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The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found: The Costa Book of the Year 2018

By Bart van Es

The Best Defense: The Courtroom Confrontations of America's Most Outspoken Lawyer of Last Resort-- the Lawyer Who Won the Claus von Bulow Appeal

By Alan Dershowitz

The Complete MAUS

By Spiegelman, Art

Out of Africa

By Isak Dinesen

The Day the Nazis Came Here: The Astonishing True Story of a Childhood Journey from Nazi-Occupied Guernsey to the Dark Heart of a German Prison Camp

By Stephen Matthews

Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries (Volume 1): 1918-38

By Chips Channon

The Prophet Outcast: Leon Trotsky, 1929-40

By Isaac Deutscher

Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life

By Queen Noor

Churchill, Winston S.: v. 7: Road to Victory

By Martin Gilbert

Hitler's Spy Chief: The Wilhelm Canaris Mystery

By Richard Bassett

John Major: The Autobiography

By John Major

Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the China He Lost

By Jonathan Fenby

Nancy Wake: The gripping true story of the woman who became the Gestapo's most wanted spy

By Peter FitzSimons

C S Lewis and the Catholic Church

By Joseph Pearce

Chinese Hordes and Human Waves

By Brigadier Brian Parritt, CBE CN

The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind

By Ramachandra Guha

I'll take the sunny side

By Gordon Forbes

Rab: The Life Of R.A. Butler

By Anthony Howard

The World's Greatest Scandals of the Twentieth Century

By Nigel Blundell

Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941

By Lynne Olson

In the Darkroom

By Susan Faludi

Diana: Story of a Princess

By Tim Clayton, Phil Craig

Hunter to Hunted - Surviving Hitler's Wolf Packs: Diaries of a Merchant Navy Radio Officer, 1939-45

By Alex Anderson

Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Statesman

By Itamar Rabinovich

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

By Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale

Daphne du Maurier and her Sisters

By Jane Dunn

Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor

By Anne Edwards

The Agatha Christie Miscellany

By Cathy Cook

Eminent Edwardians: Four figures who defined their age: Northcliffe, Balfour, Pankhurst, Baden-Powell

By Piers Brendon

Rogue Male: Sabotage and seduction behind German lines with Geoffrey Gordon-Creed, DSO, MC

By Roger Field And Geoffrey Gordo, N Creed