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Michael Foot - A Life

By Kenneth O. Morgan

Conrad and Lady Black: Dancing on the Edge

By Bower, Tom

The Downing Street Years

By Thatcher, Margaret

The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu: The Story of This Distant City and the Race to Save its Lost Written Treasures

By English, Charlie

John Stuart Mill

By Halliday, R.J.

Kinnock

By Leapman, Michael

Grundrisse

By Marx Karl, David McLennan Ed.

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

By Winchester, Simon, Author and Historian Simon

Under Fire: An American Story - The Explosive Autobiography of Oliver North

By North, Oliver L., Novak, WILLIAM

Shakespeare (Eminent Lives)

By Bryson, Bill

The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things

By Byrne, Paula

How to Survive the Titanic: The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay

By Wilson, Frances

The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy

By Smith, Jean Kennedy

Muhammad

By Armstrong, Karen

The Last Republicans: Inside the Extraordinary Relationship Between George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush

By Updegrove, Mark K.

The End of an Era: Diaries 1980-90

By Benn, Tony

Years of Hope: Diaries, Letters and Papers, 1940-62

By Tony Benn, Ruth Winstone, Tony Benn

Open Secret: The Autobiography of the Former Director-General of MI5

By Rimington, Stella

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: The shocking story of how America really took over the world

By Perkins, John, John Perkins

Sweet Mandarin

By Helen Tse

Forgotten Voices of D-Day: A Powerful New History of the Normandy Landings in the Words of Those Who Were There

By Bailey, Roderick

3 Commando: Helmand Assault

By Ewen Southby-Tailyour

Hannah: The Complete Story

By Hauxwell, Hannah, Cockcroft, Barry

Family Secrets

By Malcolm, Derek

The Flamboya Tree: Memories of a Family's War Time Courage

By Kelly, Clara Olink, Clara Olink Kelly

1 Out Of 10: From Downing Street Vision To Classroom Reality

By Hyman, Peter

Little Girl Lost (Richard & Judy's True)

By Probert-Wright, Barbie, Ritchie, Jean

Mary Boleyn: 'The Great and Infamous Whore'

By Weir, Alison

The Happy Depressive: In Pursuit of Personal and Political Happiness

By Campbell, Alastair

Against the Tide: Diaries, 1973-77

By Benn, Tony