books by subject

Social & Urban History Biographies

Filter by available

The Rothschilds A European Family

By Georg Heuberger

Farewell Kabul: From Afghanistan To A More Dangerous World

By Christina Lamb

Small Town Talk

By Barney Hoskyns

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

By David Grann

The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of A Year

By Rory Stewart

How to Be an Antiracist

By Ibram X. Kendi

Deadline: The Story of the Scottish Press

By Harry Reid

Lamplight on Cottage Loaves

By Joan Kent

Daughter of the River

By Hong Ying

The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food

By Dan Barber

Hide and Seek: The Irish Priest in the Vatican who Defied the Nazi Command. The dramatic true story of rivalry and survival during WWII.

By Stephen Walker

Essex Girls: For Profane and Opinionated Women Everywhere

By Sarah Perry

Scotland: The Story of a Nation

By Magnusson, Magnus

WHAT DOES CHINA THINK?

By Leonard

The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed

By Judy Shepard

On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe

By Andrzej Stasiuk, Michael Kandel

Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and Toxic Masculinity

By Clementine Ford

Sand In My Shoes: Coming of Age in the Second World War: A WAAF's Diary

By Joan Rice

The Louder I Will Sing: A story of racism, riots and redemption: Winner of the 2020 Costa Biography Award

By Lee Lawrence

South Sudan: The Untold Story from Independence to Civil War

By Hilde F. Johnson

Margery Perham and British Rule in Africa

By Mary Bull, Alison Smith

Living with Africa

It’s Our Turn to Eat

By Wrong, Michela

Life and Times of a Dovorian: Lillian Kay

By Kay, Lilian

Emma’s War: Love, Betrayal and Death in the Sudan

By Scroggins, Deborah

African's Life, 1745-1797: The Life and Times of Olaudah Equiano

By James Walvin (University of York, UK)

Servitude in Modern Times

By M. L. Bush (Manchester Metropolitan University)

I Never Said Goodbye: A Mother's Memoir of Love and Brutal Loss Inside Saddam's Regime

By Pauline Knowles-Samarraie, Karen O'Brien

War of Words: Memoir of a South African Journalist

By Benjamin Pogrund, Harold Evans

Aishah, the Beloved of Mohammed

By Nabia Abbott