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Biography and Autobiography - Recently published biographies. (To keep this list from getting too long, we remove older titles from it every so often - but you'll still find them in other booklists according to their subject)

Related category: History & Biography
Related booklists: Women's Biography and Autobiography, History - Books for Children, Local Lives: Liverpool, Music Memoirs and Biographies, Conscientious Objectors and Pacifists, Political Memoirs and Biographies, Sports Memoirs and Biographies, Black, Asian and Middle Eastern Biography and Autobiography, Local Lives: Wirral, Lancashire and Cheshire, Justice and the Law: Memoirs, Explorers and Exploring,

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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 82 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Pageboy: A Memoir by Elliot Page
    Pageboy: A Memoir - by Elliot Page

    £10.99   paperback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781804991466 | ISBN 10: 1804991465

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER  'The emergence of our true selves is all of our life's work. Pageboy helps chart the course.' Jamie Lee Curtis  'Searing, deeply moving, and incredibly poignant... This isn't simp ... more

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  • Cover image of book Broken Archangel: The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement by Roland Philipps
    Broken Archangel: The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement - by Roland Philipps

    £25.00   hardback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781847927071 | ISBN 10: 1847927076

    Pioneering human rights campaigner, patriot, romantic, traitor, LGBTQ+ martyr: this is the story of Roger Casement, one of the 20th century’s most complex and compelling figures.  'A book of met­iculous sensitivity and research' TELEGRAPH& ... more

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  • Cover image of book Free Loaves on Fridays: The Care System As Told By People Who Actually Get It by Rebekah Pierre (Editor)
    Free Loaves on Fridays: The Care System As Told By People Who Actually Get It - by Rebekah Pierre (Editor)

    £12.99   paperback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781800183001 | ISBN 10: 1800183003

    A powerful anthology of stories, reflections and letters by care-experienced people, including contributions from Lemn Sissay, Sally Bayley, Kirsty Capes and many more.  This book is all about the care system, and it's written by people who h ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women by Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick
    Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women - by Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick

    £10.99   paperback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9780241994320 | ISBN 10: 0241994322

    'A captivating account of lives previously ignored' Sunday Independent   'An important, impeccably researched though eminently readable book that charts new territory' Irish Examiner   Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth cen ... more

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  • Cover image of book Strong Female Character by Fern Brady
    Strong Female Character - by Fern Brady

    £10.99   paperback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781914240478 | ISBN 10: 1914240472

    WINNER, NON FICTION BOOK 2023, BOOKS ARE MY BAG AWARDS SHORTLISTED BOOKSHOP.ORG INDIE CHAMPAIONS AMAZON NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLIST GOODREADS CHOICE BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLIST THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER   ‘An absolute riot. I ... more

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  • Cover image of book African Activists of the Twentieth Century: Hani, Maathai, Mpama/Palmer, Saro-Wiwa by Hugh Macmillan, Tabitha Kanogo, Robert R. Edgar, Roy Doron and Toyin Falola
    African Activists of the Twentieth Century: Hani, Maathai, Mpama/Palmer, Saro-Wiwa - by Hugh Macmillan, Tabitha Kanogo, Robert R. Edgar, Roy Doron and Toyin Falola

    £32.00   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780821425145 | ISBN 10: 0821425145

    An omnibus collection of concise and up-to-date biographies of four influential figures from modern African history.  Chris Hani, by Hugh Macmillan Chris Hani was one of the most highly respected leaders of the African National Congress, the S ... more

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  • Cover image of book Just Sayin
    Just Sayin': My Life In Words - by Malorie Blackman

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529118698 | ISBN 10: 1529118697

    'It's very candid, and movingly so.... Not only in Blackman a grafter- even more, and in the face of more, than we already knew. She's someone with whom you do not mess. Good on her. She's earned it' The Telegraph  Malorie Blackman is one of Brit ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rambling Man: My Life on the Road by Billy Connolly
    Rambling Man: My Life on the Road - by Billy Connolly

    £25.00   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781399802574 | ISBN 10: 1399802577

    THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING HILARIOUS NEW BOOK FROM THE NATION’S FAVOURITE COMEDIAN, BILLY CONNOLLY   Being a Rambling Man was what I always wanted to be, to live the way I damn well pleased. I’ve met the weirdest and most wonderful people who ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life by Ann Funder
    Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life - by Ann Funder

