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Improper Pursuits

By Carola Hicks

Outcasts' Outcast

By Peter Stanford

Forgotten Collector, The:Augustus Wollaston Franks of the British: Augustus Wollaston Franks of the British Museum

By David M Wilson

Margery Kempe: and her world (The Medieval World)

By Goodman, A.E.

Daring to Hope: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter, 1946-1969

By Violet Bonham Carter, Mark Pottle, Mary Soames

Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries (Volume 1): 1918-38

By Chips Channon

Small Talk: Memories of an Edwardian Childhood

By Naomi Mitchison

My Battle of Hastings: Chronicle of a Year by the Sea

By Xiaolu Guo

Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Collins Classics)

By Thomas De Quincey

The Restless Republic: Britain without a Crown

By Anna Keay

The South Country

By Edward Thomas, Eric Fitch Daglish, Robert Macfarlane, David Inshaw

The Hong Kong Diaries

By Chris Patten

Mary Warnock: A Memoir - People and Places

By Mary Warnock

Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History

By Philippa Gregory

That's Not English: Britishisms, Americanisms and What Our English Says About Us

By Erin Moore, Lynne Truss

Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

By Stephen Greenblatt

I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: The short and gilded life of Tara Browne, the man who inspired The Beatles' greatest song

By Paul Howard

Elizabethan Society: High and Low Life, 1558-1603

By Mr Derek Wilson

Out of Harm's Way

By Jessica Mann

An Autobiography

By Edwin Muir, P.H. Butter

Sisters, Secrets and Sacrifice: The True Story of WWII Special Agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne

By Susan Ottaway

Ma, I've Got Meself Locked Up in the Madhouse

By Martha Long

Black Stories Matter: Brave Leaders and Activists

By J.P. Miller

Biographic: Churchill

By R Wiles

Essex Girls: The Scandalous History of the Women of Essex

By Karen Bowman

Radical My Journey from Islamist Extremism to a Democratic Awaken

By Maajid Nawaz

Locke In 90 Minutes (Philosophers in 90 minutes - their lives & work)

By Strathern, Mr Paul

Hume In 90 Minutes (Philosophers in 90 minutes - their lives & work)

By Strathern, Mr Paul

Descartes In 90 Minutes (Philosophers in 90 minutes - their lives & work)

By Strathern, Mr Paul

A Dancer in Wartime: The touching true story of a young girl's journey from the Blitz to the Bright Lights

By Gillian Lynne