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Treblinka Survivor: The Life and Death of Hershl Sperling

By Mark S Smith

About Face

By Hackworth

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

By Richard Greene

Conflict of Loyalty

By Sir Geoffrey Howe

Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now

By Jan Wong

Khazana: An Indo-Persian cookbook with recipes inspired by the Mughals

By Saliha Mahmood Ahmed

The Lives of Lee Miller: The Inspiration for the major motion picture 'Lee'

By Antony Penrose

Forty Autumns: A family's story of courage and survival on both sides of the Berlin Wall

By Nina Willner

How to Survive: Lessons for Everyday Life from the Extreme World

By John Hudson

A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal

By Ben Macintyre

A Voice Reborn

By Kyra Vayne, Sue Lawley

Zarifa: A Woman's Battle in a Man's World, by Afghanistan's Youngest Female Mayor. As Featured in the NETFLIX documentary IN HER HANDS

By Zarifa Ghafari, Hannah Lucinda Smith

Diaries 1987-1992

By Edwina Currie

Sailor and Fiddler: Reflections of a 100-Year-Old Author

By Herman Wouk

Then They Came for Me: A Story of Injustice and Survival in Iran's Most Notorious Prison

By Maziar Bahari, Aimee Molloy

Accidental MP

By Bell, Martin

Different Class: The Story of Laurie Cunningham

By Dermot Kavanagh

The Major: The Life and Times of Frank Buckley

By Patrick A Quirke

When the Dust Settles: The gripping behind-the-scenes story from the UK's top disaster planner -A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

By Lucy Easthope

Love And Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution

By Gabriel, Mary

Jews of the Raj

By Hyman, Mavis

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again) (Harbrace Paperbound Library ; Hpl 75)

By Warhol, Andy

Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (African Classics S.)

By Equiano, Olaudah, Edwards, Paul

More Time for Politics

By Tony Benn, Ruth Winstone

Bourdain: In Stories

By Laurie Woolever

Charles Waterton: Creator of the First Nature Reserve

By Barbara Phipps

Terms & Conditions: Life in Girls' Boarding-Schools, 1939-1979

By Ysenda Maxtone-Graham

Orange Is the New Black (Movie Tie-in Edition): My Year in a Women's Prison

By Piper Kerman

Enid Blyton (Pocket Biographies)

By Greenfield, George

The Book Nobody Read: In Pursuit of the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus

By Gingerich, Owen