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Who Loses, Who Wins: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume Two 1979-2014

By Kenneth Rose, Richard Thorpe

The Joy of Pubs: Everything you wanted to know about Britain's favourite drinking establishment

By Hopkinson, Frank

Voices from the Blue: The Real Lives of Policewomen

By Jennifer Rees, Robert J. Strange

Margot at War: Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912-1916

By Anne de Courcy

Look Again: The Power of Noticing What was Always There

By Tali Sharot, Cass R. Sunstein

Among You Taking Notes...

By Naomi Mitchison

Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History

By Otto English

Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics

By Jonathan Wilson

MAGIC: The Life of Earvin 'Magic' Johnson

By Roland Lazenby

Out of the Woods

By Luke Turner

The Horror of Love: Nancy Mitford and Gaston Palewski in Paris and London

By Lisa Hilton

Daughter of Empire: Life as a Mountbatten

By Lady Pamela Hicks

The Future Starts Here: An Optimistic Guide to What Comes Next

By John Higgs

My Mad Fat Diary

By Rae Earl

The Curious History of Dating: From Jane Austen to Tinder

By Nichi Hodgson

Rebel Englishwoman: The Remarkable Life of Emily Hobhouse

By Elsabe Brits

A Brief History of the Caribbean: Indispensable for Travellers

By Jeremy Black

The Seed Detective: Uncovering the Secret Histories of Remarkable Vegetables

By Adam Alexander, Prof. Tim Lang

A Century in Oil : The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company 1897-1997

By Stephen Howarth

Don't Shoot The Clowns: War and the Circus in Iraq

By Jo Wilding

Kings of Shanghai

By Jonathan Kaufman

Gentlemen's Gentlemen: From Boot Boys to Butlers, True Stories of Life Below Stairs

By Rosina Harrison

Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the College De France, 1977 - 78

By M. Foucault

A Just Measure of Pain

By Michael Ignatieff

The Sociology of Deviance

By Colin Sumner

The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century

By Peter Linebaugh

The New Book of Snobs: A Definitive Guide to Modern Snobbery

By D.J. Taylor

Alistair Cooke's American Journey: Life on the Home Front in the Second World War

By Alistair Cooke

A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks

By David Gibbins

Lists of Note

By Shaun Usher