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Closing Ranks: My Life as a Cop: As Portrayed on SMALL AXE, A Collection of Five Films

By Steve McQueen, Dr Leroy Logan, MBE

Vuelta Skelter: Riding the Remarkable 1941 Tour of Spain

By Tim Moore

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Penguin Classics)

By Douglass, Frederick, Baker, Houston, Garrison, William Lloyd

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

By Mathabane, Mark

Shakespeare: The Biography

By Peter Ackroyd

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

By Charika, Jeevani

Shakespeare's Wife

By Germaine Greer

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

By Remnick, David

Shakespeare's Language

By Frank Kermode

The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

By Jonathan Freedland

The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner)

By Sarah M Broom

The Survivors: The Story of the Belsen Remnant

By Leslie H Hardman, Cecily Goodman

Rathcormick: A Childhood Recalled

By Homan Potterton

Freud: A Life in Our Time

By Peter Gay

Kafka's Last Love: The Mystery of Dora Diamant

By Kathi Diamant

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

By Harriet Jacobs

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

By Lucette Lagnado

Call the Nurse: True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle (the Country Nurse Series, Book One)

By Mary J MacLeod, Lady Claire MacDonald of MacDonald

One Bright Child

By Patricia Cumper

Commander of the Exodus

By Yoram Kaniuk, Seymour Simckes

The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama

By Remnick, David

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

By Benjamin Ferencz

Mother's Boy: A Writer's Beginnings

By Howard Jacobson

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

By Sly Stone

Takeaway: Stories from a childhood behind the counter

By Angela Hui

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

By Julie Welch

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

By Jonathan Mildenhall

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

By Michael Vatikiotis

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

By Lisa Wingate, Judy Christie

Jacob's Gift: A Journey into the Heart of Belonging

By Freedland, Jonathan