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So Here I Am: Speeches by great women to empower and inspire

By Anna Russell, Camila Pinheiro

Bess of Hardwick

By David N. Durant

Just For One Day: Adventures in Britpop

By Louise Wener

The Sisters of Battle Road: The Extraordinary True Story of Six Sisters Evacuated from Wartime London

By J.M. Maloney

Fire in the Sky: Band 04 Blue/Band 17 Diamond (Collins Big Cat Progress)

By Manning, Mick, Granström, Brita, Collins Big Cat

An Empire Wilderness: Travels into America's Future (Vintage Departures)

By Kaplan, Robert D

1950s Childhood Spangles, Tiddlywinks and The Clitheroe Kid: Spangles, Tiddlywinks and the Clitheroe Kid

By Derek Tait

Kent's Strangest Tales: Extraordinary True Stories: A Very Curious History: Extraordinary but true stories from a very curious county

By Martin Latham, Latham, Martin

The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East

By Fisk, Robert

Lotte's War: Bunkers, Bombs and Barrage Balloons

By Lotte Moore

More Than A Game: The Story of Cricket's Early Years

By John Major

Estuary: Out from London to the Sea

By Rachel Lichtenstein

Quality of Mercy: Cambodia, the Holocaust and Modern Conscience

By William Shawcross

Royalty Inc: Britain's Best-Known Brand

By STEPHEN BATES

One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

By Craig Brown

The Life and Work of Henry Scott Tuke

By Emmanuel Cooper

The Pain and the Privilege: The Women in Lloyd George’s Life

By Hague, Ffion

Hildegard of Bingen: A Visionary Life

By Sabina Flanagan

Venice

By Peter Ackroyd

Heroic Animals: Amazing Creatures that Changed Our World

By Clare Balding

The Final Curtsey: A Royal Memoir by the Queen's Cousin

By Margaret Rhodes

Front Page: Covers of the Twentieth Century

By Raphaele Vidaling

The Thirties: An Intimate History

By Gardiner, Juliet

Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

By William Shawcross

Fathers, Sons and Football

By Colin Shindler

Rosie: Scenes from a Vanished Life

By Rose Tremain

Getting On, Falling Off: From adoption and finding life and love in the Far East to fighting a losing battle with Parkinson's Disease

By Michael Broadbent

Lady Gregory's Toothbrush

By Colm Toibin

Stiff Upper Lip: Secrets, Crimes and the Schooling of a Ruling Class

By Alex Renton

The First Black Footballer: Arthur Wharton 1865-1930: An Absence of Memory

By Phil Vasili