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Coronation Cups and Jam Jars: Portrait of an East End Family Through Three Generations

By Ron Barnes

Analogia: The Entangled Destinies of Nature, Human Beings and Machines

By George Dyson

Rose: My Life in Service to Lady Astor

By Rosina Harrison

The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire: Political Leaders From Lenin to Gorbachev

By Volkogonov, Dmitri, Dmitri Volkogonov

Dawn of Art: The Chauvet Cave: the Oldest Known Paintings in the World

By Jean-Marie Chauvet, Eliette Brunel Deschamps, Christian Hillaire, Paul G. Bahn

Dark Skies: A Journey into the Wild Night

By Tiffany Francis-Baker

The New New Journalism: Conversations with America's Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft

By Robert Boynton

Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s

By Jennifer Worth, SRN, SCM

Lady Catherine and the Real Downton Abbey

By The Countess Of Carnarvon

Byrhtnoth: Anglo-Saxon warrior

By John McSween

Storm Command: A Personal Account of the Gulf War

By Gen. Sir Peter de la Billiere

17 Carnations: The Windsors, The Nazis and The Cover-Up

By Andrew Morton

London Made Us: A Memoir of a Shape-Shifting City

By Robert Elms

The King is Dead, Long Live the King!: Majesty, Mourning and Modernity in Edwardian Britain

By Martin Williams

Toxic

By Sarah Ditum

Ancient Greeks (Usborne Beginners) (Beginners Series)

By Turnbull, Stephanie, King, Colin

Sharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries

By Suad Amiry

True Crime: The Infamous Villains of Modern History and their Hideous Crimes

By Martin Fido

In Patagonia

By BRUCE CHATWIN, Nicholas Shakespeare

Annie Oakley

One on One

By Craig Brown

God Is in the Crowd

By Tal Keinan

My Russian Grandmother And Her American Vacuum Cleaner

By Meir Shalev

The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor

By Eddie Jaku

Awkward to Awesome

By Mia Fizz

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

By Maya Angelou, Oprah Winfrey

The Spirit-Wrestlers

By Philip Marsden

Akenfield

By Ronald Blythe

On Bloody Sunday: A New History Of The Day And Its Aftermath - By The People Who Were There

By Julieann Campbell

Bloody Sunday: A Fifty-Year Fight for Justice

By Ian Hernon