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I'm A Stranger Here Myself

By Deric Longden

Nefertiti: Egypt's Sun Queen

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

By Lunn, Natasha

Word from Wormingford: A Parish Year

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

Shakespeare: A Life

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

In No Uncertain Terms: Memoirs

By Helen Suzman

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

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

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

By Stuart Hobday

The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

By Caroline Alexander

The Informer

By Sean O'Callaghan

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

By Andrew Mitchell

Gerald: A Portrait

By Daphne Du Maurier, Margaret Forster

The Economics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

By DK

War Dog

By Damien Lewis

The Life of Mahatma Gandhi

By Fischer, Louis

The Wolf of the Kremlin: The First Biography of L.M. Kaganovich

By Stuart Kahan

Flaubert: A Biography

By Brown, Frederick

The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles

By Gayford, Martin

After Auschwitz: A story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank

By Eva Schloss

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

By Simon Winchester

Mandela: The Authorised Biography

By Sampson, Anthony

Memoirs

By Pierre Elliott Trudeau

My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson

By Alfred Habegger

Stephenson Power: The Story of George and Robert Stephenson

By Ken Smith

Life as Sutch

By David Sutch, Peter Chippindale

Different Class: The Story of Laurie Cunningham

By Dermot Kavanagh

No Place Like Home: A New Beginning with the Dogs of Afghanistan

By Pen Farthing

Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy

By Andrew Yang

Northcliffe: Press Baron and Empire, 1865-1922

By J. Lee Thompson

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

By Winchester, Simon