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Helen Keller

By Harriet Castor, Nick Ward, Fam people

Rosl's Daughter

By Liesl Muller-Johnson

Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game

By Andrew Hodges

Gale Force 10: The Life and Legacy of Admiral Beaufort

By Nicholas Courtney

Alfred the Great

By Justin Pollard

Warrior King: The Life of Henry V

By Keith Dockray

Scientist, Soldier, Statesman, Spy: Count Rumford - The Extraordinary Life of a Scientific Genius

By G. I. Brown

John Knox

By Rosalind K. Marshall

Code Name: Lise: The true story of Odette Sansom, WWII's most highly decorated spy

By Larry Loftis

Forgotten Voices of Dunkirk

By Joshua Levine

London Labour and the London Poor

By Henry Mayhew, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Fellow and Tutor in English, Magdalen College, Oxford)

The Six Wives Of Henry VIII

By Fraser, Lady Antonia

Apache Dawn: Always outnumbered, never outgunned.

By Lewis, Damien

Churchill Defiant: Fighting On 1945-1955

By Barbara Leaming

Lady Catherine and the Real Downton Abbey

By The Countess Of Carnarvon

The Paras: 'Earth's most elite fighting unit' - Telegraph

By Arthur, Max

One Minute To Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War

By Michael Dobbs

Whatever it Takes: The Real Story of Gordon Brown and New Labour

By Steve Richards

Seide Maises...Grandfather's Tales

By Brian Taylor

My Life, Our Times

By Gordon Brown

James II (Penguin Monarchs): The Last Catholic King

By David Womersley

Troublesome Young Men: the Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power in 1940 and Helped to Save Britain

By Lynne Olson

The Man Who Was George Smiley: The Life of John Bingham

By Michael Jago

Stephen Ward: Scapegoat

By Douglas Thompson

Going to the Wars

By Max Hastings

The Scandal of Christine Keeler and John Profumo: Lord Denning's Report, 1963

By Tim Coates

Kings Mistress, Queens Servant The Life and Times of Henrietta

By Tracy Borman

Jennie Churchill

By Anne Sebba

Jennie Churchill

By Anne Sebba

Sir Francis Walsingham: Courtier in an Age of Terror

By Derek Wilson