    £20.00   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780241482728 | ISBN 10: 0241482720

    THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER  A fitting tribute to the unsung work of women everywhere and the perfect Christmas gift!  'A marvellous book... I just loved it all, and have a permanently marked-up, dog-eared copy on my shelf for ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Pocketful of Happiness by Richard E. Grant
    A Pocketful of Happiness - by Richard E. Grant

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781398519503 | ISBN 10: 1398519502

    'A gorgeously candid account of acting and show business. And an intimate and heartfelt story of love, loss and a life spent together. It is an honour to be invited in on these diaries. I cannot remember being so moved by a book' Dolly Alderton  ... more

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  • Cover image of book CLR James: A Life Beyond the Boundaries by John L Williams
    CLR James: A Life Beyond the Boundaries - by John L Williams

    £14.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781472130129 | ISBN 10: 147213012x

    Historian, revolutionary and cricket writer, CLR James was one of the truly radical voices of the twentieth century. Born in Trinidad in the final days of the Victorian era, he debated with Trotsky, played cricket with Constantine, was published by L ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney
    A Heart That Works - by Rob Delaney

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781399710886 | ISBN 10: 1399710885

    In this memoir of loss, acclaimed writer and comedian Rob Delaney grapples with the fragile miracle of life, the mysteries of death, and the question of purpose for those left behind.  When you’re a parent and your child gets hurt or sick, you ... more

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  • Cover image of book Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography by Rob Wilkins
    Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography - by Rob Wilkins

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529176902 | ISBN 10: 1529176905

    WINNER OF THE 2023 LOCUS AWARD FOR NON-FICTION WINNER OF THE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION   'Always readable, illuminating and honest. It made me miss the real Terry.' - Neil Gaiman   'Sometimes joyful ... more

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  • Cover image of book Life in Her Hands: The Inspiring Story of a Pioneering Female Surgeon by Averil Mansfield
    Life in Her Hands: The Inspiring Story of a Pioneering Female Surgeon - by Averil Mansfield

    £20.00   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529149968 | ISBN 10: 1529149967

    'A great read. I am honoured to have worked with such a legend' David Nott 'A role model for women' Independent 'A wonderful read' Julian Fellowes 'Remarkable' Lauren Laverne 'Charming' Guardian   We were occasionally expected to travel by ... more

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  • Cover image of book Woody Guthrie: A Life by Joe Klein
    Woody Guthrie: A Life - by Joe Klein

    £14.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780571384297 | ISBN 10: 0571384293

    ‘A really great book.’ Bruce Springsteen  With a foreword by Billy Bragg.   Few artists have captured the American experience of their time as wholly as folk legend Woody Guthrie. Singer, songwriter and political activist, Guthrie ... more

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  • Cover image of book Where There
    Where There's Muck, There's Bras: True Stories of the Amazing Women of the North - by Kate Fox

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780008472924 | ISBN 10: 0008472920

    From rebels to writers, athletes to astronauts, join Kate Fox takes on an entertaining and eye-opening journey through the lives of these extraordinary women whose lives and achievements have too long been hidden.  From Cartimandua, the forgo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Love That Story: Observations from a Gorgeously Queer Life by Jonathan Van Ness
    Love That Story: Observations from a Gorgeously Queer Life - by Jonathan Van Ness

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781398500501 | ISBN 10: 139850050x

    Queer Eye star Jonathan Van Ness dives into his favourite subjects in Love That Story, a new collection of heartfelt and entertaining essays.   From experiencing heartbreaking grief to uncovering the hidden LGBTQ history of his hometown, Quinc ... more

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  • Cover image of book An Actor
    An Actor's Alphabet: An A to Z of Some Stuff I've Learnt and Some Stuff I'm Still Learning - by Julie Hesmondhalgh

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781839041211 | ISBN 10: 1839041218

    In this candid and empowering A to Z of being an actor, Julie Hesmondhalgh draws on her decades of experience on stage and screen – including in massively popular television shows such as Broadchurch, Happy Valley and Coronation Street – to lift ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Jive Talker: Or How to Get a British Passport by Samson Kambalu
    The Jive Talker: Or How to Get a British Passport - by Samson Kambalu

