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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: George Orwell (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