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The Life of Buffalo Bill

By Cody William

Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan's Underworld

By Junichi Saga

A Heart Promptly Offered: The Revolutionary Leadership of John Calvin (Leaders in Action)

By Hall, David W.

The Burning of the World: A Memoir of 1914 (New York Review Books Classics)

By Zombory-Moldován, Béla, Zombory-Moldován, Peter

Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution

By Magnet, Myron

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

By Franklin, Benjamin

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban

By Yousafzai, Malala, Lamb, Christina

A Mother's War: One Woman's Fight for the Truth Behind Her Son's Death at Deepcut

By Heath, Yvonne Collinson

Half Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy

By Close, Frank

Our Revolution: A Future to Believe in

By Sanders, Bernie

William Beckford's Fonthill: Architecture, Landscape and the Arts

By Gemmett, Robert

64 Geeks: The Brains Who Shaped Our World

By Chas Newkey-Burden

Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Canons)

By Barack Obama, Obama, Barack

The Mayflower And the Thistle

By Murphy, Rosaleen Moorhead

How Lucky Can You Get

By Ray Saunders

One of the Family: 40 Years with the Krays

By Flanagan, Maureen

Pocket The Queen Wisdom: Inspirational quotes and wise words from an iconic monarch (Pocket Wisdom)

By Hardie Grant

The Man Who Was George Smiley: The Life of John Bingham

By Michael Jago

Gentleman Jack: The Real Anne Lister The Official Companion to the BBC Series

By Wainwright, Sally, Choma, Anne

The Professor and the Parson: A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking

By Sisman, Adam

The Professor and the Parson: A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking

By Sisman, Adam

Letters of Note: Art

By Usher, Shaun

Bin Laden: Behind the Mask of the Terrorist

By Robinson, Adam

Scott's Last Expedition (Classics of World Literature)

By Scott, Captain Robert Falcon, Riffenburgh, Dr Beau, Griffith, Tom

Captain Bligh’s Portable Nightmare: From The Bounty to Safety – 4,162 miles across the Pacific in a rowing boat

By Toohey, John

Karl Marx

By Wheen, Francis

Silvertown: An East End family memoir

By Mcgrath, Melanie

The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton

By Hughes, Kathryn

The Rivals: The Intimate Story of a Political Marriage

By James Naughtie

A Venetian Affair: A true story of impossible love in the eighteenth century

By Andrea Di Robilant