Social & Urban History Biographies

Counting One's Blessings: Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

By William Shawcross

The Damage Done: Twelve Years Of Hell In A Bangkok Prison

By Fellows, Warren, W

Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman

By Chouinard, Yvon

Famous People: Nelson Mandela

By Adi, Hakim

Amazing Tales for Making Men out of Boys

By Oliver, Neil

Here I Stand: My Struggle for a Christianity of Integrity, Love, and Equality

By John Shelby Spong

The Barbed-Wire University: The Real Lives of Allied Prisoners of War in the Second World War

By Gillies, Midge

Lives and Times Harriet Tubman Hardback

By John Rowley, Rowley, John

Jewish 100

By Shapiro, Michael

Why Dylan Matters

By Thomas, Richard F.

The Voice of the Bard: Living Poets and Ancient Tradition in the Highlands and Islands

By Timothy Neat, John MacInnes

Calum's Road

By Roger Hutchinson

Bloom: navigating life and style

By Lalonde, Estee

The Kennedy Curse: The shocking true story of America’s most famous family

By Patterson, James

The Islamist: Why I joined radical Islam in Britain, what I saw inside and why I left

By Husain, Ed

Beloved Land: stories, struggles, and secrets from Timor-Leste

By Peake, Gordon

Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Crosses the Line

By Venkatesh, Sudhir

The Yellow On The Broom: The Early Days of a Traveller Woman

By Whyte, Betsy

To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918

By Hochschild, Adam

Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our Recent History

By Marton, Kati

Road to Pakistan: The Life and Times of Mohammad Ali Jinnah

By Nanda, B. R.

Who Was Nelson Mandela?

By Belviso, Meg

Ways of Life: Jim Ede and the Kettle's Yard Artists

By Freeman, Laura

Writing for Their Lives: America’s Pioneering Female Science Journalists

By LaFollette, Marcel Chotkowski

Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster

By Andrews, Helen

LACAN (Fontana Modern Masters)

By Bowie

Malala Yousafzai: Warrior with Words

By Karen Leggett Abouraya, L. C. Wheatley

A Companion to Contemporary Britain 1939 - 2000

By Paul Addison (University of Edinburgh), Harriet Jones (Institute of Historical Research, University of London)

Titanic's Last Hero

By Moody Adams

My Life in France: The life story of Julia Child - 'exuberant, affectionate and boundlessly charming' New York Times

By Julia Child, Olivia Potts