books by subject
Social & Urban History Biographies

Suffragettes and the Fight for the Vote

Isambard Kingdom Brunel: The Life of an Engineering Genius

King of All Balloons: The Adventurous Life of James Sadler, The First English Aeronaut

Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World

What the Grown-Ups Were Doing

The Secret History of the Blitz

The Co-Op's Got Bananas: A Memoir of Growing Up in the Post-War North

Flesh and Blood: A History of My Family in Seven Maladies

The Book of Gutsy Women: Favourite Stories of Courage and Resilience

Girls Who Changed the World

Women in Battle

A Woman Lived Here: Alternative Blue Plaques, Remembering London's Remarkable Women

Out of Time: 1966 and the End of Old-Fashioned Britain (Wisden Sports Writing)

Notes from the Cévennes

Nowhere's Child: The inspiring story of how one woman survived Hitler's breeding camps and found an Irish home

The Women Who Shaped Politics: Empowering stories of women who have shifted the political landscape

Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire - The Sunday Times Bestseller

Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire - The Sunday Times Bestseller

100 Nasty Women of History: Brilliant, badass and completely fearless women everyone should know

To War With the Walkers: One Family's Extraordinary Story of the Second World War

Born Lippy: How to Do Female

The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York

The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York

Out of the Woods

The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983–1992

The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983–1992

Voices of History: Speeches that Changed the World

Cubed: The Puzzle of Us All

Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving