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781914613180 | ISBN 10: 191461318x

    A uniquely vivid and wickedly funny memoir of growing up ambitious, creative and sometimes hungry in Malawi, by the award-winning conceptual artist. A uniquely vivid and wickedly funny memoir of growing up ambitious, creative and sometimes hungry ... more

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  • Cover image of book Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World by Kate Mosse
    Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World - by Kate Mosse

    £20.00   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529092196 | ISBN 10: 1529092191

    'One brilliant woman writing about so many other brilliant women, this is a wonderful treasure chest of women’s lives, full of wit, verve and emotion... Epic, unputdownable, gripping. I loved it’ - Professor Kate Williams  “My hope is t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Between the Stops: A Most Wonderful Memoir by Sandi Toksvig
    Between the Stops: A Most Wonderful Memoir - by Sandi Toksvig

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780349006406 | ISBN 10: 0349006407

    ‘Part confession, part call to arms and wholly entertaining’ OBSERVER   ‘Her writing style is as kooky and digestible as Bill Bryson’s... A fun-filled, fact-packed, memorable ride’ SUNDAY TIMES  ‘Full of wit and wisdom’ RADIO TIM ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Sand Life, My Pebble Life: A Memoir of a Childhood and the Sea by Ian McMillan
    My Sand Life, My Pebble Life: A Memoir of a Childhood and the Sea - by Ian McMillan

    £10.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781472982940 | ISBN 10: 1472982940

    My sand life, my pebble life. My life measured out in tides, coming in and going out. My life measured out in games of trying to spot the sea first. My life measured out in the delicious and indulgent sadness that comes from leaving a holiday cottage ... more

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  • Cover image of book Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said by Timothy Brennan
    Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said - by Timothy Brennan

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781526614643 | ISBN 10: 1526614642

    **WINNER OF A PALESTINE BOOK AWARD 2021**  Drawing on extensive archival sources and hundreds of interviews, Timothy Brennan's Places of Mind is the first comprehensive biography of Said, one of the most controversial and celebrated intellect ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Girl from Lamaha Street by Sharon Maas
    The Girl from Lamaha Street - by Sharon Maas

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781909770690 | ISBN 10: 1909770698

    "An incredibly moving, truly inspiring story of the power of determination. An absolutely stunning read."(Katharine Birbalsingh) "Fascinating and poignant… an astoundingly honest and intimate memoir."(Angela Petch) Perhaps it’s true that ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rememberings by Sinead O
    Rememberings - by Sinead O'Connor

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781844885428 | ISBN 10: 1844885429

    THE LANDMARK MEMOIR OF A GLOBAL MUSIC ICON.  Sinead O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made her famous by the age of twenty-one. Her recording of Prince's Nothing Compares 2 U made her a global icon. She outraged millions when she tore up ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Wanna Be Yours by John Cooper Clarke
    I Wanna Be Yours - by John Cooper Clarke

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781509896127 | ISBN 10: 1509896120

    This is a memoir as wry, funny, moving and vivid as its inimitable subject himself. This book will be a joy for both lifelong fans and for a whole new generation. John Cooper Clarke is a phenomenon: Poet Laureate of Punk, rock star, fashion icon, TV ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture by Sudhir Hazareesingh
    Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture - by Sudhir Hazareesingh

    £10.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780141985060 | ISBN 10: 0141985062

    The definitive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary hero Toussaint Louverture.  The Haitian Revolution began in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue with a slave revolt in August 1791, and culmina ... more

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  • Cover image of book DAD: Untold stories of Fatherhood, Love, Mental Health and Masculinity by Elliott Rae (Editor)
    DAD: Untold stories of Fatherhood, Love, Mental Health and Masculinity - by Elliott Rae (Editor)

    £18.99   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781527290242 | ISBN 10: 1527290247

    DAD is a deeply moving and inspiring collection of stories that represent the diversity of modern fatherhood and seeks to start a conversation that challenges the traditions associated with masculinity.   Including 20 powerful and defiant stori ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies by Sathnam Sanghera
    The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies - by Sathnam Sanghera

    £10.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780141028590 | ISBN 10: 0141028599

    "It's 1979, I'm three years old, and like all breakfast times during my youth it begins with Mum combing my hair, a ritual for which I have to sit down on the second-hand, floral-patterned settee, and lean forward, like I'm presenting myself for exec ... more

