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By John Biffen

Getting to Know the General: The Story of an Involvement

By Graham Greene

Adventures and Inventions of Stewart Blacker

By Barnaby Blacker

Princess: True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia

By Sasson, Jean, Jean P. Sasson

David Blunkett: On a Clear Day

By David Blunkett

Sailing Alone around the World

By Joshua Slocum, Thomas Philbrick

Michael Collins: A Biography

By Tim Pat Coogan

For The Love Of Anthony: A Mother's Search for Truth after the London Bombings

By Marie Fatayi-Williams

Hostage

By Paul Chandler, Rachel Chandler, Sarah Edworthy

Heart: A History: Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2019

By Sandeep Jauhar

Cameron: Practically a Conservative

By Francis Elliott, James Hanning

Nelson Mandela: Portrait of an Extraordinary Man

By Richard Stengel

The Autobiography

By Benjamin Franklin

Battling for Peace: Memoirs

By Shimon Peres

The Puritans in America: A Narrative Anthology

By Alan Heimert, Andrew Delbanco

K: Biography of Kafka

By Ronald Hayman

Rudyard Kipling

By Harry Ricketts

A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers

By Michael Holroyd

Time to Declare

By David Owen

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

The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

By Maria A Trapp

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

Point Man

By Mark Townsend