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A Dutiful Boy: A memoir of secrets, lies and family love (Winner of the LAMBDA 2021 Literary Award for Best Gay Memoir/Biography)

By Zaidi, Mohsin

Your Affectionate and Loving Sister: The Correspondence of Barbara Kerrich and Elizabeth Postlethwaite, 1733-1751

By Kerrich, Barbara, Postlethwaite, Elizabeth

The Glasgow Boys

By Billcliffe, Roger

Warfare, Diplomacy and Politics: Essays in Honour of A.J.P.Taylor

By Wrigley, Chris

Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley

By Gordon, Charlotte

Right to Song: Life of John Clare

By Storey, Edward

Odd Boy Out: The ‘hilarious, eye-popping, unforgettable’ Sunday Times bestseller 2021

By Brandreth, Gyles

Matthew Bourne and his Adventures in Motion Pictures

By Bourne, Matthew

Mistress Peachum's Pleasure

By Hilton, Lisa

The Visible College: Scientists and Socialists in the 1930's

By Werskey, Gary

Nelson: The Man and the Legend

By Coleman, Terry

Julian of Norwich: Mystic and Theologian

By Jantzen, Grace M.

A Prison Diary Volume III: Heaven (The Prison Diaries, 3)

By Archer, Jeffrey

The Downing Street Years

By Thatcher, Margaret

Monty's Leap

By Tangye, Derek

Ignatius Sancho: An African Man of Letters

By King, Reyahn, Sandhu, Sukhdev, Girdham, Jane, Walvin, James, National Portrait Gallery, Phillips, Caryl

Our Story

By Kray, Reginald, Kray, Ronald, Dinenage, Fred

Mervyn Stockwood: A Lonely Life

By De-la-Noy, Michael

Prison Diary: Volume 2 - Purgatory

By Archer, Jeffrey

A Prison Diary Volume III: Heaven (The Prison Diaries, 3)

By Archer, Jeffrey

Mad Dog: The Rise and Fall of Johnny Adair and 'C Company'

By David Lister, Hugh Jordan (Author)

A Prison Diary Volume II: Purgatory

By Jeffrey Archer

Elizabeth of York: The First Tudor Queen

By Alison Weir

The Sisters of Battle Road: The Extraordinary True Story of Six Sisters Evacuated from Wartime London

By J.M. Maloney

No Place to Hide

By Glenn Greenwald

Fight for the Sky: Story of the Spitfire and Hurricane

By Douglas Bader

Harold Wilson

By Ben Pimlott

Soldier Spy

By Tom Marcus

David Livingstone

The Complete Idiot's Guide to British Royalty

By Richard Buskin