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The Rose of Martinique: A Life of Napoleon's Josephine

By Stuart, Andrea

A Very Easy Death: Simone de Beauvoir: 0000 (Pantheon Modern Writers Series)

By de Beauvoir, Simone

Albert Schweitzer: The Enigma

By Bentley, James

Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari and their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans

By Baime, A J

Nostradamus: The Evidence

By Wilson, Ian

Matilda: Wife of the Conqueror, First Queen of England

By Borman, Tracy

Voltaire

By Derek Parker

Pages From The Goncourt Journals (New York Review Books Classics)

By De Goncourt, Edmond and Jules, Baldick, Robert, Dyer, Geoff

Martin of Tours: The shaping of Celtic Christianity

By Donaldson, Christopher

Smiles of God: The Flowers of St Therese of Lisieux

By Leng, Felicity

Churchill's Bodyguard

By Hickman, Tom

Marie Antoinette

By Fraser, Lady Antonia

The Poverty of Philosophy (Great Books in Philosophy)

By Marx, Karl

Pierre Bourdieu: Agent Provocateur

By Grenfell, Michael

Reason in the Age of Science (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought, 2)

By Hans-Georg Gadamer, Frederick G. Lawrence

Rogue Warrior of the SAS: The Blair Mayne Legend

By Dillon, Martin, Bradford, Roy

A Semite: A Memoir of Algeria

By Guenoun, Denis, Butler, Judith, Smock, Ann, WILLIAM

Black, French and African: Life of Leopold Sedar Senghor

By Vaillant, Jg

Stranger in A Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem

By Prochnik, George

Memoir in Two Voices

By MITTERRAND, Francois, Wiesel, Elie, Bent, Timothy, Seaver, Richard

Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan

By Shrabani Basu

From Natural History to the History of Nature: Readings from Buffon and His Critics

By Lyon, John, Sloan, Phillip R.

Madame de Sevigne: A Seventeenth-century Life (Berg Women's Series)

By William T. Ojala & Jeanne A. Ojala

Descartes: His Life and Thought

By Genevieve Rodis-Lewis, Jane Marie Todd

Descartes - An Intellectual Biography

By Gaukroger, Stephen

Forgotten Voices of Dunkirk

By Levine, Joshua

Roule Britannia: A History of Britons in the Tour de France

By Fotheringham, WILLIAM

The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream

By Spencer, Charles

Paris & Elsewhere

By Cobb, Richard

Celestine

By Tindall, Gillian