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The Ashdown Diaries: 1988-1997

By Paddy Ashdown

The Best of Gerald Durrell

By Gerald Durrell, Lee Durrell

A Fighting Retreat: The British Empire, 1947-1997

By Robin Neillands

A Name on a Wall: Two Men, Two Wars, Two Destinies

By Mark Byford

Khrushchev: The Man and His Era

By William Taubman

Small by Small: A Nigerian Doctor's Story

By IKE. ANYA

Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust

By Frankl, Viktor E

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

By Robert A. Caro

Life with the Queen

By Brian Hoey

You May Never See Us Again: The Hidden Story of the Billionaire Family Who Influence Britain

By Jane Martinson

Lloyd George & Churchill: Rivals for Greatness

By Richard Toye

Stasiland

By Anna Funder

Between Two Sounds: Arvo Pärt's Journey to His Musical Language

By Joonas Sildre

A Strange Kind of Glory: Sir Matt Busby & Manchester United

By Eamon Dunphy

Black Earth: A journey through Russia after the fall

By Meier, Andrew

Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival

By Daniel Finkelstein

Field of Fire: Diary of a Gunner Officer

By Jack Swaab

The Queen: Celebrating Through the Decades (Pitkin Royal Collection)

By Knappett, Gill

My Wounded Heart: The Life of Lilli Jahn, 1900- 1944

By Doerry, Martin, Brownjohn, John

102 Minutes

By Jim Dwyer, Kevin Flynn, Dwyer, Jim, Flynn, Kevin

John F. Kennedy

By Robert Dallek

Etty: A Diary 1941-43

By Etty Hillesum

Astride the Wall: A Memoir, 1913-1945

By Ursula Wyndham

The Dvina Remains

By Eugenie Fraser

Left for Dead?: The Strange Death and Rebirth of Labour Britain

By Lewis Goodall

Broken Threads: My Family from Empire to Independence

By Mishal Husain

The Men Behind Monty: The Staff and HQs of Eighth Army and 21st Army Group

By Richard Mead

Harold Wilson: The Winner

By Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds

One Word of Truth: The Cold War Memoir of Michael Bourdeaux and Keston Colllege

By Michael Bourdeaux

Philip: The Final Portrait

By Gyles Brandreth