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That's Not English: Britishisms, Americanisms and What Our English Says About Us

By Erin Moore, Lynne Truss

Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal

By Tim Parks

Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

By Stephen Greenblatt

Mad about Shakespeare: Life Lessons from the Bard

By Jonathan Bate

After the War was Over

By Michael Foreman

I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: The short and gilded life of Tara Browne, the man who inspired The Beatles' greatest song

By Paul Howard

Elizabethan Society: High and Low Life, 1558-1603

By Mr Derek Wilson

The St Patrick's Treasury: Celebrating the Myths, Legends and Traditions of Ireland's Patron Saint

By John Killen

Fear and Loathing in La Liga: Barcelona vs Real Madrid

By Sid Lowe

Out of Harm's Way

By Jessica Mann

According to The Rolling Stones

By Jagger, Mick, Richards, Keith, Watts, Charlie, Wood, Ronnie

An Autobiography

By Edwin Muir, P.H. Butter

Sisters, Secrets and Sacrifice: The True Story of WWII Special Agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne

By Susan Ottaway

Are You There God? It's Me, Ellen

By Ellen Coyne

Ma, I've Got Meself Locked Up in the Madhouse

By Martha Long

Phylloxera: How Wine was Saved for the World

By Christy Campbell

The Disappearing Act: The Impossible Case of MH370

By Florence de Changy

Black Stories Matter: Brave Leaders and Activists

By J.P. Miller

Rosa Parks: My Story

By Rosa Parks, Jim Haskins

From Main Street to Mall: The Rise and Fall of the American Department Store

By Vicki Howard

The Lost Diary of Queen Victoria’s Undermaid (Lost Diaries S.)

By Parsons, Alex

Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir

By Stanley Tookie Williams, Tavis Smiley, Barbara Becnel

The Shed That Fed 2 Million Children: The Mary's Meals Story

By Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow

Biographic: Churchill

By R Wiles

Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

By Laurence Rees

Dear Leader: North Korea's senior propagandist exposes shocking truths behind the regime

By Jang Jin-Sung

A Legacy of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream

By Mark Gevisser

Hobbes (The Routledge Philosophers)

By Martinich, A.P.

The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found: The Costa Book of the Year 2018

By Bart van Es

Strange Days Indeed: The Golden Age of Paranoia

By Francis Wheen