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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

Fighting All The Way :

By Castle, Barbara

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

The Life of Mahatma Gandhi

By Fischer, Louis

The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House

By Kate Andersen Brower

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

By Winchester, Simon

Hitler's Art Thief: Hildebrand Gurlitt, the Nazis, and the Looting of Europe's Treasures

By Susan Ronald

Life as Sutch

By David Sutch, Peter Chippindale

Northcliffe: Press Baron and Empire, 1865-1922

By J. Lee Thompson

Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy

By Andrew Yang

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

By Pen Farthing

Different Class: The Story of Laurie Cunningham

By Dermot Kavanagh