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Fire Woman: The Extraordinary Story of Britain's First Female Firefighter

By Reynolds, Josephine

Abandoning America: Life-stories from early New England

By Susan Hardman Moore

Last Landlady: An English Memoir

By Laura Thompson

All The Devils Are Here (Granta Editions)

By David Seabrook

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

By Rubenhold, Hallie

Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

By Hirsch, Afua

Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns

By Hudson, Kerry

In Pursuit of the Truth

By Driscoll, Clive

Fingers in the Sparkle Jar: A Memoir

By Packham, Chris

Fingers in the Sparkle Jar: A Memoir

By Packham, Chris, Chris Packham

A History of Britain in 21 Women: A Personal Selection

By Murray, Jenni

A Field Guide to the English Clergy: A Compendium of Diverse Eccentrics, Pirates, Prelates and Adventurers; All Anglican, Some Even Practising

By Butler-Gallie, The Revd Fergus

A History of the World in 21 Women: A Personal Selection

By Murray, Jenni

Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics

By Richard Seymour

Victory in the Kitchen: The Life of Churchill's Cook

By Gray, Annie

Remember When: A nostalgic trip through the consumer era

By Opie, Robert

Maxton: A Biography

By Brown, Gordon

The Real Oliver Twist: Robert Blincoe - A Life That Illuminates an Age

By Waller, John

Night Falls on Ardnamurchan: The Twilight of a Crofting Family

By Alasdair Maclean

Spade Among the Rushes

By Margaret Leigh, Katie MacLean

The World of the Brontes (Pitkin Guides)

By Pitkin

Rooms of their Own

By Nino Strachey

The Viceroy's Daughters: The Lives of the Curzon Sisters (WOMEN IN HISTORY)

By de Courcy, Anne

The Warrior Queens: Boadicea's Chariot

By Fraser, Lady Antonia, Lady Antonia Fraser

Murder of Princess Diana

By Botham, Noel

The Man Who Supercharged Bond: The Extraordinary Story of Charles Amherst Villiers

By Kenny, Paul

Pierrepoint: A Family of Executioners

By Fielding, Steve

It Won't Hurt a Bit: Nursing Tales from the Swinging Sixties

By Jane Yeadon, Yeadon, Jane

Jeanie, an 'Army of One': Mrs Nassau Senior, 1828-1877, the First Woman in Whitehall

By Sybil Oldfield

Britain's Everyday Heroes: The Making of the Good Society

By Community Links, Brown, Gordon