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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

By Fuller, Alexandra, Enright, Anne

The Midwife's Sister: The Story of Call The Midwife's Jennifer Worth by her sister Christine

By Lee, Christine

The Diary of Lena Mukhina: A Girl's Life in the Siege of Leningrad

By Mukhina, Lena, Darragh, Amanda Love

Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill

By Michael Shelden

What the Grown-Ups Were Doing

By Michele Hanson

The Secret History of the Blitz

By Levine, Joshua

Ayesha's Gift: A daughter's search for the truth about her father

By Sixsmith, Martin

The Queen's Speech: An Intimate Portrait of the Queen in Her Own Words

By Ingrid Seward

The Co-Op's Got Bananas: A Memoir of Growing Up in the Post-War North

By Davies, Hunter

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge: An Illustrated Biography

By Maloney, James

A Woman Lived Here: Alternative Blue Plaques, Remembering London's Remarkable Women

By Vale, Allison

Out of Time: 1966 and the End of Old-Fashioned Britain (Wisden Sports Writing)

By Chapman, Peter

The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz: The Extraordinary True Story (Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two)

By Denis Avey, Rob Broomby

Trumbo: A biography of the Oscar-winning screenwriter who broke the Hollywood blacklist - Now a major motion picture

By Cook, Bruce

To War With the Walkers: One Family's Extraordinary Story of the Second World War

By Venning, Annabel

The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York

By de Courcy, Anne

The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York

By de Courcy, Anne

Watching the Wheels: My Autobiography

By Damon Hill

The Quest for Queen Mary

By Pope-Hennessy, James, Vickers, Hugo

Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown

By Glenconner, Anne

Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown

By Glenconner, Anne

The Road Back to Paris

By Leibling, A.J.

The Holy Goof: Biography of Neal Cassady

By Plummer, WILLIAM

HUSBAND OF A FANATIC : A Personal Journey Through India, Pakistan, Love, and Hate

By Amitava Kumar

Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir

By Bhutto, Fatima

Turn Left at the Black Cow: One Family's Journey from Beverly Hills to Ireland

By McKenzie, Richard

Sing a Battle Song: The Revolutionary Poetry, Statements and Communiques of the Weather Underground 1970-1974

By Ayers, Bill, Dohrn, Bernardine, Jones, Jeff

Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hate

By Baldwin, Neil

Diary of a Man in Despair (New York Review Books Classics)

By Reck, Friedrich, Evans, Richard, Rubens, Paul

Governance and Leadership - Debating the African Condition: Mazrui and His Critics, Volume Two: 2

By Mazrui, Alamin, Mutunga, Willy