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Daughter of Empire: A source of inspiration for the film Viceroy's House

By Hicks, Lady Pamela

Mrs Slocombe's Pussy

By Jeffries, Stuart

Rebel Crossings: New Women, Free Lovers and Radicals in Britain and the United States

By Sheila Rowbotham

Surviving Freedom: After the Gulag

By Janusz Bardach

When I Die: Lessons from the Death Zone

By Gould, Philip

Prodigal Sons: The New York Intellectuals and Their World

By Bloom, Alexander

Titanic Survivor: The Memoirs of Violet Jessop Stewardess

By Jessop, Violet, Maxtone-Graham, John

Wonderful Adventures Of Mrs Seacole: The X Press Black Classics Series

By Seacole, Mary

The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind

By Guha, Ramachandra

Cid, Le (Oxford Myths and Legends)

By Corneille, Pierre, McCaughrean, Geraldine, Ambrus, Victor

Titanic Lives: Migrants and Millionaires, Conmen and Crew

By Davenport-Hines, Richard

An Extravagant Hunger: The Passionate Years of M.F.K. Fisher

By Zimmerman, Anne

Dick Turpin: The Myth of the English Highwayman

By Sharpe, James

In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story

By Karmi, Ghada

Angels of Albion: Women of the Indian Mutiny

By Robinson, Jane

Twain's Feast: Searching for America's Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel Clemens

By Beahrs, Andrew

The Escape of Sigmund Freud

By Cohen, David

Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience (Society and the Sexes in the Modern World)

By Pedersen, Susan

Shaftesbury: The Great Reformer

By Turnbull, Richard

Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories and the Hunt for Putin’s Agents

By Corera, Gordon

Tales of the Old Countrymen

By Martin, Brian P.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Penguin Classics)

By Douglass, Frederick, Baker, Houston, Garrison, William Lloyd

Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter

By SOUHAMI, Diana

The Identity of France, Vol 2: People and Production: v. 2

By Braudel, Fernand

The Thirties: An Intimate History of Britain

By Gardiner, Juliet

East End Chronicles

By Glinert, Ed

Wealth And Poverty Of Nations

By Landes, David S.

Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History

By Maggs, Sam

What the Grown-ups Were Doing: An Odyssey Through 1950s Suburbia

By Michele Hanson

Gi Brides: The War-Time Girls Who Crossed The Atlantic For Love

By Barrett, Duncan