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Yes Sister, No Sister: My Life as a Trainee Nurse in 1950s Yorkshire

By Craig, Jennifer

Genghis Khan: The Man Who Conquered the World

By McLynn, Frank

Out of the Ashes: The Remarkable Rise and Rise of the Afghanistan cricket team

By Albone, Tim, Atherton, Mike

Deng Xiaoping And the Making of Modern China

By Evans, Richard

Please, Mister Postman

By Johnson, Alan

The First Emperor of China

By Cotterell, Arthur

Into Africa: The Epic Adventures Of Stanley And Livingstone

By Dugard, Martin

How I Survived A Chinese 'Re-education' Camp: A Uyghur Woman's Story

By Haitiwaji, Gulbahar, Morgat, Rozenn

Growing Up In A War

By Magee, Bryan

My Land and My People

By The Dalai Lama

Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built

By Duncan Clark

Mr. China

By Tim Clissold

The Good German of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe

By John Rabe

Venice

By Peter Ackroyd

The Genius of China

By Robert K.G. Temple

Watching the Tree: A Chinese Daughter Reflects on Happiness, Spiritual Beliefs and Universal Wisdom

By Yen Mah, Adeline

Private Life Of Chairman Mao: The Memoirs of Mao's Personal Physician

By Zhisui Li

Poems And Prose: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Everyman's Library POCKET POETS)

By Taylor Coleridge, Samuel

The House of Yan: A Family at the Heart of a Century in Chinese History

By Lan Yan, Sam Taylor

The Squeeze: Oil, Money and Greed in the 21st Century

By Tom Bower

Television: A Media Student's Guide

By David McQueen

Across Many Mountains: The Extraordinary Story of Three Generations of Women in Tibet

By Yangzom Brauen

Son of the Underground: The life of Isaac Liu, son of Brother Yun, the Heavenly Man

By Albrecht Kaul

Diplomacy

By Kissinger, Henry

God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan

By Jonathan D. Spence

The Arcanum

By Gleeson, Janet

Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises

By Timothy F. Geithner

A Thousand Pieces of Gold: A Memoir of China's Past Through its Proverbs

By Adeline Yen Mah

Transgender China

By H. Chiang

CEO, China: The Rise of Xi Jinping

By Professor Kerry Brown (Lau China Institute, King's College London, UK)