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Surviving Tenko: The Story of Margot Turner

By Penny Starns

Revolutions: How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels

By Hannah Ross

The Life and Times of a Very British Man

By Kamal Ahmed

Night Flyer: Pioneering Airborne Electronic Warfare With The 100 Group Mosquitos

By Lewis Brandon (Author)

The De-moralization Of Society: From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values

By Gertrude Himmelfarb

Black in Time: The Most Awesome Black Britons from Yesterday to Today

By Alison Hammond, E. L. Norry

Monty: Life of Montgomery of Alamein: v. 2: Master of the Battlefield, 1942-44

By Nigel Hamilton

Rogue Male: Sabotage and seduction behind German lines with Geoffrey Gordon-Creed, DSO, MC

By Roger Field And Geoffrey Gordo, N Creed

Childhood at Court 1819-1914

By John Van der Kiste

Eminent Edwardians: Four figures who defined their age: Northcliffe, Balfour, Pankhurst, Baden-Powell

By Piers Brendon

The Head Gardeners

By Toby Musgrave

The Man Who Drew London

By Gillian Tindall

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

Radical My Journey from Islamist Extremism to a Democratic Awaken

By Maajid Nawaz

The Optician of Lampedusa

By Emma Jane Kirby

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

By Gillian Lynne

You Got Nothing Coming

By Jimmy Lerner

Love's Work

By Rose, Gillian

History Rocks: Women in Law

By Guy Fox, Blackstone Chambers Ltd, Mari Takayanagi

Essex Girls: The Scandalous History of the Women of Essex

By Karen Bowman

Meister Eckhart , Vol. 2: The Essential Sermons, Commentaries, Treatises and Defense

By Edmund Colledge, Bernard McGinn, Houston Smith

The Life and Campaigns of the Black Prince: from contemporary letters, diaries and chronicles, including Chandos Herald's Life of the Black Prince

By Richard Barber

Boudicca And The Ancient Britons

By Watson, Lucilla

The Day the Nazis Came Here: The Astonishing True Story of a Childhood Journey from Nazi-Occupied Guernsey to the Dark Heart of a German Prison Camp

By Stephen Matthews

Tell Freedom

By Peter Abrahams

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

By Chips Channon

The Glass Mother: A Memoir

By Rosie Jackson

Thomas Clarkson: A Biography

By Ellen Gibson Wilson