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Chin Up, Girls!: A Book of Women's Obituaries from the Daily Telegraph

By Powell, Georgia, Katharine Ramsay

The Asquiths

By Clifford, Colin

Running for the Hills: A Family Story

By Clare, Horatio

Salaam Brick Lane

By Tarquin Hall

Speaking My Mind

By Boyson, Sir Rhodes

Quiet Year

By Tangye, Derek

The Defining Moment: Fdr's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope

By Alter, Jonathan

Penny Red: Notes from the New Age of Dissent

By Penny, Laurie

Mistress of the Arts

By Trethewey, Rachel

Tutankhamen: The Life and Death of the Boy-king

By El Mahdy, Christine

Fire Mountain: How One Man Survived the World's Worst Volcanic Disaster

By Morgan, Peter

When We Were Young: A Compendium of Childhood

By John Burningham

The North: (And Almost Everything In It)

By Morley, Paul

Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood

By Scott, Robyn

River of Time

By Swain, Jon

Mr Nice

By Howard Marks, Marks, Howard

Spies and Traitors (Fact or Fiction)

By Ross, Stewart

Knights (Fact or Fiction)

By Ross, Stewart

Nelson Mandela: An Extraordinary Life (Twentieth Century History Makers)

By Kramer, Ann

Gandhi (Twentieth Century History Makers)

By Adams, S, Simon

Twentieth Century History Makers: Roosevelt

By Gilbert, Adrian

Winston Churchill (Twentieth Century History Makers)

By Adams, Simon

Martin Luther King (Graphic Biographies)

By Jeffrey, Gary, Forsey, Chris

Nelson Mandela (Graphic Biographies)

By Shone, Bob, Reed, Neil

Victoria (Our Kings and Queens)

By Wood, Richard

Nelson Mandela (Life Stories)

By Killeen, Richard, McAllister, David

20th Century Leaders: Stalin

By Chrisp, Peter

Jamie Oliver (Inspirational Lives)

By Gogerly, Liz

Martin Luther King (Inspirational Lives)

By Green, Jen

The Great Fire of London: Anniversary Edition of the Great Fire of 1666

By Adams, Emma, Weston Lewis, James