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Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era

By Ken Emerson

If This Is a Man, and The Truce (Everyman's Library Classics)

By Levi, Primo

My Kenya Days

By Thesiger, Wilfred

Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe

By Kapka Kassabova

Tea, Love and War: Searching for English roots in Assam

By David Mitchell

From Beirut to Jerusalem: One Man’s Middle Eastern Odyssey

By Friedman, Thomas

Saving the White Lions: One Woman's Battle for Africa's Most Sacred Animal

By Linda Tucker, Andrew Harvey

A Picture Book of Helen Keller

By David A. Adler, John Wallner, Alexandra Wallner

Lady Fanshawe's Receipt Book: An Englishwoman's Life During the Civil War

By Lucy Moore

Eyewitness To Power: The Essence of Leadership Nixon to Clinton

By David Gergen

An Album of Memories: Personal Histories from the Greatest Generation

By Tom Brokaw

Good Times, Bad Times

By Harold Evans

An Unlikely Hero: Vere Rothermere and How the "Daily Mail" Was Saved

By S.J. Taylor

Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World

By Jonathan Bate

The Mistresses of Cliveden: Three Centuries of Scandal, Power and Intrigue in an English Stately Home

By Natalie Livingstone

David Lloyd George and the British Labour Movement: Peace and War

By Professor Chris Wrigley (Nottingham University UK)

The Bolivian Diary: The Authorised Edition

By Ernesto 'Che' Guevara

The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

By Melinda Gates

The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives

By Christopher Harding

Sharon And My Mother-In-Law: Ramallah Diaries

By Suad Amiry

Until Tuesday

By Luis Carlos Montalvan, Bret Witter

Lifting the Latch

By Sheila Stewart

The Lost Pilots: The Spectacular Rise and Scandalous Fall of Aviation's Golden Couple

By Corey Mead

The Co-Op's Got Bananas

By Hunter Davies

A Greedy Man in a Hungry World: Why (almost) everything you thought you knew about food is wrong

By Jay Rayner

At Home with the Queen: Life Through the Keyhole of the Royal Household

By Brian Hoey

A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean

By Roland Philipps

Jane Austen's Christmas: The Festive Season in Georgian England

By Maria Hubert

Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World

By Kate Mosse

Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare

By Sir Jonathan Bate