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  • Cover image of book Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty
    Diary of a Young Naturalist - by Dara McAnulty

    £10.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529109603 | ISBN 10: 1529109604

    Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of 15-year-old Dara McAnulty's world. From spring and through a year in his home patch in Northern Ireland, Dara spent the seasons writing. These vivid, evocative and moving diary entries about his c ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shame On Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging by Tessa McWatt
    Shame On Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging - by Tessa McWatt

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781913348229 | ISBN 10: 1913348229

    "This remarkable meditation on beautiful, human bodies formed by the violence of slavery and by colonial shame resists categorisation, even as it shows up the ways in which categories of race and identity are no more than empty methods of social cont ... more

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  • Cover image of book We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World by Malala Yousafzai
    We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World - by Malala Yousafzai

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781474610056 | ISBN 10: 1474610056

    Nobel Peace Prize winner and bestselling author Malala Yousafzai introduces some of the faces behind the statistics and news stories we read or hear every day about the millions of people displaced worldwide.   Malala’s experiences visiting refu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Golem Girl: A Memoir by Riva Lehrer
    Golem Girl: A Memoir - by Riva Lehrer

    £20.00   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780349014814 | ISBN 10: 0349014817

    ***WINNER OF THE BARBELLION PRIZE*** ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD***  In 1958, amongst the children born with spina bifida is Riva Lehrer. At the time, most such children are not expected to survive. Her parents ... more

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  • Cover image of book Will by Will Self
    Will - by Will Self

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780141046402 | ISBN 10: 0141046406

    "'Darkly angelic prose... a joy to read, with the final part in particular recalling David Foster Wallace at his best"(Alex Preston, Observer) Will's mother's hokey homily, Waste not, want not... hisses in his ears as he oscillates furiously on th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Jurgen Klopp: The Biography by Elmar Neveling
    Jurgen Klopp: The Biography - by Elmar Neveling

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529109252 | ISBN 10: 1529109256

    Updated to include the Premier League Victory 2020."It is the intensity of the football, of how the people live football in Liverpool, all the Liverpool fans around the world. It is not a normal club, it is a special club."(Jurgen Klopp) Jürgen K ... more

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  • Cover image of book Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview - and Other Conversations by Frida Kahlo
    Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview - and Other Conversations - by Frida Kahlo

    £12.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781612198750 | ISBN 10: 1612198759

    Frida Kahlo’s legacy continues to grow in the public imagination in the nearly fifty years since her ”discovery” in the 1970s. This collection of conversations over the course of her brief career allows a peek at the woman behind the hype. And ... more

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  • Cover image of book XOXY: A Memoir - Intersex Woman, Mother, Activist by Kimberly M Zieselman
    XOXY: A Memoir - Intersex Woman, Mother, Activist - by Kimberly M Zieselman

    £12.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781785928376 | ISBN 10: 1785928376

    Meet Kimberly, a regular suburban housewife and mother, whose discovery later in life that she was born intersex fuelled her to become an international human rights defender and globally-recognised activist.   Charting her intersex discovery a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Moth: Occasional Magic - 50 True Stories of Defying the Impossible by Catherine Burns (Editor)
    The Moth: Occasional Magic - 50 True Stories of Defying the Impossible - by Catherine Burns (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781781256671 | ISBN 10: 1781256675

    Before television and radio, people would gather on porches, on the steps outside their homes, and tell stories. Their bewitched listeners would sit and listen long into the night as moths flitted around overhead. Storytelling phenomenon The Moth rec ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
    The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper - by Hallie Rubenhold

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781784162344 | ISBN 10: 1784162345

    THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 2019   Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolv ... more

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  • Cover image of book Skint Estate: A Memoir of Poverty, Motherhood and Survival by Cash Carraway
    Skint Estate: A Memoir of Poverty, Motherhood and Survival - by Cash Carraway

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529103380 | ISBN 10: 152910338x

    “Everyone has their price. It’s just not always monetary. Mine is though. 20 quid.”  Single mum. ‘Stain on society’. Caught in a poverty trap. It’s a luxury to afford morals and if you’re Cash Carraway, you do what you can to survi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bloc Life: Stories from the Lost World of Communism by Peter Molloy
    Bloc Life: Stories from the Lost World of Communism - by Peter Molloy

