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Stranger to History: A Son's Journey Through Islamic Lands

By Taseer, Aatish

Stalin and Stalinism (Lancaster Pamphlets)

By Wood, Alan

Tales from the Old Inland Waterways

By Corrie, Euan

In The Garden of Beasts: Love and terror in Hitler's Berlin

By Larson, Erik

English Food: A Social History of England Told Through the Food on Its Tables

By Purkiss, Diane

Writers (Women in Profile)

By Hunter, Shaun

Tales of the Old Countrywomen

By Martin, Brian P.

3 Para

By Bishop, Patrick

The Powerful and the Damned: Private Diaries in Turbulent Times

By Barber, Lionel

Murder Isn't Easy: The Forensics of Agatha Christie

By Valentine, Carla

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Oxford World's Classics)

By Douglass, Frederick, McDowell, Deborah E.

The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Man Against the Sea

By Junger, Sebastian, Sebastian Junger

Hippie Hippie Shake: The Dreams, The Trips, The Trials, The Love-Ins, The Screw Ups: The Sixties

By Neville, Richard

The Forgotten Children: Fairbridge Farm School and Its Betrayal of Britain's Child Migrants

By Hill, David

Knock on Woodstock: The Uproarious, Uncensored Story of the Woodstock Festival, the Gay Man Who Made It Happen, and How He Earned His Ticket to Free

By Tiber, Elliot

The Souls of Black Folk: With the Talented Tenth and the Souls of White Folk (Penguin Classics)

By Du Bois, W., Elbert, Monica, Gibson, Donald

Island on the Edge: A Life on Soay

By Anne Cholawo

Mad Mitch's Tribal Law: Aden and the End of Empire

By Edwards, Aaron

Songs Of The Fluteplayer: Seasons Of Life In The Southwest

By Russell, Sharman Apt

A Good-looking Corpse: The World of Drum - Jazz and Gangsters, Hope and Defiance in the Townships of South Africa

By Nicol, Mike

Warrior Woman: The Exceptional Life Story of Nonhelema, Shawnee Indian Woman Chief

By Thom, James Alexander, Dark Rain

Crazy John and the Bishop and Other Essays on Irish Culture: No. 6 (Critical Conditions)

By Eagleton, Terry

100 Nasty Women of History: Brilliant, badass and completely fearless women everyone should know

By Jewell, Hannah

Can Any Mother Help Me?

By Jenna Bailey, Bailey, Jenna

Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country

By Slovo, Gillian

Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery

By Hirsch, Jerrold

Ubuntu: My Life in Other People

By Hazel Carey

An Encyclopaedia of Myself

By Meades, Jonathan

Women and Autobiography in the Twentieth Century

By Anderson, Linda

Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women

By Thimmesh, Catherine, Sweet, Melissa