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Who Was Nelson Mandela?

By Belviso, Meg

Ways of Life: Jim Ede and the Kettle's Yard Artists

By Freeman, Laura

Writing for Their Lives: America’s Pioneering Female Science Journalists

By LaFollette, Marcel Chotkowski

Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster

By Andrews, Helen

LACAN (Fontana Modern Masters)

By Bowie

Malala Yousafzai: Warrior with Words

By Karen Leggett Abouraya, L. C. Wheatley

A Companion to Contemporary Britain 1939 - 2000

By Paul Addison (University of Edinburgh), Harriet Jones (Institute of Historical Research, University of London)

Titanic's Last Hero

By Moody Adams

My Life in France: The life story of Julia Child - 'exuberant, affectionate and boundlessly charming' New York Times

By Julia Child, Olivia Potts

Bagpipes in Babylon: A Lifetime in the Arab World and Beyond

By Glencairn Balfour Paul

The Day After the Revolution

By Slavoj Zizek, V I Lenin

On the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

By Louis Althusser, Etienne Balibar, Grahame Lock

Rise: The Brand New Autobiography

By Siya Kolisi

The Road to Nab End: A Lancashire Childhood

By William Woodruff

Something for the Birds: paperback with flaps

By Jacqueline Fahey

Twelve-month and a Day

By Christopher Rush

Beyond the Gatehouse: The Eccentric Lives of England's Aristocracy

By David Long

The Gift of Anger: The Sunday Times Bestseller

By Arun Gandhi

The New Media Monopoly: A Completely Revised and Updated Edition With Seven New Chapters

By Ben H. Bagdikian

The Squared Circle: Life, Death and Professional Wrestling

By David Shoemaker

All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945

By Max Hastings

Charles Darwin: pocket GIANTS

By Stephen Webster

Draw: The Greatest Gunfights of the American West

By James Reasoner

Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters

By Laura Thompson

One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

By Craig Brown

Audacity to Believe

By Sheila Cassidy

City Of Djinns: A Year In Delhi

By William Dalrymple

Edison and the Electric Chair

By Mark Essig

Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940-45

By Max Hastings

Negroland: A Memoir

By Margo Jefferson