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The Informer

By Sean O'Callaghan

Salmond: Against the Odds

By David Torrance

Memoirs

By Andrei D. Sakharov, R. Lourie

The Favored Daughter: One Woman's Fight to Lead Afghanistan into the Future

By Fawzia Koofi, Nadene Gourhi

Milton Friedman: A Biography

By Lanny Ebenstein, Alan Ebenstein

Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek

By A. Ebenstein

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

By Elizabeth Dowling Taylor, Annette Gordon-reed

Story of My Life

By Moshe Dayan

Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of Empire

By Katherine Connelly

I'm A Stranger Here Myself

By Deric Longden

Nefertiti: Egypt's Sun Queen

Conversations on Love: with Philippa Perry, Dolly Alderton, Roxane Gay, Stephen Grosz, Esther Perel, and many more

By Lunn, Natasha

Word from Wormingford: A Parish Year

By Blythe, Dr. Ronald, Nash, John, Dr. Ronald Blythe

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

By Ed Caesar

The Legend of Colton H Bryant

By Alexandra Fuller

Callsign Hades

By Patrick Bury

Alice Von Hildebrand: Memoirs of a Happy Failure

By Alice von Hildebrand

The 48 Laws of Power

By Joost Elffers, Robert Greene

Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion

By Gareth Stedman Jones

Countenance of Truth: United Nations and the Waldheim Case

By Shirley Hazzard

Churchill

By Jenkins, Roy, Illustrated

DC Confidential

By Christopher Meyer

Gerald: A Portrait

By Daphne Du Maurier, Margaret Forster

War Dog

By Damien Lewis

The Economics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

By DK