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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

Fred Korematsu Speaks Up

By Laura Atkins, Stan Yogi, Yutaka Houlette

Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Fights and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King Jr's Final Hours (History (US))

By Ann Bausum, National Geographic Kids

The Duel: The Parallel Lives of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr

By Judith St. George

After Gandhi

By ANNE SIBLEY O'BRIEN

The Scottish Enlightenment: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World

By Herman, Arthur

Beyond A Boundary

By James, Cyril Lionel Robert

World War II: The People's Story

By Reader's Digest

William Burges

By Matthew Williams

The Bedford Boys: One Small Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice

By Alex Kershaw