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Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century

By George Packer

Zhu Rongji Meets the Press

By Rongji Zhu

Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman

By Jeremy Adelman

But What Can I Do?: Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It

By Alastair Campbell

Che: A Graphic Biography

By Paul Buhle, Spain Rodriguez

Scott Joplin and the Ragtime Era (Abacus Books)

By Gammond, Peter.

The Best and the Brightest

By Halberstam, David

Einstein For Beginners

By Schwartz, Joseph & McGuinnes, Michael., Joseph Schwartz and Michael McGuinness

Tucker

By Chadwick Moore

Odd Boy Out: The "hilarious, eye-popping, unforgettable" Sunday Times bestseller

By Gyles Brandreth

Head North: A Rallying Cry for a More Equal Britain

By Andy Burnham, Steve Rotheram

Priests de la Resistance!: The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century

By Butler-Gallie, The Revd Fergus

Hamlet and the Baker's Son: My Life in Theatre and Politics

By Augusto Boal

George W. Bushisms: The Slate Book Of Accidental Wit And Wisdom Of Our 43Rd President: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of Our 43rd President

By Jacob Weisburg

King: The Life of Martin Luther King

By Jonathan Eig

Soldier on: An Autobiography

By Sir Mike Ansell

The Rest is History: The official book from the makers of the hit podcast

By Goalhanger Podcasts, Tom Holland, Dominic Sandbrook (Historian)

Art, Enterprise, and Ethics: The Life and Works of William Morris

By Charles Harvey, Jon Press

Involuntary Journey to Siberia

By Andreĭ Amalʹrik

Cromwell: Our Chief of Men

By Antonia Fraser

All His Spies: The Secret World of Robert Cecil

By Stephen Alford

The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham

By Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman's Astonishing Life of Seduction, Intrigue and Power

By Sonia Purnell

The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt

By Woodrow Wyatt

Permanent Record

By Edward Snowden

Homage to Catalonia (Penguin Modern Classics)

By George Orwell, Julian Symons

Erdogan Rising: a Warning to Europe

By Hannah Lucinda Smith

Collateral Damage: Britain, America and Europe in the Age of Trump

By Kim Darroch

Going Rogue: An American Life

By Sarah Palin

Open Secret: The Autobiography of the Former Director-General of MI5

By Stella Rimington