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London Labour and the London Poor

By Henry Mayhew, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Fellow and Tutor in English, Magdalen College, Oxford)

Chinese Cinderella (Puffin Modern Classics)

By Yen Mah, Adeline, Jones, Matt

A New Model: What Confidence, Beauty, and Power Really Look Like

By Ashley Graham, Rebecca Paley

Lark Rise to Candleford: A Trilogy - Lark Rise; Over to Candleford; Candleford Green

The Undercover Mathematician: Band 11+/Lime Plus (Collins Big Cat)

By Rachael Davis, Alice Negri, Collins Big Cat

Commandant Of Auschwitz

By Rudolf Hoess

Confessions of a Reformission Rev.: Hard Lessons from an Emerging Missional Church

By Mark Driscoll

Helen Keller

By Harriet Castor, Nick Ward, Fam people

Vuelta Skelter: Riding the Remarkable 1941 Tour of Spain

By Tim Moore

Art is a Tyrant: The Unconventional Life of Rosa Bonheur

By Catherine Hewitt

For Queen and Country

By Nigel Ely

Legacy Lost: Passing Across the Color Line

By S Barbara Hilyer

The Elizabethans

By A.N. Wilson

The Heart of the World

By Alan Ereira

Sorrows of the Moon

By Iqbal Ahmed

A Train in Winter: A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival in Auschwitz

By Caroline Moorehead

Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There: How a Few Skinny Brits with Bad Teeth Rocked America

By David Hepworth

The Kerracher Man

By Eric MacLeod

Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That Shook Europe

By John Guy, Julia Fox

The Raqqa Diaries: Escape from Islamic State

By Samer

Infiltration: The True Story Of The Man Who Cracked The Mafia

By Colin McLaren

The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome

By Harry Sidebottom

Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire

By Lizzie Johnson

Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling

By Jason De Leon

Sad Little Men: The revealing book about the world that shaped Boris Johnson

By Richard Beard

A Critical Woman: Barbara Wootton, Social Science and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century

By Ann Oakley

Naples 1944: War, Liberation and Chaos

By Keith Lowe

English Eccentrics

By Dame Edith Sitwell

The Thieves' Opera: The Remarkable Lives and Deaths of Jonathan Wild, Thief-taker and Jack Sheppard, House-breaker

By Mrs Lucy Moore

An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo

By Richard Davenport-Hines