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Whicker's War

By Alan Whicker

Ma’am Darling: : The hilarious, bestselling royal biography, perfect for fans of The Crown

By Brown, Craig

Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

By Afua Hirsch

Hons and Rebels: The Mitford Family Memoir

By Jessica Mitford

All My Mother's Secrets: A Powerful True Story of Love, Loss and a Family Torn Apart

By Beezy Marsh

DONT LETS GO TO THE DOGS TONIGHT : AFRICAN CHILDHOOD

By Alexandra Fuller

In the Days of Rain: Winner of The 2017 Costa Biography Award

By Stott, Rebecca

Down and Out in Paris and London (Collins Classics)

By George Orwell

The Prince (Collins Classics)

By Niccolo Machiavelli

Elizabethans: A History of How Modern Britain Was Forged

By Andrew Marr

The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe

By Kelly, Angela, Angela Kelly

The White Road: Journey Into an Obsession

By Edmund de Waal

Paperboy: An Enchanting True Story Of A Belfast Paperboy Coming To Terms With The Troubles

By Tony Macaulay, Macaulay, Tony

The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women

By Mo Moulton

Heroes

By John Pilger

India Remembered: A Personal Account of the Mountbattens During the Transfer of Power

By Pamela Mountbatten

Elizabeth Fry

By June Rose

Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World

By Trevor Burnard

Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time

By Dr. Michael du Preez, Jeremy Dronfield

Bread, Jam and a Borrowed Pram: A Nurse's Story From the Streets

By Dot May Dunn

Army Life in a Black Regiment

By Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Howard N. Meyer

Hedingham Harvest: Victorian Family Life in Rural England

By Geoffrey Robinson

Martin Luther King Jr

By Adam Fairclough

Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak

By Deborah Ellis

Politics, Poverty and Belief: A Political Memoir

By The Rt Hon Frank Field

Laurie Lee Cider with Rosie

By Laurie Lee

Lincoln

By Andrew Lee

War Boy: A Wartime Childhood

By Foreman, Michael

Great African Americans in History

By Carlotta Hacker

An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West

By Konstantin Kisin, Peter Lloyd