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Amedeo: A True Story of Love and War in Abyssinia

By Sebastian O'Kelly

Sissinghurst: The Making of a Garden

By Anne Scott-James

Actuelles. Chroniques algeriennes

By Albert Camus

Les guerres sans fin: Un historien, la France et l'Algérie

By Stora, Benjamin

Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia

By Peter Pomerantsev

African's Life, 1745-1797: The Life and Times of Olaudah Equiano

By James Walvin (University of York, UK)

Escape from Baghdad: First Time Was For the Money, This Time It's Personal

By James Ashcroft

Here I Stand

By Roland H. Bainton

D-day Plus One: Shot Down and on the Run in France

By Frank 'Dutch' Holland, Adam Wilkins

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)