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Agricola and Germania

By Tacitus, H. Mattingly, S. A. Handford, James Rives

Love (Classics)

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) (Penguin Classics S.)

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