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Lorenz: Breaking Hitler's Top Secret Code at Bletchley Park

By Jerry Roberts, Paddy O'Connell

Lord Cromer: Victorian Imperialist, Edwardian Proconsul

By Roger Owen (, A. J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History, Harvard University)

Extra Virgin: Amongst the Olive Groves of Liguria

By Hawes, Annie

The Road to Somewhere: The New Tribes Shaping British Politics

By Goodhart, David

Helen Waddell

By Felicitas Corrigan

The Letters of Harry Tartt: The Light and Bitter Years

By Harry Tartt

Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero

By Timothy Egan

Citizen Lord: Edward Fitzgerald 1763-1798

By Stella Tillyard

Etty Hillesum: A Life Transformed

By (The Revd Canon) Patrick Woodhouse

The Globalist: Peter Sutherland - His Life and Legacy

By John Walsh

Christopher Lloyd: His Life at Great Dixter

By Stephen Anderton

A Passion For Trees: The Legacy Of John Evelyn

By Maggie Campbell-Culver

The Strangest Family: The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte and the Hanoverians

By Janice Hadlow

The Reluctant Tommy: An Extraordinary Memoir of the First World War

By Ronald Skirth, Duncan Barrett

The Photographer at Sixteen: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE 2020

By George Szirtes

The Favourite: The Life of Sarah Churchill and the History Behind the Major Motion Picture

By Ophelia Field

The Speckled People

By Hamilton, Hugo

The Asquiths

By Colin W. G. Clifford

Faith and Duty: The True Story of a Soldier's War in Northern Ireland

By Nicky Curtis

Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy, XIX

By Ron Johnston FBA (, University of Bristol, United Kingdom)

Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber: The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugdale

By Sean O'Driscoll

Queen Elizabeth II: A Celebration of Her Life and Reign in Pictures

By David Souden

Warsaw Boy: A Memoir of a Wartime Childhood

By Andrew Borowiec

Hannah: The Complete Story

By Hauxwell, Hannah, Cockcroft, Barry

The People's Game: How to Save Football: THE AWARD WINNING BESTSELLER

By Gary Neville

Daughter of the Dales: The World of Hannah Hauxwell

By Hauxwell, Hannah, Cockcroft, Barry

The Pianist of Yarmouk

By Aeham Ahmad

The English Civil War

By Purkiss, Diane

The Hacienda: How Not to Run a Club

By Peter Hook

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

By Geoffrey Ward