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Churchill

By Jenkins, Roy, Illustrated

DC Confidential

By Christopher Meyer

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

By Ed Caesar

The Noel Coward Diaries

By Noel Coward, Graham Payn, Sheridan Morley

Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha who Seduced the West

By Lesley Downer

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

By Richard Greene

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

By Mary Horlock

War Dog

By Damien Lewis

The Economics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

By DK

Gerald: A Portrait

By Daphne Du Maurier, Margaret Forster

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

By Andrew Mitchell

The Informer

By Sean O'Callaghan

The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

By Caroline Alexander

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

By Stuart Hobday

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

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

In No Uncertain Terms: Memoirs

By Helen Suzman

Shakespeare: A Life

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

Word from Wormingford: A Parish Year

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

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

By Lunn, Natasha

Nefertiti: Egypt's Sun Queen

I'm A Stranger Here Myself

By Deric Longden

Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of Empire

By Katherine Connelly

Story of My Life

By Moshe Dayan

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

By Elizabeth Dowling Taylor, Annette Gordon-reed

Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek

By A. Ebenstein

Milton Friedman: A Biography

By Lanny Ebenstein, Alan Ebenstein

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

By Fawzia Koofi, Nadene Gourhi

Memoirs

By Andrei D. Sakharov, R. Lourie

Salmond: Against the Odds

By David Torrance

A Monk Swimming

By McCourt, Malachy