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Suffragettes and the Fight for the Vote

By Ridley, Sarah

Isambard Kingdom Brunel: The Life of an Engineering Genius

By Maggs MBE, Colin

King of All Balloons: The Adventurous Life of James Sadler, The First English Aeronaut

By Davies, Mark, Branson, Sir Richard, Cameron, Don

What the Grown-Ups Were Doing

By Michele Hanson

The Secret History of the Blitz

By Levine, Joshua

The Co-Op's Got Bananas: A Memoir of Growing Up in the Post-War North

By Davies, Hunter

Flesh and Blood: A History of My Family in Seven Maladies

By McGann, Stephen

A Woman Lived Here: Alternative Blue Plaques, Remembering London's Remarkable Women

By Vale, Allison

Out of Time: 1966 and the End of Old-Fashioned Britain (Wisden Sports Writing)

By Chapman, Peter

The Women Who Shaped Politics: Empowering stories of women who have shifted the political landscape

By Ridge, Sophy

Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire - The Sunday Times Bestseller

By Akala

Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire - The Sunday Times Bestseller

By Akala

To War With the Walkers: One Family's Extraordinary Story of the Second World War

By Venning, Annabel

The Village in Revolt: The Story of the Longest Strike in History

By Jeffery, Shaun

The Murders at White House Farm: Jeremy Bamber and the killing of his family. The definitive investigation.

By Lee, Carol Ann

Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown

By Glenconner, Anne

Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown

By Glenconner, Anne

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