books by subject
Social & Urban History Biographies

Lost For Words

My Secret Sister: Jenny Lucas and Helen Edwards' family story

The Common Years

Private Life Of Chairman Mao: The Memoirs of Mao's Personal Physician

The Life Of Samuel Johnson: James Boswell (Everyman Classic Library)

An Ethiopian Odyssey

First Mothers: The Women Who Shaped the Presidents

Dead Again: The Russian Intelligentsia After Communism

Swifts and Us: The Life of the Bird that Sleeps in the Sky

I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)

Che: A Memoir by Fidel Castro

Black Elk Speaks

History Makers: Women Who Changed History

Gervelie's Journey

Greed, Seeds and Slavery

Life After You

Mary, Queen of Scots

To the Letter: A Curious History of Correspondence

Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism

DK Life Stories Helen Keller

Rosa Parks

The Louder I Will Sing: A story of racism, riots and redemption: Winner of the 2020 Costa Biography Award

Making a Noise: Getting It Right, Getting It Wrong in Life, Arts and Broadcasting

The Life and Times of Evita

Daphne Guinness

A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Indian History of a British Spo

The King's Painter: The Life and Times of Hans Holbein

Blenheim: Biography of a Palace

The Big House: The Story of a Country House and its Family
