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The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind

By Guha, Ramachandra

Titanic Survivor: The Memoirs of Violet Jessop Stewardess

By Jessop, Violet, Maxtone-Graham, John

Rebel Crossings: New Women, Free Lovers and Radicals in Britain and the United States

By Sheila Rowbotham

Mrs Slocombe's Pussy

By Jeffries, Stuart

Daughter of Empire: A source of inspiration for the film Viceroy's House

By Hicks, Lady Pamela

Three Guineas (Hogarth critics)

By Virginia Woolf

The Six Wives Of Henry VIII

By Fraser, Lady Antonia

Changing Countries: The Experience and Achievement of German-speaking Exiles from Hitler in Britain, 1933 to Today

By Malet, Marian, Grenville, Anthony

Isaiah Berlin: A Life

By Michael Ignatieff, Ignatieff, Michael

Gypsy BoyOne Boy's Struggle to Escape from a Secret World

By Mikey Walsh, Walsh, Mikey

Poison in Small Measure: Dr. Christopherson and the Cure for Bilharzia

By Crichton-Harris, Ann

London Crossings: A Biography of Black Britain (Literature, Culture & Identity S.)

By Phillips, Mike

Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper

By Parr, Helen

Cruickshank’s London: A Portrait of a City in 13 Walks

By Cruickshank, Dan

Family Business: An Intimate History of John Lewis and the Partnership

By Glendinning, Victoria

In the City: A Celebration of London Music

By Du Noyer, Paul

On the Red Hill: Where Four Lives Fell Into Place

By Parker, Mike

Mrs Guinness: The Rise and Fall of Diana Mitford, the Thirties Socialite

By Lyndsy Spence

Finding Home: The Real Stories of Migrant Britain

By Emily Dugan

Town And Country

By Barnett/Scruton

Rise: Life Lessons in Speaking Out, Standing Tall & Leading the Way

By Miller, Gina

William Shakespeare: The Extraordinary Life of the Most Successful Writer of all Time

By Gurr, Andrew

History and Revolution: Refuting Revisionism

By Haynes, Mike, Bensaïd, Daniel, Wolfreys, Jim

Mistress of Hardwick

By Plowden, Alison

A Local Habitation, Life & times volume 1 1918 - 1940 (Oxford Letters & Memoirs - Paperback)

By Hoggart, Richard

The Shadow of a Nation: How Celebrity Destroyed Britain

By Clarke, Nick

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

By Duncan Barrett, Barrett, Duncan, Calvi, Nuala

They Also Serve: The real life story of my time in service as a butler

By Quinn, Tom

Edward Carpenter and Late Victorian Radicalism

By Brown, Tony, Corns, Thomas N.

Liberals and Social Democrats

By Clarke, Peter