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Home & Dry in Normandy: A Memoir Of Eternal Optimism In Rural France (The Hungry Student)

By East, George

Ma’am Darling: : The hilarious, bestselling royal biography, perfect for fans of The Crown: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret

By Brown, Craig

My Heart is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots

By John Guy

Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind - Arthur Koestler and the Quest for Belonging

By David Cesarani

Elisabeth's Lists: A Life Between the Lines

By Lulah Ellender

Victorian Prison Lives

By Philip Priestley

The Haunting of Alma Fielding: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020

By Kate Summerscale

Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of 'Housewife, 49'

By Richard Broad, Suzie Fleming, Nella Last

An Irish Navvy - The Diary of an Exile

By Donall MacAmhlaigh

Shaftesbury: The Poor Man's Earl

By John Pollock

I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain: WINNER OF THE 2021 BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD FOR NON-FICTION

By Anita Sethi

Frank Lloyd Wright: AD (Architecture & Design)

By Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks

Mighty Healer: Thomas Holloway's Victorian Patent Medicine Empire

By Verity Holloway

Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorized Biography of T.E.Lawrence

By J. M. Wilson

An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo

By Richard Davenport-Hines

Sleeping Where I Fall: A Chronicle

By Peter Coyote

An Encyclopaedia of Myself

By Jonathan Meades

A Hero for High Times: A Younger Reader's Guide to the Beats, Hippies, Freaks, Punks, Ravers, New-Age Travellers and Dog-on-a-Rope Brew Crew Crusties of the British Isles, 1956-1994

By Ian Marchant

Faraday

By G.N. Cantor, David Gooding, Frank James

Fifty-Six: The Story of the Bradford Fire

By Martin Fletcher

My Life, Our Times

By Gordon Brown

Summer: Vintage Minis

By Laurie Lee

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

By Steve Richards

Elizabeth: The Queen and the crown

By Sarah Gristwood

Powers of Being: David Holbrook and His Work

By Webb, Edwin

Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That Shook Europe

By John Guy, Julia Fox

A Critical Woman: Barbara Wootton, Social Science and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century

By Ann Oakley

Sad Little Men: The revealing book about the world that shaped Boris Johnson

By Richard Beard

English Eccentrics

By Dame Edith Sitwell

The Kerracher Man

By Eric MacLeod