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Another Life Is Possible: Insights from 100 Years of Life Together

By Rowan Williams, Danny Burrows, Clare Stober

Estuary: Out from London to the Sea

By Rachel Lichtenstein

Prophecy and Passion: Essays In Honour of Athol Gill

By David Neville

Betrayed: Escape from Iraq

By Latifa Ali, Richard Shears

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

By Richard Beard

Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South

By Catherine Fosl

A Katherine Mansfield Chronology

By R. Norburn

A Handbook of Leisure Studies

By C. Rojek, S. Shaw, A. Veal

Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina: A Biohistory of American Performance

By Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Robert Farris Thompson, Ananya Chatterjea

A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons

By Elizabeth Dowling Taylor, Annette Gordon-reed

Halle Berry

By Daniel O'Brien

Martin Luther King Jr.

By John A. Kirk

Let The Trumpet Sound: A Life Of Martin Luther King Jr

By Stephen Oates

Priest in Prison: Four Years of Life in Japanese-occupied Singapore, 1941-45

By John Hayter

Clouds Of Glory: A Childhood in Hoxton

By Bryan Magee

Voltaire in Love

By Nancy Mitford

Searching For The Secret River: The Story Behind the Bestselling Novel

By Kate Grenville

Who Are We?: How Identity Politics Took Over the World

By Gary Younge

A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City

By Edward Chisholm

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

By Lauren Elkin

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

By Sarah M Broom

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

Legacy Lost: Passing Across the Color Line

By S Barbara Hilyer

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

By Steve McQueen, Dr Leroy Logan, MBE