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Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life

By Angela V John

The Barefoot Lawyer: A Blind Man's Fight for Justice and Freedom in China

By Chen Guangcheng

An Almost Impossible Thing: The radical lives of Britain's pioneering women gardeners

By Fiona Davison

Sins of My Father: A Guardian Book of the Year 2022 - A Daughter, a Cult, a Wild Unravelling

By Lily Dunn

A London Childhood

The Islander: My Life in Music and Beyond

By Chris Blackwell, Paul Morley

A Quick Ting On: Black British Businesses

By Tskenya-Sarah Frazer

Too Many Mothers

By Taylor, Roberta, Roberta Taylor

The Bicycle Book

By Bathurst, Bella

Surfing the Zeitgeist

By gilbert adair

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

By Alexandra Fuller

Georgia Diary: A Chronicle of War and Political Chaos in the Post-Soviet Caucasus: A Chronicle of War and Political Chaos in the Post-Soviet Caucasus

By Thomas Goltz

The Girl From Aleppo: Nujeen’s Escape From War to Freedom

By Mustafa, Nujeen, Lamb, Christina

Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country

By Gillian Slovo

You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation

By Susannah Gora

Planck: Driven by Vision, Broken by War

By Brandon R. Brown (Professor of Physics, Professor of Physics, University of San Francisco)

Army Wives: From Crimea to Afghanistan: the Real Lives of the Women Behind the Men in Uniform

By Midge Gillies

Unbroken

By Hillenbrand, Laura

Memoirs of a Goldfish: Experiences of a World War II Bomber Pilot and POW

By Jim Burtt-Smith

Dad's Army: The Story of a Classic Television Show

By McCann, Graham

Paper Cuts: A Memoir

By Stephen Bernard (Author)

Moonless Night: Wartime Diary of a Great Escaper

By B. A. James

Desperate Romantics

By Moyle, Franny

Valkyrie: The Plot To Kill Hitler

By von Boeselager, Philipp

Vermilion Gate: An Extraordinary Story of Growing Up in Communist China

By Mu, Aiping

Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love

By Xinran, Nicky Harman

Pon My Puff!: A Childhood in 1920s Isle of Wight

By Dr. Charles M Lansley, Peter Stark Lansley

The Deals that Made the World

By Jacques Peretti

The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon: The Diary of a Courtesan in Tenth Century Japan

By Arthur Waley, Dennis Washburn

The Happy Valley