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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

Bad Boy

By Myers, Walter Dean

Impossible Love

By Frister, Roman

Tales of the Old Countrymen

By Martin, Brian P.

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

William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner

By Hague, WILLIAM

Aubrey's Brief Lives

By John Aubrey, Oliver Lawson Dick

An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo

By Davenport-Hines

The War After

By Karpf, Anne

Down and Out in Paris and London (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Orwell, George

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

By Lacey, Nicola

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

By Jones, Nicolette

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

By Timmins, Nicholas

Voices from the Past

By Levy, Herbert

Inside The BBC: British Broadcasting Characters

By Leonard Miall, Kenneth Harris

A Nice Girl Like Me

By Boycott, Rosie

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

By Tomalin, Claire

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

By Barrett, Duncan, Calvi