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The Path of Peace: Walking the Western Front Way

By Anthony Seldon

Victorian Prison Lives

By Philip Priestley

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

Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of 'Housewife, 49'

By Richard Broad, Suzie Fleming, Nella Last

Power Trip: A Decade of Policy, Plots and Spin

By Damian McBride

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

By Erik Larson

Just Boris: A Tale of Blond Ambition - A Biography of Boris Johnson

By Sonia Purnell

The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance

By Strathern, Paul, Paul Strathern

Shaggy Muses: The Dogs Who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton, and Emily Bront

By Maureen Adams

The Survivors: The Story of the Belsen Remnant

By Leslie H Hardman, Cecily Goodman

Hope and History: Making Peace in Ireland

By Gerry Adams

In the Footsteps of Robert Bruce

By Alan Young, Michael J. Stead

Charles I: The Personal Monarch

By Charles Carlton

SAS Ghost Patrol: The Ultra-Secret Unit That Posed As Nazi Stormtroopers

By Lewis, Damien

Wilfred Owen: An Illustrated Life

By Jane Potter, Jon Stallworthy

I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain: WINNER OF THE 2021 BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD FOR NON-FICTION

By Anita Sethi

Anna and the Black Knight: Incorporating Anna's Book

By Fynn

Frank Lloyd Wright: AD (Architecture & Design)

By Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks

Hitler's Last Days

By Gerhard Boldt, S. Bance

Secrets and Lies

By Christine Keeler

Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the Preposterous

By Cohen, Nick

The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj

By David Gilmour

Macbeth: The True Story

By Fiona Watson

An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo

By Richard Davenport-Hines

The Scandal of Christine Keeler and John Profumo: Lord Denning's Report, 1963

By Tim Coates

The Truth at Last: My Story

An Encyclopaedia of Myself

By Jonathan Meades

Stephen Ward: Scapegoat

By Douglas Thompson

A Hero for High Times: A Younger Reader's Guide to the Beats, Hippies, Freaks, Punks, Ravers, New-Age Travellers and Dog-on-a-Rope Brew Crew Crusties of the British Isles, 1956-1994

By Ian Marchant