Cultural History Biographies

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

By Halima Bashir

The Autobiography Of Martin Luther King, Jr

By Martin Luther King Jr

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

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

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

By Julie Welch

Soul on Ice

By Eldridge Cleaver

Mother's Boy: A Writer's Beginnings

By Howard Jacobson

Price of My Soul

By Bernadette Devlin

The Jew Store

By Stella Suberman

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

By Edemariam, Aida

Nina Simone

By David Brun-Lambert

The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West

By Michelle Goldberg

One Bright Child

By Patricia Cumper

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

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

By Harriet Jacobs

S'wonderful: A Symphony of Musical Memories

By Tony Ireland

Rathcormick: A Childhood Recalled

By Homan Potterton

Samuel Beckett: A Biography

By Deirdre Bair

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

By Sarah M Broom

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

By Remnick, David

The Italians (Large Print Edition)

By John Hooper

Vuelta Skelter: Riding the Remarkable 1941 Tour of Spain

By Tim Moore

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

By Steve McQueen, Dr Leroy Logan, MBE

Legacy Lost: Passing Across the Color Line

By S Barbara Hilyer

The Legend of Colton H Bryant

By Alexandra Fuller

Sad Little Men: The revealing book about the world that shaped Boris Johnson

By Richard Beard

Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London

By Lauren Elkin