
The Founding Fathers
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The Founding Fathers is a concise, accessible overview of the brilliant, flawed, and quarrelsome...

The Great Train Robbery: The Untold Story from the Closed Investigation Files
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The Great Train Robbery of 1963 is one of the most infamous crimes in British history. The bulk of...

Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens
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'I know why I'm doing all this,' I said. 'Everything I do in life is trying to get her back. I think...

Byng of Vimy: General and Governor General
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Field-Marshal the Viscount Byng of Vimy did not fit into a conventional mould in the Army, as...

Chance Witness: An Outsider's Life in Politics
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Chance Witness by Matthew Parris - a hilarious and fascinating portrait of life in politics, from...

Chasing Conrad: A Tale of the Sea and a Glimpse into the Abyss
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Simon Hall's second book is set in the mid-1970s during the closing years of the golden age of...

Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands
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'This is a miracle of a book' George Lamming 'Compelling. Stuart Hall's story is the story of an...

Jonas Kaufmann: The Authorised Biography: In Conversation with
Anthea Bell, Thomas Voigt and Felicity Bryan
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'The most sought-after tenor in the world', the greatest tenor of today', 'the new king of tenors' -...

Letters from the Trenches: The First World War by Those Who Were There
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A history of the First World War told through the letters exchanged by ordinary British soldiers and...

Lewis Hamilton: The Biography
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Lewis Hamilton is the record-breaking young British hero of Formula 1. His phenomenal debut season...