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The Life and Times of Call the Midwife: The Official Companion to Series One and Two

By Heidi Thomas, Jenny Agutter

Wish You Were Here!: The Lives, Loves and Friendships of the Butlin's Girls

By Russell, Lynn, Hanson, Neil

KICK: The True Story of Kick Kennedy, JFK’s Forgotten Sister, and the Heir to Chatsworth

By Byrne

Postcard From The Past

By Jackson, Tom

BARRACOON: The Story of the Last Slave

By Hurston

Elizabethans: The Sunday Times bestseller, now a major BBC TV series

By Marr, Andrew

The Times On This Day: Facts and trivia for every day of the year

By Owen, James, Times Books

The Maiden Voyage: Complete and Documented Account of the "Titanic" Disaster

By Marcus, G.J.

Egypt: Politics and Society, 1945-84

By Hopwood, Derek

Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge (P.S.)

By Herman, Eleanor

Before the Deluge: Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s, a

By Friedrich, Otto

Democracy In America

By Tocqueville, Alexis

Assessment in Transition: Learning, Monitoring and Selection in International Perspective

By Little, A., Wolf, A.

500 Nations: An Illustrated History of North American Indians

By Alvin M. Josephy Jr.

The Victorians

By A.N. Wilson

Devil's Advocate

By Humphrys, John

Where Did It All Go Right?: Growing Up Normal in the 70s

By Collins, Andrew

Where Did It All Go Right?: Growing Up Normal in the 70s

By Collins, Andrew

Our Hidden Lives: The Remarkable Diaries of Postwar Britain

By Garfield, Simon

I Never Knew That About England

By Winn, Christopher, Christopher Winn

Hard Tackles and Dirty Baths: The inside story of football's golden era

By George Best

I Never Knew That About Ireland

By Winn, Christopher

Hope and Glory: The Days that Made Britain

By Maconie, Stuart

Hope and Glory: A People’s History of Modern Britain

By Stuart Maconie, Maconie, Stuart

I Never Knew That About England

By Christopher Winn, Winn, Christopher

The People’s Songs: The Story of Modern Britain in 50 Records

By Maconie, Stuart

The Pie At Night: In Search of the North at Play

By Maconie, Stuart

One Pair of Hands: From Upstairs to Downstairs, in this charming 1930s memoir

By Dickens, Monica

Wondrous Times On The Frontier

By Brown, Dee

Promiscuities: An Opinionated History of Female Desire

By Wolf, Naomi