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Greed, Seeds and Slavery

By Ross, Stewart, Roberts, David

Life After You

By Lucie Brownlee

Mary, Queen of Scots

By Jenny Wormald, Anna Groundwater

To the Letter: A Curious History of Correspondence

By Simon Garfield

Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism

By Barbara Winslow, Sheila Rowbotham

DK Life Stories Helen Keller

By Libby Romero, Charlotte Ager

Rosa Parks

By Rob Shone, Nick Spender

The Louder I Will Sing: A story of racism, riots and redemption: Winner of the 2020 Costa Biography Award

By Lee Lawrence

Making a Noise: Getting It Right, Getting It Wrong in Life, Arts and Broadcasting

By Sir John Tusa

The Life and Times of Evita

Daphne Guinness

By Valerie Steele, Daphne Guinness

A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Indian History of a British Spo

By Ramachandra Guha

The King's Painter: The Life and Times of Hans Holbein

By Franny Moyle

Blenheim: Biography of a Palace

By Marian Fowler

The Big House: The Story of a Country House and its Family

By Christopher Simon Sykes

Coronation: From the 8th to the 21st Century

By Roy Strong

Catherine the Great: Life and Legend

By John T. Alexander (Professor of History and Soviet and East European Studies at the University of Kansas, Professor of History and Soviet and East European Studies at the University of Kansas)

Edward Burne-Jones

By Ann S Dean

The "Times" Royal Handbook

By Alan Hamilton

Conundrum

By Jan Morris

Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time

By Clive James

Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle

By Clare Hunter

Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption

By Jennifer Thompson-Cannino, Ronald Cotton

Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen

By Greg Jenner

London: The Concise Biography

By Peter Ackroyd

Old Age Comes at A Bad Time : " Wit And Wisdom For The Young At Heart " t

By Katz, Eliakim

Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle

By Clare Hunter

Short Skirts and Shorthand: Secretaries in the 1970s

By Sarah Shaw

Crowns in a Changing World: The British and European Monarchies, 1901-36

By John Van der Kiste

What's Tha Up To Nah?

By Martyn Johnson