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A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It

By Stephen Kinzer

Barefoot in Mullyneeny: A Boy's Journey Towards Belonging

By bryan gallagher

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Souvenir 1952-2012

By Bullen, Annie

I Have a Dream: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Equal Rights

By Anita Ganeri

When Christmas Comes: An Anthology of Childhood Christmases

By Anne Harvey

Hopping

By Melanie McGrath

My Place: Autobiography

By Morgan, Sally

Twentieth Century History Makers: Nelson Mandela: An Extraordinary Life

By Ann Kramer

Brasso, Blanco and Bull

By Tony Thorne

A Woven Silence

By Felicity Hayes-McCoy

The Children Of Willesden Lane: A Memoir of Music, Love and Survival

By Mona Golabek, Lee Cohen

Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...: How '90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me For Life

By Josh Widdicombe

Sartre: A Life

By Cohen-Solal, Annie

Swell: A Waterbiography The Sunday Times SPORT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017

By Jenny Landreth

Osnat and Her Dove: The True Story of the World's First Female Rabbi

By Sigal Samuel, Mintzi

Politics Hacks

By Julian Flanders

In Search of Amrit Kaur: An Indian Princess in Wartime Paris

By Livia Manera Sambuy, Todd Portnowitz

A Woman of Firsts: The true story of the midwife who built a hospital and changed the world - A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week

By Ismail, Edna Adan, Holden, Wendy

Windward Family: An atlas of love, loss and belonging

By Alexis Keir

God's Politician: William Wilberforce's Struggle

By Garth Lean

The Trial of Lizzie Borden

By Cara Robertson

Balkan Odyssey

By David Owen

The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong Un

By Anna Fifield

John Rawls: His Life and Theory of Justice

By Thomas Pogge (Department of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Columbia University), Michelle Kosch

Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography

By Popper, Sir Karl

We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience

By Lyndsey Stonebridge

Maybanke Anderson: Sex, Suffrage and Social Reform: Sex, Suffrage and Social Reform

By Jan Roberts

Seeing Further

By Esther Kinsky, Caroline Schmidt

Failed State: Why Britain Doesn't Work and How We Fix It

By Sam Freedman

The Solitary Self: Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Exile and Adversity

By Maurice Cranston, Sanford Lakoff