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The Life and Times of a Very British Man

By Kamal Ahmed

Freedom at Midnight: Inspiration for the major motion picture Viceroy’s House

By Collins, Larry, Lapierre, Dominique

The Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers: Sex and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York

By Srebnick

Night Flyer: Pioneering Airborne Electronic Warfare With The 100 Group Mosquitos

By Lewis Brandon (Author)

Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War 1941-1945

By Leo Marks

Golden Sheaves, Black Horses

By Fred Archer

Wicked Beyond Belief: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper

By Bilton, Michael

The Illustrated Chronicles of Matthew Paris: Observations of Thirteenth-century Life

By Matthew Paris, Richard Vaughan

Tales from the Himalaya

By Henry Edmundson

An Armful of Babies and a Cup of Tea: Memoirs of a 1950s NHS Health Visitor

By Molly Corbally

Universal Man: The Seven Lives of John Maynard Keynes

By Richard Davenport-Hines

When a Crocodile Eats the Sun (TPB)

Our Harsh Logic: Israeli Soldiers' Testimonies from the Occupied Territories, 2000-2010

By Breaking the Silence Group

Alexandria: City of Memory

By Michael Haag

Africa: Dispatches from a Fragile Continent: Despatches from a Fragile Continent

By Harden, Blaine

The Gift of a Radio: My Childhood and other Train Wrecks

By Justin Webb

Cities of God: The Real Story of How Christianity Became an Urban Moveme nt and Conquered Rome

By Rodney Stark

Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

By Garrow, David J.

Simone Biles: Volume 103

By Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, Nadia Fisher

i-have-a-dream

By martin-luther-king-jr

I Stand at the Door and Knock: Meditations by the Author of The Hiding Place

By Corrie Ten Boom

Wheels: This non-fiction picture book takes a look at all sorts of wheels.: Band 01b/Pink B (Collins Big Cat)

By Ridley, Frances, Collins Big Cat, Moon, Cliff

Cicero: A Study in the Origins of Republican Philosophy

By Robert T. Radford

Cicero: A Study in the Origins of Republican Philosophy

By Robert T. Radford

Friends For Life (Melrose and Croc)

By Chichester Clark, Emma, emma-chichester-clark

Erasmus

By James McConica

Queen of Our Times: The Life of Elizabeth II

By Robert Hardman

Where the Line is Drawn: Crossing Boundaries in Occupied Palestine

By Raja Shehadeh

Twenty Years A-Growing (The World"s Classics)

By O"Sullivan, Maurice Rendered from the original Irish by Moya llewelyn Davies and George Thomason Introduction by E.M. Forster Dust Jacket by Lynton Lamb

Life, Death, and Growing Up on the Western Front

By Anthony Fletcher