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The Rivals: The Intimate Story of a Political Marriage

By James Naughtie

Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It

By Greg Marshall

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban

By Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb

My Farming Life: Tales from a shepherdess on a remote Northumberland farm

By Emma Gray

Women of Tarot: An Illustrated History of Divinators, Card Readers, and Mystics

By Cat Willett

Three Times a Countess: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Raine Spencer

By Tina Gaudoin

The Arab of the Future: Volume 1: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984 - A Graphic Memoir

By Riad Sattouf

Before and After: the heartbreaking true stories of a notorious adoption scandal

By Lisa Wingate, Judy Christie

Against The Law

By Peter Wildeblood

Young Elizabeth: The Making of our Queen

By Kate Williams

In the Bunker with Hitler: The Last Witness Speaks

By Freytag von Loringhoven, Bernd

Operation Valkyrie: The Plot To Kill Hitler

By Philipp von Boeselager

A Colourful View From the Top: Twenty-One Extraordinary Stories of Leaders of Colour Achieving Excellence in Business

By Jonathan Mildenhall

Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

War Paint: Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein: Their Lives, their Times, their Rivalry

By Lindy Woodhead

Jennie Churchill: Winston's American Mother

By Anne Sebba

Thoroughly Modern: The pioneering life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, photographer, and her brilliant Bohemian friends

By Sarah Knights

Before the Light Fades: A Family Story of Resistance - 'Fascinating' Sarah Waters

By Natasha Walter

Two Brothers

By Jonathan Wilson

Two Brothers

By Jonathan Wilson

Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

By Glory Edim

A Balkan Summer

By George East

The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951

By Lord John Julius Norwich

The Noel Coward Diaries: With a Foreword by Stephen Fry

By Sheridan Morley, Graham Payn

Rediscovering Dharavi

By Sharma, Kalpana

Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of a Whore

By Julie Peakman

The Queen: The gripping true tale of a villain who changed history

By Josh Levin

Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It

By Greg Marshall

The Fleet Street Girls: The women who broke down the doors of the gentlemen's club

By Julie Welch

The Green Bullet: The rise, fall and resurrection of Alejandro Valverde and Spanish cycling's corruption

By Matt Rendell