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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

An Old Woman's Reflections (Oxford Paperbacks)

By Sayers, Peig, Rodgers, W. R., Ennis, Seamus

The Hooligan Nights: Being the Life and Opinions of a Young and Impertinent Criminal Recounted by Himself and Set Forth by Clarence Rook (Oxford Paperbacks)

By Rook, Clarence, With an introduction by Benny Green

A London Home in the 1890s (Oxford Paperbacks)

By Hughes, Mary Vivian

A London Family Between the Wars (Oxford Paberbacks)

By Hughes, Mary Vivian

A Victorian Family. Three Volume Set Containing: A London Child of the 1870s: A London Girl of the 1880s: A London Home in the 1890s

By Hughes, Mary Vivian

Journal of a Somerset Rector, 1803-34 (Oxford Paperbacks)

By Skinner, John, Coombs, Howard, Coombs, Peter

Childhood, Youth and Exile (Pt.1 & 2) (World's Classics S.)

By Gertsen, A.I., Herzen, Alexander, Berlin, Sir Isaiah, Duff, J. D.

Betsy Sheridan's Journal

By Sheridan, Betsy, Fanu, William Le, LeFanu, WILLIAM

Destined to be Wives: Sisters of Beatrice Webb (Oxford paperbacks)

By Caine, Barbara

The Oxford Book of Letters

By Kermode, Frank, Kermode, Anita

Turbulent, Seditious and Factious People: John Bunyan and His Church, 1628-88 (Oxford paperbacks)

By Hill, Christopher

Engels (Past Masters S.)

By Carver, Terrell

William Morris (Past Masters Series)

By Stansky, Peter

An Astrological Diary of the Seventeenth Century: Samuel Jeake of Rye 1652-1699

By Jeake, Samuel, Gregorg, Annabel, Hunter, Michael

Henry Ford: The People's Car-Maker (What's Their Story?)

By Middleton, Haydn, Morris, Tony

Cavalryman (Roman World S.)

By Connolly, Peter

Gandhi: Father of Modern India (What's Their Story? S.)

By Mitchell, Pratima, Mitra, Mrinal