books by subject
Social & Urban History Biographies

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

The Diamond Queen: Elizabeth II and Her People

A Daisy for Dorothy: Love Story of a Family in War Time

Littlejohn's Lost World

Truth About Cora Pearl

The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins

No Cake, No Jam: Hardship and happiness in wartime London

South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

Tales from the Special Forces Club: The Untold Stories of Britain's Elite WWII Warriors

Essex Girls: For Profane and Opinionated Women Everywhere

Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle

Short Skirts and Shorthand: Secretaries in the 1970s

Crowns in a Changing World: The British and European Monarchies, 1901-36

What's Tha Up To Nah?

Coronation Cups and Jam Jars: Portrait of an East End Family Through Three Generations

Analogia: The Entangled Destinies of Nature, Human Beings and Machines

Rose: My Life in Service to Lady Astor

The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire: Political Leaders From Lenin to Gorbachev

Dawn of Art: The Chauvet Cave: the Oldest Known Paintings in the World

Dark Skies: A Journey into the Wild Night

The New New Journalism: Conversations with America's Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft

Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s

Lady Catherine and the Real Downton Abbey

Byrhtnoth: Anglo-Saxon warrior

Storm Command: A Personal Account of the Gulf War

17 Carnations: The Windsors, The Nazis and The Cover-Up

London Made Us: A Memoir of a Shape-Shifting City

The King is Dead, Long Live the King!: Majesty, Mourning and Modernity in Edwardian Britain

Toxic
