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Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History

By Vashti Harrison

The Man Who Drew London

By Gillian Tindall

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

By Azar Nafisi

Out of this Century - Confessions of an Art Addict: The Autobiography of Peggy Guggenheim

By Peggy Guggenheim, Gore Vidal

The Head Gardeners

By Toby Musgrave

The Mutiny of the "Bounty"

By Sir John Barrow, Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge

How to Think Like an Absolute Genius

By Philippe Brasseur

Eminent Edwardians: Four figures who defined their age: Northcliffe, Balfour, Pankhurst, Baden-Powell

By Piers Brendon

Childhood at Court 1819-1914

By John Van der Kiste

Rogue Male: Sabotage and seduction behind German lines with Geoffrey Gordon-Creed, DSO, MC

By Roger Field And Geoffrey Gordo, N Creed

Steve Wright's Book of Factoids

By Steve Wright

Monty: Life of Montgomery of Alamein: v. 2: Master of the Battlefield, 1942-44

By Nigel Hamilton

A Lady of Cotton: Hannah Greg, Mistress of Quarry Bank Mill

By David Sekers

Between Silk and Cyanide

By Leo Marks

Rosa Parks: Volume 7

By Lisbeth Kaiser, Marta Antelo

Good Wives: Mary, Fanny, Jennie and Me, 1845-2001

By Forster, Margaret

Grade 9-1 GCSE History Edexcel Topic Guide - Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918-39: perfect for catch-up and the 2022 and 2023 exams (CGP GCSE History 9-1 Revision)

By CGP Books

Team Tornado: Life on a Front-Line Squadron

By Peters, John, Nichol, John

The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich

By Evan Osnos

The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution

By Tariq Ali

The Diary of Samuel Pepys: A Pepys Anthology

By SAMUEL PEPYS, Robert Latham, Linnet Latham

Disraeli and the Art of Victorian Politics

By Ian St John

Over the Top with Jim

By Hugh Lunn

To be a Slave

By Julius Lester

Disability Visibility

By Alice Wong

Black in Time: The Most Awesome Black Britons from Yesterday to Today

By Alison Hammond, E. L. Norry

Rad American Women A-Z: Rebels, Trailblazers, and Visionaries who Shaped Our History . . . and Our Future!

By Kate Schatz, Miriam Klein Stahl

Locke In 90 Minutes (Philosophers in 90 minutes - their lives & work)

By Strathern, Mr Paul

Beryl - WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023: In Search of Britain's Greatest Athlete, Beryl Burton

By Jeremy Wilson (Football Writer)

The Ladys Maid: My Life In Service By Rosina Harrison