Social & Urban History Biographies

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

Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets

By Venkatesh, Sudhir

Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century

By Singer, P W

The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures

By Wade, Nicholas

Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone

By Klinenberg, Eric

Life at the Marmont: The Inside Story of Hollywood's Legendary Hotel of the Stars - Chateau Marmont

By Basten, Raymond Sarlot Fred E.

Kathmandu

By Thomas Bell

An Englishwoman in India: The Memoirs of Harriet Tytler, 1828-58

By Tytler, Harriet, Sattin, Anthony, Mason, Philip

Wayward Women: A Guide to Women Travellers

By Robinson, Jane

The Islandman (Oxford Paperbacks Series)

By O'Crohan, Tomás, Flower, Robin