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Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives

By Hay, Daisy

Dickens' Artistic Daughter Katey: Her Life, Loves and Impact

By Lucinda Hawksley

Letters To My Grandchildren: Thoughts on the Future

By Benn, Tony

New York: Monocle Travel Guides

By monocle

A. J. Ayer: A Life

By Rogers, Ben

Things My Mother Never Told Me

By Morrison, Blake

The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft

By Tomalin, Claire

Fred and Rose: The Full Story of Fred and Rose West and the Gloucester House of Horrors

By Howard Sounes

Druglord: Guns, Powder and Pay-Offs

By Graham Johnson, Johnson, Graham

Finding Out About Edwardian Britain

By Rawcliffe, Michael

The Mitre and the Crown: A History of the Archbishops of Canterbury

By Stella Fletcher, Dominic Aidan Bellenger, Bellenger, Dominic Aidan, Fletcher, Stella

A Dancer in Wartime: One girl's journey from the Blitz to Sadler's Wells

By Lynne, Gillian

Bright Particular Stars: A Gallery of Glorious British Eccentrics

By David McKie

Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household

By Hubbard, Kate

La Belle France: A Short History

By Horne, Sir Alistair

The Varieties of History: From Voltaire to the Present

By Stern, Fritz

What the Butler Winked at: Being the Life and Adventures of Eric Horne (Butler)

By Eric Horne

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Royal Britain: A Magnificent Study of Britain's Royal and Historic Heritage with a Directory of Royalty and Over 120 ... Houses and Castles in Britain and Ireland

By Charles Phillips, Richard Wilson, John Haywood

Octavia, Daughter of God: The Story of a Female Messiah and her Followers

By Shaw, Jane

Faces of Labour: The Inside Story

By McSmith, Andy

The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty

By Livingstone, Natalie

The View from the Corner Shop: Diary of a Wartime Shop Assistant: The Diary of a Yorkshire Shop Assistant in Wartime

By Kathleen Hey, Robert Malcomson, Patricia Malcolmson

The Industrial Revolution

By Hepplewhite, Peter

Memoirs of a Breton Peasant

By Deguignet, Jean-Marie

The Girl from Lamaha Street: A Guyanese girl at a 1950s English boarding school and her search for belonging

By Maas, Sharon

The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age

By Schama, Simon

The Stopping Places: A Journey Through Gypsy Britain

By Bas, Damian Le

Black Tudors: The Untold Story

By Kaufmann, Miranda

Donald Winnicott and John Bowlby: Personal and Professional Perspectives

By Hauptmann, Bruce, Reeves, Christopher, Issroff, Judith

Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns

By Hudson, Kerry