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An Ethiopian Odyssey

By Annette Allen

First Mothers: The Women Who Shaped the Presidents

By Bonnie Angelo

Dead Again: The Russian Intelligentsia After Communism

By Masha Gessen

Swifts and Us: The Life of the Bird that Sleeps in the Sky

By Sarah Gibson

I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)

By Malala Yousafzai, Patricia McCormick

Che: A Memoir by Fidel Castro

By Fidel Castro, David Deutschmann, Jesus Montane

Black Elk Speaks

By John G. Neihardt

History Makers: Women Who Changed History

By Adam Sutherland

Gervelie's Journey

By Anthony Robinson, Annemarie Young, June Allan

Greed, Seeds and Slavery

By Ross, Stewart, Roberts, David

Life After You

By Lucie Brownlee

Mary, Queen of Scots

By Jenny Wormald, Anna Groundwater

To the Letter: A Curious History of Correspondence

By Simon Garfield

Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism

By Barbara Winslow, Sheila Rowbotham

DK Life Stories Helen Keller

By Libby Romero, Charlotte Ager

Rosa Parks

By Rob Shone, Nick Spender

The Louder I Will Sing: A story of racism, riots and redemption: Winner of the 2020 Costa Biography Award

By Lee Lawrence

Making a Noise: Getting It Right, Getting It Wrong in Life, Arts and Broadcasting

By Sir John Tusa

The Life and Times of Evita

Daphne Guinness

By Valerie Steele, Daphne Guinness

A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Indian History of a British Spo

By Ramachandra Guha

The King's Painter: The Life and Times of Hans Holbein

By Franny Moyle

Blenheim: Biography of a Palace

By Marian Fowler

The Big House: The Story of a Country House and its Family

By Christopher Simon Sykes

Coronation: From the 8th to the 21st Century

By Roy Strong

Catherine the Great: Life and Legend

By John T. Alexander (Professor of History and Soviet and East European Studies at the University of Kansas, Professor of History and Soviet and East European Studies at the University of Kansas)

Edward Burne-Jones

By Ann S Dean

The "Times" Royal Handbook

By Alan Hamilton

Conundrum

By Jan Morris

Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time

By Clive James