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The Nothing that is: A Natural History of Zero

By Robert Kaplan, Ellen Kaplan

When They Go Low, We Go High: Speeches That Shape the World - and Why We Need Them

By Collins, Philip, Philip Collins

A History of Women in 101 Objects: A Walk Through Female History

By Annabelle Hirsch

Chopin's Piano: A Journey through Romanticism

By Paul Kildea

Popular Music in England 1840-1914: A Social History

By Dave Russell

OLD STAGERS: Canterbury, Cricket and Theatricals

By RICHARD. RITCHIE

Witches and Witch-Hunts: A Global History

By Wolfgang Behringer

Russia in the Age of Peter the Great

By Lindsey Hughes

Battle of Brothers: You’ve heard from one side – now read the full, true story of the royal family in crisis

By Lacey, Robert

Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America

By Kerby A. Miller

Pepper: A History of the World's Most Influential Spice

By Marjorie Shaffer

On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears

By Stephen T. Asma

Compacts and Cosmetics: Beauty from Victorian Times to the Present Day

By Madeleine Marsh

Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior

By Robert J. Richards

This Land was Theirs: A Study of North American Indians

By Wendell H. Oswalt, Sharlotte Neely

The Cossacks

By Shane O'Rourke

The Story of Wales

By Jon Gower

Talking Cure: Mind and Method of the Tavistock Clinic

By David Taylor

The Sinbad Voyage

By Severin, Tim

An Economic History of the English Garden

By Roderick Floud

Keyboard Interpretation from the Fourteenth to the Nineteenth Century: An Introduction

By Howard Ferguson

FairBreak

By Karen Motyka, Shaun Martyn

The Bookseller's Tale

By Latham, Martin

Folkestone in Old Photographs: A Second Selection

By Alan F. Taylor, Eamonn D. Rooney

Ultimate Risk

By Adam Raphael

Young Voices: British Children Remember the Second World War

By Lyn Smith, The Imperial War Museum

Life in Ancient Britain

By Brian Williams

The Biscuit: The History of a Very British Indulgence

By Lizzie Collingham

The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment

By Gentleman, Amelia

The Pottery Gardener: Flowers and Hens at the Emma Bridgewater Factory

By Arthur Parkinson, Emma Bridgewater