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Endeavour: The Sunday Times bestselling biography of Captain Cook’s recently discovered ship

By Moore, Peter

Land of My Fathers

By Griffiths, Gwyn

The Secret Rooms: A Castle Filled with Intrigue, a Plotting Duchess and a Mysterious Death

By Bailey, Catherine

They Belonged to Glasgow: The City from the Bottom Up

By Rudolph Kenna, Ian Sutherland

Bold Ventures: Thirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy

By Broeck, Charlotte Van den, McKay, David

Battles of Conscience: British Pacifists and the Second World War

By Kelly, Tobias

Authenticity: How economics, evolution and technology drive us to deceive – and how we can fight back

By Sherwood, Alice

An Underworld at War: Spivs, Deserters, Racketeers and Civilians in the Second World War

By Thomas, Donald

A Strange Eventful History: Democratic Socialism in Britain

By Dell, Edmund

Portraiture (Oxford History of Art)

By West, Shearer

Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X

By Deborah Davis

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris

By McCullough, David

'A Veritable Eden'. The Manchester Botanic Garden: A History

By Brooks, Ann

Dickens's England: Life in Victorian Times

By Pritchard, R E

Obama: From Promise to Power

By Mendell, David

Alma Mahler-Werfel: Diaries 1898-1902

By Beaumont, Antony

Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush

By Meacham, Jon

The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

By Iain McGilchrist

Dickens' Artistic Daughter Katey: Her Life, Loves and Impact

By Lucinda Hawksley

Shopping in the Renaissance: Consumer Cultures in Italy, 1400-1600

By Evelyn Welch

National Art Collecting: A Celebration of the National Art Collections Fund

By Wilson, Alyson

The Raj at Table: A Culinary History of the British in India

By Burton, David

Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe

By Holloway, Richard

Women and Madness: Incarceration of Women in Nineteenth-century France (Feminist Perspectives)

By Ripa

Letters To My Grandchildren: Thoughts on the Future

By Benn, Tony

Beyond the Myths: Mother-Daughter Relationships in Psychology,History,Literature And Everyday Life

By Phillips, Shelley

Ladies Can’t Climb Ladders: The Pioneering Adventures of the First Professional Women

By Robinson, Jane

Francis Frith's Dorset Living Memories

By Bainbridge, John, Frith, Francis

Children of the Weald: Fascinating Account of Kent Life in a Bygone Age

By Edwards, Sue, Jennings, Doug

African History: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

By Parker, John, Rathbone, Richard