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The Flame Trees Of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood

By Elspeth Huxley

Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History

By Philippa Gregory

Too Many Mothers: An East End Childhood

By Roberta Taylor

100 Facts Kings & Queens

By Fiona MacDonald

Left for Dead?: The Strange Death and Rebirth of Labour Britain

By Lewis Goodall

The Dvina Remains

By Eugenie Fraser

Astride the Wall: A Memoir, 1913-1945

By Ursula Wyndham

Leadville

By Platt

A Strange Kind of Glory: Sir Matt Busby & Manchester United

By Eamon Dunphy

Balti Britain: A Journey Through the British Asian Experience

By Ziauddin Sardar

The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals

By Dorothy Wordsworth

Unleashed

By Boris Johnson

The Best of Gerald Durrell

By Gerald Durrell, Lee Durrell

Treason: Famous English Treason Trials

By Alan Wharam

Shooting Victoria: Madness, Mayhem, and the Rebirth of the British Monarchy

By Paul Thomas Murphy

Eighteen: The Young Lives of 18 Leading Britons

By Alice Loxton

ELIZABETH HEYRICK: The Making of an Anti-slavery Campaigner

By JOCELYN. ROBSON

No Country for a Woman: The Adventurous Life of Lady Dorothy Mills, Explorer and Writer

By JANE. DISMORE

Victorian Values: Personalities and Perspectives in Nineteenth-century Society

By Gordon Marsden

Suet and soufflé

By Joyce Horlock

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

By Peter Ratcliffe DCM.

The Good Sharps: The Eighteenth-Century Family that Changed Britain

By Hester Grant

Shoot to Kill

By Michael Asher

Dead Men Risen: The Welsh Guards and the Real Story of Britain's War in Afghanistan

By Toby Harnden

Tales of London Docklands

By Henry T. Bradford

Over Here

By Seitz, Raymond

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Oxford World's Classics)

By Douglass, Frederick, McDowell, Deborah E.

First Man In: Leading from the Front

By Middleton, Ant

Everyone Versus Racism: a Letter to Change the World

By Patrick Hutchinson

Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography

By Margaret Thatcher