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The Man Who Supercharged Bond: The Extraordinary Story of Charles Amherst Villiers

By Kenny, Paul

Pierrepoint: A Family of Executioners

By Fielding, Steve

It Started in Wisconsin

By Mari Jo Buhle, Paul Buhle, John Nichols, Michael Moore, Mari Jo Buhle, Paul Buhle

Queen of the Ploughing

By McHugh, Anna May

It Won't Hurt a Bit: Nursing Tales from the Swinging Sixties

By Jane Yeadon, Yeadon, Jane

Jeanie, an 'Army of One': Mrs Nassau Senior, 1828-1877, the First Woman in Whitehall

By Sybil Oldfield

Britain's Everyday Heroes: The Making of the Good Society

By Community Links, Brown, Gordon

Mandela

By Hain, Peter

Prisoner of Conscience: One man's remarkable journey from repression to freedom

By Yeats, Charles

The Crossing: My journey to the shattered heart of Syria

By Yazbek, Samar, Gowanlock, Nashwa, Kemp, Ruth Ahmedzai

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