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Speeches That Changed the World — The Stories and Transcripts of the Moments That Made History

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca

By Mount, Ferdinand

Sailing Close to the Wind: Reminiscences

By Skinner, Dennis, Maguire, Kevin

Street-Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties

By Tariq Ali

Brother Number One: A Political Biography Of Pol Pot

By Chandler, David P

Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live

By Ebert, Lily, Forman, Dov

Roald Dahl and His Chocolate Factory (Horribly Famous)

By Donkin, Andrew, Goddard, Clive

Pack (Stage E) (Discovery World S.)

An African Princess: From African Orphan to Queen Victoria's Favourite

By Dean Myers, Walter

How To Be a Woman

By Moran, Caitlin

Hitler

By Fest, Joachim E., Winston, R., C.

101 Awesome Women Who Changed Our World

By Adams, Julia, Wright, Louise

On Gallows Down: Place, Protest and Belonging (Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2022 for Nature Writing - Highly Commended)

By Nicola Chester

Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns and One Intact Glass Ceiling

By Chozick, Amy

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: The Biography

By Doggett, Peter

Islam in Victorian Britain: The Life and Times of Abdullah Quilliam

By Geaves, Ron

Mussolini and Fascism (Questions and Analysis in History)

By Knight, Patricia

The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45

By Szpilman, Wladyslaw

Great Britons: Twentieth Century Lives

By Oxbury, Harold

Tiberius Claudius Maximus (Rebuilding the Past S.)

By Connolly, Peter

The Book of Heroic Children

By Hazell, Rebecca, Cann, Helen

Fire

By Junger, Sebastian

To Be a Woman: The Life of Jill Craigie

By Rollyson, Carl E.

There's Rosemary, There's Rue

By Fortescue, Winifred

Pieter Hugo: 1994

By Pieter Hugo

The Amazing Book is Not on Fire: The World of Dan and Phil

By Howell, Dan, Lester, Phil

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63

By Taylor Branch

Up West: Voices from the Streets of Post-War London

By Granger, Pip

Calling for Action: An Autobiographical Enquiry

By Soper, Donald

A Woman's Work

By Harman, Harriet