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As Green as Grass: Growing Up Before, During & After the Second World War

By Smith, Emma

The Last Journey of William Huskisson

By Garfield, Simon

Knowledge is Power: How Magic, the Government and an Apocalyptic Vision Helped Francis Bacon to Create Modern Science

By Henry, John

'THE WRECKERS: A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights and Plundered Ships

By Bathurst, Bella

The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man who Measured London

By Jardine, Lisa

South from Granada

By Brenan, Gerald

The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain: Writings 1989-2009

By Jack, Ian

The Long and Winding Road

By Johnson, Alan

By the Moon and the Stars

By Hayman, Eva

Truth, Dare or Promise: Girls Growing Up in the Fifties

By Heron, Liz

I Am Because You Are: How the Spirit of Ubuntu Inspired an Unlikely Friendship and Transformed a Community

By Jacob Lief, Andrea Thompson

The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws

By Drabble

A House Unlocked

By Lively, Penelope

Rodinsky's Room

By Sinclair, Iain, Lichtenstein, Rachel

Killing Karoline

By King, Sara-Jayne

My Traitor's Heart: Blood and Bad Dreams: A South African Explores the Madness in His Country, His Tribe and Himself

By Malan, Rian

My Own Story: Inspiration for the major motion picture Suffragette

By Pankhurst, Emmeline

LOUISE MICHEL (Rebel Lit)

By Maclellan, Nic

Ingenious Women

By Jaffe, Deborah

Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender

By Krieger, Nick

Life on the Mississippi (Penguin Classics)

By Twain, Mark, Cox, James

Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life

By Rubin, Gretchen

On Hitler's Mountain

By Hunt

Fantastically Great Women Who Made History

By Pankhurst, Kate

The Earl Of Petticoat Lane

By Miller, Andrew

Sound: A Story of Hearing Lost and Found (Wellcome Collection)

By Bella Bathurst

Haunts of the Black Masseur - The Swimmer as Hero

By Sprawson, Charles

Rat Pack Confidential: Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter,Joey & the last great showbix party: Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter, Joey and the Last Great Showbiz Party

By Levy, Shawn, Shawn Levy

The Enlightened Mr. Parkinson: The Pioneering Life of a Forgotten English Surgeon

By Cherry Lewis

Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era

By Ken Emerson