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Bread, Jam and a Borrowed Pram: A Nurse's Story From the Streets

By Dot May Dunn

Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time

By Dr. Michael du Preez, Jeremy Dronfield

Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World

By Trevor Burnard

Elizabeth Fry

By June Rose

India Remembered: A Personal Account of the Mountbattens During the Transfer of Power

By Pamela Mountbatten

Heroes

By John Pilger

The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women

By Mo Moulton

Paperboy: An Enchanting True Story Of A Belfast Paperboy Coming To Terms With The Troubles

By Tony Macaulay, Macaulay, Tony

The White Road: Journey Into an Obsession

By Edmund de Waal

The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe

By Kelly, Angela, Angela Kelly

Elizabethans: A History of How Modern Britain Was Forged

By Andrew Marr

The Prince (Collins Classics)

By Niccolo Machiavelli

Down and Out in Paris and London (Collins Classics)

By George Orwell

In the Days of Rain: Winner of The 2017 Costa Biography Award

By Stott, Rebecca

DONT LETS GO TO THE DOGS TONIGHT : AFRICAN CHILDHOOD

By Alexandra Fuller

All My Mother's Secrets: A Powerful True Story of Love, Loss and a Family Torn Apart

By Beezy Marsh

Hons and Rebels: The Mitford Family Memoir

By Jessica Mitford

Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

By Afua Hirsch

Ma’am Darling: : The hilarious, bestselling royal biography, perfect for fans of The Crown

By Brown, Craig

Whicker's War

By Alan Whicker

People Who Say Goodbye: Memories of Childhood

By P. Y. Betts

A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers

By Lawrence Weschler

The Last Days: Steven Spielberg and the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation

By David Cesarani, Steven Spielberg

Stranger Things: Worlds Turned Upside Down: The Official Behind-The-Scenes Companion

By Gina McIntyre, Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer

Clinging to the Wreckage: A Part of Life

By Mortimer, John

Flagship Historymakers - JFK and LBJ

By Derrick Murphy

Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery

By Norman Mailer

Becoming Kim Jong Un: Understanding North Korea's Young Dictator

By Jung H. Pak

A People's History of Scotland

By Chris Bambery

Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

By Max Hastings