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781846076176 | ISBN 10: 184607617x

    There was life before the fall.   1989 was a year of astonishing and rapid change: the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and an end to an entire way of life for millions of people behind the Iron Curtain. B ... more

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  • Cover image of book Somebody I Used To Know by Wendy Mitchell
    Somebody I Used To Know - by Wendy Mitchell

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781408893333 | ISBN 10: 1408893339

    THE RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES SELECTED AS A SUMMER READ BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, THE TIMES AND THE MAIL ON ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Life and Times of a Very British Man by Kamal Ahmed
    The Life and Times of a Very British Man - by Kamal Ahmed

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781408889244 | ISBN 10: 1408889242

    Kamal Ahmed's childhood was very 'British' in every way – except for the fact that he was brown. Half English, half Sudanese, he was raised at a time when being mixed-race meant being told to go home, even when you were born just down the road. ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Normal Family: Everyday Adventures With Our Autistic Son by Henry Normal
    A Normal Family: Everyday Adventures With Our Autistic Son - by Henry Normal

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781473656413 | ISBN 10: 1473656419

    Johnny is nineteen. He likes music, art and going to the beach. He is also autistic - in his case that means he will probably never get a job, never have a girlfriend, never leave home. And over the last nineteen years this is what his father, TV pro ... more

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  • Cover image of book Gentleman Jack: The Real Anne Lister by Anne Choma
    Gentleman Jack: The Real Anne Lister - by Anne Choma

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781785944048 | ISBN 10: 1785944045

    'There are more ways than one of being happy… I am living proof of this.'   Anne Lister was remarkable. Fearless, charismatic and determined to explore her lesbian sexuality, she forged her own path in a society that had no language to defin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Gentleman Jack: A Biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer and Secret Diarist by Angela Steidele
    Gentleman Jack: A Biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer and Secret Diarist - by Angela Steidele

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781788160995 | ISBN 10: 1788160991

    Anne Lister was a Yorkshire heiress, an intrepid world traveller and a proud lesbian during a time when it was difficult simply to be female. She chose to remain unmarried, dressed all in black and spoke openly of her lack of interest in men. The fir ... more

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  • Cover image of book Eugene V. Debs: A Graphic Biography by Paul Buhle, Steve Max, and Dave Nance, illustrated by Noah Van Sciver
    Eugene V. Debs: A Graphic Biography - by Paul Buhle, Steve Max, and Dave Nance, illustrated by Noah Van Sciver

    £11.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786636874 | ISBN 10: 1786636875

    A graphic biography of socialist labor legend Eugene V. Debs.  Dynamic and beloved American radical, labor leader, and socialist Eugene Victor Debs led the Socialist Party to federal and state office across the United States by the 1920s. Imp ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil
    The Girl Who Smiled Beads - by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786090508 | ISBN 10: 1786090503

    When Clemantine Wamariya was six years old, her world was torn apart. She didn't know why her parents began talking in whispers, or why her neighbours started disappearing, or why she could hear distant thunder even when the skies were clear.   ... more

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  • Cover image of book Alice in Westminster: The Political Life of Alice Bacon by Rachel Reeves
    Alice in Westminster: The Political Life of Alice Bacon - by Rachel Reeves

    £11.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781788313070 | ISBN 10: 1788313070

    Alice Bacon was one of the twentieth-century's most remarkable female politicians.  Born and raised in the Yorkshire town of Normanton, she defied the odds to be elected Labour MP for Leeds North East in the 1945 General Election. Famed in her h ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Choice by Edith Eger
    The Choice - by Edith Eger

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781846045127 | ISBN 10: 1846045126

    THE AWARD-WINNING INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER by Edith Eger, as seen on BBC Breakfast.   Little dancer', Mengele says, ‘dance for me’   In 1944, sixteen-year-old ballerina Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. Separated from her parents on ... more

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  • Cover image of book When Ziggy Played Guitar: David Bowie, The Man Who Changed The World by Dylan Jones
    When Ziggy Played Guitar: David Bowie, The Man Who Changed The World - by Dylan Jones

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786090638 | ISBN 10: 1786090635

