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Schroders: Merchants & Bankers

By Richard Roberts

Confronting History: A Memoir

By George L. Mosse

Chanel's Riviera: Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Cote d'Azur, 1930-1944

By Anne de Courcy

Oliver Baldwin: A Life of Dissent

By Christopher J. Walker

Hidden Lights: Women of Courage

By Joan Blaney, Barbara Follett

The White Masai

By Corinne Hofmann, Peter Millar

The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds

By John Higgs

The Crichel Boys: Scenes from England's Last Literary Salon

By Simon Fenwick

The Kings & Queens of England

By Best, Nicholas

Seasons of My Life

By Hauxwell, Hannah

What Makes Us Stronger

By Freya Lewis

Christmas Around the Village Green: In a WWII 1940s rural village, family means the world at Christmastime

By Dot May Dunn

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World

By Lucette Lagnado

Ma’am Darling: : The hilarious, bestselling royal biography, perfect for fans of The Crown: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret

By Brown, Craig

My Heart is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots

By John Guy

The Testimony of Lives: Narrative and memory in post-Soviet Latvia

By Vieda Skultans

Women Who Launch: The Women Who Shattered Glass Ceilings (Strong women)

By Marlene Wagman-Geller

Lure of Fantasy, The:Bernard Shaw Volume III 1918-1950: Lure of Fantasy, 1918-50 v. 3

By Holroyd, M

Eleni

By Nicholas Gage

Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind - Arthur Koestler and the Quest for Belonging

By David Cesarani

Elisabeth's Lists: A Life Between the Lines

By Lulah Ellender

An Autobiography: Or the Story of My Experiments with Truth

By Mahatma Gandhi

Victorian Prison Lives

By Philip Priestley

The Haunting of Alma Fielding: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020

By Kate Summerscale

Walk Across America

By Peter Jenkins

Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of 'Housewife, 49'

By Richard Broad, Suzie Fleming, Nella Last

A Just Defiance: The Bombmakers, the Insurgents and a Legendary Treason Trial

By Harris, Peter

Andrew Carnegie

By Nasaw, David

How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

By Michael Pollan

Young Trudeau: 1919-1944: Son of Quebec, Father of Canada

By Max Nemni, Monique Nemni, William Johnson