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Still Life: A Tunbridge Wells Childhood

By Cobb, Richard

The Private Life of Chairman Mao: The Inside Story of the Man Who Made Modern China

By Li, Zhisui

Venice: Pure City

By Ackroyd, Peter

How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer

By Bakewell, Sarah

Circulation: William Harvey's Revolutionary Idea

By Thomas Wright

The White Road: a pilgrimage of sorts

By de Waal, Edmund

The Tunnel Through Time: A New Route for an Old London Journey

By Tindall, Gillian

The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women's Lives

By Knight, Lynn

Still Life: A Tunbridge Wells Childhood

By Cobb, Richard

Whisperings in the Blood

By Davidow, Shelley

Women

By Attallah, Naim

Generations of Memories: Voices of Jewish Women

By Jewish Women in London Group

Time Remembered

By Finn, Ralph L.

The Corncrake and The Lysander

By Macdonald, Finlay J.

A Canterbury Childhood

By Kenneth Pinnock

Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

By Greenblatt, Stephen

The Illustrated Lark Rise to Candleford

By Thompson, Flora, Shuckburgh, Julian

A Victorian Household: Based on the Diaries of Marion Sambourne

By Nicholson, Shirley, Sambourne, Marion

Hedingham Harvest: Victorian Family Life in Rural England (National Trust classics)

By Robinson, Geoffrey

The Illustrated Cider with Rosie

By Lee, Laurie

Revolution In The Head: The Beatles Records and the Sixties

By Macdonald, Ian

Michelangelo And The Pope's Ceiling

By King, Dr Ross

Minotaur: Sir Arthur Evans and the Archaeology of the Minoan Myth

By MacGillivray, Alexander

Betty Boothroyd: The Autobiography

By Boothroyd, Betty, Betty Boothroyd

The Illustrated Pepys

By Pepys, Samuel, Latham, Robert

Tales of Time and Tide: Stories of Life on Britain's Shores and Coasts

By Martin, Brian P.

Tales of the Old Gamekeepers

By Martin, Brian P.

The Munich Air Disaster

By Morrin, Stephen

In Sight of Yellow Mountain: A Year in the Irish Countryside

By Philip Judge

Madam Politician: The women at the table of Irish political power

By Fitzgerald, Martina