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The Final Curtsey: A Royal Memoir by the Queen's Cousin

By Margaret Rhodes

The Thirties: An Intimate History

By Gardiner, Juliet

Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

By William Shawcross

Fathers, Sons and Football

By Colin Shindler

Rosie: Scenes from a Vanished Life

By Rose Tremain

A Scandalous Life: The Biography of Jane Digby

By Lovell, Mary S.

Lady Gregory's Toothbrush

By Colm Toibin

Stiff Upper Lip: Secrets, Crimes and the Schooling of a Ruling Class

By Alex Renton

The First Black Footballer: Arthur Wharton 1865-1930: An Absence of Memory

By Phil Vasili

The Scottish Enlightenment: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World

By Herman, Arthur

Beyond A Boundary

By James, Cyril Lionel Robert

The Accidental Duchess: From Farmer's Daughter to Belvoir Castle

By Emma Manners, Duchess of Rutland

Working in Women's Archives: Researching Women's Private Literature and Archival Documents

By Marlene Kadar, Helen M. Buss

Strength in What Remains

By Tracy Kidder

The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Volume X – Companion: 10

By Pepys, Samuel

Masquerade: The Lives of Noel Coward

By Oliver Soden

Lost For Words

By Deric Longden

My Secret Sister: Jenny Lucas and Helen Edwards' family story

By Helen Edwards, Jenny Lee Smith

The Common Years

By Jilly Cooper

The Life Of Samuel Johnson: James Boswell (Everyman Classic Library)

By Boswell, James

An Ethiopian Odyssey

By Annette Allen

History Makers: Women Who Changed History

By Adam Sutherland

Life After You

By Lucie Brownlee

Mary, Queen of Scots

By Jenny Wormald, Anna Groundwater

To the Letter: A Curious History of Correspondence

By Simon Garfield

Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism

By Barbara Winslow, Sheila Rowbotham

The Louder I Will Sing: A story of racism, riots and redemption: Winner of the 2020 Costa Biography Award

By Lee Lawrence

The King's Painter: The Life and Times of Hans Holbein

By Franny Moyle

Blenheim: Biography of a Palace

By Marian Fowler

The Big House: The Story of a Country House and its Family

By Christopher Simon Sykes