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Jennie Churchill: Winston's American Mother

By Anne Sebba

Thoroughly Modern: The pioneering life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, photographer, and her brilliant Bohemian friends

By Sarah Knights

Before the Light Fades: A Family Story of Resistance - 'Fascinating' Sarah Waters

By Natasha Walter

Two Brothers

By Jonathan Wilson

Two Brothers

By Jonathan Wilson

A Balkan Summer

By George East

The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951

By Lord John Julius Norwich

Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of a Whore

By Julie Peakman

Who's In, Who's Out: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume One 1944-1979

By Kenneth Rose, Richard Thorpe

Who Loses, Who Wins: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume Two 1979-2014

By Kenneth Rose, Richard Thorpe

Voices from the Blue: The Real Lives of Policewomen

By Jennifer Rees, Robert J. Strange

Society's Queen: The Life of Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry

By Anne de Courcy

Margot at War: Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912-1916

By Anne de Courcy

Among You Taking Notes...

By Naomi Mitchison

The Little Field Marshal: A Life of Sir John French

By Richard Holmes

The Girl in Rose: A Musical Affair in Georgian London

By Peter Hobday

Daughter of Empire: Life as a Mountbatten

By Lady Pamela Hicks

London: Immigrant City

By Nazneen Khan-Ostrem, Alison McCullough

Rebel Englishwoman: The Remarkable Life of Emily Hobhouse

By Elsabe Brits

Rebel Voices: The Rise of Votes for Women

By Louise K Stewart, Eve Lloyd Knight

The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave

By Mary Prince, Sara Salih

Glorious Goodwood: A Biography of England's Greatest Sporting Estate

By James Peill

Recovering Dorothy: The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth

By Polly Atkin

Portland Place: Secret Diary of a BBC Secretary

By Sarah Shaw

Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History

By Sir Richard J. Evans

Red Sauce Brown Sauce: A British Breakfast Odyssey

By felicity cloake

The Prime Ministers: Winner of the PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS 2020

By Iain Dale

Archaeologists in Print: Publishing for the People

By Amara Thornton

Escape from Tibet: A True Story

By Nick Gray, Laura Scandiffio

The Century Girls: The Final Word from the Women Who've Lived the Past Hundred Years of British History

By Tessa Dunlop