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Thoroughly Modern: The pioneering life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, photographer, and her brilliant Bohemian friends

By Sarah Knights

Before the Light Fades: A Family Story of Resistance - 'Fascinating' Sarah Waters

By Natasha Walter

Two Brothers

By Jonathan Wilson

Two Brothers

By Jonathan Wilson

Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

By Glory Edim

A Balkan Summer

By George East

The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951

By Lord John Julius Norwich

The Noel Coward Diaries: With a Foreword by Stephen Fry

By Sheridan Morley, Graham Payn

Rediscovering Dharavi

By Sharma, Kalpana

Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of a Whore

By Julie Peakman

The Queen: The gripping true tale of a villain who changed history

By Josh Levin

Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It

By Greg Marshall

The Fleet Street Girls: The women who broke down the doors of the gentlemen's club

By Julie Welch

The Green Bullet: The rise, fall and resurrection of Alejandro Valverde and Spanish cycling's corruption

By Matt Rendell

Who's In, Who's Out: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume One 1944-1979

By Kenneth Rose, Richard Thorpe

Who Loses, Who Wins: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume Two 1979-2014

By Kenneth Rose, Richard Thorpe

Colombia Es Pasion!: The Generation of Racing Cyclists Who Changed Their Nation and the Tour de France

By Matt Rendell

Freud's Women

By Lisa Appignanesi, John Forrester

Men at War: Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945

By Luke Turner

Voices from the Blue: The Real Lives of Policewomen

By Jennifer Rees, Robert J. Strange

Society's Queen: The Life of Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry

By Anne de Courcy

Margot at War: Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912-1916

By Anne de Courcy

Among You Taking Notes...

By Naomi Mitchison

Ordinary Notes

By Christina Sharpe

Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History

By Otto English

Fever Pitch: The Rise of the Premier League 1992-2004

By Paul McCarthy, Alan Shearer

Women Who Ruled: History's 50 Most Remarkable Women

By Claudia Gold, MD

Out of the Woods

By Luke Turner

Foot Work: What Your Shoes Tell You About Globalisation

By Tansy E. Hoskins

The Little Field Marshal: A Life of Sir John French

By Richard Holmes