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

By Iain Spragg

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

By Catherine Belton

Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe

By Roger McNamee

Len Goodman's Lost London

By Len Goodman, Trinity Mirror Media

The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky 1929-1940

By Isaac Deutscher

Brief Lives

By Paul Johnson

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

By Heidi Blake

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

By Wheen, Francis

The Diamond Queen: Elizabeth II and Her People

By Marr, Andrew

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

By Pat Read, Leslie Thomas

Littlejohn's Lost World

By Richard Littlejohn

Truth About Cora Pearl

By Polly Binder

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

By Pearson, John, JOHN PEARSON

No Cake, No Jam: Hardship and happiness in wartime London

By Marian Hughes

South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

By Imani Perry

Tales from the Special Forces Club: The Untold Stories of Britain's Elite WWII Warriors

By Sean Rayment

Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

By J. Anthony Lukas

Streetfighters: Real Fighting Men Tell Their Stories

By Julian Davies

That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor

By Anne Sebba

In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology

By Lucy Moore

The "Sunday Times" - "A Life in the Day"

By Hilary Stafford-Clark

The Escape Artist: Life from the Saddle

By Seaton, Matt

The Maharajah's Box: An Imperial Intrigue

By Christy Campbell

Great Hostesses

By Brian Masters

My Old Man: A Personal History of Music Hall

By Major, John

Women in the War

By Lucy Fisher

Childhood in a Welsh Mining Valley, A

By Vivian Jones

Erasmus Darwin: Sex, Science, and Serendipity

By Patricia Fara (Director of Studies in HPS, Fellow, Clare College, Cambridge)

Daughters of Britannia: The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives

By Hickman, Katie

The Times Queen Elizabeth II: Commemorating her life and reign 1926 - 2022

By James Owen, Times Books