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George Thomas, Mr.Speaker: The Memoirs of Viscount Tonypandy

By Tonypandy, Lord, Lord Tonypandy

Philip & Elizabeth: Portrait of a Marriage

By Brandreth, Gyles

The Gamblers

By Pearson, John

Mao: The Unknown Story

By Halliday, Jon, Chang, Jung

Autobiography Of A Geisha

By Masuda, Sayo, Rowley, G.G.

Diana: Death of a Goddess

By Cohen, David

Dare To Be A Daniel: Then and Now

By Benn, Tony

Bad Faith: A History of Family and Fatherland

By Callil, Carmen

Lost Voices: Memories of a Vanished Way of Life

By O'Neill, Gilda

Mao: The Unknown Story

By Halliday, Jon, Chang, Jung, Jon Halliday, Jung Chang

The Pankhursts: The History of One Radical Family

By Pugh, Martin

Hugo!: The Hugo Chávez Story from Mud Hut to Perpetual Revolution

By Jones, Bart

Mr Nice: The Incredible Story of an Unconventional Life

By Marks, Howard, Welsh, Irvine

From A Clear Blue Sky: Surviving the Mountbatten bomb

By Knatchbull, Timothy

Behind Closed Doors

By Vickers, Hugo

Sisters: Heroic true-life stories from the nurses of World War Two

By Mortimer, Barbara

Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France

By Moorehead, Caroline

Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz

By Harding, Thomas

Joseph Anton: A Memoir

By Salman Rushdie

Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest

By Davis, Wade

The Railway Man

By Eric Lomax, Lomax, Eric

Hurricane and Spitfire Pilots at War

By Kelly, Terence

Out Of The Wilderness: Diaries 1963-67

By Benn, Tony

When Daddy Came Home: How War Changed Family Life Forever

By Turner, Barry, Rennell, Tony

My Traitor's Heart: Blood and Bad Dreams: A South African Explores the Madness in His Country, His Tribe and Himself

By Malan, Rian

Daisy Bates in the Desert

By Blackburn, Julia

Rediscovering Gandhi

By Chadha, Yogesh

Rillington Place, 1949: Report of an Inquiry by the Hon.Mr.Justice Brabin into the Case of Timothy John Evans (Uncovered Editions)

By Coates, Tim

My Family and Other Animals (Penguin Essentials)

By Durrell, Gerald, Gerald Durrell

Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall

By Milligan, Spike