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When Daddy Came Home: How War Changed Family Life Forever

By Turner, Barry, Rennell, Tony

The Button Box: The Story of Women in the 20th Century Told Through the Clothes They Wore

By Knight, Lynn

Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London

By Elkin, Lauren

My Life in Houses

By Forster, Margaret

The Mistresses of Cliveden: Three Centuries of Scandal, Power and Intrigue in an English Stately Home

By Livingstone, Natalie

Five Patients

By Crichton, Michael

My Traitor's Heart: Blood and Bad Dreams: A South African Explores the Madness in His Country, His Tribe and Himself

By Malan, Rian

Mythologies (Vintage classics)

By Barthes, Roland, Lavers, Dr Annette

The Strange Story of Adolph Beck (Uncovered Editions)

By Coates, Tim

Vital Forces: The Discovery of the Molecular Basis of Life

By Hunter, Graeme K.

One Pair of Hands

By Dickens, Monica

Children of Sanchez (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Lewis, Oscar

An Area of Darkness ([Picador travel classics)

By Naipaul, V. S.

Mother Ireland

By O'Brien, Edna, Bourke, Fergus

The Face of the Third Reich

By Fest, Joachim C., Bullock, M., Joachim C. FEST

The Americans: Letters from America On Our Life And Times, 1969-1979

By Cooke, Alistair

Night

By Wiesel, Elie, Wiesel, Marion, Elie Wiesel

The Magic Apple Tree: A Country Year

By Hill, Susan

Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journal

By Ackerley, J.R., J. R. Ackerley

White Tribe Dreaming: Apartheid's Bitter Roots As Witnessed By Eight Generations of an Afrikaner Family

By Villiers, Marq de

Daily Life in Ancient Rome: The People and the City at the Height of the Empire (Penguin History)

By Carcopino, Jerome, Rowell, Henry T

Parnell And the Englishwoman: A Love Story

By Leonard, Hugh

Innocents in Africa: An American Family's Story

By Pifer, Drury

The Portable Karl Marx (Portable Library)

By Marx, Karl, Kamenka, Eugene

The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft

By Tomalin, Claire

Metaphysics As a Guide to Morals (Penguin Philosophy)

By Murdoch, Iris

Night (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Wiesel, Elie, Wiesel, Marion

The Spanish Seaborne Empire (Pelican S.)

By Parry, J. H.

Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century

By Mazower, Mark

My East End: Memories of Life in Cockney London

By O'Neill, Gilda