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By: Arthur Schlesinger

ISBN: 9781843549796
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2010
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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Offer a history of post-war America, from the author's days on Adlai Stevenson's campaign team to his years in JFK and RFK's inner circle, through to the election of George W Bush.


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By: Christine Harper

ISBN: 9781541788305
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2020
UK Publication Date: 16th April 2020
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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The extraordinary life story of the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, whose absolute integrity provides the inspiration we need as our constitutional system and political tradition are being tested to the breaking point


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By: William Plomer

ISBN: 9781784875718
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2019
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Sir Alan Lascelles

ISBN: 9781474618205
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2020
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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'Tommy' Lascelles was Private Secretary to four monarchs - and depicted in the Netflix hit The Crown. These diaries reveal the inside story of the royal household during the abdication crisis, the second world war and the Princess Margaret-Peter Townsend affair
'Brilliantly entertaining and historically priceless' Spectator


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By: Ziauddin Yousafzai

ISBN: 9780753552988
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
UK Publication Date: 11th July 2019
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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In this intimate and extraordinary memoir, Ziauddin Yousafzai, the father of Malala, gives a moving account of fatherhood and his lifelong fight for equality proving there are many faces of feminism.


Whenever anybody has asked me how Malala became who she is, I have often used the phrase.


(Paperback, Illustrated edition)

By: Cal Finnigan

ISBN: 9781472243997
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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THE LETTERS FROM THE SUITCASE - An enchanting, poignant and incredibly moving account of the five year early marriage between two lovers divided by war - and the legacy they left for their only child.


(Hardback, Unabridged edition)

By: Ursula Doyle

ISBN: 9780230739468
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2008
UK Publication Date: 31st July 2008
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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Remember the wonderfully romantic book of letters by Beethoven, Byron and Napoleon that featured in the Sex and the City film That collection never actually existed, but all of the letters referenced in the film were real; so Macmillan decided to create Love Letters of Great Men...


(Paperback)

By: Neal V. Loving

ISBN: 9781588347459
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
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By: Benjamin Moser

ISBN: 9781681370804
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
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Norman Podhoretz, the son of Jewish immigrants, grew up in the tough Brownsville section of Brooklyn, attended Columbia on a scholarship, and later received degrees from the Jewish Theological Seminary and Cambridge University. This is his account of fighting his way out of Brooklyn and into, then out of, the Ivory Tower.


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By: Victor Serge

ISBN: 9781590174517
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2012
UK Publication Date: 28th June 2012
Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
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Memoirs of a Revolutionary describes a thrilling life on the frontlines of history and includes brilliant portraits of politicians from Trotsky and Lenin and Stalin and of major writers like Alexander Blok and Andrey Bely.


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By: Richard Atkinson

ISBN: 9780007509232
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
UK Publication Date: 8th July 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Shortlisted for the RSL Christopher Bland Prize 2021

Rarely has family history been so vivid JENNY UGLOW

An extraordinarily original work AMANDA FOREMAN


(Hardback)

By: Ehud Barak

ISBN: 9781509889280
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
UK Publication Date: 17th May 2018
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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A candid and compelling memoir from the pioneering former Prime Minister of Israel, the architect of the two-state solution.


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By: Ivan Klma

ISBN: 9781611855708
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2014
Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
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Ivan Klima, 'a writer of enormous power and originality' (The New York Times Book Review), has penned an intimate autobiography that explores his life under Nazi and Communist regimes.


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By: Alistair Wood

ISBN: 9780241726358
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2025
UK Publication Date: 8th May 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Pre-order this unforgettable memoir of life in a family like no other, and their extraordinary, eccentric part in half a century of espionage . . .


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By: Tehmina Durrani

ISBN: 9780552142397
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1996
UK Publication Date: 1st February 1996
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Born into one of Pakistan's most influential families, Tehmina Durrani was raised in the privileged milieu of Lahore high society. She was expected to marry a wealthy Muslim, bear him children and lead a sheltered life of leisure. This is the story of Tehmina's rebellion from an unhappy marriage.


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By: President Bill Clinton

ISBN: 9780099441359
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2005
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2005
Publisher: Cornerstone
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President Bill Clinton's My Life is the strikingly candid self-portrait of a world leader who decided in early life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the people of America and the entire world population.


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By: Fidel Castro

ISBN: 9780141026268
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Castro is the only world leader to have outlasted nine US presidents, has survived over 600 assassination attempts and remains one of the twentieth century's most controversial figures. This title tells Castro's story, explaining thing from his parents and earliest influences to his imprisonment, guerrilla war and the Cuban revolution.


(Hardback)

By: Bakari Sellers

ISBN: 9780062917454
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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"The CNN analyst and youngest state representative in South Carolina's history illuminates the lives of America's forgotten rural, Black working-class men and women"--


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By: John Stauffer

ISBN: 9781598533514
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2015
Publisher: The Library of America
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(Hardback)

By: Gil Troy

ISBN: 9781541742420
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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A classic account of courage, integrity and most of all, belonging.


(Paperback)

By: Toby Gutteridge

ISBN: 9780552178730
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
UK Publication Date: 11th May 2023
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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By: Robbie Tolan

ISBN: 9781478976653
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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NO JUSTICE is the behind-the-scenes story the Bellaire, Texas police don't want you to hear, with never-before-revealed details about the night unarmed Robbie Tolan was shot by authorities.


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By: Margaret Llewelyn Davies

ISBN: 9781844088027
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2012
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Reissued with a stunning new jacket design, the Virago classic about motherhood for working class women at the turn of the last century


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By: Pen Farthing

ISBN: 9780091928841
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2011
UK Publication Date: 3rd February 2011
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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To me it was just further evidence that, deep inside, there was a great dog struggling to find his way out'

When Pen Farthing brings stray dogs Nowzad and Tali back from his tour of Afghanistan, little does he know what he has begun.

Suddenly he has four dogs to look after - two of whom have never been house-trained.

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