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Tea, Love and War: Searching for English roots in Assam

By David Mitchell

Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris

By David King (James Cook University Australia)

Lady Fanshawe's Receipt Book: An Englishwoman's Life During the Civil War

By Lucy Moore

Eiffel

By David I Harvie

The Devonshires: The Story of a Family and a Nation

By Roy Hattersley

The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary

By Winchester, Simon

An Album of Memories: Personal Histories from the Greatest Generation

By Tom Brokaw

Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World

By Jonathan Bate

Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman

By Stefan Zweig, Eden Paul (TRANS)

Her Majesty's Pleasure: How Horseracing Enthrals the Queen

By Julian Muscat

The Mistresses of Cliveden: Three Centuries of Scandal, Power and Intrigue in an English Stately Home

By Natalie Livingstone

Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh

By Anna Beer

The Mitford Girls: The Biography of an Extraordinary Family

By Mary S. Lovell

Men of Honour: Trafalgar and the Making of the English Hero

By Nicolson, Adam

The Secret Rooms: A Castle Filled with Intrigue, a Plotting Duchess and a Mysterious Death

By Bailey, Catherine

George Seferis: Waiting for the Angel: A Biography

By Roderick Beaton

A Venetian Affair: A true story of impossible love in the eighteenth century

By Andrea Di Robilant

The Co-Op's Got Bananas

By Hunter Davies

Christmas Around the Village Green: In a WWII 1940s rural village, family means the world at Christmastime

By Dot May Dunn

The Diana Chronicles

By Tina Brown

Driftwood and Tangle

By Margaret Leigh

At Home with the Queen: Life Through the Keyhole of the Royal Household

By Brian Hoey

Deutsche Literaturgeschichte: Von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart

By BEUTIN, Wolfgang.

A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean

By Roland Philipps

Mammoth Book of British Kings and Queens

By Michael Ashley

Jane Austen's Christmas: The Festive Season in Georgian England

By Maria Hubert

Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare

By Sir Jonathan Bate

The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague

By Timothy Garton Ash

Burma: The Longest War, 1941-45

By Louis Allen

The Essays: A Selection (Penguin Classics)

By Montaigne, Michel, Screech, M., Screech, M., Screech, M., Screech, M.