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Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion

By Charlie Porter

Bloody Brilliant Women: The Pioneers, Revolutionaries and Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention

By Cathy Newman

The Men Commandments

By Christian O'Connell

Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood

By Robyn Scott

When I Passed the Statue of Liberty I Became Black

By Harry Edward

Eighteen: The Young Lives of 18 Leading Britons

By Alice Loxton

ELIZABETH HEYRICK: The Making of an Anti-slavery Campaigner

By JOCELYN. ROBSON

No Country for a Woman: The Adventurous Life of Lady Dorothy Mills, Explorer and Writer

By JANE. DISMORE

Unfortunately, She Was a Nymphomaniac: A New History of Rome's Imperial Women

By Joan Smith

The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival

By Anne Sebba

The Renaissance in the Fields: Family Memoirs of a Fifteenth-century Tuscan Peasant

By Duccio Balestracci

My Heart Soars

By Dan George, Helmut Hirnschall

Art, Enterprise, and Ethics: The Life and Works of William Morris

By Charles Harvey, Jon Press

Arthur Ashe: A Life

By Raymond Arsenault

Fred; The Definitive Biography Of Fred Dibnah

By David Hall

Suet and soufflé

By Joyce Horlock

Jerusalem: The Biography

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different: True Tales of Amazing Boys Who Changed the World without Killing Dragons

By Ben Brooks

Thomas Paine Reader

By Thomas Paine

Priests de la Resistance!: The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century

By Butler-Gallie, The Revd Fergus

The Myth of Black Progress

By Alphonso Pinkney

Descartes: An Intellectual Biography

By Gaukroger, Stephen

Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society : Together with Anecdotes and Little Philosophical Dialogues

By Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort

Fools and Jesters at the English Court

By John Southworth

Isaiah Berlin

By Ignatieff, Michael

Hamlet and the Baker's Son: My Life in Theatre and Politics

By Augusto Boal

King: The Life of Martin Luther King

By Jonathan Eig

Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography

By Margaret Thatcher

William and Harry: The People's Princes

By Ingrid Seward

Willie Gavin, Crofter Man: A Portrait of a Vanished Lifestyle

By David Kerr Cameron