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Countenance of Truth: United Nations and the Waldheim Case

By Shirley Hazzard

Shakespeare: A Life

By Park Honan (Emeritus Professor, School of English, Emeritus Professor, University of Leeds)

In No Uncertain Terms: Memoirs

By Helen Suzman

Open Road to Faraway: Escapes from Nazi POW Camps 1941-1945

By Andrew Sneddon Winton, Allan Carswell (Curator, The National War Museum, Scotland)

Encounters With Harriet Martineau: A Victorian Living Ahead Of Her Time

By Stuart Hobday

The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

By Caroline Alexander

The Informer

By Sean O'Callaghan

Beyond A Fringe: Tales from a reformed Establishment lackey: 2021

By Andrew Mitchell

Gerald: A Portrait

By Daphne Du Maurier, Margaret Forster

The Economics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

By DK

War Dog

By Damien Lewis

Joseph Gray's Camouflage: A Memoir of Art, Love and Deception

By Mary Horlock

Russian Roulette: 'A brilliant new life of Graham Greene' - Evening Standard

By Richard Greene

Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha who Seduced the West

By Lesley Downer

The Noel Coward Diaries

By Noel Coward, Graham Payn, Sheridan Morley

The Moth and the Mountain: Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2021

By Ed Caesar

DC Confidential

By Christopher Meyer

Churchill

By Jenkins, Roy, Illustrated

Olympic GangsterThe Legend of Jos Beyaert Cycling Champion, Fortune Hunter

By Matt Rendell

Terms & Conditions: Life in Girls' Boarding-Schools, 1939-1979

By Ysenda Maxtone-Graham

Charles Waterton: Creator of the First Nature Reserve

By Barbara Phipps

A Life at the Centre

By Roy Jenkins

A.J.P.Taylor: A Biography

By Adam Sisman

The Very Best of the Daily Telegraph Books of Obit

By Telegraph Group Limited

The Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes: The Story of George Scovell

By Urban, Mark L.

Gladstone

By E J Feuchtwanger

One Hot Summer in St.Petersburg

By Duncan Fallowell

The 48 Laws of Power

By Joost Elffers, Robert Greene

Alice Von Hildebrand: Memoirs of a Happy Failure

By Alice von Hildebrand

Callsign Hades

By Patrick Bury