books by subject
Social & Urban History Biographies

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: Rebecca Skloot (Picador Classic, 79)

Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race

Citizen Lord: Edward Fitzgerald 1763-1798

The Economics of Emancipation: Jamaica and Barbados, 1823-1843

Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero

Biko: A Life

A World with a Human Face: A Voice from Africa

Letters from Russia, 1919

The Seed is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper, 1894-1985

Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture

The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

The Sunday Times Sporting Century: 50 Momentous Stories in Sports History

Egyptians (Usborne Beginners) (Beginners Series)

General of God's Army: The Authorized Biography of General Eva Burrows

Quotations of Martin Luther King (Quotations of Great Americans)

Aishah, the Beloved of Mohammed

War of Words: Memoir of a South African Journalist

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

Servitude in Modern Times

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

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

Life and Times of a Dovorian: Lillian Kay

It’s Our Turn to Eat

Living with Africa

Margery Perham and British Rule in Africa

South Sudan: The Untold Story from Independence to Civil War

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

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

Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and Toxic Masculinity
