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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)

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

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

My Past and Thoughts: 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