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The Moth and the Mountain: Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2021

By Ed Caesar

Nefertiti: Egypt's Sun Queen

Conversations on Love: with Philippa Perry, Dolly Alderton, Roxane Gay, Stephen Grosz, Esther Perel, and many more

By Lunn, Natasha

Word from Wormingford: A Parish Year

By Blythe, Dr. Ronald, Nash, John, Dr. Ronald Blythe

Shakespeare: A Life

By Park Honan (Emeritus Professor, School of English, Emeritus Professor, University of Leeds)

In No Uncertain Terms: Memoirs

By Helen Suzman

Open Road to Faraway: Escapes from Nazi POW Camps 1941-1945

By Andrew Sneddon Winton, Allan Carswell (Curator, The National War Museum, Scotland)

Encounters With Harriet Martineau: A Victorian Living Ahead Of Her Time

By Stuart Hobday

The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

By Caroline Alexander

The Informer

By Sean O'Callaghan

Beyond A Fringe: Tales from a reformed Establishment lackey: 2021

By Andrew Mitchell

Gerald: A Portrait

By Daphne Du Maurier, Margaret Forster

The Economics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

By DK

War Dog

By Damien Lewis

Joseph Gray's Camouflage: A Memoir of Art, Love and Deception

By Mary Horlock

Russian Roulette: 'A brilliant new life of Graham Greene' - Evening Standard

By Richard Greene

Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha who Seduced the West

By Lesley Downer

The Noel Coward Diaries

By Noel Coward, Graham Payn, Sheridan Morley

The Legend of Colton H Bryant

By Alexandra Fuller

A.J.P.Taylor: A Biography

By Adam Sisman

The Very Best of the Daily Telegraph Books of Obit

By Telegraph Group Limited

The Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes: The Story of George Scovell

By Urban, Mark L.

Gladstone

By E J Feuchtwanger

One Hot Summer in St.Petersburg

By Duncan Fallowell

Olympic GangsterThe Legend of Jos Beyaert Cycling Champion, Fortune Hunter

By Matt Rendell

Mikhail Gorbachev: Memoirs

By Mikhail S. Gorbachev

Titans of History

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

Churchill

By Jenkins, Roy, Illustrated

Countenance of Truth: United Nations and the Waldheim Case

By Shirley Hazzard

Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion

By Gareth Stedman Jones