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Notes on a Century: Reflections of a Middle East Historian

By Bernard Lewis, PH D (Princeton University (Emeritus)), Buntzie Ellis Churchill

The Trader, The Owner, The Slave: Parallel Lives in the Age of Slavery

By Walvin, Professor James

The Prime Ministers: Winner of the PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS 2020

By Iain Dale

Office Without Power: Diaries 1968-72

By Benn, Tony

Henry Ford

By Haydn Middleton, Anthony Morris

Familiar Stranger: A Life between Two Islands

By Stuart Hall (Author)

Bloody Old Britain: O.G.S. Crawford and the Archaeology of Modern Life

By Kitty Hauser

After the Fall: The Failure of Communism and the Future of Socialism

By Robin Blackburn, Alexander Cockburn, Diane Elson, e p thompson, Eduardo Galeano

Private Battles

By Simon Garfield

A Passage To Africa

By Alagiah, George

An Almost Impossible Thing: The radical lives of Britain's pioneering women gardeners

By Fiona Davison

A London Childhood

The Islander: My Life in Music and Beyond

By Chris Blackwell, Paul Morley

Desperate Romantics

By Moyle, Franny

The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon: The Diary of a Courtesan in Tenth Century Japan

By Arthur Waley, Dennis Washburn

On Time: Finding Your Pace in a World Addicted to Fast

By Catherine Blyth

Engines of Privilege: Britain's Private School Problem

By David Kynaston, Francis Green

In My Life: A Music Memoir

By Alan Johnson

Lark Rise to Candleford: A Trilogy - Lark Rise; Over to Candleford; Candleford Green (Modern Classics)

By Thompson, Flora, Massingham, H., Flora Thompson

Eye of the Storm: Twenty-Five Years In Action With The SAS: 25 Years in Action with the SAS

By Ratcliffe, Peter

A Thing in Disguise: The Visionary Life of Joseph Paxton

By Kate Colquhoun

The Lost Diary of Annie Oakley’s Wild West Stagehand

By Dickinson, Clive

Conversations with Roger Scruton

By Mark Dooley, Sir Roger Scruton

Under The Wire

By William Ash

The Rest is History: The official book from the makers of the hit podcast

By Goalhanger Podcasts, Dr Tom Holland, Dominic Sandbrook

The Rivals: The Intimate Story of a Political Marriage

By James Naughtie

My Farming Life: Tales from a shepherdess on a remote Northumberland farm

By Emma Gray

Three Times a Countess: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Raine Spencer

By Tina Gaudoin

Against The Law

By Peter Wildeblood

Young Elizabeth: The Making of our Queen

By Kate Williams