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Coming to England: An Inspiring True Story Celebrating the Windrush Generation

By Floella Benjamin, Diane Ewen

Shakespeare in Swahililand: Adventures with the Ever-Living Poet

By Edward Wilson-Lee

Changing Enemies: Defeat and Regeneration

By Noel Annan

Dead Man Running

By M MCGARTLAND

Fault Lines: Journeys into the New South Africa

By David Goodman, Paul Weinberg

Philosophy and Social Hope

By Rorty, Richard

School Blues

By Daniel Pennac

Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown

By Henry Box Brown, Richard Newman (Fellows and Research Officer, W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, Fellows and Research Officer, Harvard University.), Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Little Leaders: Visionary Women Around the World

By Vashti Harrison

All The Right Places

By Newsham, Brad

Left Bank: Art, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940-1950

By Agnes Poirier

William Blake vs the World

By John Higgs

South Africa: The First Man, the Last Nation

By R. W. Johnson

The Afrikaners, The: Biography of a People

By Hermann Giliomee

The Rivals: The Intimate Story of a Political Marriage

By James Naughtie

Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It

By Greg Marshall

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban

By Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb

My Farming Life: Tales from a shepherdess on a remote Northumberland farm

By Emma Gray

Women of Tarot: An Illustrated History of Divinators, Card Readers, and Mystics

By Cat Willett

Three Times a Countess: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Raine Spencer

By Tina Gaudoin

The Arab of the Future: Volume 1: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984 - A Graphic Memoir

By Riad Sattouf

Before and After: the heartbreaking true stories of a notorious adoption scandal

By Lisa Wingate, Judy Christie

Against The Law

By Peter Wildeblood

Young Elizabeth: The Making of our Queen

By Kate Williams

In the Bunker with Hitler: The Last Witness Speaks

By Freytag von Loringhoven, Bernd

Operation Valkyrie: The Plot To Kill Hitler

By Philipp von Boeselager

A Colourful View From the Top: Twenty-One Extraordinary Stories of Leaders of Colour Achieving Excellence in Business

By Jonathan Mildenhall

Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

War Paint: Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein: Their Lives, their Times, their Rivalry

By Lindy Woodhead

Jennie Churchill: Winston's American Mother

By Anne Sebba