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Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas

By Mayer, Jane, Abramson, Jill

Walden (Chump Change Edition)

By Thoreau, Henry David

Letters to the Midwife: Correspondence with Jennifer Worth, the Author of Call the Midwife

By Jennifer Worth

Dorothea's War: A First World War Nurse Tells Her Story

By Dorothea Crewdson, Richard Crewdson

Shadows Of The Workhouse: The Drama Of Life In Postwar London

By Worth, Jennifer

My History: A Memoir of Growing Up

By Lady Antonia Fraser

The Many Not the Few: An Illustrated History of Britain Shaped By the People

By Sean Michael Wilson, Robert Brown

Way of the Wanderers: The Story of Travellers in Scotland

By Jess Smith

Keep Smiling Through: My Wartime Story

By Lynn, Dame Vera, Lewis-Jones, Virginia

A Galaxy of Her Own: Amazing Stories of Women in Space

By Jackson, Libby

The Greedy Queen: Eating with Victoria

By Gray, Annie

Army Wives: From Crimea to Afghanistan: the Real Lives of the Women Behind the Men in Uniform

By Gillies, Midge

Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution

By David Harvey

The Melancholy Science: An Introduction to the Thought of Theodor W. Adorno: 8 (Radical Thinkers)

By Rose

Young Winstone

By Ray Winstone

Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time

By Garfield, Simon

The Outrun

By Amy Liptrot

Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience

By Shaun Usher, Shaun Usher

White Boots and Miniskirts: A True Story of Life in the Swinging Sixties

By Jacky Hyams

Tsunami Kids: Our Journey from Survival to Success

By Paul Forkan, Rob Forkan, Nick Harding

Fire Woman: The Extraordinary Story of Britain's First Female Firefighter

By Reynolds, Josephine

Why We Think the Things We Think: Philosophy in a Nutshell

By Stephen, Alain

Abandoning America: Life-stories from early New England

By Susan Hardman Moore

Last Landlady: An English Memoir

By Laura Thompson

All The Devils Are Here (Granta Editions)

By David Seabrook

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

By Rubenhold, Hallie

Casting off the Veil: The Life of Huda Shaarawi, Egypt's First Feminist

By Sania Sharawi Lanfranchi

Inside the Seraglio: Private Lives of the Sultans in Istanbul (International Library of Historical Studies)

By Freely, John

Outside the Wire: A Foreign Service Officer in Southern Iraq

By Danny Toma

When Breath Becomes Air

By Kalanithi, Paul, Paul Kalanithi