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The Reinvention of Humanity: A Story of Race, Sex, Gender and the Discovery of Culture

By Charles King

Finding Home: The Real Stories of Migrant Britain

By Emily Dugan

One Giant Leap: The Story of Neil Armstrong

By Don Brown

From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey

By Khoo Thwe, Pascal

A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's Perfumer

By Elisabeth de Feydeau, Jane Lizop

The Poet at the Piano: Portraits of Writers, Filmmakers and Performers at Work

By Michiko Kakutani

The Reforms of Peter the Great: Progress Through Violence in Russia

By Evgenii V. Anisimov, J.T. Alexander

Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy

By Coretta Scott King, Rev. Dr. Barbara Reynolds

The History Of: African and Caribbean Communities in Britain

By Adi, Hakim

Martin Luther King Jr.

By John A. Kirk

Mao Zedong

By Anne Faulkner

Flagship Historymakers – Elizabeth I (Flagship Historymakers S.)

By Fellows, Nicholas, Murphy, Derrick

Dirt: Adventures in French Cooking from the bestselling author of Heat

By Bill Buford

Fifty Dead Men Walking

By Martin McGartland

Clouds Of Glory: A Childhood in Hoxton

By Bryan Magee

Angela's Ashes

By frank McCourt

Saving Bletchley Park: How #socialmedia saved the home of the WWII codebreakers

By Sue Black

More Than a Woman: The instant Sunday Times number one bestseller

By Moran, Caitlin

An Iron Girl in a Velvet Glove: The Life of Joan Rhodes

By Triona Holden

No Bells to Toll: Destruction and Creation in the Andes

By Barbara Bode

Love Among the Ruins: A memoir of life and love in Hamburg, 1945

By Harry Leslie Smith

Mother Ireland

By Edna O'Brien

Famine Diary: Journey to a New World

By Gerald Keegan, James J. Mangan

THE FALLING ANGELS

By Walsh

Simon Weston: Moving on

By Simon Weston

More Than A Game: The Story of Cricket's Early Years

By Major, John

The Female Eunuch

By Dr. Germaine Greer

THE WOMEN’S HISTORY OF THE WORLD (Paladin Books)

By Miles

Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

By Michael Lewis

The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore