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Ma’am Darling: : The hilarious, bestselling royal biography, perfect for fans of The Crown: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret

By Brown, Craig

My Heart is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots

By John Guy

The Testimony of Lives: Narrative and memory in post-Soviet Latvia

By Vieda Skultans

Women Who Launch: The Women Who Shattered Glass Ceilings (Strong women)

By Marlene Wagman-Geller

Lure of Fantasy, The:Bernard Shaw Volume III 1918-1950: Lure of Fantasy, 1918-50 v. 3

By Holroyd, M

Eleni

By Nicholas Gage

Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind - Arthur Koestler and the Quest for Belonging

By David Cesarani

Elisabeth's Lists: A Life Between the Lines

By Lulah Ellender

An Autobiography: Or the Story of My Experiments with Truth

By Mahatma Gandhi

Victorian Prison Lives

By Philip Priestley

The Haunting of Alma Fielding: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020

By Kate Summerscale

Walk Across America

By Peter Jenkins

Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of 'Housewife, 49'

By Richard Broad, Suzie Fleming, Nella Last

A Just Defiance: The Bombmakers, the Insurgents and a Legendary Treason Trial

By Harris, Peter

Andrew Carnegie

By Nasaw, David

How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

By Michael Pollan

Young Trudeau: 1919-1944: Son of Quebec, Father of Canada

By Max Nemni, Monique Nemni, William Johnson

Michael Collins and the Making of the Irish State

By Gabriel Doherty, Dermot Keogh

An Irish Navvy - The Diary of an Exile

By Donall MacAmhlaigh

The Survivors: The Story of the Belsen Remnant

By Leslie H Hardman, Cecily Goodman

Shaftesbury: The Poor Man's Earl

By John Pollock

Benazir Bhutto

By Sean Price

The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner)

By Sarah M Broom

I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain: WINNER OF THE 2021 BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD FOR NON-FICTION

By Anita Sethi

Frank Lloyd Wright: AD (Architecture & Design)

By Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks

Mighty Healer: Thomas Holloway's Victorian Patent Medicine Empire

By Verity Holloway

Get Her Off the Pitch!: How Sport Took Over My Life

By Lynne Truss

A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father

By David Maraniss

Wisconsin Death Trip

By Michael Lesy, Warren Susman

Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorized Biography of T.E.Lawrence

By J. M. Wilson