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Mao: The Unknown Story

By Halliday, Jon, Chang, Jung

Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time

By Griffiths, Jay

Rust: One woman's story of finding hope across the divide

By Eliese Colette Goldbach

I'll Be There For You: The ultimate book for Friends fans everywhere

By Kelsey Miller

Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization

By Stuart Isacoff

The Glass Mother: A Memoir

By Rosie Jackson

Thomas Clarkson: A Biography

By Ellen Gibson Wilson

Strong Female Character

By Hanna Flint

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

By Frederick Douglass, Deborah E. McDowell

Jerilderie Letter

By The Jerilderie Letter Ned Kelly

Eccentric Lives and Peculiar Notions

By John Mitchell

The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin

By Mark Lilla, Ronald William Dworkin, MD, Robert Silvers

Maria Montessori: Her Life and Work

By E.M. Standing, Standing, E. M.

W.B. Yeats: a Literary Life

By Alisdair D.F. Macrae (Senior Lecturer, University of Sterling)

History Rocks: Women in Law

By Guy Fox, Blackstone Chambers Ltd, Mari Takayanagi

The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Man Against the Sea

By Junger, Sebastian

Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

By David Remnick

The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought

By Dennis C. Rasmussen

Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries (Volume 1): 1918-38

By Chips Channon

Tell Freedom

By Peter Abrahams

The Day the Nazis Came Here: The Astonishing True Story of a Childhood Journey from Nazi-Occupied Guernsey to the Dark Heart of a German Prison Camp

By Stephen Matthews

Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

By Laurence Rees

The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found: The Costa Book of the Year 2018

By Bart van Es

Hobbes (The Routledge Philosophers)

By Martinich, A.P.

A Legacy of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream

By Mark Gevisser

Dear Leader: North Korea's senior propagandist exposes shocking truths behind the regime

By Jang Jin-Sung

The Shed That Fed 2 Million Children: The Mary's Meals Story

By Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow

The Lost Diary of Queen Victoria’s Undermaid (Lost Diaries S.)

By Parsons, Alex

Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir

By Stanley Tookie Williams, Tavis Smiley, Barbara Becnel

Strange Days Indeed: The Golden Age of Paranoia

By Francis Wheen