Social & Urban History Biographies

Love

By Stendhal, Knight, B., Stewart, Jean, Sale, Gilbert, Sale, Suzanne

Reveries of the Solitary Walker (Penguin Classics)

By Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, France, Peter

On Sparta (Penguin Classics)

By Plutarch, Talbert, Richard, Talbert, Richard, Talbert, Richard

Agricola and Germania: Tacitus (Penguin Classics)

By Tacitus, Rives, James, Mattingly, H., Mattingly, H.

Cherry

By Karr, Mary

Maharanis: The Lives and Times of Three Generations of Indian Princesses

By Moore, Lucy

Dogs and Demons: The Fall of Modern Japan

By Kerr, Alex

The Storyteller's Daughter: Return to a Lost Homeland

By Shah, Saira

Irish Blood, English Heart, Ulster Fry: Return Journeys to Ireland

By Caulfield, Annie

Penguin Great Ideas : Confessions of a Sinner

By Augustine, Saint

Travels with Herodotus

By Kapuscinski, Ryszard

The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels

By Hunt, Tristram

Sold as a Slave (Penguin Great Journeys)

By Equiano, Olaudah

Treason By The Book: Traitors, Conspirators and Guardians of an Emperor

By Spence, Jonathan

The English: A Portrait of a People (Penguin Celebrations)

By Paxman, Jeremy

Night

By Wiesel, Elie, Wiesel, Marion

Haunted England: The Penguin Book of Ghosts

By Westwood, Jennifer

Letters From Burma

By Suu Kyi, Aung San

Down and Out in Paris and London (Penguin Essentials): The classic reimagined with cover art by Shepard Fairey

By George Orwell

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

By Haley, Alex, X, Malcolm, Gilroy, Paul

The Scent of Dried Roses: One family and the end of English Suburbia - an elegy (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Lott, Tim

Twelve Years a Slave (film tie-in) (Penguin classics)

By Northup, Solomon

The Diaries of Samuel Pepys - A Selection (Penguin Classics)

By Pepys, Samuel, Latham, Robert

Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation

By Williams, Susan

God Against the Gods: The History of the War Between Monotheism and Polytheism

By Kirsch, Jonathan

Redeeming Features

By Beckett, Denis

Khayelitsha: Umlungu in a Township

By Otter, Steven

Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier

By Fuller, Alexandra

Self-Made Man: One Woman's Year Disguised as a Man

By Vincent, Norah

How Music Got Free: A Story of Obsession and Invention

By Witt, Stephen