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Michael Collins and the Making of the Irish State

By Gabriel Doherty, Dermot Keogh

An Irish Navvy - The Diary of an Exile

By Donall MacAmhlaigh

The Survivors: The Story of the Belsen Remnant

By Leslie H Hardman, Cecily Goodman

Shaftesbury: The Poor Man's Earl

By John Pollock

Benazir Bhutto

By Sean Price

The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner)

By Sarah M Broom

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

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

By Lynne Truss

A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father

By David Maraniss

Wisconsin Death Trip

By Michael Lesy, Warren Susman

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

By J. M. Wilson

The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House

By Kate Andersen Brower

Ringolevio

By Emmett Grogan

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

By Richard Davenport-Hines

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

By Adeline Yen Mah

Sleeping Where I Fall: A Chronicle

By Peter Coyote

An Encyclopaedia of Myself

By Jonathan Meades

Roots of the Rich and Famous

By Robert Davenport

An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings

By Thomas Malthus, Robert Mayhew

A Hero for High Times: A Younger Reader's Guide to the Beats, Hippies, Freaks, Punks, Ravers, New-Age Travellers and Dog-on-a-Rope Brew Crew Crusties of the British Isles, 1956-1994

By Ian Marchant

In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea

By Danny Goldberg

The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters with Extraordinary People

By Susan Orlean

First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies

By Kate Andersen Brower

Antonin Artaud: Man of Vision

By Bettina L. Knapp

Faraday

By G.N. Cantor, David Gooding, Frank James

Fifty-Six: The Story of the Bradford Fire

By Martin Fletcher

Persepolis

By Satrapi, Marjane

Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA

By Maddox, Brenda