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Wisdom of the Ages: Extraordinary People Ages 19-90

By Patricia M Hinds, Susan L Taylor

The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama

By Remnick, David

Before and After: the heartbreaking true stories of a notorious adoption scandal

By Lisa Wingate, Judy Christie

Lives Between The Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant

By Michael Vatikiotis

A Colourful View From the Top: Twenty-One Extraordinary Stories of Leaders of Colour Achieving Excellence in Business

By Jonathan Mildenhall

The Fleet Street Girls: The women who broke down the doors of the gentlemen's club

By Julie Welch

Takeaway: Stories from a childhood behind the counter

By Angela Hui

Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): The Sunday Times Music Book of the Year

By Sly Stone

Mother's Boy: A Writer's Beginnings

By Howard Jacobson

Make It Count: An extraordinary 100-year-old man's 9 lessons for living a life to be proud of

By Benjamin Ferencz

The Real Deal: My Story from Brick Lane to the Dragons' Den

By James Caan, Caan, James

There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack (Routledge Classics)

By Gilroy, Paul

The Jew Store

By Stella Suberman

Will In The World

By Greenblatt, Stephen

Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hate

By Baldwin, Neil

Chutzpah

By Alan M. Dershowitz

Churchill and the Jews

By Martin Gilbert

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

By Edemariam, Aida

The Politics of Memory: The Journey of a Holocaust Historian

By Hilberg, Raul

Walther Rathenau: Weimar's Fallen Statesman

By Shulamit Volkov

Gluckel

By Gluckel of Hameln

The Labyrinth of Exile: Life of Theodor Herzl

By Pawel, Ernst

Memoirs Fortunate

By Dan Vittorio Segre

My Feudal Lord

By Tehmina Durrani

King of the World (hb): Muhammad Ali and the Rise of the American Hero

By Remnick, David

Shakespeare: The Biography

By Peter Ackroyd

Christmas at the Palace: The heartwarming, feel-good read

By Charika, Jeevani

Shakespeare's Wife

By Germaine Greer

Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa

By Mathabane, Mark

Shakespeare's Language

By Frank Kermode