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Piers Brendon: The Decline and Fall of the British Empire

In the section about Ghandi: “Nothing complicates life more than the quest for simplicity”. ha ha

Kate Fox: Watching the English

T.E. Lawrence: Seven Pillars of Wisdom

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Half of a Yellow Sun

Georgina Howell: Daughter of the Desert – the remarkable life of Gertrude Bell

Mohsin Hamid: The reluctant fundamentalist

Ian McEwan: Amsterdam

Satish Kumar: No destination

Vikas Swarup: Slumdog millionaire

Vikram Seth: The humble administrator’s garden

Farid Ud-din Attar: The conference of the birds

Daniel Everett: Don’t sleep, there are snakes

Che Guevara: The motorcycle diaries