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William Beckford's Fonthill: Architecture, Landscape and the Arts

By Gemmett, Robert

64 Geeks: The Brains Who Shaped Our World

By Chas Newkey-Burden

Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Canons)

By Barack Obama, Obama, Barack

The Mayflower And the Thistle

By Murphy, Rosaleen Moorhead

How Lucky Can You Get

By Ray Saunders

One of the Family: 40 Years with the Krays

By Flanagan, Maureen

Pocket The Queen Wisdom: Inspirational quotes and wise words from an iconic monarch (Pocket Wisdom)

By Hardie Grant

The Man Who Was George Smiley: The Life of John Bingham

By Michael Jago

Gentleman Jack: The Real Anne Lister The Official Companion to the BBC Series

By Wainwright, Sally, Choma, Anne

The Professor and the Parson: A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking

By Sisman, Adam

The Professor and the Parson: A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking

By Sisman, Adam

Letters of Note: Art

By Usher, Shaun

Bin Laden: Behind the Mask of the Terrorist

By Robinson, Adam

Scott's Last Expedition (Classics of World Literature)

By Scott, Captain Robert Falcon, Riffenburgh, Dr Beau, Griffith, Tom

Captain Bligh’s Portable Nightmare: From The Bounty to Safety – 4,162 miles across the Pacific in a rowing boat

By Toohey, John

Karl Marx

By Wheen, Francis

Silvertown: An East End family memoir

By Mcgrath, Melanie

The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton

By Hughes, Kathryn

The Rivals: The Intimate Story of a Political Marriage

By James Naughtie

A Venetian Affair: A true story of impossible love in the eighteenth century

By Andrea Di Robilant

The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom (Biography & Memoirs)

By Rawicz, Slavomir

A Highland Lady in Dublin, 1851-1856: Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus

By Tod, Andrew

Robert the Bruce and All That

By Burnett, Allan, Anderson, Scoular

William Wallace and All That

By Allan Burnett, Scoular Anderson

Jack The Ripper (Pitkin Guides)

By McIlwain, John

Shadows On The Grass

By Raven, Simon

Tutankhamun Egypt's Most Famous Pharoah (Pocket Essential)

By Bill Price

Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs and Classical Music

By Tindall, Blair

Hitch 22: A Memoir

By Christopher Hitchens

Chartwell, Kent (National Trust Guidebooks)

By National Trust