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Belt and Buckle: An Hilarious Tale of a West Country Boyhood

By Dyer, Toby, Younger, Gill

William Shakespeare: The Extraordinary Life of the Most Successful Writer of all Time

By Gurr, Andrew

They Also Serve: The real life story of my time in service as a butler

By Quinn, Tom

The Sugar Girls: Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle's East End: Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s East End

By Duncan Barrett, Barrett, Duncan, Calvi, Nuala

The Shadow of a Nation: How Celebrity Destroyed Britain

By Clarke, Nick

The Warrior Queens : Boadicea's Chariot Part One

By Antonia Fraser

A Local Habitation, Life & times volume 1 1918 - 1940 (Oxford Letters & Memoirs - Paperback)

By Hoggart, Richard

Mistress of Hardwick

By Plowden, Alison

History and Revolution: Refuting Revisionism

By Haynes, Mike, Bensaïd, Daniel, Wolfreys, Jim

Useful Toil: Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820's to the 1920's

By Burnett, Professor John

Memoirs of a Dervish: Sufis, Mystics and the Sixties

By Irwin, Robert

Margot at War: Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912-1916

By de Courcy, Anne

My Life with Murderers: Behind Bars with the World's Most Violent Men

By David Wilson

The Great Outsiders: Northcliffe, Rothermere and the "Daily Mail" (Phoenix Giants)

By Taylor, S.J.

Leading Lives Yasser Arafat Paperback

By Downing, David

Cameron at 10: The Verdict

By Anthony Seldon;Peter Snowdon, Seldon, Anthony, Snowdon, Peter

The Benn Diaries, ( New single volume edition)

By Tony Benn, Ruth Winstone

Edwardian Lady: The Story of Edith Holden

By Ina Taylor

What the Grown-Ups Were Doing: An Odyssey Through 1950s Suburbia

By Michele Hanson

Donkeys on My Doorstep: Hoofing it in the Mallorcan Hills

By Nicholas, Anna

Richard III

By Hicks, Michael

Sugar and Slate

By Williams, Charlotte

A Living Reality (Hodder Christian paperbacks)

By Steer, Roger

Rise: Life Lessons in Speaking Out, Standing Tall & Leading the Way

By Miller, Gina

Town And Country

By Barnett/Scruton

Finding Home: The Real Stories of Migrant Britain

By Emily Dugan

Mrs Guinness: The Rise and Fall of Diana Mitford, the Thirties Socialite

By Lyndsy Spence

On the Red Hill: Where Four Lives Fell Into Place

By Parker, Mike

In the City: A Celebration of London Music

By Du Noyer, Paul

Family Business: An Intimate History of John Lewis and the Partnership

By Glendinning, Victoria