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The Burning Of Bridget Cleary

By Angela Bourke

Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life

By Mark Francis (University of Canterbury - Christchurch, New Zealand)

Helen Macfarlane: A Feminist, Revolutionary Journalist, and Philosopher in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England

By David Black

The Corner Shop: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick

By Babita Sharma

Thank You Mr Crombie: Lessons in Guilt and Gratitude to the British

By Mihir Bose

Failed State: Why Britain Doesn't Work and How We Fix It

By Sam Freedman

Windward Family: An atlas of love, loss and belonging

By Alexis Keir

Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...: How '90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me For Life

By Josh Widdicombe

Brasso, Blanco and Bull

By Tony Thorne

Twentieth Century History Makers: Nelson Mandela: An Extraordinary Life

By Ann Kramer

Hopping

By Melanie McGrath

When Christmas Comes: An Anthology of Childhood Christmases

By Anne Harvey

I Have a Dream: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Equal Rights

By Anita Ganeri

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Souvenir 1952-2012

By Bullen, Annie

The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett

By Richard Ingrams

Harold Wilson: The Winner

By Nick Thomas-Symonds

King Arthur

By Richard Brassey

Thomas Hardy and Desire: Conceptions of the Self

By Jane Thomas

Spycatcher

By Wright, Peter

Grace Darling: Band 07 Turquoise/Band 17 Diamond (Collins Big Cat Progress)

By Anita Ganeri, Bob Moulder

Suggs and the City: Journeys through Disappearing London

By Suggs

Hellfire: Evelyn Waugh and the Hypocrites Club

By David Fleming

The Duchess Countess

By Catherine Ostler

Our Man In Hibernia: Ireland, The Irish and Me

By Charlie Connelly

Tales From When I Were A Lad: More snapshots from a time that Health & Safety forgot

By Davies, Andrew

My Brief History

By Stephen Hawking (University of Cambridge)

The Common Years

By Jilly Cooper

The House by the Dvina: A Russian Childhood

By Eugenie Fraser

David Lloyd George: The Great Outsider

By Roy Hattersley

John Macmurray: A Biography

By John E. Costello