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  • Franci's War

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    Discover unrelenting spirit and strength in the extraordinary true story of Franci: a woman who survived the holocaust against all of the odds'Achi...

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  • FRANCIS I BPB

    Leonie Frieda
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    'A captivating biography ... This rollicking story is packed with anecdotes' The Times 'I can't suppose that there has been a better English biogr...

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  • Generaal Ben Viljoen, 1868-1917 (Afrikaans Edition)

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  • Goeiemore Mnr Mandela

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    Zelda la Grange het grootgeword as 'n ondersteuner van die reels wat wit en swart skei. En tog sou sy een van Nelson Mandela se naaste vertroueling...

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  • Good Night Stories For Rebel Girls: 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed The World

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    A continuation of the New York Times bestselling series, Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed the World is a childre...

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  • Good Night Stories For Rebel Girls (Audiobook)

    Elena Favilli
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    What if the princess didn't marry Prince Charming but instead went on to be an astronaut? What if the jealous step sisters were supportive and kind...

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  • Gorbachev: The Man and His Era

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    SHORTLISTED FOR THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZE 2018From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and his Era 'A phenomenally research...

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  • Graceless Fall of Robert Mugabe, The: The End of a Dictator's Reign

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  • Hanns and Rudolf

    Thomas Harding
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    _____________________________________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE JQ WINGATE PRIZE 2015SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD'A grip...

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  • HAPPY TRAITOR HB

    KUPER, SIMON
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    'A deeply human read, wonderfully written, on the foibles of a fascinating, flawed, treacherous and sort of likeable character.' Philippe Sands Tho...

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  • Hell Is So Green: Search And Rescue Over The Hump In World War II

    William Diebold
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    Lt. William Diebold served in the Army's Air Transport Command in the China-Burma-India theater of World War II and never fired a weapon in battle....

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    Henry VIII: King and Court

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    Henry VIII, renowned for his command of power and celebrated for his intellect, presided over one of the most magnificent-and dangerous-courts in R...

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  • Hitler Vol 02: Downfall 1939-45

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    'Meticulous... Probably the most disturbing portrait of Hitler I have ever read' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday TimesBy the summer of 1939 Hitler was at...

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  • Jack Malloch: Legend Of The African Skies (Paperback)

    Alan Brough
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    “Jack Malloch… the most notorious adventurer in the rugged world of African aviation.” - The British Daily Express newspaper“ In terms of ethics, c...

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  • JACKIE TPB

    BRANDUS, PAUL
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    Everyone knows that Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was married to two of the twentieth century's most powerful men: John F. Kennedy and Aristotle Onass...

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  • Jerusalem: The Biography

    Simon Sebag Montefiore
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    A new, updated, revised edition of JERUSALEM: THE BIOGRAPHY, the wider history of the Middle East through the lens of the Holy City, covering from ...

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  • Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa

    Mark Mathabane
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    The classic story of life in Apartheid South Africa. Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Af...

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  • The Kennedy Curse (Paperback)

    James Patterson, Cynthia Fagen
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    Now with an all-new bonus chapter - in the bestselling The Kennedy Curse, 'James Patterson applies his writerly skills to real-life history . . . r...

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  • Khwezi: The remarkable story of Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo

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  • KING IN THE NORTH PB

    ADAMS, MAX
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    'A triumph - a Game of Thrones in the Dark Ages' TOM HOLLAND. The magisterial biography of Oswald Whiteblade, exiled prince of Northumbria, who ret...

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  • Leonardo Da Vinci: The Biography (Trade Paperback)

    Walter Isaacson
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    The #1 New York Times Bestseller 'Walter Isaacson is not an art historian, he's simply a lover of Leonardo, who manages to communicate the sheer jo...

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  • Lucie Aubrac: The French Resistance Heroine Who Defied the Gestapo

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    The full story of a remarkable woman who has become legendary in the history of the French Resistance.In May 1943, a young Frenchwoman called Lucie...

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  • Man in the Red Coat (Trade Paperback)

    Julian Barnes
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    *SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2020*'An absolute tonic for grey winter days' Evening StandardThe Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense o...

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  • Margaret Thatcher Volume 3

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    The final part of Charles Moore's bestselling and definitive biography of Britain's first female Prime Minister, 'One of the great biographical ach...

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  • Mary Queen of Scots: And the Murder of Lord Darnley

    Alison Weir
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    On the night of 10 February 1567 an explosion devastated the Edinburgh residence of Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of S...

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  • Mishandel, misbruik, misken: Joey Haarhoff was my ma

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  • Miss Muriel Matters: The fearless suffragist who fought for equality

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    In 1908 Muriel Matters, known as 'that daring Australian girl', chained herself to an iron grille in the House of Commons to demand votes for women...

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  • Mmusi Maimane: Prophet or puppet?

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  • Mrs Ronnie: The society hostess who collected kings

    Sian Evans
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    Margaret Greville of Polesden Lacey, who styled herself 'Mrs Ronnie', rose from obscure and humble origins to become a fabulously wealthy and ambit...

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  • Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History

    Giles Milton
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    In 1616, an English adventurer, Nathaniel Courthope, stepped ashore on a remote island in the East Indies on a secret mission - to persuade the isl...

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  • Nelson Mandela: A Jacana pocket biography (Paperback)

    Colin Bundy
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    Jacana is delighted to announce the forthcoming publication of a new pocket biography of Nelson Mandela by the renowned South African historian, Co...

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  • No Future Without Forgiveness

    Desmond Tutu
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    No Future Without Forgiveness is a quintessentially humane account of an extraordinary life. Desmond Tutu describes his childhood and coming of ag...

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    Out of the Holocaust (Paperback)

    Peter Volodja Boe
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    The details of my (and my brother’s) birth are unknown. My memories begin in Latvia. DNA tests strongly indicate that we are of Belarusian-Jewish o...

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  • Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh

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    A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year A writer, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer, Sir Walter Ralegh lived more lives than most in...

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  • Playing To The Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror

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  • Prince Albert

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    Chosen as a Book of the Year in The Times and the Daily Mail 'Highly entertaining' Sunday Times 'Enthralling' Daily Telegraph For more tha...

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