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K: Biography of Kafka

By Ronald Hayman

Rudyard Kipling

By Harry Ricketts

A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers

By Michael Holroyd

Time to Declare

By David Owen

Finding Me: A Memoir

By Viola Davis

Written by Herself: Volume I: Autobiographies of American Women: An Anthology

By Jill Ker Conway

Buster Keaton: Tempest in a Flat Hat

By Edward McPherson

The Obamas: The Untold Story of an African Family

By Peter Firstbrook

Alan Moorehead

By Tom Pocock

Nelson Mandela: A Biography

Great Contemporaries

By Winston Churchill

Kenneth Clarke: A Political Biography

By Andy McSmith

Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius

By Nick Hornby

Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane

By James Delbourgo

Alfred B. Xuma: African, American, South African

By Steven Gish (Assistant Professor of History, Auburn University, Montgomery, USA)

What It Feels Like for a Girl

By Paris Lees

Irving Berlin: A Musical Life

By Philip Furia

Sylvia Pankhurst, Citizen of the World

By Shirley Harrison, Nic Watts, Susan Homewood

Once a Jolly Bagman: Memoirs

By Alistair McAlpine

Decline & Fall: Diaries 2005-2010

By Mullin, Chris

Michael Heseltine: A Biography

By Michael Crick

It's All About Treo: Life and War with the World's Bravest Dog

By Damien Lewis, Dave Heyhoe

Thin White Line

By Andy Cave

Churchill, Winston S.: v. 5: Prophet of Truth

By Martin Gilbert

Comrade Corbyn: A Very Unlikely Coup: How Jeremy Corbyn Stormed to the Labour Leadership

By Rosa Prince

Lenin: The Man Behind the Mask

By Ronald W. Clark

Hard Choices: A Memoir

By Clinton, Hillary Rodham

Les Egyptiennes

By Jacq, Christian

Hero: The Life & Legend of Lawrence of Arabia

By Korda, Michael

Chinese Lives: The People who Made a Civilization

By Victor H. Mair, Sanping Chen, Frances Wood