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Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

By Afua Hirsch

Guns, Germs and Steel: The MILLION-COPY bestselling history of everybody (20th Anniversary Edition)

By Jared Diamond

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

By David Graeber, David Wengrow

The Dreaming Swimmer: Non-fiction 1987-1992

By Clive James

People Who Say Goodbye: Memories of Childhood

By P. Y. Betts

Kent

By Helen Livingston, The Francis Frith Collection

East Kent: A Century in Photographs

By East Kent Federation of Women's Institutes

Kent: A Chronicle of the Century: v. 4: 1975-99

By Bob Ogley

Champions Of Charity: War And The Rise Of The Red Cross

By John Hutchinson

The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights

By Robin Blackburn

The Centenary of the First World War: How The Nation Remembered

By Miranda Harrison, Andrew Murrison

Embracing the Other: Philosophical, Psychological, and Historical Perspectives on Altruism

By Pearl Oliner, Samuel P. Oliner, Lawrence Baron, Lawrence Blum

Stranger Things: Worlds Turned Upside Down: The Official Behind-The-Scenes Companion

By Gina McIntyre, Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer

More Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience

By Shaun Usher

Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century

By Kathryn Sikkink

Indians and Europe: An Interdisciplinary Collection of Essays

By Christian F. Feest

Dunant's Dream: War, Switzerland and the History of the Red Cross

By Caroline Moorehead

Twilight of Authority

By Robert Nisbet

Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire: Shortlisted for the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2020

By Rebecca Henderson

The Power of News: The History of Reuters

By Donald Read

Villages of Kent

By Paul Harris, The Francis Frith Collection

Posh Boys: How English Public Schools Ruin Britain

By Verkaik, Robert

The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics

By Christopher Lasch

The Science of Spin: The Force Behind Everything – From Falling Cats to Jet Engines

By Ennos, Roland

Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator

By Keith Houston

Brief Lives

By Paul Johnson

The Soul of Indiscretion: Tom Driberg, poet, philanderer, legislator and outlaw – His Life and Indiscretions

By Wheen, Francis

Maidstone in Old Photographs

By Irene Hales

The State or the Market: Politics and Welfare in Contemporary Britain

By Martin Loney, Robert Bocock, John H. Clarke, Allan Douglas Cochrane, Peggotty A M Graham

The Diamond Queen: Elizabeth II and Her People

By Marr, Andrew