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London's Strangest: The Thames: Extraordinary but true stories (Strangest)

By Iain Spragg

Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West

By Catherine Belton

Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe

By Roger McNamee

Len Goodman's Lost London

By Len Goodman, Trinity Mirror Media

From Russia with Blood: Putin's Ruthless Killing Campaign and Secret War on the West

By Heidi Blake

The Diamond Queen: Elizabeth II and Her People

By Marr, Andrew

A Daisy for Dorothy: Love Story of a Family in War Time

By Pat Read, Leslie Thomas

Littlejohn's Lost World

By Richard Littlejohn

Truth About Cora Pearl

By Polly Binder

The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins

By Pearson, John, JOHN PEARSON

Streetfighters: Real Fighting Men Tell Their Stories

By Julian Davies

That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor

By Anne Sebba

My Old Man: A Personal History of Music Hall

By Major, John

Women in the War

By Lucy Fisher

Childhood in a Welsh Mining Valley, A

By Vivian Jones

Erasmus Darwin: Sex, Science, and Serendipity

By Patricia Fara (Director of Studies in HPS, Fellow, Clare College, Cambridge)

Daughters of Britannia: The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives

By Hickman, Katie

The Times Queen Elizabeth II: Commemorating her life and reign 1926 - 2022

By James Owen, Times Books

Bess of Hardwick

By David N. Durant

Fire in the Sky: Band 04 Blue/Band 17 Diamond (Collins Big Cat Progress)

By Manning, Mick, Granström, Brita, Collins Big Cat

1950s Childhood Spangles, Tiddlywinks and The Clitheroe Kid: Spangles, Tiddlywinks and the Clitheroe Kid

By Derek Tait

Kent's Strangest Tales: Extraordinary True Stories: A Very Curious History: Extraordinary but true stories from a very curious county

By Martin Latham, Latham, Martin

Lotte's War: Bunkers, Bombs and Barrage Balloons

By Lotte Moore

More Than A Game: The Story of Cricket's Early Years

By John Major

Estuary: Out from London to the Sea

By Rachel Lichtenstein

Royalty Inc: Britain's Best-Known Brand

By STEPHEN BATES

One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

By Craig Brown

The Life and Work of Henry Scott Tuke

By Emmanuel Cooper

The Pain and the Privilege: The Women in Lloyd George’s Life

By Hague, Ffion

Venice

By Peter Ackroyd