    On 6 July 1972, David Bowie, with a flame-orange cockade quiff, lavishly applied make-up, wearing a multi-coloured jumpsuit that looked as though it were made from fluorescent fish skin, and carrying a brand spanking new blue acoustic guitar, made hi ... more

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  • Cover image of book In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein by Fiona Sampson
    In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein - by Fiona Sampson

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781781255292 | ISBN 10: 1781255296

    Mary Shelley was brought up by her father in a house filled with radical thinkers, poets, philosophers and writers of the day. Aged sixteen, she eloped with Percy Bysshe Shelley, embarking on a relationship that was lived on the move across Britain a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Me. You. Not a Diary by Dawn French
    Me. You. Not a Diary - by Dawn French

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780241373705 | ISBN 10: 0241373700

    Me You is a pocket diary without the diary part. Or the pocket.   Me. You. Not a Diary is everything you loved about the original but without the calendar pages. To keep a working diary alongside Dawn, we recommend the hardback edition of Me. ... more

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  • Cover image of book First Time Ever: A Memoir by Peggy Seeger
    First Time Ever: A Memoir - by Peggy Seeger

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571336807 | ISBN 10: 0571336809

    Born in New York City in 1935, Peggy Seeger enjoyed a childhood steeped in music and politics. Her father was the noted musicologist Charles Seeger; her mother, the modernist composer Ruth Crawford; and her brother Pete, the celebrated writer of prot ... more

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  • Cover image of book No Way But This: In Search of Paul Robeson by Jeff Sparrow
    No Way But This: In Search of Paul Robeson - by Jeff Sparrow

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781911617204 | ISBN 10: 1911617206

    Film star. Icon. Agitator. Martyr.   Paul Robeson was a brilliant student and champion athlete who abandoned a career in law to find worldwide fame as a performer and activist. He was undoubtedly the most famous African American of his time — be ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Disappearance of Emile Zola: Love, Literature and the Dreyfus Case by Michael Rosen
    The Disappearance of Emile Zola: Love, Literature and the Dreyfus Case - by Michael Rosen

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571312023 | ISBN 10: 0571312020

    It is the evening of 18 July 1898 and the world-renowned novelist Émile Zola is on the run. His crime? Taking on the highest powers in the land with his open letter ‘J’accuse’ and losing. Forced to leave Paris, with nothing but the clothes he ... more

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  • Cover image of book Riot Days by Maria Alyokhina
    Riot Days - by Maria Alyokhina

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780141986616 | ISBN 10: 0141986611

    From activist, Pussy Riot member and freedom fighter Maria Alyokhina, a raw, hallucinatory, passionate account of her arrest, trial and imprisonment in a penal colony in the Urals for standing up for what she believed in.  People who believe in f ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Terrible by Yrsa Daley-Ward
    The Terrible - by Yrsa Daley-Ward

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781846149825 | ISBN 10: 1846149827

    "A major literary talent... speaks about the power and powerlessness that young women are subject to in a wholly fresh, clear-eyed way... you'll find it hard to come away from The Terrible without a stab of recognition in your chest."(Stylist) 'You ... more

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  • Cover image of book How Not To Be a Boy by Robert Webb
    How Not To Be a Boy - by Robert Webb

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786890115 | ISBN 10: 1786890119

    “It sounded to me that to be a gentleman, you needed both manners and bravery. And that thought was horribly fascinating. Because I thought only wimps needed manners. And only tough guys were brave”   Following Peep Show, and alongside Back, t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Young Man
    Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Young Man's Voice from the Silence of Autism - by Naoki Higashida

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781444799101 | ISBN 10: 144479910x

    Following his ground-breaking international bestseller The Reason I Jump, written when he was only thirteen, Naoki Higashida offers equally illuminating and practical insights into autism from his current perspective as a young man.   Naoki Higash ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Inheritance of Shame: A Memoir by Peter Gajdics
    The Inheritance of Shame: A Memoir - by Peter Gajdics

    £17.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781941932087 | ISBN 10: 1941932088

    Author Peter Gajdics spent six years in a bizarre form of conversion therapy (delivered in the form of primal therapy) that attempted to "cure" him of his homosexuality. Kept with other patients in a cult-like home in British Columbia, Canada, Gajdic ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Woman
    A Woman's Work - by Harriet Harman

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780141983868 | ISBN 10: 0141983868

