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Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

By Sebag Montefiore, Simon

Rosa Parks and Her Protest for Civil Rights: 1 December 1955 (Dates with History)

By Steele, Philip

The Lion's Grave: Dispatches from Afghanistan

By Anderson, Jon Lee

Too Many Mothers: An East End Childhood

By Roberta Taylor

The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws

By Drabble, Margaret

Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography (BOOKS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD, 10)

By Hitchens, Christopher

Murder of Princess Diana

By Botham, Noel

Forgotten Women: The Scientists

By Tsjeng, Zing

Desert Dawn

By Dirie, Waris

Wave: A Memoir of Life After the Tsunami

By Deraniyagala, Sonali

The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance

By Strathern, Paul, Paul Strathern

Helen Of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore

By Hughes, Bettany

The Man Who Supercharged Bond: The Extraordinary Story of Charles Amherst Villiers

By Kenny, Paul

Pierrepoint: A Family of Executioners

By Fielding, Steve

It Started in Wisconsin

By Mari Jo Buhle, Paul Buhle, John Nichols, Michael Moore, Mari Jo Buhle, Paul Buhle

Queen of the Ploughing

By McHugh, Anna May

It Won't Hurt a Bit: Nursing Tales from the Swinging Sixties

By Jane Yeadon, Yeadon, Jane

Jeanie, an 'Army of One': Mrs Nassau Senior, 1828-1877, the First Woman in Whitehall

By Sybil Oldfield

Britain's Everyday Heroes: The Making of the Good Society

By Community Links, Brown, Gordon

Mandela

By Hain, Peter

Prisoner of Conscience: One man's remarkable journey from repression to freedom

By Yeats, Charles

The Crossing: My journey to the shattered heart of Syria

By Yazbek, Samar, Gowanlock, Nashwa, Kemp, Ruth Ahmedzai

Against the Flow

By Tom Fort

When I Was a Nipper: The Way We Were in Disappearing Britain

By Titchmarsh, Alan

Elizabeth: Her Life, Our Times: A Diamond Jubilee Celebration

By Titchmarsh, Alan

The House on the Sacred Lake

By Margaret J Anstee

Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire: A Family Memoir

By Andrea Stuart

Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea

By Demick, Barbara, Barbara Demick

Map Of A Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey

By Hewitt, Rachel

Cicero: Politics and Persuasion in Ancient Rome

By Kathryn Tempest