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Ave Maria

Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary

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Lust For Life

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John Adamson

Eyewitness To An Era

Dancing to the Precipice: Lucie de La Tour du Pin and the French Revolution

By Caroline Moorehead

Dominic Sandbrook

Little Boy From Germany

The Kissinger Saga: Walter and Henry Kissinger – Two Brothers from Germany

By Evi Kurz

Allan Massie

Best Of A Bad Lot

Marcus Aurelius: Warrior, Philosopher, Emperor

By Frank McLynn

Nikolai Tolstoy

The Name’s Oggins

The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin’s Secret Service

By Andrew Meier

Patrick O’Connor

Seriously Funny

Chaplin: The Tramp’s Odyssey

By Simon Louvish

Belinda Jack

Poetry, Profit and Loss

Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel

By Edmund White

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Ad Astra

Death and the Author: How D H Lawrence Died, and Was Remembered

By David Ellis

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‘I Am In Hell’

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Francis King

No Man Is An Island

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The Beautiful & Damned

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Whizz! Bang! Wallop!

Science: A Four Thousand Year History

By Patricia Fara

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No Need To Get Heated

Hot Flushes, Cold Science: A History of the Modern Menopause

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John Cornwell

Mysteries Of The Soul

Why Us? How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves

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David Pryce-Jones

Trouble In Palestine

Major Farran's Hat: Murder, Scandal and Britain’s War Against Jewish Terrorism, 1945–1948

By David Cesarani

Maurice Keen

Men At Arms

Divided Houses: Hundred Years War III

By Jonathan Sumption

John Guy

Defender Of The Brand

Selling the Tudor Monarchy: Authority and Image in Sixteenth-Century England

By Kevin Sharpe

Paul Johnson

A Rum Lot

House of Treason: The Rise and Fall of a Tudor Dynasty

By Robert Hutchinson

Simon Heffer

Undermining Tactics

Marching to the Fault Line: The 1984 Miners’ Strike and the Death of Industrial Britain

By Francis Beckett & David Hencke

Jason Burke

Hot Spot

A World of Trouble: America in the Middle East

By Patrick Tyler

Justin Marozzi

Tyranny of Trifles

Stranger to History: A Son’s Journey through Islamic Lands

By Aatish Taseer

Richard Davenport-Hines

The Rest Is Nothing

Florence 1900: The Quest for Arcadia

By Bernd Roeck (Translated by Stewart Spencer)

Brenda Maddox

Ypres On The Liffey

Dublin 1916: The Siege of the GPO

By Clair Wills

Giles FitzHerbert

Chavez & Co

Viva South America! A Journey through a Changing Continent

By Oliver Balch

David Watkin

The Classics

Andrea Palladio: His Life and Legacy

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Allister Heath

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By Paul Collier

Ibn Warraq

Bridging The Divide

The Crisis of Islamic Civilization

By Ali A Allawi

Henrietta Garnett

The Fleshy School

Desperate Romantics: The Private Lives of the Pre-Raphaelites

By Franny Moyle

Jonathan Mirsky

Birds Of High Fashion

Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce

By Sarah Abrevaya Stein

Harry Mount

‘Gay But Not Screaming’

Classified: The Secret History of the Personal Column

By H G Cocks

John Keay

Leaves Of Fortune

For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World’s Favourite Drink

By Sarah Rose

David Profumo

Coccolithophores Galore

Shapes: Nature’s Patterns – A Tapestry in Three Parts

By Philip Ball

Jonathan Beckman

Death And The Maidens

2666

By Roberto Bolaño

Adrian Turpin

Under His Spell

The Women

By T C Boyle

Toby Lichtig

Going Nowhere Fast

Journey Into Space

By Toby Litt

Gill Hornby

Only The Lonely

Strangers

By Anita Brookner

Andrew Robinson

Bombay Raga

The Immortals

By Amit Chaudhuri

Andrew Barrow

Death On The Tracks

Cold Blood

By James Fleming

Amanda Craig

From Nagasaki to 9/11

Burnt Shadows

By Kamila Shamsie

Richard Godwin

Tower Tales

Ten Storey Love Song

By Richard Milward

Thomas Marks

Thomas Marks On Four First Novels

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