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Spreading My Wings: One of Britain's Top Women Pilots Tells Her Remarkable Story from Pre-War Flying to Breaking the Sound Barrier

By Walker, Diana Baranto

School Blues

By Daniel Pennac, Quentin Blake, Sarah Ardizzone

Journal

By Helene Berr, David Bellos

There's a Bat in My Bedroom

By Anthea Hanscomb

Be Bold

By Frederick Rosier, David Rosier

Churchill's Navigator: Stories from Air Commodore John Mitchell's career including his time as Churchill's navigator

By John Mitchell, Sean Feast

Dowding of Fighter Command

By Vincent Orange

Hermann Goring Fighter Ace

By Peter Kilduff

Brotherhood of the Skies: Wartime Experiences of a Gunner Officer and Typhoon Pilot: Wartime experiences of a gunnery officer and Typhoon pilot

By David Ince

A Pathfinder's War: An Extraordinary Tale of Surviving Over 100 Bomber Operations Against All Odds

By Flt Lt Ted Stocker, Sean Feast

Mannock: The Life and Death of Major Edward Mannock VC, DSO, MC, RAF

By Norman L.R. Franks, Andy Saunders

Dilly: The Man Who Broke Enigmas

By Mavis Batey

1989 The Berlin Wall: My Part in Its Downfall

By Peter Millar

Feet of the Chameleon: The Story of African Football

By Hawkey, Ian

The Need

By Friedman, Ester

Nine Lives

By Parry, Sandor

Out of the Tunnel

By North, Rachel

Fighting Fitt: The Gerry Fitt Story

By Ryder, Chris

Taking The Heat: An Expat Under Pressure In Spain

By Nick Snelling, Nicholas Snelling

Lie in the Dark and Listen: The Remarkable Exploits of a Second World War Bomber Pilot and Great Escaper

By Rees, Ken, Arrandale, Karen

Faster than the Sun: The Compelling Story of a Record-Breaking Test Pilot and WWII Navy Flyer

By Twiss, Peter

The Red Baron's Last Flight: An In-depth Investigation into What Really Happened on the Day Von Richthofen Was Shot Down

By Norman L.R. Franks, Alan Bennett

Victory Fighters: The Veterans' Story - Winning the Battle for Supremacy in the Skies Over Western Europe, 1941-1945

By Steve Darlow

Ireland: The Ducal Days

By Twist, Michael

Memories of the Gorbals

By Caplan, Jack

Dark Room At Longwood (Panther S.)

By Kauffmann, Jean-Paul

Tony Blair: The Man Who Lost His Smile

By Abse, Leo

A Long Way to Tipperary?: Two and a half years in the trenches of World War 1: Bombs, Bullets and Bravery in the Trenches of World War 1

By Neal, Maurice Graffet, Hillier, Stephanie

Second Amongst Equals: Chancellors of the Exchequer and the British Economy

By Holt, Richard

Why Alfred Burned the Cakes: A King and his eleven-hundred-year afterlife

By Horspool, David