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My Feudal Lord

By Tehmina Durrani

Kings Mistress, Queens Servant The Life and Times of Henrietta

By Tracy Borman

Mozart: The Golden Years 1781-1791

By H. C. Robbins Landon

KLIMT PB

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

By Paul McCarthy, Alan Shearer

The Search: The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely friendship, and a lost shipwreck off Normandy

By John Henry Phillips

CLR James: A Life Beyond the Boundaries

By John L Williams

Private Words: Letters and Diaries from the Second World War

By Dr. Ronald Blythe

The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family

By Helen Rappaport

Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy

By Anna Politkovskaya

The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World

By George Prochnik

Summer Before the Dark: Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, Ostend 1936

By Volker Weidermann, Carol Brown Janeway

Mao: The Unknown Story

By Chang Jung & Halliday Jon, Chang, Jung, Halliday, Jon

Rise Up Women!: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes

By Dr Diane Atkinson

Going to the Match: The Passion for Football: The Perfect Gift for Football Fans

By Duncan Hamilton

Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

By Michelle Dean

Revolutionary Ride: On the Road in Search of the Real Iran

By Lois Pryce

Khiva to Samarkand: The Remarkable Story of a Woman's Adventurous Journey Alone Through the Deserts of Central Asia to the Heart of Turkestan

By Ella R. Christie

Edith Wharton and the French Riviera

By Elizabeth Collas

Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend: A celebration of gay gods, sapphic saints, and queerness through the ages

By Dan Jones

Two Brothers

By Jonathan Wilson

The Man Behind the Rosenbergs

By Ronald Radosh, Sergei Kostin, Alexander Feklisov

From Berlin to Jerusalem: Memories of My Youth

By Gershom Gerhard Scholem, Prof. Harold Bloom, Harry Zohn

A House Full of Daughters

By Juliet Nicolson

L'Oreal Took My Home: The Secrets of a Theft

By Serge Klarsfeld

In My Brother's Image: Twin Brothers Separated by Faith after the Holocaust

By Eugene L. Pogany

Commander of the Exodus

By Yoram Kaniuk, Seymour Simckes

Chosen Few HB

By Kurlansky

L'Oreal Took My Home: The Secrets of a Theft

By Monica Waitzfelder, Peter Bush, Serge Klarsfeld

Schroders: Merchants & Bankers

By Richard Roberts