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The Green Bullet: The rise, fall and resurrection of Alejandro Valverde and Spanish cycling's corruption

By Matt Rendell

Who's In, Who's Out: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume One 1944-1979

By Kenneth Rose, Richard Thorpe

Who Loses, Who Wins: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume Two 1979-2014

By Kenneth Rose, Richard Thorpe

Colombia Es Pasion!: The Generation of Racing Cyclists Who Changed Their Nation and the Tour de France

By Matt Rendell

Freud's Women

By Lisa Appignanesi, John Forrester

Men at War: Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945

By Luke Turner

Voices from the Blue: The Real Lives of Policewomen

By Jennifer Rees, Robert J. Strange

Society's Queen: The Life of Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry

By Anne de Courcy

Margot at War: Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912-1916

By Anne de Courcy

Among You Taking Notes...

By Naomi Mitchison

Ordinary Notes

By Christina Sharpe

Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History

By Otto English

Fever Pitch: The Rise of the Premier League 1992-2004

By Paul McCarthy, Alan Shearer

Women Who Ruled: History's 50 Most Remarkable Women

By Claudia Gold, MD

Out of the Woods

By Luke Turner

Foot Work: What Your Shoes Tell You About Globalisation

By Tansy E. Hoskins

The Little Field Marshal: A Life of Sir John French

By Richard Holmes

The Horror of Love: Nancy Mitford and Gaston Palewski in Paris and London

By Lisa Hilton

The Girl in Rose: A Musical Affair in Georgian London

By Peter Hobday

Daughter of Empire: Life as a Mountbatten

By Lady Pamela Hicks

Great Archaeologists

By Paul G Bahn

Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics

By Jonathan Wilson

London: Immigrant City

By Nazneen Khan-Ostrem, Alison McCullough

Rebel Englishwoman: The Remarkable Life of Emily Hobhouse

By Elsabe Brits

Don't Shoot The Clowns: War and the Circus in Iraq

By Jo Wilding

Kings of Shanghai

By Jonathan Kaufman

Gentlemen's Gentlemen: From Boot Boys to Butlers, True Stories of Life Below Stairs

By Rosina Harrison

Fever Pitch: The Rise of the Premier League 1992-2004

By Paul McCarthy, Alan Shearer

Rebel Voices: The Rise of Votes for Women

By Louise K Stewart, Eve Lloyd Knight

Stories of Women in the 1960s: Fighting for Freedom

By Cath Senker