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Letters To My Grandchildren

By Tony Benn

Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion and Jazz

By Hobsbawm, Prof Eric

The People Speak: Democracy is Not a Spectator Sport

By Anthony Arnove, Colin Firth, David Horspool

31 Songs

By Nick Hornby

An Image of Africa: Chinua Achebe (Penguin Great Ideas)

By Achebe, Chinua

Promises, Promises: Essays on Literature and Psychoanalysis

By Phillips, Adam

The Road to Wigan Pier

By George Orwell

Adventures in the Orgasmatron: The Invention of Sex

By Christopher Turner

The Auden Generation: Literature and Politics in England in the 1930's

By Samuel Hynes

Buttoned-Up: The East London Line

By Gert Jonkers, Jop van Bennekom

Diary of an MP's Wife: Inside and Outside Power: 'riotously candid' Sunday Times

By Swire, Sasha

A Prison Diary Volume III: Heaven

By Jeffrey Archer

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

By Gertrude Stein

Literature and Tourism: Essays in the Reading and Writing of Tourism

By Mike Robinson (Sheffield Hallam University), Hans-Christian Andersen (University of Northumbria, Newcastle)

War! Hellish War! Star Shell Reflections 1916 - 1918

By Barbara McClune, Jim Maultsaid

Ned Sherrin's Theatrical Anecdotes: A Connoisseur's Collection of Legends, Stories and Gossips

By Sherrin, Ned

The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy

By Sofia Tolstoy, Cathy Porter

Hockney's Alphabet

By Stephen Spender, David Hockney

Moving Towards Home: Political Essays

By June Jordan

The Imitation of Christ

By Thomas à Kempis, Knott, Bettmy I.

The Human Being Fully Alive: writings in celebration of Brian Thorne

By Contributors, Jeff Leonardi

Try Anything Twice

By Jan Struther

Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce

By Toibin, Colm

Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman

By Richard P. Feynman

Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born

By Jayana Clerk, Ruth Siegel

The Spiritual Life of Children

By Robert Coles

Pulphead: Notes from the Other Side of America

By Sullivan, John Jeremiah

Interzone

By William S. Burroughs

The Histories

By Cornelius Tacitus, Kenneth Wellesley

Natural History

By John Healey, Pliny the Elder