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The Quality of Love: Twin Sisters at the Heart of the Century

By Ariane Bankes

My Times: A Memoir of Dissent

By John Hess

Spy on the Roof of the World

By Sydney Wignall

War Memorial: The Story of One Village's Sacrifice from 1914 to 2003

By Clive Aslet

Blood Sisters: French Revolution in Women's Memory

By Marilyn Yalom

Boadicea's Chariot: The Warrior Queens

By Fraser, Antonia

Looking for Trouble: SAS to Gulf Command - The Autobiography

By Peter de la Billière

Piltdown Man

By Miles Russell

Abroad in Japan

By Chris Broad

Facing Mount Kenya AWS 219

Remember Nelson: The Life of Sir William Hoste

By Tom Pocock

Snakes and Ladders

By Gita Mehta

The Ten Types of Human: Who We Are and Who We Can Be

By Dias, Dexter

Sharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries

By Suad Amiry

Tally's Corner,Washington,D.C: A study of Negro streetcorner men

By Liebow, Elliot

Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe

By Kapka Kassabova

The Strangers Who Came Home: The First Australian Cricket Tour of England

By John Lazenby

British Prime Ministers

By Robert J. Parker

The Queen: The Life and Family of Queen Elizabeth II

By A. N. Wilson

A Voyage Around the Queen: The new Sunday Times bestselling biography of Queen Elizabeth II, from the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize

By Brown, Craig

The Man Who Built the Berlin Wall: The Rise and Fall of Erich Honecker

By Nathan Morley

The Gulag Archipelago: (Abridged edition) (Vintage Classics)

By Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, Peterson, Jordan

The Black Ship: The Quest to Recover an English Pirate Ship and Its Lost Treasure

By Barry Clifford, Paul Perry

Wally Funk's Race for Space: The Extraordinary Story of a Female Aviation Pioneer

By Sue Nelson

Meister Eckhart and the Beguine Mystics: Hadewijch of Brabant, Mechthild of Magdeburg, and Marguerite Porete

By Bernard McGinn

McQueen: The Biography

By Sandford, Christopher

Free: Coming of Age at the End of History

By Lea Ypi

Kleinians: Psychoanalysis Inside Out

By Janet Sayers (University of Kent)

A Winter on the Nile

By Anthony Sattin

Titanic Lives: Migrants and Millionaires, Conmen and Crew

By Richard Davenport-Hines