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Returning to Reims (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)

By Eribon, Didier, Chauncey, George, Lucey, Michael, Lotringer, Sylvère

The Love-Charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War

By Feigel, Lara

Letters to the Midwife: Correspondence with Jennifer Worth, the Author of Call the Midwife

By Jennifer Worth

Dorothea's War: A First World War Nurse Tells Her Story

By Dorothea Crewdson, Richard Crewdson

Shadows Of The Workhouse: The Drama Of Life In Postwar London

By Worth, Jennifer

My History: A Memoir of Growing Up

By Lady Antonia Fraser

The Many Not the Few: An Illustrated History of Britain Shaped By the People

By Sean Michael Wilson, Robert Brown

Way of the Wanderers: The Story of Travellers in Scotland

By Jess Smith

The Greedy Queen: Eating with Victoria

By Gray, Annie

Young Winstone

By Ray Winstone

The Outrun

By Amy Liptrot

White Boots and Miniskirts: A True Story of Life in the Swinging Sixties

By Jacky Hyams

Tsunami Kids: Our Journey from Survival to Success

By Paul Forkan, Rob Forkan, Nick Harding

Fire Woman: The Extraordinary Story of Britain's First Female Firefighter

By Reynolds, Josephine

Abandoning America: Life-stories from early New England

By Susan Hardman Moore

Last Landlady: An English Memoir

By Laura Thompson

All The Devils Are Here (Granta Editions)

By David Seabrook

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

By Rubenhold, Hallie

Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

By Hirsch, Afua

Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns

By Hudson, Kerry

In Pursuit of the Truth

By Driscoll, Clive

Fingers in the Sparkle Jar: A Memoir

By Packham, Chris

Fingers in the Sparkle Jar: A Memoir

By Packham, Chris, Chris Packham

A History of Britain in 21 Women: A Personal Selection

By Murray, Jenni

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