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Red Sky at Sunrise: "Cider with Rosie", "As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning" and "Moment of War"

By Laurie Lee

From Norfolk to Normandy: The Wartime Art of Captain Julian Cory-Wright RA

By Alan Marshall

Women of Faith And Courage: Susanna Wesley, Fanny Crosby, Catherine Booth, Mary Slessor and Corrie ten Boom

By Vance Christie

The Queen's Conjuror: The Life and Magic of Dr. Dee

By Benjamin Woolley

Saladin

By John Man

E. H. Carr and International Relations: A Duty to Lie

By Charles Jones (University of Cambridge)

There is a Place on Earth: A Woman in Birkenau

By Giuliana Tedeschi, Tim Parks

Jan Christian Smuts - Grey Steel: A Study In Arrogance

By H.C., Armstrong

Nelson I am Myself a Norfolk Man

By Charles Lewis

Raymond Aron: The Recovery of the Political

By Brian C. Anderson

West Sussex in Character: A Glimpse at Some of the Counties More Colourful Personalities

By Fred Lilley

Woman of the Valleys: The Story of Mother Shepherd

By Charles A. Preece

50 Leaders Who Changed History

By Charles Phillips

Staying Power: An Autobiography

By Peter Walker

A Child in the Forest

By Winifred Foley

My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt

By Sarah Bernhardt, Victoria Tietze Larson

Ellen Terry

By Moira Shearer

Beyond the Spitfire: The Unseen Designs of R.J. Mitchell

By Ralph Pegram

Einstein: A Life

By Denis Brian

American Prometheus: The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture OPPENHEIMER

By Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin

Great Physicists: The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking

By Cropper

Travel with William Wilberforce: The Friend of Humanity

By Kevin Belmonte

Broken Biscuit

By John Cowell

Genius of Guinness: The Enduring Legacy of an Irish Dynasty

By Guinness, Michele

The Seashell On The Mountaintop

By Alan Cutler

The Map That Changed the World: The Tale of William Smith and the Birth of a Science

By Winchester, Simon, Simon Winchester

On a Grander Scale: The Outstanding Life of Sir Christopher Wren

By Lisa Jardine (Queen Mary University of London)

John Phillips and the Business of Victorian Science

By Jack Morrell

Paul Dirac: The Man and his Work

By Abraham Pais (Rockefeller University, New York), Maurice Jacob (Conseil Europeen de Recherches Nucleaires, Geneva), David I. Olive (University of Wales, Swansea), Michael F. Atiyah (University of Edinburgh)

Newton: the Liberator

By John Pollock