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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

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