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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

Nelson Mandela: A Biography

Great Contemporaries

By Winston Churchill

Kenneth Clarke: A Political Biography

By Andy McSmith

Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius

By Nick Hornby

Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane

By James Delbourgo

Alfred B. Xuma: African, American, South African

By Steven Gish (Assistant Professor of History, Auburn University, Montgomery, USA)

What It Feels Like for a Girl

By Paris Lees

Irving Berlin: A Musical Life

By Philip Furia

Sylvia Pankhurst, Citizen of the World

By Shirley Harrison, Nic Watts, Susan Homewood

Once a Jolly Bagman: Memoirs

By Alistair McAlpine

Decline & Fall: Diaries 2005-2010

By Mullin, Chris

Michael Heseltine: A Biography

By Michael Crick

It's All About Treo: Life and War with the World's Bravest Dog

By Damien Lewis, Dave Heyhoe

Melania

By Melania Trump

The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder,Madness And the Love of Words

By Winchester, Simon, Unknown

Decision Points

By George W. Bush