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Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940-85

By Larkin, Philip, Thwaite, Anthony

Gordon Brown: ‘As a psychological profile, an exploration of personal ambition and a study of political obsession driven by religious angst, this biography is gripping’ Daily Telegraph

By Bower, Tom

Ten Dead Men: Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike

By Beresford, David

Churchill's Bomb: A hidden history of Britain's first nuclear weapons programme

By Farmelo, Graham

Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter

By SOUHAMI, Diana

Asquith

By Koss, Stephen E.

Baldwin

By Jenkins, Roy

World War II: The Definitive Visual Guide

By DK

Alan Ayckbourn (Modern Dramatists)

By Billington, Michael

SBS – Silent Warriors: The Authorised Wartime History

By David, Saul

As No Other Dare Fail: For Samuel Beckett on His 80th Birthday by His Friends and Admirers

By Calder

Queen Elizabeth II

By Ammonite Press

Octavia, Daughter of God: The Story of a Female Messiah and her Followers

By Shaw, Jane

Margot Asquith's Great War Diary 1914-1916: The View from Downing Street

By Brock, Michael, Eleanor

A T.S.Eliot Companion: Life and Works (Literary Companions)

By Pinion, F B

Churchill

By Ashley Jackson

The King's Speech

By Logue and Conradi, Conradi, Peter, Mark Logue, Peter Conradi

Lady Catherine and the Real Downton Abbey

By The Countess Of Carnarvon

Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass

By Close, Frank

The Sphinx: The Life of Gladys Deacon – Duchess of Marlborough

By Vickers, Hugo

Royal Family (Unseen Archives)

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth...The Diamond Jubilee

By Daily Mail

Baldwin

By Jenkins, Roy

Winston and Clementine: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Churchills

By Hough, Richard Alexander

By Tank into Normandy (Cassell Military Paperbacks)

By Hills, Stuart

Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters

By Winters, Dick, Kingseed, Cole C

T.E. Lawrence (British Library Historic Lives) (British Library Historic Lives S.)

By Malcolm Brown

The Pankhursts

By Pugh, Martin

The Bletchley Girls: War, secrecy, love and loss: the women of Bletchley Park tell their story (Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two)

By Dunlop, Tessa

The Yellow on the Broom: The Early Days of a Traveller Woman

By Betsy Whyte