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Henry: Virtuous Prince

By Starkey, David

Henry: Virtuous Prince

By Starkey, David

Gordon Brown: ‘As a psychological profile, an exploration of personal ambition and a study of political obsession driven by religious angst, this biography is gripping’ Daily Telegraph

By Bower, Tom

Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940–45

By Hastings, Max

Tommy’s War: A First World War Diary 1913–1918

By Livingstone, Thomas Cairns, Marr, Andrew

Young Prince Philip: His Turbulent Early Life

By Eade, Philip

Crown and Country: The Kings and Queens of England: A History of England through the Monarchy

By Starkey, David

Titanic Lives: Migrants and Millionaires, Conmen and Crew

By Richard Davenport-Hines

How the Girl Guides Won the War

By Hampton, Janie

Londongrad: From Russia with Cash;The Inside Story of the Oligarchs

By Hollingsworth, Mark, Lansley, Stewart

Love and War in the Apennines

By Newby, Eric

The Third Man

By Mandelson, Peter

The Third Man

By Mandelson, Peter

The Third Man: Life at the Heart of New Labour

By Mandelson, Peter

Johnson’s Life of London: The People Who Made the City That Made the World

By Johnson, Boris

When God Spoke English: The Making of the King James Bible

By Nicolson, Adam

Crown and Country: The Kings & Queens of England: A History

By Starkey, David

Bundles of Joy: Two Thousand Miracles. One Unstoppable Manchester Midwife

By Fairley, Linda

Raptor: A Journey Through Birds

By Lockhart, James Macdonald

Edmund Burke: Philosopher, Politician, Prophet

By Norman, Jesse

The Girls Who Went to War: Heroism, heartache and happiness in the wartime women’s forces

By Barrett, Duncan, Calvi

The Spirit of London

By Johnson, Boris

Sextant: A Voyage Guided by the Stars and the Men Who Mapped the World’s Oceans

By Barrie, David

Sextant: A Voyage Guided by the Stars and the Men Who Mapped the World’s Oceans

By Barrie, David

Constance Street: The true story of one family and one street in London's East End

By Connelly, Charlie

My Mam Shirley (Tales of the Notorious Hudson Family)

By Shaw, Julie

Wish You Were Here!: The Lives, Loves and Friendships of the Butlin's Girls

By Russell, Lynn, Hanson, Neil

The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World

By Jasanoff, Maya

The Lighthouse Stevensons

By Bathurst, Bella

THE QUEEN 50 YEARS - CELEBRATION

By Allison, Ronald