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Relish: The Extraordinary Life of Alexis Soyer, Victorian Celebrity Chef

By Ruth Cowen

Les Grandes Horizontales

By Virginia Rounding

A Mi-Parcours

By Andre Rousselet

Un pouvoir nomme desir

By Catherine Nay

Sisters, Secrets and Sacrifice: The True Story of WWII Special Agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne

By Susan Ottaway

Phylloxera: How Wine was Saved for the World

By Christy Campbell

The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins

By Pearson, John, JOHN PEARSON

Their Finest Hour

By Sir Winston S. Churchill

Revolution Française: Emmanuel Macron and the quest to reinvent a nation

By Pedder, Sophie

Aliénor d'Aquitaine

By Martin Aurell

Hanged at Auschwitz: An Extraordinary Memoir of Survival

By Sim Kessel

Lionessheart: The Life and Times of Joanna Plantagenet

By Catherine Hanley

Chamfort: A Biography

By Claude Arnaud

Grace: The Secret Lives of a Princess

By James Spada

Corsican Command: A Dramatic First-hand Account of Clandestine Operations in the Western Mediterranean, 1943-1944

By Patrick Whinney

The Man who Tried to Buy the World: Jean-Marie Messier and Vivendi Universal

By Jo Johnson, Martine Orange

Descartes: An Intellectual Biography

By Gaukroger, Stephen

Charlemagne: The Formation of a European Identity

By Rosamond McKitterick

Diableries (La Petite Collection): Ou comment des jumeaux causèrent la perte d'un secrétaire

By Boulgakov, Mikhail

La Marquise d'O (La Petite Collection)

By Kleist, Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von

Rousseau: A Very Short Introduction

By Robert Wokler (, formerly Senior Lecturer in Political Science, Yale University)

Introducing Derrida: A Graphic Guide (Graphic Guides)

By Collins, Jeff, Mayblin, Bill

A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America

By Stacy Schiff

Clarkey: A Portrait in Letters of Mary Clarke Mohl, 1793-1883

By Mary Clarke Mohl, Margaret Lesser

Pendulum: Leon Foucault and the Triumph of Science

By Amir D. Aczel

Dirty Bertie: An English King Made in France

By Stephen Clarke

Yes She Can: Why Women Own The Future

By Ruth Davidson

Memoirs of an Ordinary Pastor: The Life and Reflections of Tom Carson

By D. A. Carson

Note-books of Captain Coignet: Soldier of the Empire, 1799-1816

By Jean-Roche Coignet, Fortescue, Sir John

The Path of Peace: Walking the Western Front Way

By Anthony Seldon