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Roots of the Rich and Famous

By Robert Davenport

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

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

By J. M. Wilson

Wisconsin Death Trip

By Michael Lesy, Warren Susman

A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father

By David Maraniss

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

By Lynne Truss

Mighty Healer: Thomas Holloway's Victorian Patent Medicine Empire

By Verity Holloway

Frank Lloyd Wright: AD (Architecture & Design)

By Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks

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

Victorian Prison Lives

By Philip Priestley

What Makes Us Stronger

By Freya Lewis

Christmas Around the Village Green: In a WWII 1940s rural village, family means the world at Christmastime

By Dot May Dunn

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World

By Lucette Lagnado

Ma’am Darling: : The hilarious, bestselling royal biography, perfect for fans of The Crown: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret

By Brown, Craig

My Heart is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots

By John Guy

The Testimony of Lives: Narrative and memory in post-Soviet Latvia

By Vieda Skultans

Women Who Launch: The Women Who Shattered Glass Ceilings (Strong women)

By Marlene Wagman-Geller

Lure of Fantasy, The:Bernard Shaw Volume III 1918-1950: Lure of Fantasy, 1918-50 v. 3

By Holroyd, M

Eleni

By Nicholas Gage

Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind - Arthur Koestler and the Quest for Belonging

By David Cesarani

Elisabeth's Lists: A Life Between the Lines

By Lulah Ellender

An Autobiography: Or the Story of My Experiments with Truth

By Mahatma Gandhi

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