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Marshall Hall: A Law unto Himself

By Sally Smith, Clive Anderson

Elizabeth Fry (Profiles S.)

By Bull, Angela

Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy, JFK’s Forgotten Sister and the Heir to Chatsworth

By Byrne, Paula

A 1950s Childhood in Pictures

By Paul Feeney

The Viceroy's Daughters: The Lives of the Curzon Sisters

By de Courcy, Anne

Harry & Meghan: A Royal Engagement (Pitkin Royal Collection)

By Sadat, Halima

Gandhi (Leading Lives)

By David Downing

Putin's People: A Times Book of the Year 2021 – The Story of Russia’s History and Politics

By Belton, Catherine

Truth, Dare or Promise: Girls Growing Up in the Fifties

By Heron, Liz

Tastes of Honey: The Making of Shelagh Delaney and a Cultural Revolution

By Todd, Professor Selina

My Own Story: Inspiration for the major motion picture Suffragette

By Pankhurst, Emmeline

Narrow Dog to Indian River

By Darlington, Terry

The Outrun: A Memoir

By Liptrot, Amy

The Dinosaur Hunters: A True Story of Scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of the Prehistoric World

By Cadbury, Deborah

Chocolate Wars: From Cadbury to Kraft - 200 Years of Sweet Success and Bitter Rivalry

By Cadbury, Deborah

As I Was Going Down Sackville Street

By Gogarty, Oliver St.John

Pearls before Poppies: The Story of the Red Cross Pearls

By Rachel Trethewey

Illustrated Letters of the Paston Family

By Virgoe, Roger

The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Volume V – 1664: 5

By Pepys, Samuel

Gay People Who Changed History

By Sutherland, Adam

The Letters of Kingsley Amis

By Leader, Zachary, Amis, Kingsley

We Remember the Home Guard

By Shaw, Frank, Joan

The Journal of a Country Parish (Oxford Paperbacks)

By Page, Robin, Silver, Fiona

Keir Hardie: Labour's Greatest Hero?

By Holman, Bob

Philosopher A Kind Of Life

By Honderich, Prof Ted, Ted

A Marriage of Inconvenience: Persecution of Ruth and Seretse Khama

By Dutfield, Michael

The Sugar Girls: Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle's East End

By Barrett, Duncan, Calvi, Nuala, Duncan Barrett

Livewire Real Lives: Catherine Zeta Jones

By Woodcock, Sandra

Maeve's Times

By Binchy, Maeve

Further Stories Of The Minack Chronicles: A Drake at the Door, A Donkey in the Meadow, and Sun on the Lintel

By Tangye, Derek