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Victorian Girls: Lord Lyttelton's Daughters

By Sheila Fletcher

Arlott, Swanton and the Soul of English Cricket

By Fay, Stephen, Kynaston, David

Mahatma Gandhi (Judge for Yourself)

By Christine Hatt

Iacocca: An Autobiography

By Iacocca, Lee, Novak, WILLIAM

Cabbie

By Alf Townsend

Out of Time: 1966 and the End of Old-Fashioned Britain (Wisden Sports Writing)

By Chapman, Peter

Young Castro: The Making of a Revolutionary

By Hansen, Jonathan M.

The Road to Dallas: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy

By Kaiser, David

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

By Davenport-Hines

Hitler's Englishman: The Crime of Lord Haw-Haw

By Selwyn, Francis

PERO: The Life of a Slave in Eighteenth-Century Bristol

By Eickelmann, Christine, Small, David

Estuary: Out from London to the Sea

By Lichtenstein, Rachel

Caithness to Patagonia: Distant Lands and Close Relatives

By Leith, Ian

Pages From The Goncourt Journals (New York Review Books Classics)

By De Goncourt, Edmond and Jules, Baldick, Robert, Dyer, Geoff

Frida: The Biography of Frida Kahlo

By Hayden Herrera, Herrera, Hayden

The Necessity of Errors

By John Roberts

Vinyl Countdown

By Graham Sharpe

The Spitfire Kids: The generation who built, supported and flew Britain's most beloved fighter

By Cross, Alasdair, BBC Worldwide

From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000

By Lee Kuan Yew

The Necessary Aptitude: A Memoir

By Pam Ayres, Ayres, Pam

Bird Brother: A Falconer's Journey and the Healing Power of Wildlife

By Rodney Stotts

Slave: The True Story of a Girl's Lost Childhood and Her FIght for Survival

By Nazer, Mende, Lewis, Damien

Walden: Henry David Thoreau (Vintage Classics)

By Thoreau, Henry David

England's Hour

By Brittain, Vera

Raquela, a Woman of Israel: A Woman of Israel

By Gruber, Ruth

I Bought a Mountain

By Firbank, Thomas

The Jean Baudrillard Reader

By Steve Redhead

Hitler's Children

By Knopp, Guido

Young Doctor Pusey

By Forrester, David

Useful Toil: Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820S to the 1920S

By John Burnett