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The Cubans: Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times

By Anthony DePalma

Book of Awesome Women Writers: Medieval Mystics, Pioneering Poets, Fierce Feminists and First Ladies of Literature

By Becca Anderson

Who Are We?: How Identity Politics Took Over the World

By Gary Younge

TheGulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr ( Author ) ON Jan-30-2003, Paperback

By Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr

Modern British History: The Essential A-Z Guide

By Dr Mark Garnett, Richard Weight

Little Leaders: Visionary Women Around the World

By Vashti Harrison

Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London

By Lauren Elkin

Introducing Thatcherism: A Graphic Guide

By Peter Pugh, Carl Flint

The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore

Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

By Michael Lewis

THE WOMEN’S HISTORY OF THE WORLD (Paladin Books)

By Miles

Young Bloomsbury: the generation that reimagined love, freedom and self-expression

By Nino Strachey

British As A Second Language

By David Bennun

An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo

By Richard Davenport-Hines

The Thieves' Opera: The Remarkable Lives and Deaths of Jonathan Wild, Thief-taker and Jack Sheppard, House-breaker

By Mrs Lucy Moore

English Eccentrics

By Dame Edith Sitwell

Naples 1944: War, Liberation and Chaos

By Keith Lowe

Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorized Biography of T.E.Lawrence

By J. M. Wilson

An Encyclopaedia of Myself

By Jonathan Meades

Sleeping Where I Fall: A Chronicle

By Peter Coyote

A Thousand Pieces of Gold: A Memoir of China's Past Through its Proverbs

By Adeline Yen Mah

An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo

By Richard Davenport-Hines

Ringolevio

By Emmett Grogan

The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House

By Kate Andersen Brower

Get Her Off the Pitch!: How Sport Took Over My Life

By Lynne Truss

I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain: WINNER OF THE 2021 BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD FOR NON-FICTION

By Anita Sethi

Frank Lloyd Wright: AD (Architecture & Design)

By Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks

Mighty Healer: Thomas Holloway's Victorian Patent Medicine Empire

By Verity Holloway

Roots of the Rich and Famous

By Robert Davenport

A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father

By David Maraniss