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Queen Elizabeth II

By David Arscott

The Reinvention of Humanity: A Story of Race, Sex, Gender and the Discovery of Culture

By Charles King

The War Magician: The True Story of Jasper Maskelyne

By David Fisher

Miracles of Life

By J. G. Ballard

Descents of Memory: The Life of John Cowper Powys

By Morine Krissdottir

Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth

By Andrew Smith

The Thirties: An Intimate History of Britain

By Gardiner, Juliet

TheGulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr ( Author ) ON Jan-30-2003, Paperback

By Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr

Modern British History: The Essential A-Z Guide

By Dr Mark Garnett, Richard Weight

The Man Who Was Saturday: The Extraordinary Life of Airey Neave

By Patrick Bishop

Fey's War: The True Story of a Mother, her Missing Sons and the Plot to Kill Hitler

By Catherine Bailey

Young Bloomsbury: the generation that reimagined love, freedom and self-expression

By Nino Strachey

An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo

By Richard Davenport-Hines

Five of the Few

By Steve Darlow

Anais: Erotic Life of Anais Nin

By Noel Riley Fitch

In Thier Own Words: Untold Stories from the First World War

Hitler: 1936-45 : Nemesis

By Ian Kershaw (University of Sheffield)

Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy

By Anne Sebba

Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism and the Soundtrack of a Generation

By Daniel Rachel

The Crichel Boys: Scenes from England's Last Literary Salon

By Simon Fenwick

Margaret Thatcher: Volume One: The Grocer's Daughter

By John Campbell

Spitfire: The Autobiography

By Jon E. Lewis

Whispering Hope: The True Story of the Magdalene Women

By Nancy Costello, Kathleen Legg, Diane Croghan, Marie Slattery, Marina Gambold

Winter In The Morning: A Young Girl's Life in the Warsaw Ghetto and Beyond

By Janina Bauman

The Long Gray Line

By Rick Atkinson

The Testimony of Lives: Narrative and memory in post-Soviet Latvia

By Vieda Skultans

The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time (Picador Books)

By Thompson, Hunter S.

Walk Across America

By Peter Jenkins

Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of 'Housewife, 49'

By Richard Broad, Suzie Fleming, Nella Last

Just Boris: A Tale of Blond Ambition - A Biography of Boris Johnson

By Sonia Purnell