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John of Gaunt: Son of One King, Father of Another

By Kathryn Warner

William Tyndale: If God Spare My Life: Martyrdom, betrayal and the English Bible

By Brian Moynahan

The Rivals: The Intimate Story of a Political Marriage

By James Naughtie

Against The Law

By Peter Wildeblood

Young Elizabeth: The Making of our Queen

By Kate Williams

David Stirling: The Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS

By Gavin Mortimer

If This Is A Man/The Truce (50th Anniversary Edition): Surviving Auschwitz

By Primo Levi, David Baddiel, Stuart Woolf

Eleanor of Aquitaine: By the Wrath of God, Queen of England

By Weir, Alison

From the Ground Up: Stories from the men and women who built, serviced and flew aircraft in WWII

By Edward Smithies

Jennie Churchill: Winston's American Mother

By Anne Sebba

Thoroughly Modern: The pioneering life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, photographer, and her brilliant Bohemian friends

By Sarah Knights

Jane Boleyn: The Infamous Lady Rochford

By Julia Fox

The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951

By Lord John Julius Norwich

Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of a Whore

By Julie Peakman

Brasso, Blanco and Bull

By Tony Thorne

Army Girls: The secrets and stories of military service from the final few women who fought in World War II

By Tessa Dunlop

Veterans: The Last Survivors of the Great War

By Richard Van Emden, Steve Humphries

Disraeli: or, The Two Lives

By Douglas Hurd, Edward Young

The Little Field Marshal: A Life of Sir John French

By Richard Holmes

The Girl in Rose: A Musical Affair in Georgian London

By Peter Hobday

The Recollections of Rifleman Harris

By Benjamin Randell Harris

Esther Simpson: The True Story of her Mission to Save Scholars from Hitler's Persecution

By John Eidinow

A Soldier's Story: Neville 'Timber' Wood's War, from Dunkirk to D-Day

By Mike Wood

A Soldier's Story: Neville 'Timber' Wood's War, from Dunkirk to D-Day

By Mike Wood

Rebel Englishwoman: The Remarkable Life of Emily Hobhouse

By Elsabe Brits

Personae Vectenses: Isle of Wight Notables: Isle of Wight Notables (Second Edition)

By Phillip Armitage

Personae Vectenses - Isle of Wight Notables

By Phillip Armitage

The Somme

By Gerald Gliddon

Dogs of Courage: When Britain's Pets Went to War 1939-45

By Clare Campbell, Christy Campbell

The Path to Power

By Margaret Thatcher