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The Islamist: Why I joined radical Islam in Britain, what I saw inside and why I left

By Husain, Ed

Beloved Land: stories, struggles, and secrets from Timor-Leste

By Peake, Gordon

Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Crosses the Line

By Venkatesh, Sudhir

The Yellow On The Broom: The Early Days of a Traveller Woman

By Whyte, Betsy

To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918

By Hochschild, Adam

Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our Recent History

By Marton, Kati

Road to Pakistan: The Life and Times of Mohammad Ali Jinnah

By Nanda, B. R.

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