    When Harriet Harman started her career, men-only job adverts and a 'women's rate' of pay were the norm, female MPs were a tiny minority - a woman couldn't even sign for a mortgage. But, she argues, we should never just be grateful that things are bet ... more

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  • Cover image of book Toxteth Tales: Growin
    Toxteth Tales: Growin' up in Liverpool 8 - by Ken Hayter

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781910837139 | ISBN 10: 191083713x

    Liverpool in the 40s and 50s: a city of safe, cosy little streets - except when Hitler's Luftwaffe couldn't find the docks. A city of two-up, two-downs, where two or three generations lived within a few doors of each other, and often behind one door. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Football
    Football's Coming Out: Life As a Gay Fan and Player - by Neil Beasley

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780992658564 | ISBN 10: 099265856x

    Being gay in football - as fan or player - is to risk the homophobia that has run through the game for years. But things are changing. Gradually a few brave professional players have come out. And someone like Neil Beasley now feels able to tell his ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Jihad for Love by Mohamed El Bachiri with David van Reybrouck
    A Jihad for Love - by Mohamed El Bachiri with David van Reybrouck

    £5.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786698001 | ISBN 10: 1786698005

    Mohamed El-Bachiri is a driver on the Brussels metro rail system. He grew up and lives in the suburb of Molenbeek, notorious as the place from which a number of Belgian jihadis have come. He is also the husband of Loubna Lafquiri, the love of his lif ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Long and Winding Road by Alan Johnson
    The Long and Winding Road - by Alan Johnson

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780552172158 | ISBN 10: 0552172154

    Winner of the Parliamentary Book Award, best memoir by a Parliamentarian, 2016  From the condemned slums of Southam Street in West London to the corridors of power in Westminster, Alan Johnson’s multi-award-winning autobiography charts an e ... more

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  • Cover image of book At the Broken Places: A Mother and Trans Son Pick Up the Pieces by Mary Collins and Donald Collins
    At the Broken Places: A Mother and Trans Son Pick Up the Pieces - by Mary Collins and Donald Collins

    £13.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780807088357 | ISBN 10: 0807088358

    In this collaborative memoir, a parent and a transgender son recount wrestling with their differences as Donald Collins undertook medical-treatment options to better align his body with his gender identity.   As a parent, Mary Collins didn’t agr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sex Object: A Memoir by Jessica Valenti
    Sex Object: A Memoir - by Jessica Valenti

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780062435095 | ISBN 10: 0062435094

    Author and Guardian US columnist Jessica Valenti has been leading the national conversation on gender and politics for over a decade. Now, in a darkly funny and bracing memoir, Valenti explores the toll that sexism takes from the every day to the exi ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Importance of Music to Girls by Lavinia Greenlaw
    The Importance of Music to Girls - by Lavinia Greenlaw

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571332274 | ISBN 10: 0571332277

    If I had not kissed anyone, or danced with anyone, or had a reason to cry, the music made me feel as if I had gone through all that anyway... the music attracted and repelled, organised and disturbed and then let us into the night, clusters of emotio ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write by Sabrina Mahfouz (Editor)
    The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write - by Sabrina Mahfouz (Editor)

    £12.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780863561467 | ISBN 10: 0863561462

    From established literary heavyweights to emerging spoken word artists, the writers in this ground-breaking collection blow away the narrow image of the ‘Muslim Woman’.   Hear from users of Islamic Tinder, a disenchanted Maulana working as ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Benn Diaries by Tony Benn
    The Benn Diaries - by Tony Benn

    £30.00   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786330765 | ISBN 10: 1786330768

    Tony Benn was one of the twentieth century's most charismatic politicians. The Benn Diaries, kept for almost seventy years, are a uniquely authoritative, fascinating and readable record of the political life of our times.  This single-volume ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wake Up and Live: The Life of Bob Marley by Jim McCarthy and Benito Gallego
    Wake Up and Live: The Life of Bob Marley - by Jim McCarthy and Benito Gallego

    £16.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781783059676 | ISBN 10: 1783059672

    The extraordinary life of the legendary Jamaican musician Bob Marley is here celebrated in a superb graphic novel by Jim McCarthy and Benito Gallego.  A man of spiritual hunger and force with music in his bones, Robert Nesta Marley came to re ... more

