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Our Uninvited Guests: The Secret Life of Britain's Country Houses 1939-45

By Summers, Julie

Bizarre London: Discover the Capital's Secrets & Surprises

By David Long

A Woman Lived Here: Alternative Blue Plaques, Remembering London's Remarkable Women

By Vale, Allison

Crash Bang Wallop: The Inside Story of London’s Big Bang and a Financial Revolution that Changed the World

By Martin, Iain

Girl on the Line: Life - and death - in the Metropolitan Police

By Alice Vinten

The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York

By de Courcy, Anne

The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York

By de Courcy, Anne

East West Street: on the origins of genocide and crimes against humanity: Non-fiction Book of the Year 2017

By Sands, Philippe

Watling Street: Travels Through Britain and Its Ever-Present Past

By John Higgs

The Quest for Queen Mary

By Pope-Hennessy, James, Vickers, Hugo

London's War: A Traveler's Guide to World War II

By Van Young, Sayre

The Love-Charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War

By Feigel, Lara

A Short History of England: The Glorious Story of a Rowdy Nation

By Jenkins, Simon

Letters to the Midwife: Correspondence with Jennifer Worth, the Author of Call the Midwife

By Jennifer Worth

Shadows Of The Workhouse: The Drama Of Life In Postwar London

By Worth, Jennifer

Young Winstone

By Ray Winstone

Swimming with Sharks: My Journey into the World of the Bankers

By Luyendijk, Joris

A Very Expensive Poison: The Definitive Story of the Murder of Litvinenko and Russia's War with the West

By Harding, Luke

The Pulse Glass: And the beat of other hearts

By Tindall, Gillian

In Pursuit of the Truth

By Driscoll, Clive

Long Road from Jarrow: A journey through Britain then and now

By Maconie, Stuart

I Never Knew That About Britain: The Quiz Book: Over 1000 questions and answers about our glorious isles

By Winn, Christopher

Walk Through History: Discover Victorian London

By Winn, Christopher

The Murderer of Warren Street: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Revolutionary

By Mulholland, Marc

The Man in the Red Coat

By Barnes, Julian

Women & Power: A Manifesto

By Beard, Professor Mary

A Short History of England

By Jenkins, Simon

Magna Carta 1215-2015, London’s Temple and the Road to the Rule of Law

By Temple Church

Rooms of their Own

By Nino Strachey

Dr Johnson's London

By Picard, Liza