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To Save a People

By Kershaw, Alex

The Lady's Maid: My Life in Service

By Harrison, Rosina

One Pair of Hands: From Upstairs to Downstairs, in this charming 1930s memoir

By Dickens, Monica

Bringing Down The Krays: Finally the truth about Ronnie and Reggie by the man who took them down

By Bobby Teale

Bringing Down The Krays: Finally the truth about Ronnie and Reggie by the man who took them down

By Teale, Bobby

The Book of Christmas: Everything We Once Knew and Loved about Christmastime

By Struthers, Jane

Devil's Advocate

By Humphrys, John

Black Boy: A Record of Youth and Childhood (Vintage classics)

By Wright, Richard

Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workshop: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace

By Semler, Ricardo, Ricardo Semler

London: The Biography

By Ackroyd, Peter

Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII

By Starkey, Dr David

Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination

By Ackroyd, Peter

Things My Mother Never Told Me

By Morrison, Blake

The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices

By Xinran

La Belle Saison

By Atkinson, Patricia

The Gamblers

By Pearson, John

Sky Burial

By Xinran

The Goldfish Bowl: Married to the Prime Minister

By Haste, Cate, Booth, Cherie

Autobiography Of A Geisha

By Masuda, Sayo, Rowley, G.G.

The Gangs Of Chicago

By Asbury, Herbert

Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox 1740 - 1832

By Stella Tillyard

The Right Stuff

By Tom Wolfe

Bad Faith: A History of Family and Fatherland

By Callil, Carmen

Lost Voices: Memories of a Vanished Way of Life

By O'Neill, Gilda

Mao: The Unknown Story

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

The Prince

By Machiavelli, Niccolo, Constantine, Peter

The Pankhursts: The History of One Radical Family

By Pugh, Martin

The First Ladies of Rome: The Women Behind the Caesars

By Freisenbruch, Annelise

Three Letter Plague: A Young Man’s Journey Through a Great Epidemic

By Jonny Steinberg

Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

By Chang, Jung