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  • Cover image of book When We Rise: My Life in the Movement by Cleve Jones
    When We Rise: My Life in the Movement - by Cleve Jones

    £14.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781472126658 | ISBN 10: 1472126653

    A personal memoir from a leading figure in the gay rights movement, and partial inspiration for the acclaimed mini-series When We Rise from Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, executive producer Gus Van Sant, and starring Guy Pearc ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Mum Runs by Jo Pavey
    This Mum Runs - by Jo Pavey

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780224100434 | ISBN 10: 0224100432

    The inspirational story of athlete Jo Pavey, the runner and mum who ran at a record-breaking fifth Olympic Games at Rio 2016.   'Come-back races? I've had more than a few, the night of 10 May 2014 was the ultimate long shot. I was a forty-year ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nobody Told Me: Poetry and Parenthood by Hollie McNish
    Nobody Told Me: Poetry and Parenthood - by Hollie McNish

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780349134512 | ISBN 10: 0349134510

    A memoir of parenthood by poet Hollie McNish� There were many things that Hollie McNish didn't know before she was pregnant. How her family and friends would react; that Mr Whippy would be off the menu; how quickly ice can melt on a stomach. These ... more

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  • Cover image of book What Happened, Miss Simone? by Alan Light
    What Happened, Miss Simone? - by Alan Light

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781782118749 | ISBN 10: 1782118748

    Inspired by the Oscar-nominated Netflix documentary, this is the story of the real Miss Simone.   What Happened, Miss Simone? tells the story of incandescent soul singer and Black Power icon Nina Simone, one of the most influential, provocativ ... more

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  • Cover image of book Cheer Up Love: Adventures in Depression with the Crab of Hate by Susan Calman
    Cheer Up Love: Adventures in Depression with the Crab of Hate - by Susan Calman

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781473632042 | ISBN 10: 1473632048

    "Nothing makes me happier than talking about depression. Packed with stories, humour and a bit of the serious stuff, I will literally write the book on how it feels to be told "Cheer up, Love"'"(Susan Calman) Susan Calman is a well known comedian ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Girl Who Ate Books: Adventures in Reading by Nilanjana Roy
    The Girl Who Ate Books: Adventures in Reading - by Nilanjana Roy

    £10.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9789350297117 | ISBN 10: 9350297116

    From Bankimchandra Chatterjee to G.V. Desani to Vikram Seth, Indian writing in English has come a long way over the last hundred years. And Nilanjana Roy – voracious eater of books and sharpest of critics – has taken stock of it all.   On ... more

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  • Cover image of book Evelyn Dove: Britain
    Evelyn Dove: Britain's Black Cabaret Queen - by Stephen Bourne

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781909762350 | ISBN 10: 1909762350

    A pioneer and a trailblazer, Evelyn Dove left a mark in the arts industry. She was the first black female singer on BBC Radio and the first black British female singer to work in America, a quarter of a century before Shirley Bassey.   In a ca ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story by Vivek J. Tiwary, Andrew C. Robinson and Kyle Baker
    The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story - by Vivek J. Tiwary, Andrew C. Robinson and Kyle Baker

    £12.50   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781616558352 | ISBN 10: 1616558350

    Eisner and Harvey Award winner! "If anyone was ‘The Fifth Beatle’ it was Brian."(Paul McCartney) The Fifth Beatle graphic novel recounts the untold true story of Brian Epstein - the visionary manager who created Beatlemania and guided the ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem
    My Life on the Road - by Gloria Steinem

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781780749204 | ISBN 10: 1780749201

    Gloria Steinem had an itinerant childhood. Every fall, her father would pack the family into the car and they would drive across the country, in search of their next adventure. The seeds were planted: Steinem would spend much of her life on the road, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rebel Crossings: New Women, Free Lovers and Radicals in Britain and the United States by Sheila Rowbotham
    Rebel Crossings: New Women, Free Lovers and Radicals in Britain and the United States - by Sheila Rowbotham

    £25.00   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784785888 | ISBN 10: 1784785881

    Sheila Rowbotham's Rebel Crossings tells the transatlantic story of six radical pioneers at the turn of the twentieth century. Radicalised by the rise of socialism, Helena Born, Miriam Daniell, Gertrude Dix, Robert Nicol and William Bailie cross the ... more

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