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The Quest for C: Mansfield Cumming and the Founding of the Secret Service

By Judd, Alan

The Wild Silence: The Sunday Times Bestseller 2021 from the author of The Salt Path

By Winn, Raynor

A Governess in the Age of Jane Austen: The Journals and Letters of Agnes Porter

By Porter, Ann Agnes

Voices from the Past

By Levy, Herbert

Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter

By SOUHAMI, Diana

The Thirties: An Intimate History of Britain

By Gardiner, Juliet

East End Chronicles

By Glinert, Ed

What the Grown-ups Were Doing: An Odyssey Through 1950s Suburbia

By Michele Hanson

Gi Brides: The War-Time Girls Who Crossed The Atlantic For Love

By Barrett, Duncan

The Celebrated Captain Barclay: Sport, Money and Fame in Regency Britain

By Radford, Peter

A Right Royal Christmas: An Anthology

By Hugh Douglas

Freud's War

By Helen Fry

Captives: Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850

By Colley, Linda

The Diary of Samuel Pepys: 1664: 05

By Pepys, S

Belfast Days: A 1972 Teenage Diary

By O’Callaghan, Eimear

Three Guineas

By Woolf, Virginia

Impossible Love

By Frister, Roman

The Plimsoll Sensation: The Great Campaign to Save Lives at Sea

By Jones, Nicolette

Mrs Jordan's Profession: The Story of a Great Actress And a Future King

By Tomalin, Claire

PERO: The Life of a Slave in Eighteenth-Century Bristol

By Eickelmann, Christine, Small, David

The Soap Man: Lewis, Harris and Lord Leverhulme

By Roger Hutchinson

The War After

By Karpf, Anne

Down and Out in Paris and London: George Orwell (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Orwell, George

A Life of H. L. A. Hart: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream

By Lacey, Nicola

The Girls Who Went to War: Heroism, heartache and happiness in the wartime women’s forces

By Barrett, Duncan, Calvi

Inside The BBC: British Broadcasting Characters

By Leonard Miall, Kenneth Harris

A Nice Girl Like Me

By Boycott, Rosie

The Five Giants [New Edition]: A Biography of the Welfare State

By Timmins, Nicholas

Bad Boy

By Myers, Walter Dean

Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox, 1750-1832

By Tillyard, Stella