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Toulouse-Lautrec and the Fin-de-siecle

By Sweetman, David

Daisy Bates in the Desert

By Blackburn, Julia

The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007

By Amis, Martin

Our Liverpool: Memories of Life in Disappearing Britain

By J P Dudgeon

On the Same Day in March: A Tour of the World's Weather

By Singer, MARILYN, Lessac, Frane

Tut's Mummy: Lost...and Found (Step into Reading)

By Donnelly, Judy

Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman’s Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan

By Stanley, Amy

In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century's End

By Field, Norma

MAN OF THE CENTURY: Winston Churchill and His Legend Since 1945

By Ramsden

As We Were: A Victorian Peepshow (Penguin Classic Biography S.)

By Benson, E. F.

Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India’s Freedom

By Guha, Ramachandra

Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War: The Authorised Edition

By Guevara, Ernesto ‘Che’

The Diving-Bell and The Butterfly (Cascades)

By Bauby, Jean-Dominique

The Poverty of Philosophy (Great Books in Philosophy)

By Marx, Karl

Letters to Sir William Temple (Classics)

By Osborne, Dorothy, Parker, Kenneth

Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull

By Goldsmith, Barbara

The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution

By White, Micah

Girls Who Rocked the World: Heroines from Joan of Arc to Mother Teresa

By Michelle Roehm McCann, Amelie Welden, Daniel Hahn

Survival in Auschwitz

By Primo Levi, Levi, Primo

Rosa Parks and Emily Davison (Comparing People from the Past)

By Hunter, Nick

Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History (Vintage)

By Ulrich, Three-Hundredth Anniversary University Professor Laurel Thatcher

Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Huizdala

By Havel, Vaclav

Pierre Bourdieu: Agent Provocateur

By Grenfell, Michael

Sir Francis Ronalds: Father of the Electric Telegraph

By Beverley F Ronalds

The Girl Who Smiled Beads

By Wamariya, Clemantine, Weil, Elizabeth

When I Was a Nipper: The Way We Were in Disappearing Britain

By Titchmarsh, Alan

Dishing the Dirt: The Hidden Lives of House Cleaners

By Nick Duerden

The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas

By Berlin, Isaiah, Hardy, Henry

Adventures in Marxism

By Berman, Marshall

Leading Lives: John F Kennedy Hardback

By Downing, David