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The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain: Writings 1989-2009

By Jack, Ian

The Long and Winding Road

By Johnson, Alan

By the Moon and the Stars

By Hayman, Eva

Truth, Dare or Promise: Girls Growing Up in the Fifties

By Heron, Liz

Rodinsky's Room

By Sinclair, Iain, Lichtenstein, Rachel

My Own Story: Inspiration for the major motion picture Suffragette

By Pankhurst, Emmeline

Narrow Dog to Indian River

By Darlington, Terry

The Outrun: A Memoir

By Liptrot, Amy

The Dinosaur Hunters: A True Story of Scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of the Prehistoric World

By Cadbury, Deborah

Chocolate Wars: From Cadbury to Kraft - 200 Years of Sweet Success and Bitter Rivalry

By Cadbury, Deborah

As I Was Going Down Sackville Street

By Gogarty, Oliver St.John

Pearls before Poppies: The Story of the Red Cross Pearls

By Rachel Trethewey

Illustrated Letters of the Paston Family

By Virgoe, Roger

The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Volume V – 1664: 5

By Pepys, Samuel

Gay People Who Changed History

By Sutherland, Adam

William Pitt the Younger: A Biography

By Hague, WILLIAM

The Letters of Kingsley Amis

By Leader, Zachary, Amis, Kingsley

Putin's People: A Times Book of the Year 2021 – The Story of Russia’s History and Politics

By Belton, Catherine

The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft.

By Tomalin, Claire

Maeve's Times

By Binchy, Maeve

Further Stories Of The Minack Chronicles: A Drake at the Door, A Donkey in the Meadow, and Sun on the Lintel

By Tangye, Derek

Tales from the Dark Continent: Images of British Colonial Africa in the Twentieth Century

By Allen, Charles, Fry, Helen P.

The Baby Boomer Generation: A Lifetime of Memories

By Paul Feeney

Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Marriages

By Roiphe, Katie

We Remember the Home Guard

By Shaw, Frank, Joan

Livewire Real Lives: Catherine Zeta Jones

By Woodcock, Sandra

The Sugar Girls: Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle's East End

By Barrett, Duncan, Calvi, Nuala, Duncan Barrett

A Marriage of Inconvenience: Persecution of Ruth and Seretse Khama

By Dutfield, Michael

Philosopher A Kind Of Life

By Honderich, Prof Ted, Ted

Keir Hardie: Labour's Greatest Hero?

By Holman, Bob