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ISAAC NEWTON: The Last Sorcerer

By White

Introducing Darwin and Evolution

By Jonathan Miller

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