Social & Urban History Biographies

The Winding Lane (The Minack Chronicles)

By Tangye, Derek

Edwardian Lady: Life of Edith Holden

By Taylor, Ina, Ina Taylor

Leonardo: The Artist And the Man

By Bramly, Serge, Reynolds, Siân

Talking About the War... : 1939-45 - A Personal View of the War in Britain

By Valery, Anne

The Country Diary Christmas Book

By Hollis, Sarah

The Storyteller's Daughter: Return to a Lost Homeland

By Shah, Saira

Aprons and Silver Spoons: The Heartwarming Memoirs of a 1930s Kitchen Maid: The heartwarming memoirs of a 1930s scullery maid

By Moran, Mollie

John Strachey (Lives of the Left)

By Newman, Michael

Claude Chabrol (French Film Directors) (French Film Directors Series)

By Austin, Guy

In the Fifties

By Vansittart, Peter

Last Post: The End of Empire in the Far East

By Keay, John

Isambard Kingdom Brunel: Engineering Knight-errant

By Vaughan, Adrian

Trains and Buttered Toast: Selected Radio Talks

By John Betjeman, Stephen Games

Holy Dread: Diaries 1982-1984

By Lees-Milne, James

Chin Up, Girls!: A Book of Women's Obituaries from the Daily Telegraph

By Powell, Georgia, Katharine Ramsay

The Asquiths

By Clifford, Colin

Running for the Hills: A Family Story

By Clare, Horatio

Salaam Brick Lane

By Tarquin Hall

Speaking My Mind

By Boyson, Sir Rhodes

Quiet Year

By Tangye, Derek

The Defining Moment: Fdr's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope

By Alter, Jonathan

Penny Red: Notes from the New Age of Dissent

By Penny, Laurie

Mistress of the Arts

By Trethewey, Rachel

Tutankhamen: The Life and Death of the Boy-king

By El Mahdy, Christine

Fire Mountain: How One Man Survived the World's Worst Volcanic Disaster

By Morgan, Peter

When We Were Young: A Compendium of Childhood

By John Burningham

The North: (And Almost Everything In It)

By Morley, Paul

Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood

By Scott, Robyn

River of Time

By Swain, Jon

Mr Nice

By Howard Marks, Marks, Howard