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On Time: Finding Your Pace in a World Addicted to Fast

By Catherine Blyth

Engines of Privilege: Britain's Private School Problem

By David Kynaston, Francis Green

Daughters Of Arabia: Princess 2

By Jean Sasson

In My Life: A Music Memoir

By Alan Johnson

Lark Rise to Candleford: A Trilogy - Lark Rise; Over to Candleford; Candleford Green (Modern Classics)

By Thompson, Flora, Massingham, H., Flora Thompson

Eye of the Storm: Twenty-Five Years In Action With The SAS: 25 Years in Action with the SAS

By Ratcliffe, Peter

A Thing in Disguise: The Visionary Life of Joseph Paxton

By Kate Colquhoun

The Lost Diary of Annie Oakley’s Wild West Stagehand

By Dickinson, Clive

Tales From The King's African Rifles (CASSELL MILITARY PAPERBACKS)

By Nunneley, John

Keep Smiling Through: My Wartime Story

By Dame Vera Lynn, Virginia Lewis-Jones

Left Bank: Art, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940-1950

By Agnes Poirier

The Road to Jerusalem: Glubb Pasha, Palestine and the Jews

By Benny Morris

Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China

By Ezra F. Vogel

Conversations with Roger Scruton

By Mark Dooley, Sir Roger Scruton

Under The Wire

By William Ash

The Rest is History: The official book from the makers of the hit podcast

By Goalhanger Podcasts, Dr Tom Holland, Dominic Sandbrook

Lytton Strachey: The New Biography

By Michael Holroyd

Coming to England: An Inspiring True Story Celebrating the Windrush Generation

By Floella Benjamin, Diane Ewen

Shakespeare in Swahililand: Adventures with the Ever-Living Poet

By Edward Wilson-Lee

Changing Enemies: Defeat and Regeneration

By Noel Annan

Dead Man Running

By M MCGARTLAND

Fault Lines: Journeys into the New South Africa

By David Goodman, Paul Weinberg

Philosophy and Social Hope

By Rorty, Richard

School Blues

By Daniel Pennac

Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown

By Henry Box Brown, Richard Newman (Fellows and Research Officer, W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, Fellows and Research Officer, Harvard University.), Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Little Leaders: Visionary Women Around the World

By Vashti Harrison

All The Right Places

By Newsham, Brad

Left Bank: Art, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940-1950

By Agnes Poirier

William Blake vs the World

By John Higgs

South Africa: The First Man, the Last Nation

By R. W. Johnson