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A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons

By Elizabeth Dowling Taylor, Annette Gordon-reed

Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek

By A. Ebenstein

Milton Friedman: A Biography

By Lanny Ebenstein, Alan Ebenstein

The Favored Daughter: One Woman's Fight to Lead Afghanistan into the Future

By Fawzia Koofi, Nadene Gourhi

Memoirs

By Andrei D. Sakharov, R. Lourie

Salmond: Against the Odds

By David Torrance

A Monk Swimming

By McCourt, Malachy

The Fall of Boris Johnson: The Award-Winning, Explosive Account of the PM's Final Days

By Sebastian Payne

I Spy: My Life in MI5

By Tom Marcus

The Village

By Taylor, Alice

Radical Leaders: Guide for Elders and Deacons in Baptist Churches

By Paul Beasley-Murray

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

By Ysenda Maxtone-Graham

E. H. Carr and International Relations: A Duty to Lie

By Charles Jones (University of Cambridge)

Dietrich Bonhoeffer: In the Midst of Wickedness

By Janet Benge, Geoff Benge

De Gaulle: The Last Great Frenchman

By Charles Williams

Who Goes Home?: Scenes from a Political Life

By Hattersley, Roy

ISAAC NEWTON: The Last Sorcerer

By White

Introducing Darwin and Evolution

By Jonathan Miller

Red Sky at Sunrise: "Cider with Rosie", "As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning" and "Moment of War"

By Laurie Lee

From Norfolk to Normandy: The Wartime Art of Captain Julian Cory-Wright RA

By Alan Marshall

Women of Faith And Courage: Susanna Wesley, Fanny Crosby, Catherine Booth, Mary Slessor and Corrie ten Boom

By Vance Christie

The Queen's Conjuror: The Life and Magic of Dr. Dee

By Benjamin Woolley

Saladin

By John Man

West Sussex in Character: A Glimpse at Some of the Counties More Colourful Personalities

By Fred Lilley

My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt

By Sarah Bernhardt, Victoria Tietze Larson

A Child in the Forest

By Winifred Foley

Staying Power: An Autobiography

By Peter Walker

50 Leaders Who Changed History

By Charles Phillips

Woman of the Valleys: The Story of Mother Shepherd

By Charles A. Preece

Nelson I am Myself a Norfolk Man

By Charles Lewis