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The Hong Kong Diaries

By Chris Patten

Mary Warnock: A Memoir - People and Places

By Mary Warnock

Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History

By Philippa Gregory

That's Not English: Britishisms, Americanisms and What Our English Says About Us

By Erin Moore, Lynne Truss

Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

By Stephen Greenblatt

I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: The short and gilded life of Tara Browne, the man who inspired The Beatles' greatest song

By Paul Howard

Elizabethan Society: High and Low Life, 1558-1603

By Mr Derek Wilson

Out of Harm's Way

By Jessica Mann

An Autobiography

By Edwin Muir, P.H. Butter

Sisters, Secrets and Sacrifice: The True Story of WWII Special Agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne

By Susan Ottaway

Ma, I've Got Meself Locked Up in the Madhouse

By Martha Long

Black Stories Matter: Brave Leaders and Activists

By J.P. Miller

Biographic: Churchill

By R Wiles

Essex Girls: The Scandalous History of the Women of Essex

By Karen Bowman

Meister Eckhart , Vol. 2: The Essential Sermons, Commentaries, Treatises and Defense

By Edmund Colledge, Bernard McGinn, Houston Smith

The Life and Campaigns of the Black Prince: from contemporary letters, diaries and chronicles, including Chandos Herald's Life of the Black Prince

By Richard Barber

Boudicca And The Ancient Britons

By Watson, Lucilla

The Day the Nazis Came Here: The Astonishing True Story of a Childhood Journey from Nazi-Occupied Guernsey to the Dark Heart of a German Prison Camp

By Stephen Matthews

Tell Freedom

By Peter Abrahams

Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries (Volume 1): 1918-38

By Chips Channon

History Rocks: Women in Law

By Guy Fox, Blackstone Chambers Ltd, Mari Takayanagi

W.B. Yeats: a Literary Life

By Alisdair D.F. Macrae (Senior Lecturer, University of Sterling)

Dirty Bertie: An English King Made in France

By Clarke, Stephen

In Patagonia (Vintage classics)

By Chatwin, Bruce, Shakespeare, Nicholas

My Secret Sister: Jenny Lucas and Helen Edwards' family story

By Edwards, Helen, Smith, Jenny Lee

Hons and Rebels: The Mitford Family Memoir (W&N Essentials)

By Mitford, Jessica

Cider With Rosie

By Laurie Lee, Lee, Laurie

Harry's Last Stand: How the World My Generation Built is Falling Down, and What We Can Do to Save it

By Harry Leslie Smith

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

By Last, Nella, Broad, Richard, Fleming, Suzie

A 1960s Childhood: From Thunderbirds to Beatlemania

By Paul Feeney