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As Green as Grass: Growing Up Before, During & After the Second World War

By Smith, Emma

The Last Journey of William Huskisson

By Garfield, Simon

Knowledge is Power: How Magic, the Government and an Apocalyptic Vision Helped Francis Bacon to Create Modern Science

By Henry, John

'THE WRECKERS: A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights and Plundered Ships

By Bathurst, Bella

The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man who Measured London

By Jardine, Lisa

South from Granada

By Brenan, Gerald

The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain: Writings 1989-2009

By Jack, Ian

The Long and Winding Road

By Johnson, Alan

By the Moon and the Stars

By Hayman, Eva

Truth, Dare or Promise: Girls Growing Up in the Fifties

By Heron, Liz

I Am Because You Are: How the Spirit of Ubuntu Inspired an Unlikely Friendship and Transformed a Community

By Jacob Lief, Andrea Thompson

The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws

By Drabble

A House Unlocked

By Lively, Penelope

Rodinsky's Room

By Sinclair, Iain, Lichtenstein, Rachel

Killing Karoline

By King, Sara-Jayne

My Traitor's Heart: Blood and Bad Dreams: A South African Explores the Madness in His Country, His Tribe and Himself

By Malan, Rian

My Own Story: Inspiration for the major motion picture Suffragette

By Pankhurst, Emmeline

LOUISE MICHEL (Rebel Lit)

By Maclellan, Nic

Ingenious Women

By Jaffe, Deborah

Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender

By Krieger, Nick

Life on the Mississippi (Penguin Classics)

By Twain, Mark, Cox, James

Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life

By Rubin, Gretchen

On Hitler's Mountain

By Hunt

The Hacienda: How Not to Run a Club

By Peter Hook

King Of The Gypsies

By Bartey Gorman, Peter Walsh

Disraeli: A Brief Life

By Paul Smith

12 Years a Slave: A True Story of Betrayal, Kidnap and Slavery

By Solomon Northup

Rat Pack Confidential: Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter,Joey & the last great showbix party: Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter, Joey and the Last Great Showbiz Party

By Levy, Shawn, Shawn Levy

The Enlightened Mr. Parkinson: The Pioneering Life of a Forgotten English Surgeon

By Cherry Lewis

Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era

By Ken Emerson