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Fight for the Sky: Story of the Spitfire and Hurricane

By Douglas Bader

A Town's Pride: Victorian Lifeboatmen and Their Community: 1

By Rob Blann

Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall

By Spike Milligan

Taste: The No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller

By Stanley Tucci

The Valley: A Hundred Years in the Life of a Yorkshire Family

By Richard Benson, Benson, Richard

Queens of the Crusades: Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Successors

By Alison Weir

David Ricardo

By J. King

Alastair Campbell

By Peter Oborne

Not for Turning

By Robin Harris

Kings in the North

By Alexander Rose

Miss Savidge Moves Her House: The Extraordinary Story of May Savidge and her House of a Lifetime

By Christine Adams, Michael McMahon

The Complete Idiot's Guide to British Royalty

By Richard Buskin

David Livingstone

Soldier Spy

By Tom Marcus

Harold Wilson

By Ben Pimlott

Philomena (Movie Tie-In): A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search

By MARTIN SIXSMITH, Dame Judi Dench

No Place to Hide

By Glenn Greenwald

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

By J.M. Maloney

Elizabeth of York: The First Tudor Queen

By Alison Weir

A Prison Diary Volume II: Purgatory

By Jeffrey Archer

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

By David Lister, Hugh Jordan (Author)

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

By Archer, Jeffrey

Prison Diary: Volume 2 - Purgatory

By Archer, Jeffrey

Mervyn Stockwood: A Lonely Life

By De-la-Noy, Michael

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

Ignatius Sancho: An African Man of Letters

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

Monty's Leap

By Tangye, Derek

The Downing Street Years

By Thatcher, Margaret

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

By Archer, Jeffrey

Julian of Norwich: Mystic and Theologian

By Jantzen, Grace M.