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Finding Home: The Real Stories of Migrant Britain

By Emily Dugan

Mrs Guinness: The Rise and Fall of Diana Mitford, the Thirties Socialite

By Lyndsy Spence

Pierre Bourdieu: Key Concepts

By Grenfell, Michael

On the Red Hill: Where Four Lives Fell Into Place

By Parker, Mike

Home Again: Stories of Migration and Return

By Polly Pattullo, Celia Sorhaindo, Polly Patullo

In the City: A Celebration of London Music

By Du Noyer, Paul

Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China

By Chang, Jung

Family Business: An Intimate History of John Lewis and the Partnership

By Glendinning, Victoria

The Deadly Sisterhood: A story of Women, Power and Intrigue in the Italian Renaissance

By Frieda, Leonie

Cruickshank’s London: A Portrait of a City in 13 Walks

By Cruickshank, Dan

A Rough Passage: V. 1: Memories of Empire (A Rough Passage: Memories of the Empire)

By Barnes, K.J.

Out in the Midday Sun: My Kenya

By Huxley

Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper

By Parr, Helen

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir (Frank McCourt Memoirs)

By McCourt, Frank

London Crossings: A Biography of Black Britain (Literature, Culture & Identity S.)

By Phillips, Mike

Poison in Small Measure: Dr. Christopherson and the Cure for Bilharzia

By Crichton-Harris, Ann

Gypsy BoyOne Boy's Struggle to Escape from a Secret World

By Mikey Walsh, Walsh, Mikey

Joseph Ruhomon's India: The Progress of Her People at Home and Abroad, and How Those in British Guiana May Improve Themselves

By The University of the West Indies Press

Isaiah Berlin: A Life

By Michael Ignatieff, Ignatieff, Michael

Personal Impressions (Oxford Paperbacks)

By Berlin, Isaiah, Hardy, Henry, Annan, Noel Gilroy

Changing Countries: The Experience and Achievement of German-speaking Exiles from Hitler in Britain, 1933 to Today

By Malet, Marian, Grenville, Anthony

Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture

By Gaiutra Bahadur

Simone de Beauvoir : A Feminist Mandarin (Social Science Paperbacks ; 294)

By Evans, Mary

Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife

By Prose, Francine

The Search Warrant: Dora Bruder

By Modiano, Patrick

The Six Wives Of Henry VIII

By Fraser, Lady Antonia

Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists

By Moore, Jerry D.

Three Guineas (Hogarth critics)

By Virginia Woolf

Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation

By Judith Mackrell

Fear and Loathing in La Liga: Barcelona vs Real Madrid

By Lowe, Sid