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To Be a Woman: The Life of Jill Craigie

By Rollyson, Carl E.

There's Rosemary, There's Rue

By Fortescue, Winifred

Up West: Voices from the Streets of Post-War London

By Granger, Pip

Calling for Action: An Autobiographical Enquiry

By Soper, Donald

A Woman's Work

By Harman, Harriet

Counting One's Blessings: Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

By William Shawcross

Here I Stand: My Struggle for a Christianity of Integrity, Love, and Equality

By John Shelby Spong

Lives and Times Harriet Tubman Hardback

By John Rowley, Rowley, John

The Voice of the Bard: Living Poets and Ancient Tradition in the Highlands and Islands

By Timothy Neat, John MacInnes

Calum's Road

By Roger Hutchinson

The Islamist: Why I joined radical Islam in Britain, what I saw inside and why I left

By Husain, Ed

The Yellow On The Broom: The Early Days of a Traveller Woman

By Whyte, Betsy

To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918

By Hochschild, Adam

A Companion to Contemporary Britain 1939 - 2000

By Paul Addison (University of Edinburgh), Harriet Jones (Institute of Historical Research, University of London)

Twelve-month and a Day

By Christopher Rush

Beyond the Gatehouse: The Eccentric Lives of England's Aristocracy

By David Long

Charles Darwin: pocket GIANTS

By Stephen Webster

Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters

By Laura Thompson

One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

By Craig Brown

Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940-45

By Max Hastings

Out of the Shadow of a Giant: How Newton Stood on the Shoulders of Hooke and Halley

By John Gribbin, Mary Gribbin

Free At Last: The Story of Martin Luther King, Jr.

By DK

Bloody Foreigners: The Story of Immigration to Britain

By Robert Winder

A.J. Ayer: A Life

By Ben Rogers

Rosie: Scenes from a Vanished Life

By Rose Tremain

Emily Wilding Davison

By Lucy Fisher

London In The Nineteenth Century: 'A Human Awful Wonder of God'

By Jerry White

A Divine Rage: The Careers and Controversies of the Pankhursts

By Martin Pugh

Letters To My Grandchildren

By Tony Benn

Battling Injustice: 16 Women Nobel Peace Laureates

By Supriya Vani