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The Whitelaw Memoirs

By William Whitelaw

The Secret Diary of Elisabeth Leseur: The Woman Whose Goodness Changed Her Husband from Atheist to Priest

By Elisabeth Leseur

Peter Five

By Freddie Clark, Peter Osborne, Carol Osborne

Josephine: Desire, Ambition, Napoleon

By Williams, Kate

About the House: A Parliamentarian's Commentary

By Baroness Jill Knight of Collingtree

Their Trade is Treachery

By Pincher, Chapman

One of Us: Life of Margaret Thatcher

By Hugo Young

Introducing Darwin and Evolution

By Jonathan Miller

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

By Ralph Pegram

Ellen Terry

By Moira Shearer

My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt

By Sarah Bernhardt, Victoria Tietze Larson

A Child in the Forest

By Winifred Foley

Staying Power: An Autobiography

By Peter Walker

50 Leaders Who Changed History

By Charles Phillips

Woman of the Valleys: The Story of Mother Shepherd

By Charles A. Preece

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

By Fred Lilley

Raymond Aron: The Recovery of the Political

By Brian C. Anderson

Nelson I am Myself a Norfolk Man

By Charles Lewis

Jan Christian Smuts - Grey Steel: A Study In Arrogance

By H.C., Armstrong

There is a Place on Earth: A Woman in Birkenau

By Giuliana Tedeschi, Tim Parks

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

By Charles Jones (University of Cambridge)

Saladin

By John Man

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

By Benjamin Woolley

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

By Vance Christie

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

By Alan Marshall

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

By Laurie Lee

Bum Jobs

By Simon Mayle

What One Sees Without Eyes: Selected Writings of Jacques Lusseyran

By Jacques Lusseyran

Ce qu'ils ont vu... Au seuil de la mort

By OSIS KARLIS - HARALDSSON ERLENDUR

All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes

By Dr Maya Angelou