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My Life in Houses

By Forster, Margaret

The Mistresses of Cliveden: Three Centuries of Scandal, Power and Intrigue in an English Stately Home

By Livingstone, Natalie

The Strange Story of Adolph Beck (Uncovered Editions)

By Coates, Tim

One Pair of Hands

By Dickens, Monica

The Magic Apple Tree: A Country Year

By Hill, Susan

The Portable Karl Marx (Portable Library)

By Marx, Karl, Kamenka, Eugene

The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft

By Tomalin, Claire

My East End: Memories of Life in Cockney London

By O'Neill, Gilda

Accidental MP

By Bell, Martin

Unto This Last and Other Writings (Classics)

By Ruskin, John, Wilmer, Clive, Wilmer, Clive, Wilmer, Clive

London Labour and the London Poor: Selection (Classics)

By Mayhew, Henry, Neuburg, Victor, Neuburg, Victor

Utilitarianism and Other Essays (Classics)

By Mill, Bentham, Jeremy, John Stuart, Ryan, Alan

The Agricola and the Germania (Classics S.)

By Tacitus, H. Mattingly, S. A. Handford

Agricola and Germania: Tacitus (Penguin Classics)

By Tacitus, Rives, James, Mattingly, H., Mattingly, H.

Irish Blood, English Heart, Ulster Fry: Return Journeys to Ireland

By Caulfield, Annie

Penguin Great Ideas : Confessions of a Sinner

By Augustine, Saint

The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels

By Hunt, Tristram

The English: A Portrait of a People (Penguin Celebrations)

By Paxman, Jeremy

Haunted England: The Penguin Book of Ghosts

By Westwood, Jennifer

Down and Out in Paris and London (Penguin Essentials): The classic reimagined with cover art by Shepard Fairey

By George Orwell

The Diaries of Samuel Pepys - A Selection (Penguin Classics)

By Pepys, Samuel, Latham, Robert

God Against the Gods: The History of the War Between Monotheism and Polytheism

By Kirsch, Jonathan

An Englishwoman in India: The Memoirs of Harriet Tytler, 1828-58

By Tytler, Harriet, Sattin, Anthony, Mason, Philip

An Old Woman's Reflections (Oxford Paperbacks)

By Sayers, Peig, Rodgers, W. R., Ennis, Seamus

The Hooligan Nights: Being the Life and Opinions of a Young and Impertinent Criminal Recounted by Himself and Set Forth by Clarence Rook (Oxford Paperbacks)

By Rook, Clarence, With an introduction by Benny Green

A London Home in the 1890s (Oxford Paperbacks)

By Hughes, Mary Vivian

A London Family Between the Wars (Oxford Paberbacks)

By Hughes, Mary Vivian

Journal of a Somerset Rector, 1803-34 (Oxford Paperbacks)

By Skinner, John, Coombs, Howard, Coombs, Peter

Betsy Sheridan's Journal

By Sheridan, Betsy, Fanu, William Le, LeFanu, WILLIAM

Destined to be Wives: Sisters of Beatrice Webb (Oxford paperbacks)

By Caine, Barbara