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The Girl in the Painted Caravan: Memories of a Romany Childhood

By Eva Petulengro

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

By McBride, James

Night

By Wiesel, Elie, Wiesel, Marion, Elie Wiesel

Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

By Barack Obama

Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia

By Tracey Thorn

Daughters Of Arabia: Princess 2

By Jean Sasson

Muhammad

By Maxime Rodinson, Anne Carter

A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival

By Melissa Fleming

Tears of the Desert: One woman's true story of surviving the horrors of Darfur

By Halima Bashir

Kenneth Clark: Life, Art and Civilisation

By Stourton, James

Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet

By Armstrong, Karen

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

By Freedland, Jonathan

Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East

By Fawaz A. Gerges

Shakespeare in Swahililand: Adventures with the Ever-Living Poet

By Edward Wilson-Lee

St Augustine

By Serge Lancel, Antonia Nevill

The Book Of Life

By Sojourner Truth

Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown

By Henry Box Brown, Richard Newman (Fellows and Research Officer, W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, Fellows and Research Officer, Harvard University.), Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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