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Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

By David Graeber

The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House

By Kate Andersen Brower

Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

By Malcolm Harris

Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding

By Joanna Wolfarth

A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain 1874-2018

By Paul Preston

Cambridge University - An 800th Anniversary Portrait

By Peter Pagnamenta, Matt Wilson

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

By Mike Davis

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

By Heather McGhee

Victorian Cities: Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Middlesbrough, Melbourne, London

By Asa Briggs

A Square Meal: A Culinary History Of The Great Depression

By Jane Ziegelman, Andrew Coe

Get Her Off the Pitch!: How Sport Took Over My Life

By Lynne Truss

LOCHS & GLENS

Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture

By Bruce Pascoe

The Underworld

By Duncan Campbell

From Plain Fare to Fusion Food: British Diet from the 1890s to the 1990s

By Derek J. Oddy

Out Skerries: An Island Community

By Joan Dey

Hope In The Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities (Canons)

By Rebecca Solnit

The Theory of Everything Else

By Dan Schreiber

A History of the County of Sussex: Volume V Part I: Arundel Rape (South-western part) including Arundel

By T. P. Hudson

A Family in Wartime: How the second world war shaped the lives of a generation

By Maureen Waller

An Irish Navvy - The Diary of an Exile

By Donall MacAmhlaigh

Captured by the Indians: 15 Firsthand Accounts, 1750-1870

By Frederick Drimmer

The South East from A.D.1000

By Peter Brandon, Brian Short

A Century of Images: Photographs by the Gibson Family

By Rex Cowan, John le Carre

How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

By Michael Pollan

The Life and Death of St. Kilda: The Moving Story of a Vanished Island Community

By Tom Steel

Andrew Carnegie

By Nasaw, David

St Kilda: the continuing story of the islands

By Glasgow Museums, Meg Buchanan

Orkney: A Historical Guide

By Caroline Wickham-Jones

A History of Solitude

By Vincent, David