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Making History Now and Then: Discoveries, Controversies and Explorations

By D. Cannadine

Queer 1950s: Rethinking Sexuality in the Postwar Years

By H. Bauer, M. Cook

Progressive Historians: Turner, Beard, Parrington

By Richard Hofstadter

Of This Our Country: Essays from some of Nigeria’s greatest writers, including Ayobami Adebayo, Inua Ellams, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Helon Habila, Chigozie Obioma, Bolu Babalola and more

The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million

By Mendelsohn, Daniel

The Wordy Shipmates

By Vowell, Sarah

Fifty Years of the Supreme Court of India: Its Grasp and Reach

By Indian Law Institute

Granta 32: History (The Magazine of New Writing)

By Buford, Bill

Speeches That Changed the World — The Stories and Transcripts of the Moments That Made History

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions: The Inspiring Guide to Raising a Feminist

By Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda

The German Trauma: Experiences and Reflections 1938-2001

By Sereny, Gitta

Calm the F**k Down (A No F*cks Given Guide)

By Knight, Sarah

Speeches That Changed the World

By Sebag Montefiore, Simon, Cambridge Editorial Partners

Idiot Proof: A Short History of Modern Delusions

By Francis Wheen

Europe and Ethnicity: The First World War and Contemporary Ethnic Conflict

By Seamus Dunn, T.G. Fraser

The Challenge of Things: Thinking Through Troubled Times

By Professor A. C. Grayling

George Cross Heroes: Incredible True Stories of Bravery Beyond the Battlefield

By Michael Ashcroft

Memoir of the Bobotes

By Joyce Cary

Animals Strike Curious Poses

By Elena Passarello

Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey

By Keane, Fergal

Bring Me My Machine Gun

By Alec Russell

Reinventing a Continent

By Andre Brink

What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-33

By Joseph Roth

Messages from a Lost World: Europe on the Brink

By Stefan Zweig (Author), John Gray (Translator), Will Stone

Black Athena Revisited

By Guy MacLean Rogers

The Fire within the Eye: A Historical Essay on the Nature and Meaning of Light

By David Park

The Modernist Period 1900 to 1945

By Patrick Lee-Browne

The Man Napoleon

By Marco Regali Nai, William Henry Hudson

Down and Out in Paris and London (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Orwell, George

Cricketers of My Time: Heroes to Remember

By E.W. Swanton