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Sojourner Truth (Tell Me About)

By John Malam

A Woman's Work

By Harman, Harriet

Letters of the Queens of England

By Crawford, Anne

The Maid's Tale: A revealing memoir of life below stairs

By Quinn, Tom, Plummer, Rose

Victoria: A Life

By A. N. Wilson

More Tales of the Old Gamekeepers

By Martin, Brian P., Murphy, Philip

My Life, Our Times: Gordon Brown

By Brown, Gordon

Self-Help (Oxford World's Classics)

By Smiles, Samuel, Sinnema, Peter W.

Glimpses of the Wonderful: The Life of Philip Henry Gosse

By Thwaite, Ann

The Illustrated Lark Rise to Candleford (Cresset Library)

By Thompson, Flora

Pimp: The Story Of My Life (Canons)

By Slim, Iceberg, Welsh, Irvine

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

By Worth, Jennifer

It Must Never Happen Again: The Lessons Learnt from the Short Life and Terrible Death of Baby P

By Mcshane, John

Turing And The Computer (Big Idea)

By Strathern, Paul

Reinvented Lives: Women at Sixty: A Celebration

By Handy, Charles, Elizabeth

The Strange Career of Jim Crow: A Commemorative Edition with a new afterword by William S. McFeely

By Woodward, C. Vann, Mcfeely, William S.

The Crofter and the Laird

By Mcphee, John, Graves, James

Hillbilly Elegy: The International Bestselling Memoir Coming Soon as a Netflix Major Motion Picture starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close

By Vance, J. D.

The Wild Silence: The Sunday Times Bestseller 2021 from the author of The Salt Path

By Winn, Raynor

Night Song of the Last Tram - A Glasgow Childhood

By Douglas, Robert

Edward Carpenter and Late Victorian Radicalism

By Brown, Tony, Corns, Thomas N.

Liberals and Social Democrats

By Clarke, Peter

Keir Hardie: A Biography

By Benn, Caroline

Radicals, Reformers and Railways, 1815-51 (Living Through History)

By Tamis, Richard

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