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Failed State: Why Britain Doesn't Work and How We Fix It

By Sam Freedman

Religion, Business and Wealth in Modern Britain

By David Jeremy

Night Flyer: Pioneering Airborne Electronic Warfare With The 100 Group Mosquitos

By Lewis Brandon (Author)

The Life and Times of a Very British Man

By Kamal Ahmed

Revolutions: How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels

By Hannah Ross

Surviving Tenko: The Story of Margot Turner

By Penny Starns

It's Our Turn to Eat

By Michela Wrong

I Didn't Do It For You: How the World Used and Abused a Small African Nation

By Wrong, Michela

All The King's Women

By Wilson, Derek

Bertrand Russell: v.2: 1921-70 The Ghost of Madness

By Ray Monk

Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers

By Cheryl Misak (University of Toronto)

The Middle Class: A History

By Lawrence James, James, Lawrence

Bertrand Russell: v. 1: 1872-1920 The Spirit of Solitude

By Ray Monk

Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation

By Susan Williams

Richard Owen: Victorian Naturalist

By Nicolaas A. Rupke

The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe

By Charles Nicholl

Wild Life in a Southern County (Nature Classics Library)

By Richard Jefferies, C. F. Tunnicliffe, Richard Mabey

It Takes Two: A History of the Couples Who Dared to be Different

By Cathy Newman

The Corner Shop: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick

By Babita Sharma

Helen Macfarlane: A Feminist, Revolutionary Journalist, and Philosopher in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England

By David Black

Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life

By Mark Francis (University of Canterbury - Christchurch, New Zealand)

The Real Diana Dors

By Anna Cale

The Secret Diary of Sarah Thomas: A Victorian Lady, 1860-65

By Sarah Thomas, June R. Lewis

Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History

By Nicolson, Adam

Goodbye East End

By David Merron

Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century

By Mark Leonard

Lincolnshire Women

By John R. Ketteringham

A Tudor Christmas

By Alison Weir, Siobhan Clarke

The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: How a Remarkable Woman Crossed Seas and Empires to Become Part of World History

By Linda Colley

The Writing of Rural England, 1500-1800

By S. Bending, A. McRae