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Courtiers: The Sunday Times bestselling inside story of the power behind the crown

By Valentine Low

The Real Crown Jewels of England: 100 Places That Make Us Great

By Clive Aslet

Portland Place: Secret Diary of a BBC Secretary

By Sarah Shaw

Bandaging the Blitz

By Mrs Phyll Macdonald Ross, I. D. Roberts

Nuts and Bolts: How Tiny Inventions Make Our World Work

By Roma Agrawal

Citizen Ken: Biography of Ken Livingstone

By John Carvel

The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks.

By Steven Johnson

The London Nobody Knows

By Geoffrey Fletcher

Just Like It Was:

Does Your Rabbi Know You're Here?: The Story of English Football's Forgotten Tribe

By Anthony Clavane

Journey Through a Small Planet (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Emanuel Litvinoff, Patrick Wright

Man in the Shadows: Inside the Middle East Crisis with a Man who Led the Mossad

By Efraim Halevy

Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain

By Grindrod, John

Borough Market: Edible Histories: Epic tales of everyday ingredients

By Mark Riddaway

The City Of London Volume 4

By David Kynaston

The City of London: v. 1: A World of Its Own, 1815-90

By David Kynaston

The City Of London Volume 2: Golden Years 1890-1914

By David Kynaston

The City Of London Volume 3: Illusions of Gold 1914 - 1945

By David Kynaston

Ken: The Ups and Downs of Ken Livingstone

By Andrew Hosken

Two Gun Cohen

By Daniel S. Levy

London's Gangs at War

By Dick Kirby

Nincompoopolis: The Follies of Boris Johnson

By Douglas Murphy

The Haunting of Alma Fielding: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020

By Kate Summerscale

Boy in the Blitz: The 1940 Diary of Colin Perry

By Colin Perry

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz

By Erik Larson

The Badge

By Jack Webb

Rebuilding London: Irish Migrants in Post-War Britain

By Miki Garcia

An Unconsidered People: The Irish in London

By Catherine Dunne

Bedlam: London and its Mad

By Catharine Arnold

The Great Fire of London

By Anita Ganeri