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A Field Guide to the English Clergy: A Compendium of Diverse Eccentrics, Pirates, Prelates and Adventurers; All Anglican, Some Even Practising

By Butler-Gallie, The Revd Fergus

A History of the World in 21 Women: A Personal Selection

By Murray, Jenni

Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics

By Richard Seymour

Victory in the Kitchen: The Life of Churchill's Cook

By Gray, Annie

Remember When: A nostalgic trip through the consumer era

By Opie, Robert

Maxton: A Biography

By Brown, Gordon

The Real Oliver Twist: Robert Blincoe - A Life That Illuminates an Age

By Waller, John

Night Falls on Ardnamurchan: The Twilight of a Crofting Family

By Alasdair Maclean

Spade Among the Rushes

By Margaret Leigh, Katie MacLean

The World of the Brontes (Pitkin Guides)

By Pitkin

Rooms of their Own

By Nino Strachey

The Viceroy's Daughters: The Lives of the Curzon Sisters (WOMEN IN HISTORY)

By de Courcy, Anne

The Warrior Queens: Boadicea's Chariot

By Fraser, Lady Antonia, Lady Antonia Fraser

Murder of Princess Diana

By Botham, Noel

The Man Who Supercharged Bond: The Extraordinary Story of Charles Amherst Villiers

By Kenny, Paul

Pierrepoint: A Family of Executioners

By Fielding, Steve

It Won't Hurt a Bit: Nursing Tales from the Swinging Sixties

By Jane Yeadon, Yeadon, Jane

Jeanie, an 'Army of One': Mrs Nassau Senior, 1828-1877, the First Woman in Whitehall

By Sybil Oldfield

Britain's Everyday Heroes: The Making of the Good Society

By Community Links, Brown, Gordon

When I Was a Nipper: The Way We Were in Disappearing Britain

By Titchmarsh, Alan

Elizabeth: Her Life, Our Times: A Diamond Jubilee Celebration

By Titchmarsh, Alan

Map Of A Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey

By Hewitt, Rachel

Walter Tull's Scrapbook

By Morgan, Michaela

The Hungry Empire: How Britain’s Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World

By Collingham, Lizzie

A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean

By Philipps, Roland

Together: How small groups achieve big things

By Hemming, Henry

Victoria: A Life

By A. N. Wilson

The Hidden Roads: A Memoir of Childhood

By Kevin Crossley-Holland

Battle of Britain: A day-to-day chronicle, 10 July-31 October 1940

By Patrick Bishop

The Battle for Britain (Second World)

By Haseler, Stephen