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

By Skloot, Rebecca, Moss, Sarah

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

By Margot Lee Shetterly

Citizen Lord: Edward Fitzgerald 1763-1798

By Stella Tillyard

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

By Kathleen Mary Butler

Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero

By Timothy Egan

Biko: A Life

By Xolela Mangcu, Nelson Mandela

A World with a Human Face: A Voice from Africa

By Njongonkulu Ndungane

Letters from Russia, 1919

By P. D. Ouspensky

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

By Charles van Onselen

Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture

By Sudhir Hazareesingh

The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

By Jon Ronson (Jon Ronson)

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

By Alan English

Egyptians (Usborne Beginners) (Beginners Series)

By Turnbull, Stephanie, King, Colin

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

By Henry Gariepy

Quotations of Martin Luther King (Quotations of Great Americans)

By King, Martin

Aishah, the Beloved of Mohammed

By Nabia Abbott

War of Words: Memoir of a South African Journalist

By Benjamin Pogrund, Harold Evans

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

By Pauline Knowles-Samarraie, Karen O'Brien

Servitude in Modern Times

By M. L. Bush (Manchester Metropolitan University)

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

By James Walvin (University of York, UK)

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

By Scroggins, Deborah

Life and Times of a Dovorian: Lillian Kay

By Kay, Lilian

It’s Our Turn to Eat

By Wrong, Michela

Living with Africa

Margery Perham and British Rule in Africa

By Mary Bull, Alison Smith

South Sudan: The Untold Story from Independence to Civil War

By Hilde F. Johnson

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

By Lee Lawrence

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

By Joan Rice

Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and Toxic Masculinity

By Clementine Ford

On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe

By Andrzej Stasiuk, Michael Kandel