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By: Mikhail Gorbachev

ISBN: 9780385613293
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2007
UK Publication Date: 31st March 2007
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Mikhail Gorbachev is the man who changed everything. No longer in power, he has been forced to endure criticism from those wise after the event - most notably Boris Yeltsin, who became undisputed leader after the failed military coup that finally displaced Gorbachev from office.


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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


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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
UK Publication Date: 3rd April 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: 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.


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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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By: Frederick Douglass

ISBN: 9780099595847
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2015
UK Publication Date: 5th February 2015
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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An autobiography of author who was born into slavery in Maryland in 1818. He describes his life as a slave - the cruelty he suffered at the hands of plantation owners; his struggles to educate himself in a world where slaves are deliberately kept ignorant; and ultimately, his fight for his right to freedom.


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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: Bernard Lewis

ISBN: 9781780221069
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2013
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The memoirs of the greatest historian of the Middle East, Professor Bernard Lewis.


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By: Lali Horstmann

ISBN: 9781842127384
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2004
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The true story of one family's struggle in the chaos of Germany's defeat in 1945.


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By: Kirsten Gillibrand

ISBN: 9780804179096
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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By: Wes Streeting

ISBN: 9781399710138
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
UK Publication Date: 9th May 2024
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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An inspiring, witty East End growing up memoir by leading Labour MP Wes Streeting, vividly portraying the power of family and education to help him escape poverty and transform his life.


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By: Maureen Flanagan

ISBN: 9781784750763
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
UK Publication Date: 21st April 2016
Publisher: Cornerstone
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Maureen Flanagan, a then 20 year old hairdresser started visiting the Kray family home in Vallance Road each week to give the twins mother, Violet, her weekly shampoo and set.


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By: Philipp von Boeselager

ISBN: 9781399621304
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 18th July 2024
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The last member of Operation Valkyrie - the daring 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler - tells his remarkable story.
'Astonishing' Daily Telegraph


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By: King Abdullah II of Jordan

ISBN: 9780141048796
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
UK Publication Date: 29th March 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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HRH King Abdullah was schooled in America and at Sandhurst and was heading for a life as a career soldier, when his father fell ill and he unexpectedly inherited the throne of Jordan. In this seminal work, he puts forward what may be our best chance yet for the most important issue in the region - Israeli-Palestinian peace.


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By: Bernie Sanders

ISBN: 9781788737692
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
Publisher: Verso Books
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Bernie Sanders's Political Autobiography


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By: Benjamin Ferencz

ISBN: 9780751579918
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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100-year-old Benjamin Ferencz is the last surviving prosecutor of the Nuremberg Trials, where he prosecuted 22 leading Nazis. PARTING WORDS follows the story of Ben's life, and each chapter includes his learnings on how we can all make the most of ours - from the subjects of ambition and determination, to happiness and love.


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By: Isaiah Berlin

ISBN: 9781845952495
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 4th October 2018
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The third, enlarged edition of Isaiah Berlin's remarkable series of character portraits, Personal Impressions

Winston Churchill, Franklin D.


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By: Alan Johnson

ISBN: 9780552170659
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2015
UK Publication Date: 4th June 2015
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Paints a picture of England in the 1970s, where no celebration was complete without a Party Seven of Watney's Red Barrel, smoking was the norm rather than the exception, and Sunday lunchtime was about beer, bingo and cribbage.

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