andrew Ashworth, Ashworth, Andrea

Hippie Hippie Shake: The Dreams, the Trips, the Trials, the Love-ins, the Screw Ups...the Sixties

By Neville, Richard

Leading Lives: Ho Chi Minh (Leading Lives)

By David Downing

20th Century Leaders: Kennedy

By Chrisp, Peter

Leading Lives: Che Guevara (Leading Lives)

By David Downing

Leading Lives: Indira Gandhi (Leading Lives)

By David Downing

Lenin (Reputations)

By Rawcliffe, Michael

Daughters of Britannia: The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives

By Hickman, Katie

Heinemann Profiles: Margaret Thatcher Hardback

By Connolly, Sean

Gordon Brown: The Biography

By Paul Routledge, Routledge, Paul

Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness

By Hull, John M.

Fanny Kemble'S Civil Wars

By Clinton

Voices from the Past

By Levy, Herbert

A London Family, 1870-1900: A Trilogy - "London Child of the 1870's", "London Girl of the 1880's", "London Home of the 1890's" (Oxford letters & memoirs)

By Hughes, Mary Vivian

Making Toast: A Family Story

By Rosenblatt, Roger

The New Arrival: The Heartwarming True Story of a 1970s Trainee Nurse

By Beeson, Sarah

The Cocaine Diaries: A Venezuelan Prison Nightmare

By Farrell, Jeff, Keany, Paul

A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi: The Ideal Guide to Sounding, Acting and Shrugging Like the French

By Timoney, Charles

Figures in a Bygone Landscape: A Lancashire Childhood

By Haworth, Don

Streetwise: Stories From An Irish Prison

By Thompson, Neville

The Bloodless Revolution: Radical Vegetarians and the Discovery of India

By Stuart, Tristram