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Madame Curie: A Biography

By Eve Curie

Joe Biden: American Dreamer

By Evan Osnos

The Survivor: How I Survived Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter - The Sunday Times Bestseller

By Josef Lewkowicz, Michael Calvin

Hamish's Mountain Walk

By Hamish M. Brown

Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

By Greenblatt, Stephen

The Politics of Pleasure: A Portrait of Benjamin Disraeli

By William Kuhn

A bag of marbles

By Joffo

The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

By Maria A Trapp

Renegade: The Making of Barack Obama

By Richard Wolffe

Point Man

By Mark Townsend

Friends and Enemies: A Memoir

By Barbara Amiel

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

By Joan Didion

Lenin: The Man Behind the Mask

By Ronald W. Clark

Comrade Corbyn: A Very Unlikely Coup: How Jeremy Corbyn Stormed to the Labour Leadership

By Rosa Prince

Churchill, Winston S.: v. 5: Prophet of Truth

By Martin Gilbert

Thin White Line

By Andy Cave

Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius

By Nick Hornby

Finding Me: A Memoir

By Viola Davis

Written by Herself: Volume I: Autobiographies of American Women: An Anthology

By Jill Ker Conway

Buster Keaton: Tempest in a Flat Hat

By Edward McPherson

The Obamas: The Untold Story of an African Family

By Peter Firstbrook

Alan Moorehead

By Tom Pocock

Nelson Mandela: A Biography

Great Contemporaries

By Winston Churchill

Kenneth Clarke: A Political Biography

By Andy McSmith

Decline & Fall: Diaries 2005-2010

By Mullin, Chris

Sylvia Pankhurst, Citizen of the World

By Shirley Harrison, Nic Watts, Susan Homewood

Once a Jolly Bagman: Memoirs

By Alistair McAlpine

Irving Berlin: A Musical Life

By Philip Furia

Michael Heseltine: A Biography

By Michael Crick