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Éamon de Valera: A Will to Power

By Fanning, Ronan

Haldane: The Forgotten Statesman Who Shaped Modern Britain

By John Campbell

JFK: The Life and Death of an American President: v. 1: Reckless Youth

By Nigel Hamilton

Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West

By Catherine Belton

Becoming Kim Jong Un: Understanding North Korea's Young Dictator

By Jung H. Pak

Camelot's Court: Inside the Kennedy White House

By Robert Dallek

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

By Doris Kearns Goodwin

Palmerston: The People's Darling

By James Chambers

Hitler: A Study in Tyranny

By Alan Bullock

Where Power Stops: The Making and Unmaking of Presidents and Prime Ministers

By David Runciman

Hitler and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership

By Andrew Roberts

My Land and My People

By The Dalai Lama

Flying Free

By Nigel P. Farage

Leadership: Lessons from a Life in Diplomacy

By Simon McDonald

Barack Obama: The Movement for Change

By Anthony Painter

Letters To My Grandchildren

By Tony Benn

A Message from Ukraine

By Volodymyr Zelensky

Spider Woman: A Life - by the former President of the Supreme Court

By Lady Hale

Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940-45

By Max Hastings

Misinterpreting Modern Russia: Western Views of Putin and His Presidency

By Professor Bruno S. Sergi

The Fall of Boris Johnson: The Award-Winning, Explosive Account of the PM's Final Days

By Sebastian Payne

Abraham Lincoln: pocket GIANTS

By Adam I.P. Smith

Off Whitehall: A View from Downing Street by Tony Blair's Adviser

By Derek Scott (Former economic adviser to Tony Blair)

My Husband and I: The Inside Story of 70 Years of the Royal Marriage

By Ingrid Seward

Back from the Brink: 1,000 Days at Number 11

By Alistair Darling

In the Shadow of the Liberator: The Impact of Hugo Chavez on Venezuela and Latin America

By Richard Gott

The Real Iron Lady: Working with Margaret Thatcher: Working with Mrs T.

By Gillian Shephard

Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our Recent History

By Marton, Kati

The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches

By MacArthur, Brian

Maximinus Thrax: From Common Soldier to Emperor of Rome

By Paul N. Pearson