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Shadows of a Princess

By Patrick Jephson

Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes

By Fiona MacCarthy

Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

By Doreen Rappaport, Bryan Collier

Inside the Brotherhood: Explosive Secrets of the Freemasons

By Short, Martin

Lost Patrol

By D North

Sojourner Truth

By John Malam

Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1960s A Series)

By Joan Didion

Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

The Broken String: The Last Words of an Extinct People

By Neil Bennun

An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West

By Konstantin Kisin, Peter Lloyd

Great African Americans in History

By Carlotta Hacker

War Boy: A Wartime Childhood

By Foreman, Michael

Lincoln

By Andrew Lee

Laurie Lee Cider with Rosie

By Laurie Lee

Politics, Poverty and Belief: A Political Memoir

By The Rt Hon Frank Field

Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak

By Deborah Ellis

Martin Luther King Jr

By Adam Fairclough

Hedingham Harvest: Victorian Family Life in Rural England

By Geoffrey Robinson

Army Life in a Black Regiment

By Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Howard N. Meyer

Bread, Jam and a Borrowed Pram: A Nurse's Story From the Streets

By Dot May Dunn

Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time

By Dr. Michael du Preez, Jeremy Dronfield

Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World

By Trevor Burnard

Elizabeth Fry

By June Rose

India Remembered: A Personal Account of the Mountbattens During the Transfer of Power

By Pamela Mountbatten

Heroes

By John Pilger

The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women

By Mo Moulton

Paperboy: An Enchanting True Story Of A Belfast Paperboy Coming To Terms With The Troubles

By Tony Macaulay, Macaulay, Tony

The White Road: Journey Into an Obsession

By Edmund de Waal

The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe

By Kelly, Angela, Angela Kelly

Elizabethans: A History of How Modern Britain Was Forged

By Andrew Marr