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Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters

By Laura Thompson

One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

By Craig Brown

Audacity to Believe

By Sheila Cassidy

City Of Djinns: A Year In Delhi

By William Dalrymple

Edison and the Electric Chair

By Mark Essig

Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940-45

By Max Hastings

Negroland: A Memoir

By Margo Jefferson

Out of the Shadow of a Giant: How Newton Stood on the Shoulders of Hooke and Halley

By John Gribbin, Mary Gribbin

Free At Last: The Story of Martin Luther King, Jr.

By DK

The Good Ally

By Nova Reid

A Voice in the Wilderness: A Pioneering Biologist Explains How Evolution Can Help Us Solve Our Biggest Problems

By Joseph L Graves Jr

The Roman Republic (Fontana History of the Ancient World)

By Crawford, Michael

The Truth About Muhammad: Founder of the World's Most Intolerant Religion

By Robert Spencer

Bloody Foreigners: The Story of Immigration to Britain

By Robert Winder

A.J. Ayer: A Life

By Ben Rogers

The Magicians: Great Minds and the Central Miracle of Science

By Chown, Marcus

Breakthrough: Spectacular stories of scientific discovery from the Higgs particle to black holes

By Marcus Chown

How to Own the Room: Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking

By Groskop, Viv

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

By Rebecca Hall, Hugo Martinez

Rosie: Scenes from a Vanished Life

By Rose Tremain

Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties

By Lucy Moore

Gods of Noonday: A White Girl's African Life

By Elaine Neil Orr

Emily Wilding Davison

By Lucy Fisher

God's Callgirl

By Van Raay, Carla

"Are You Strong, Lass?": "You'll Need to be Working Here...: Memoirs from a 1970s Yorkshire Classroom

By Kath Padgett

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

By David W. Blight

London In The Nineteenth Century: 'A Human Awful Wonder of God'

By Jerry White

Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America

By Michael Eric Dyson

February 1933: The Winter of Literature

By Uwe Wittstock, Daniel Bowles

Ulendo: Claude's African Journey into War and Passion

By Malcolm Alexander, Archbishop Desmond Tutu