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Against the Flow

By Tom Fort

When I Was a Nipper: The Way We Were in Disappearing Britain

By Titchmarsh, Alan

Elizabeth: Her Life, Our Times: A Diamond Jubilee Celebration

By Titchmarsh, Alan

The House on the Sacred Lake

By Margaret J Anstee

Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire: A Family Memoir

By Andrea Stuart

Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea

By Demick, Barbara, Barbara Demick

Map Of A Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey

By Hewitt, Rachel

Cicero: Politics and Persuasion in Ancient Rome

By Kathryn Tempest

Barack Obama: Dreams from My Father (A Story of Race and Inheritance)

By Obama, Barack, Barack Obama

The Trip to Echo Spring: Why Writers Drink

By Olivia Laing

Walter Tull's Scrapbook

By Morgan, Michaela

Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest

By Davis, Wade

Nemesis: One Man and the Battle for Rio

By Glenny, Misha

The Hungry Empire: How Britain’s Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World

By Collingham, Lizzie

A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean

By Philipps, Roland

Introducing Buddha: A Graphic Guide

By Hope, Jane, Van Loon, Borin

Introducing Keynes: A Graphic Guide

By Pugh, Peter, Garratt, Chris

Introducing Aristotle: A Graphic Guide

By Woodfin, Rupert, Groves, Judy

Introducing Lacan: A Graphic Guide (Graphic Guides)

By Leader, Darian, Groves, Judy

Barack Obama: The Making of a President

By Dawne Allette

Together: How small groups achieve big things

By Hemming, Henry

Victoria: A Life

By A. N. Wilson

Rome: The Autobiography (Brief Histories)

By Jon E. Lewis

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

By S.C. Gwynne

The Hidden Roads: A Memoir of Childhood

By Kevin Crossley-Holland

Battle of Britain: A day-to-day chronicle, 10 July-31 October 1940

By Patrick Bishop

Martin Luther King

By Hodgson, Godfrey

The short and bloody history of: Highwaymen

By Farman, John

Stephen Ward Was Innocent, OK: The Case for Overturning his Conviction

By Geoffrey Robertson Q.C.

The Battle for Britain (Second World)

By Haseler, Stephen