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Silent Boy: He was a frightened boy who refused to speak – until a teacher's love broke through the silence

By Hayden, Torey

Big Wing: Biography of Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory

By Bill Newton Dunn

An Adoption Diary: Our Story Series

By Maria James

The Imperial War Museum Book of the Desert War

By Adrian D. Gilbert

Once in a House on Fire (Birthday Edition)

By Andrew Ashworth, Ashworth, Andrea

Lewin of Greenwich: The Authorised Biography

By J.R. Hill

About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior

By Hackworth, David H., Sherman, Julie

One Step Beyond (hb)

By Moon, Chris

The Impossible Office?: The History of the British Prime Minister - Revised and Updated

By Anthony Seldon (University of Buckingham), Jonathan Meakin, Illias Thoms, Tom Egerton

How the World Made the West

By Josephine Quinn

The Perfect English Spy: Sir Dick White and the Secret War, 1935-90

By Bower, Tom

Red Adair: An American Hero

By Philip Singerman

First Light: The True Story of the Boy Who Became a Man in the War-torn Skies above Britain

By Wellum, Geoffrey

Dear Mr. Gorbachev: Letters to the Soviet Leader

By Lloyd S. Fischel, Mikhail Gorbachev

Philby: The Life and Views of the K.G.B.Masterspy

By Knightley, Phillip

Marcia Williams: The Life and Times of Baroness Falkender

By Linda McDougall

The Heart of the Dales

By Phinn, Gervase

Murder In The Dark

By Atwood, Margaret

Buddha for Beginners

By Steven T. Asma

Conundrum

By Jan Morris

The Philosopher Queens: The lives and legacies of philosophy's unsung women

By Rebecca Buxton, Lisa Whiting

Playwrights at Work

By George Plimpton, John Lahr

Winged Victory: A Last Look Back - The Personal Reflections of Two Royal Air Force Leaders

By J. E. Johnson, Laddie Lucas

The Enigma of Kidson: Portrait of an Eton Schoolmaster

By Jamie Blackett, Matthew Pinsent

Ezra Pound as Literary Critic

By Emeritus Professor K K Ruthven, K. K. Ruthven

Heloise And Abelard: A Twelfth Century Love Story

By James Burge

Bright, Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam

By Neil Sheehan

Forget You Had a Daughter: Doing Time in the Bangkok Hilton - Sandra Gregory's Story

By Gregory, Sandra, Tierney, Michael

The Elixir And The Stone: The Tradition of Magic and Alchemy

By Baigent, Michael, Leigh, Richard

One Day at a Time

By Pat Seed