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Out of this Century - Confessions of an Art Addict: The Autobiography of Peggy Guggenheim

By Peggy Guggenheim, Gore Vidal

The Head Gardeners

By Toby Musgrave

The Mutiny of the "Bounty"

By Sir John Barrow, Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge

How to Think Like an Absolute Genius

By Philippe Brasseur

Eminent Edwardians: Four figures who defined their age: Northcliffe, Balfour, Pankhurst, Baden-Powell

By Piers Brendon

Childhood at Court 1819-1914

By John Van der Kiste

Rogue Male: Sabotage and seduction behind German lines with Geoffrey Gordon-Creed, DSO, MC

By Roger Field And Geoffrey Gordo, N Creed

Steve Wright's Book of Factoids

By Steve Wright

Monty: Life of Montgomery of Alamein: v. 2: Master of the Battlefield, 1942-44

By Nigel Hamilton

A Lady of Cotton: Hannah Greg, Mistress of Quarry Bank Mill

By David Sekers

Between Silk and Cyanide

By Leo Marks

Rosa Parks: Volume 7

By Lisbeth Kaiser, Marta Antelo

Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History

By Vashti Harrison

Disability Visibility

By Alice Wong

Audacity to Believe

By Sheila Cassidy

The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins

By Pearson, John, JOHN PEARSON

Truth About Cora Pearl

By Polly Binder

Littlejohn's Lost World

By Richard Littlejohn

A Daisy for Dorothy: Love Story of a Family in War Time

By Pat Read, Leslie Thomas

The Diamond Queen: Elizabeth II and Her People

By Marr, Andrew

The Soul of Indiscretion: Tom Driberg, poet, philanderer, legislator and outlaw – His Life and Indiscretions

By Wheen, Francis

From Russia with Blood: Putin's Ruthless Killing Campaign and Secret War on the West

By Heidi Blake

Brief Lives

By Paul Johnson

The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky 1929-1940

By Isaac Deutscher

Len Goodman's Lost London

By Len Goodman, Trinity Mirror Media

Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe

By Roger McNamee

Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West

By Catherine Belton

London's Strangest: The Thames: Extraordinary but true stories (Strangest)

By Iain Spragg

Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

By Max Hastings

A People's History of Scotland

By Chris Bambery