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France: A history from Gaul to de Gaulle By John Julius Norwich £17.49

Left Bank: Art, Passion and the rebirth of Paris, 1940-50 By Agnes Poirier £16.50

The Birth of the RAF 1918: The World's first air force By Richard Overy £10.25

Behemoth: A history of the factory and the making of the modern world By Joshua B Freeman £17.46

Berlin 1936: Sixteen days in August By Oliver Hilms, Trans. Jefferson Chase £12.19

Medieval Bodies: Life, death and art in the Middle Ages By Jack Hartnell £14.84

Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, resistance and struggle to liberate Europe By Gordon Corera £13.92

Francis I: The Maker of Modern France By Leonie Frieda £17.38

Brit(ish): On race, identity and belonging By Afua Hirsch £11.88

Unmasked: A memoir By Andrew Lloyd Webber £13.88

A good time to be a girl: Don't lean in, change the system By Helena Morrissey £9.68

Meghan: A Hollywood Princess By Andrew Morton £14.62

The Cost of Living By Deborah Levy £8.27

A Tokyo Romance: A memoir By Ian Buruma £11.66

Somebody I used to know By Wendy Mitchell with Anna Wharton £11.17

To Throw Away Unopened By Viv Albertine £10.48

Educated By Tara Westover £9.44

Napoleon Volume 2: The Spirit of the Age By Michael Broers £19.38

Napoleon: Passion, Death and Resurrection 1815-1840 By Philip Dwyer £16.63

Rosie: Scenes from a vanished life By Rose Tremain £9.51

Painter to the King By Amy Sackville £10.48

The Executor By Blake Morrison £12.80

The Friendly Ones By Philip Hensher £9.85

The Trick to Time By Kit De Waal £9.28

Upstate By James Wood £9.65

Whistler's Mother: Portrait of an extraordinary life By Daniel E Sutherland and Georgia Toutziari £15.60

Mothers: An essay on love and cruelty By Jacqueline Rose £9

Writers and their Mothers edited by Dale Salwak £13.50

The Unmapped Mind: A memoir of neurology, incurable disease and learning how to live By Christian Doinlan £10.18

Beyond Weird: Why everything you thought you knew about quantum physics is different By Philip Ball £12.19

X and Why: the rules of attraction: why gender still matters By Tom Whipple £6.98

Brainstorm: Detective stories from the world of neurology By Suzanne O'Sullivan £10.40

The Drugs that changed our minds: The history of psychiatry in ten treatments By Lauren Slater £14.68

Enlightenment Now: The case for reason, science, humanism and progress By Steven Pinker £14.26

Rise up women: The remarkable lives of the suffragettes By Diane Atkinson £17.52

Hearts and Minds: The Untold Story of the great pilgrimage and how women won the vote By Jane Robinson £12.49

Death in Ten Minutes: Kitty Marion, Activist, Arsonist, Suffragette By Fern Riddell £17.14

The Secret Barrister: Stories of the law and how it's broken By The Secret Barrister £10.71

An Inconvenient death: How the establishment covered up the David Kelly Affair By Miles Goslett £11.28

Hired: Six Months undercover in low-wage Britain By James Bloodworth £8.43

Skin in the game: hidden asymetries in Daily Life By Nassim Nicholas Taleb £12.76

A higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership By James Comey £11.67

Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic By David Frum £12.70

Owl Sense By Miriam Darlington £9.93

Arlott Swanton and the soul of English Cricket By Stephen Fay and David Kynaston £13.53

The Wood: The Life and times of Cockshutt Wood By John Lewis-Stempel £10.24

Phantom Architecture By Philip Wilkinson £15.60

Nefertiti's Face: The Creation of an icon By Joyce Tyldesley £12.52

The Old Man and the Sand Eel By Will Millard £9.94

The Goose Road by Rowena House £7.15

Flamingo Boy By Michael Morpurgo £10.34

The Buried Crown By Ally Sherrick £4.98

The Children of Willesden By Mona Golabek and Lee Cohen £5.81

Ruby in the Ruins By Shirley Hughes £9.98

The Day War Came By Nicola Davies £7.20

Plantopedia: A Celebration of Nature's Greatest Show-Offs By Adrienne Barman £10.97

Manhattan Beach By Jennifer Egan £8.50

Endurance: A Year in Space A Lifetime of Discovery By Scott Kelly £8.35

The Idiot By Elif Batuman £6.46


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