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Breakthrough: Spectacular stories of scientific discovery from the Higgs particle to black holes

By Marcus Chown

How to Own the Room: Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking

By Groskop, Viv

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

By Rebecca Hall, Hugo Martinez

Rosie: Scenes from a Vanished Life

By Rose Tremain

Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties

By Lucy Moore

Gods of Noonday: A White Girl's African Life

By Elaine Neil Orr

Emily Wilding Davison

By Lucy Fisher

God's Callgirl

By Van Raay, Carla

"Are You Strong, Lass?": "You'll Need to be Working Here...: Memoirs from a 1970s Yorkshire Classroom

By Kath Padgett

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

By David W. Blight

London In The Nineteenth Century: 'A Human Awful Wonder of God'

By Jerry White

Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America

By Michael Eric Dyson

February 1933: The Winter of Literature

By Uwe Wittstock, Daniel Bowles

Ulendo: Claude's African Journey into War and Passion

By Malcolm Alexander, Archbishop Desmond Tutu

My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography

By L. Trotskii

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: 40th Anniversary Edition

By Robert Pirsig

Adventures in the Orgasmatron: The Invention of Sex

By Christopher Turner

A Divine Rage: The Careers and Controversies of the Pankhursts

By Martin Pugh

Letters To My Grandchildren

By Tony Benn

Somewhere There Is Still a Sun: A Memoir of the Holocaust

By Michael Gruenbaum, Todd Hasak-Lowy

Battling Injustice: 16 Women Nobel Peace Laureates

By Supriya Vani

Explore!: Tudors

By Jane Bingham

Battle Scars: A Story of War and All That Follows

By Jason Fox

Feel: Robbie Williams

By Heath, Chris

Another Hour On A Sunday Morning

By Julia Scheeres

Chapters of Accidents: A Writer's Memoir

By alexander Baron, Colin Holmes, Nick Baron

Headstrong

By Swaby, Rachel, Swaby, Rachel

The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan

By Ayesha Jalal (Columbia University, New York)

Heroic Animals: 100 Amazing Creatures Great and Small

By Balding, Clare

Becoming: Adapted for Younger Readers

By Michelle Obama