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People Who Say Goodbye: Memories of Childhood

By P. Y. Betts

A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers

By Lawrence Weschler

The Last Days: Steven Spielberg and the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation

By David Cesarani, Steven Spielberg

Stranger Things: Worlds Turned Upside Down: The Official Behind-The-Scenes Companion

By Gina McIntyre, Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer

Clinging to the Wreckage: A Part of Life

By Mortimer, John

Flagship Historymakers - JFK and LBJ

By Derrick Murphy

Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery

By Norman Mailer

Becoming Kim Jong Un: Understanding North Korea's Young Dictator

By Jung H. Pak

A People's History of Scotland

By Chris Bambery

Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

By Max Hastings

London's Strangest: The Thames: Extraordinary but true stories (Strangest)

By Iain Spragg

Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West

By Catherine Belton

Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe

By Roger McNamee

Len Goodman's Lost London

By Len Goodman, Trinity Mirror Media

The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky 1929-1940

By Isaac Deutscher

Brief Lives

By Paul Johnson

From Russia with Blood: Putin's Ruthless Killing Campaign and Secret War on the West

By Heidi Blake

The Soul of Indiscretion: Tom Driberg, poet, philanderer, legislator and outlaw – His Life and Indiscretions

By Wheen, Francis

The Diamond Queen: Elizabeth II and Her People

By Marr, Andrew

A Daisy for Dorothy: Love Story of a Family in War Time

By Pat Read, Leslie Thomas

Littlejohn's Lost World

By Richard Littlejohn

Truth About Cora Pearl

By Polly Binder

The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins

By Pearson, John, JOHN PEARSON

Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption

By Jennifer Thompson-Cannino, Ronald Cotton

Once More, With Feeling: How we tried to make the greatest porn film ever

By Victoria Coren, Charlie Skelton

On Boxing PB

By Professor of Humanities Joyce Carol Oates (Princeton University)

Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth About Where I Belong

By Georgina Lawton

How To Be Extraordinary

By Rashmi Sirdeshpande, Annabel Tempest

Postmodernism and Popular Culture: A Cultural History

By John Docker (University of Technology, Sydney)

Infidel

By Hirsi Ali, Ayaan