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My Battle of Hastings: Chronicle of a Year by the Sea

By Xiaolu Guo

Les Grandes Horizontales

By Virginia Rounding

Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest

By Wade Davis

John WesleyThe Life of John Wesley

By Hattersley, Roy

King John: Treachery, Tyranny and the Road to Magna Carta

By Marc Morris

Fear and Loathing in La Liga: Barcelona vs Real Madrid

By Sid Lowe

Lost, Found, Remembered

By Lyra McKee

Blood Sisters: The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses

By Sarah Gristwood

Out of Harm's Way

By Jessica Mann

Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival

By Daniel Finkelstein

An Autobiography

By Edwin Muir, P.H. Butter

The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero

By Timothy Egan

Ma, I've Got Meself Locked Up in the Madhouse

By Martha Long

Golden Sheaves, Black Horses

By Fred Archer

Phylloxera: How Wine was Saved for the World

By Christy Campbell

Elizabeth II (Penguin Monarchs): The Steadfast

By Douglas Hurd

Round About Chatsworth

My Dearest, Dearest Albert: Queen Victoria's Life Through Her Letters and Journals

By Karen Dolby

The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

By Ben Macintyre

Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

By Laurence Rees

The Complete MAUS

By Spiegelman, Art

Genghis Khan: His Life and Legacy

By Paul Ratchnevsky, Thoams Nivison Haining

Essex Girls: The Scandalous History of the Women of Essex

By Karen Bowman

The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found: The Costa Book of the Year 2018

By Bart van Es

BACK FROM THE BRINK: The Extraordinary Fall and Rise of the Conservative Party

By Snowdon

Watching the Door

By Kevin Myers

Born Survivors: The incredible true story of three pregnant mothers and their courage and determination to survive in the concentration camps

By Wendy Holden

The Last Torpedo Flyers: The True Story of Arthur Aldridge, Hero of the Skies

By Arthur Aldridge, Mark Ryan

Treblinka: A Survivor's Memory

By Chil Rajchman, Solon Beinfeld, Samuel Moyn

Politics On the Edge

By Rory Stewart