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Rising After the Fall: Afghan Women Share Their Stories

By lucy hannah, Zarghuna Kargar, Sara Rahmani

I Want to Go Home

By Catherine Jacobs

Mixed/Other: Explorations of Multiraciality in Modern Britain

By Natalie Morris

The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave

By Mary Prince, Sara Salih

The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities And Meaning of Table Manners: Visser, Margaret

By Visser, Margaret

Glorious Goodwood: A Biography of England's Greatest Sporting Estate

By James Peill

Recovering Dorothy: The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth

By Polly Atkin

Portland Place: Secret Diary of a BBC Secretary

By Sarah Shaw

Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History

By Sir Richard J. Evans

Red Sauce Brown Sauce: A British Breakfast Odyssey

By felicity cloake

The Great Archaeologists

By Brian Fagan

The Prime Ministers: Winner of the PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS 2020

By Iain Dale

Archaeologists in Print: Publishing for the People

By Amara Thornton

Genghis Khan

From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives

By Jeffrey E. Garten

Bad Girls: The Rebels and Renegades of Holloway Prison

By Caitlin Davies

Becoming Muhammad Ali

By James Patterson, Kwame Alexander, Dawud Anyabwile

Reflections from the Scorched Earth: A witness from some of the world's toughest war zones

By Ed Walker

The Century Girls: The Final Word from the Women Who've Lived the Past Hundred Years of British History

By Tessa Dunlop

The Romance of Culture in an Urban Civilization: Robert E.Park on Race and Ethnic Relations in Cities

By Barbara Ballis Lal

Rapthology: Lessons in Life and Lyrics

By Jermaine Scott a.k.a. Wretch 32

My Forbidden Face

By Latifa

Because of You, John Lewis

By Andrea Davis Pinkney, Keith Henry Brown

Growing into War

By Michael Gill

An Evil Cradling

By Keenan, Brian, Brian Keenan

Summer of Blood: The Peasants' Revolt of 1381

By Dan Jones

Remind Me Who I Am, Again

By Linda Grant

The Jew Store

By Stella Suberman

He also Spoke as a Jew: The Life of the Reverend James Parkes

By Haim Chertok

In Her Sister's Shadow: An Intimate Biography of Lee Radziwill

By Diana Dubois