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Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire

By Lizzie Johnson

Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling

By Jason De Leon

Sad Little Men: The revealing book about the world that shaped Boris Johnson

By Richard Beard

A Critical Woman: Barbara Wootton, Social Science and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century

By Ann Oakley

Naples 1944: War, Liberation and Chaos

By Keith Lowe

English Eccentrics

By Dame Edith Sitwell

The Thieves' Opera: The Remarkable Lives and Deaths of Jonathan Wild, Thief-taker and Jack Sheppard, House-breaker

By Mrs Lucy Moore

An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo

By Richard Davenport-Hines

British As A Second Language

By David Bennun

Young Bloomsbury: the generation that reimagined love, freedom and self-expression

By Nino Strachey

THE WOMEN’S HISTORY OF THE WORLD (Paladin Books)

By Miles

Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

By Michael Lewis

The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore

Introducing Thatcherism: A Graphic Guide

By Peter Pugh, Carl Flint

Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London

By Lauren Elkin

Little Leaders: Visionary Women Around the World

By Vashti Harrison

Modern British History: The Essential A-Z Guide

By Dr Mark Garnett, Richard Weight

TheGulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr ( Author ) ON Jan-30-2003, Paperback

By Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr

Who Are We?: How Identity Politics Took Over the World

By Gary Younge

Book of Awesome Women Writers: Medieval Mystics, Pioneering Poets, Fierce Feminists and First Ladies of Literature

By Becca Anderson

The Cubans: Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times

By Anthony DePalma

Hostage to Fortune: Troubled Life of Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

By Lisa Jardine, Alan Stewart

The Intern Blues: The Timeless Classic about the Making of a Doctor

By Marion, Robert

Yiddish Civilisation: The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation

By Kriwaczek, Paul

Family Secrets: Acts of Memory and Imagination

By Annette Kuhn

Tribes: A Search for Belonging in a Divided Society

By David Lammy

Reelin' in the Years: The Soundtrack of a Northern Life

By Mark Radcliffe

Introducing Sartre: A Graphic Guide

By PHILIP THODY, Howard Read

The Reinvention of Humanity: A Story of Race, Sex, Gender and the Discovery of Culture

By Charles King

The Female Eunuch

By Dr. Germaine Greer