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Letters From Burma

By Suu Kyi, Aung San

Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World

By Kurlansky, Mark

All the Way to Heaven: An American Boyhood in the Himalayas

By Alter, Stephen

Chasing Shadows

By Gryn, Hugo

The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers

By Heilbroner, Robert L

Accidental MP

By Bell, Martin

The Trouser People: A Quest For the Victorian Footballer Who Made Burma Play the Empire's Game

By Marshall, Andrew

The Unfree French: Life Under the Occupation

By Vinen, Richard

Mischling, Second Degree: My Childhood in Nazi Germany (Plus)

By Ilse, Koehn

Unto This Last and Other Writings (Classics)

By Ruskin, John, Wilmer, Clive, Wilmer, Clive, Wilmer, Clive

London Labour and the London Poor: Selection (Classics)

By Mayhew, Henry, Neuburg, Victor, Neuburg, Victor

Utilitarianism and Other Essays (Penguin Classics)

By Mill, Bentham, Jeremy, John Stuart, Ryan, Alan

The Agricola and the Germania (Classics S.)

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

Love

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