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Below the Parapet

By Thatcher, Carol

Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter

By SOUHAMI, Diana

Nostradamus: A Life and Myth

By Hogue, John

Perdita: The Life of Mary Robinson

By Byrne, Paula

The Ambassadors: From Ancient Greece to the Nation State

By Wright, Jonathan

Michael Foot - A Life

By Kenneth O. Morgan

Conrad and Lady Black: Dancing on the Edge

By Bower, Tom

The Downing Street Years

By Thatcher, Margaret

The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu: The Story of This Distant City and the Race to Save its Lost Written Treasures

By English, Charlie

John Stuart Mill

By Halliday, R.J.

Kinnock

By Leapman, Michael

Grundrisse

By Marx Karl, David McLennan Ed.

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

By Winchester, Simon, Author and Historian Simon

Under Fire: An American Story - The Explosive Autobiography of Oliver North

By North, Oliver L., Novak, WILLIAM

Shakespeare (Eminent Lives)

By Bryson, Bill

The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things

By Byrne, Paula

How to Survive the Titanic: The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay

By Wilson, Frances

The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy

By Smith, Jean Kennedy

Muhammad

By Armstrong, Karen

The Last Republicans: Inside the Extraordinary Relationship Between George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush

By Updegrove, Mark K.

The End of an Era: Diaries 1980-90

By Benn, Tony

Years of Hope: Diaries, Letters and Papers, 1940-62

By Tony Benn, Ruth Winstone, Tony Benn

Open Secret: The Autobiography of the Former Director-General of MI5

By Rimington, Stella

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: The shocking story of how America really took over the world

By Perkins, John, John Perkins

Sweet Mandarin

By Helen Tse

Forgotten Voices of D-Day: A Powerful New History of the Normandy Landings in the Words of Those Who Were There

By Bailey, Roderick

3 Commando: Helmand Assault

By Ewen Southby-Tailyour

Hannah: The Complete Story

By Hauxwell, Hannah, Cockcroft, Barry

Family Secrets

By Malcolm, Derek

The Flamboya Tree: Memories of a Family's War Time Courage

By Kelly, Clara Olink, Clara Olink Kelly