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Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle

By Clare Hunter

Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption

By Jennifer Thompson-Cannino, Ronald Cotton

Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen

By Greg Jenner

London: The Concise Biography

By Peter Ackroyd

Old Age Comes at A Bad Time : " Wit And Wisdom For The Young At Heart " t

By Katz, Eliakim

Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle

By Clare Hunter

Short Skirts and Shorthand: Secretaries in the 1970s

By Sarah Shaw

Crowns in a Changing World: The British and European Monarchies, 1901-36

By John Van der Kiste

What's Tha Up To Nah?

By Martyn Johnson

Coronation Cups and Jam Jars: Portrait of an East End Family Through Three Generations

By Ron Barnes

Analogia: The Entangled Destinies of Nature, Human Beings and Machines

By George Dyson

Rose: My Life in Service to Lady Astor

By Rosina Harrison

The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire: Political Leaders From Lenin to Gorbachev

By Volkogonov, Dmitri, Dmitri Volkogonov

Dawn of Art: The Chauvet Cave: the Oldest Known Paintings in the World

By Jean-Marie Chauvet, Eliette Brunel Deschamps, Christian Hillaire, Paul G. Bahn

Dark Skies: A Journey into the Wild Night

By Tiffany Francis-Baker

The New New Journalism: Conversations with America's Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft

By Robert Boynton

Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s

By Jennifer Worth, SRN, SCM

Lady Catherine and the Real Downton Abbey

By The Countess Of Carnarvon

Byrhtnoth: Anglo-Saxon warrior

By John McSween

Storm Command: A Personal Account of the Gulf War

By Gen. Sir Peter de la Billiere

17 Carnations: The Windsors, The Nazis and The Cover-Up

By Andrew Morton

London Made Us: A Memoir of a Shape-Shifting City

By Robert Elms

The King is Dead, Long Live the King!: Majesty, Mourning and Modernity in Edwardian Britain

By Martin Williams

Toxic

By Sarah Ditum

Ancient Greeks (Usborne Beginners) (Beginners Series)

By Turnbull, Stephanie, King, Colin

Sharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries

By Suad Amiry

True Crime: The Infamous Villains of Modern History and their Hideous Crimes

By Martin Fido

In Patagonia

By BRUCE CHATWIN, Nicholas Shakespeare

Annie Oakley

One on One

By Craig Brown