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The Diamond Queen: Elizabeth II and her People

By Andrew Marr

Isabella and the Strange Death of Edward II

By Paul Doherty

The Genius in My Basement: The Biography of a Happy Man. Alexander Masters

By Masters, Alexander

The Mystery of Princess Louise: Queen Victoria's Rebellious Daughter

By Lucinda Hawksley

Fred Dibnah - Made in Britain

By David Hall

Encyclopedie: The triumph of reason in an unreasonable age

By Philipp Blom

Disputed Truth: v. 2: Memoirs

By Hans Kung

Mitterrand: A Study in Ambiguity

By Philip Short

History in the Making

By J. H. Elliott

Armed Action.

By James Newton

Charles V: The World Emperor

By Harald Kleinschmidt

Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography

By Robert Irwin

The Churchills: A Family at the Heart of History - from the Duke of Marlborough to Winston Churchill

By Mary S. Lovell

My Friend the Enemy: My Childhood in Nazi Germany

By Paul Briscoe, Michael McMahon

1415: Henry V's Year of Glory

By Ian Mortimer

The Trader, The Owner, The Slave: Parallel Lives in the Age of Slavery

By Walvin, Professor James

Joe's War - My Father Decoded: A Daughter's Search for Her Father's War

By Annette Kobak

3 Para

By Bishop, Patrick

An Advertisement for Toothpaste: Ryszard Kapuscinski (Penguin Modern)

By Kapuscinski, Ryszard, Brand, WILLIAM

The Arch Conjuror of England: John Dee

By Glyn Parry

The Prime Ministers: Winner of the PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS 2020

By Iain Dale

Paisley: Religion and Politics in Northern Ireland

By Steve Bruce (Head of School of Social Science, University of Aberdeen)

A Very English Hero: The Making of Frank Thompson

By Peter J. Conradi

Pilgrimage of Passion: Life of Wilfred Scawen Blunt

By Elizabeth Longford

Last Post: The Final Word From Our First World War Soldiers

By Max Arthur

Familiar Stranger: A Life between Two Islands

By Stuart Hall (Author)

Scipio Africanus: A Greater Than Napoleon

By B. H. Liddell Hart

Bloody Old Britain: O.G.S. Crawford and the Archaeology of Modern Life

By Kitty Hauser

Virago Book of Women and the Great War

By JOYCE MARLOW

After the Fall: The Failure of Communism and the Future of Socialism

By Robin Blackburn, Alexander Cockburn, Diane Elson, e p thompson, Eduardo Galeano