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The Great Outsiders: Harmsworth, Rothermere and the "Daily Mail"

By S.J. Taylor

The Reckoning: America's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal

By Mary L Trump

Stonehenge: The Biography of a Landscape

By Tim Darvill

Tutankhamun Egypt's Most Famous Pharoah (Pocket Essential)

By Bill Price

Fundacio Joan Miro Guidebook

By Malet, Rosa Maria (edit).

The Souls

By Jane Abdy, Charlotte Gere

Life Moves Pretty Fast: The lessons we learned from eighties movies (and why we don't learn them from movies any more)

By Hadley Freeman

Thomas Cook: 150 Years of Popular Tourism

By Dr. Piers Brendon

The Rothschilds A European Family

By Georg Heuberger

Farewell Kabul: From Afghanistan To A More Dangerous World

By Christina Lamb

Small Town Talk

By Barney Hoskyns

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

By David Grann

The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of A Year

By Rory Stewart

How to Be an Antiracist

By Ibram X. Kendi

Deadline: The Story of the Scottish Press

By Harry Reid

Lamplight on Cottage Loaves

By Joan Kent

Daughter of the River

By Hong Ying

The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food

By Dan Barber

Hide and Seek: The Irish Priest in the Vatican who Defied the Nazi Command. The dramatic true story of rivalry and survival during WWII.

By Stephen Walker

Essex Girls: For Profane and Opinionated Women Everywhere

By Sarah Perry

Scotland: The Story of a Nation

By Magnusson, Magnus

WHAT DOES CHINA THINK?

By Leonard

The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed

By Judy Shepard

On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe

By Andrzej Stasiuk, Michael Kandel

Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and Toxic Masculinity

By Clementine Ford

Sand In My Shoes: Coming of Age in the Second World War: A WAAF's Diary

By Joan Rice

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

By Lee Lawrence

South Sudan: The Untold Story from Independence to Civil War

By Hilde F. Johnson

Margery Perham and British Rule in Africa

By Mary Bull, Alison Smith

Living with Africa