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Spinsters Abroad: Victorian Lady Explorers

By Birkett

Joe Appiah: The Autobiography of an African Patriot

By Appiah, Enid

The Assassin's Cloak

By Taylor, Irene, Alan

Everest

By George Craig

Leading Lives: Winston Churchill Hardback

By Reynoldson, Fiona

Welcome Home

By Wicks, Ben

Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixties

By Rowbotham, Sheila

The Captain's Apprentice: Ralph Vaughan Williams and the Story of a Folk Song

By Davison, Caroline

The Best and the Brightest

By Halberstam, David

Spring Rain: A wise and life-affirming memoir about how gardens can help us heal

By Hamer, Marc

Black Girl from Pyongyang: In Search of My Identity

By Macias, Monica

The ISIS Hostage: One Man's True Story of 13 Months in Captivity

By Puk Damsgård

Portrait of a People: A Personal Photographic Record of the South African Liberation Struggle

By Weinberg, Eli

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 tales of extraordinary women

By Favilli, Elena, Cavallo, Francesca

Vietnam: A Portrait of Its People at War

By Chanoff, David, Toai, Doan Van

Leading Lives: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Hardback

By Downing, David

The Unfinished Palazzo: Life, Love and Art in Venice

By Judith Mackrell

Mountain Wolf Woman: A Ho-Chunk Girlhood (Badger Biographies)

By Holliday, Diane

Frederick the Great

By Mitford, Nancy, Williams, Kate

Diana: The Making of a Saint

By Harrison, Ted

Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: The Official Biography

By Shawcross, WILLIAM

The Eitingons: A Twentieth-Century Family

By Wilmers, Mary-Kay

The Forest Trilogy: Child in the Forest; No Pipe Dreams for Father; and Back to the Forest

By Foley, Winifred

Maxton: A Biography

By Brown, Gordon

South Africa: The First Man, the Last Nation

By Johnson, R W

Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: The Official Biography

By Shawcross, WILLIAM

Nye Bevan: A Biography

By Campbell, John

Keir Hardie: A Biography

By Benn, Caroline

Among You Taking Notes: The Wartime Diary of Naomi Mitchison, 1939-1945 (Oxford Paperbacks)

By Mitchison, Naomi, Sheridan, Dorothy

Kampong Spirit Gotong Royong: Life in Potong Pasir, 1955 to 1965

By Josephine Chia