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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

The Prince (Collins Classics)

By Niccolo Machiavelli

Down and Out in Paris and London (Collins Classics)

By George Orwell

In the Days of Rain: Winner of The 2017 Costa Biography Award

By Stott, Rebecca

DONT LETS GO TO THE DOGS TONIGHT : AFRICAN CHILDHOOD

By Alexandra Fuller

All My Mother's Secrets: A Powerful True Story of Love, Loss and a Family Torn Apart

By Beezy Marsh

Hons and Rebels: The Mitford Family Memoir

By Jessica Mitford

Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

By Afua Hirsch

Ma’am Darling: : The hilarious, bestselling royal biography, perfect for fans of The Crown

By Brown, Craig

Whicker's War

By Alan Whicker

People Who Say Goodbye: Memories of Childhood

By P. Y. Betts

A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers

By Lawrence Weschler

The Last Days: Steven Spielberg and the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation

By David Cesarani, Steven Spielberg

Stranger Things: Worlds Turned Upside Down: The Official Behind-The-Scenes Companion

By Gina McIntyre, Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer

Clinging to the Wreckage: A Part of Life

By Mortimer, John

Flagship Historymakers - JFK and LBJ

By Derrick Murphy

Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery

By Norman Mailer

Becoming Kim Jong Un: Understanding North Korea's Young Dictator

By Jung H. Pak

A People's History of Scotland

By Chris Bambery

Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

By Max Hastings

London's Strangest: The Thames: Extraordinary but true stories (Strangest)

By Iain Spragg

Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West

By Catherine Belton

Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe

By Roger McNamee

Len Goodman's Lost London

By Len Goodman, Trinity Mirror Media

The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky 1929-1940

By Isaac Deutscher

Brief Lives

By Paul Johnson

From Russia with Blood: Putin's Ruthless Killing Campaign and Secret War on the West

By Heidi Blake

The Soul of Indiscretion: Tom Driberg, poet, philanderer, legislator and outlaw – His Life and Indiscretions

By Wheen, Francis

The Diamond Queen: Elizabeth II and Her People

By Marr, Andrew