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Mao: The Unknown Story

By Chang Jung & Halliday Jon, Chang, Jung, Halliday, Jon

Rise Up Women!: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes

By Dr Diane Atkinson

Going to the Match: The Passion for Football: The Perfect Gift for Football Fans

By Duncan Hamilton

Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

By Michelle Dean

Revolutionary Ride: On the Road in Search of the Real Iran

By Lois Pryce

Khiva to Samarkand: The Remarkable Story of a Woman's Adventurous Journey Alone Through the Deserts of Central Asia to the Heart of Turkestan

By Ella R. Christie

Edith Wharton and the French Riviera

By Elizabeth Collas

Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend: A celebration of gay gods, sapphic saints, and queerness through the ages

By Dan Jones

Two Brothers

By Jonathan Wilson

The Man Behind the Rosenbergs

By Ronald Radosh, Sergei Kostin, Alexander Feklisov

From Berlin to Jerusalem: Memories of My Youth

By Gershom Gerhard Scholem, Prof. Harold Bloom, Harry Zohn

A House Full of Daughters

By Juliet Nicolson

L'Oreal Took My Home: The Secrets of a Theft

By Serge Klarsfeld

In My Brother's Image: Twin Brothers Separated by Faith after the Holocaust

By Eugene L. Pogany

Commander of the Exodus

By Yoram Kaniuk, Seymour Simckes

Chosen Few HB

By Kurlansky

L'Oreal Took My Home: The Secrets of a Theft

By Monica Waitzfelder, Peter Bush, Serge Klarsfeld

Schroders: Merchants & Bankers

By Richard Roberts

Confronting History: A Memoir

By George L. Mosse

Chanel's Riviera: Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Cote d'Azur, 1930-1944

By Anne de Courcy

Oliver Baldwin: A Life of Dissent

By Christopher J. Walker

Hidden Lights: Women of Courage

By Joan Blaney, Barbara Follett

The White Masai

By Corinne Hofmann, Peter Millar

The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds

By John Higgs

The Crichel Boys: Scenes from England's Last Literary Salon

By Simon Fenwick

The Kings & Queens of England

By Best, Nicholas

Seasons of My Life

By Hauxwell, Hannah

What Makes Us Stronger

By Freya Lewis

Christmas Around the Village Green: In a WWII 1940s rural village, family means the world at Christmastime

By Dot May Dunn

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World

By Lucette Lagnado