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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

CEO, China: The Rise of Xi Jinping

By Kerry Brown

A Certain Amount of Madness: The Life, Politics and Legacies of Thomas Sankara (Black Critique)

By Murrey, Amber

Lumumba: Africa's Lost Leader (Life & Times)

By Leo Zeilig

Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi

By Frank, Katherine

The Path to Power

By Thatcher, Margaret

The Great Terror: A Reassessment

By Conquest, Robert

We Were Eight Years in Power: 'One of the foremost essayists on race in the West' Nikesh Shukla, author of The Good Immigrant

By Coates, Ta-Nehisi

Churchill's War Lab: Code Breakers, Boffins and Innovators: The Mavericks Churchill Led to Victory

By Taylor Downing

Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2020

By Benson, Tim

Diary of an MP's Wife: Inside and Outside Power: 'riotously candid' Sunday Times

By Swire, Sasha

Momentum: The Struggle for Peace, Politics and the People

By Mowlam, Mo

Harold Macmillan

By Williams, Lord Charles

Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

By Haberman, Maggie

Abraham Lincoln: A Presidential Life

By McPherson, James M.

Wellington: The Years of the Sword

By Longford, Elizabeth

Churchill: The Greatest Briton

By Catherwood, Dr Christopher

A Fortunate Life

By Paddy Ashdown

Bitter Harvest: The Great Betrayal

By Ian Smith

After Fidel: Raul Castro And The Future Of Cuba's Revolution

By Latell, Brian