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Summer: Vintage Minis

By Laurie Lee

My Life, Our Times

By Gordon Brown

Fifty-Six: The Story of the Bradford Fire

By Martin Fletcher

Faraday

By G.N. Cantor, David Gooding, Frank James

A Hero for High Times: A Younger Reader's Guide to the Beats, Hippies, Freaks, Punks, Ravers, New-Age Travellers and Dog-on-a-Rope Brew Crew Crusties of the British Isles, 1956-1994

By Ian Marchant

An Encyclopaedia of Myself

By Jonathan Meades

Sleeping Where I Fall: A Chronicle

By Peter Coyote

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

By Richard Davenport-Hines

Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorized Biography of T.E.Lawrence

By J. M. Wilson

Mighty Healer: Thomas Holloway's Victorian Patent Medicine Empire

By Verity Holloway

Frank Lloyd Wright: AD (Architecture & Design)

By Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks

I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain: WINNER OF THE 2021 BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD FOR NON-FICTION

By Anita Sethi

Shaftesbury: The Poor Man's Earl

By John Pollock

An Irish Navvy - The Diary of an Exile

By Donall MacAmhlaigh

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

By Richard Broad, Suzie Fleming, Nella Last

The Haunting of Alma Fielding: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020

By Kate Summerscale

Victorian Prison Lives

By Philip Priestley

Elisabeth's Lists: A Life Between the Lines

By Lulah Ellender

Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind - Arthur Koestler and the Quest for Belonging

By David Cesarani

Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History

By Sir Richard J. Evans

Rebel Voices: The Rise of Votes for Women

By Louise K Stewart, Eve Lloyd Knight

The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave

By Mary Prince, Sara Salih

Glorious Goodwood: A Biography of England's Greatest Sporting Estate

By James Peill

Recovering Dorothy: The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth

By Polly Atkin

Portland Place: Secret Diary of a BBC Secretary

By Sarah Shaw

Archaeologists in Print: Publishing for the People

By Amara Thornton

The Century Girls: The Final Word from the Women Who've Lived the Past Hundred Years of British History

By Tessa Dunlop

Escape from Tibet: A True Story

By Nick Gray, Laura Scandiffio

Rebel Englishwoman: The Remarkable Life of Emily Hobhouse

By Elsabe Brits

The Prime Ministers: Winner of the PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS 2020

By Iain Dale