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- Top Ten Non-Fiction Books To Make You Think
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- 101 Places in Italy : A Private Grand Tour by Francis Russell
- 1415: Henry V's Year of Glory by Ian Mortimer
- 1815: Regency Britain in the Year of Waterloo by Stephen Bates
- 1864: The forgotten war that shaped modern Europe by Tom Buk-Swienty
- 1912: The Year the World Discovered Antarctica by Chris Turney
- 1916: A Global History by Keith Jeffery
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A
- Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89 by Rodric Braithwaite
- The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind by A C Grayling
- All in a Don's Day by Mary Beard
- Allotments (Britain's Heritage Series) by Twigs Way
- Amazing Tales for Making Men Out of Boys by Neil Oliver
- American Caesars: Lives of the US Presidents, from Franklin D Roosevelt to George W Bush by Nigel Hamilton
- The American Civil War by John Keegan
- The American Future: A History by Simon Schama
- The American Presidents in 100 Facts by Jem Duducu
- The Ancient Greeks: Ten Ways They Shaped the Modern World by Edith Hall
- The Ancient Guide to Modern Life by Natalie Haynes
- Ancient Worlds by Michael Scott
- The Anglo-Saxon Age: The Birth of England by Martin Wall
- The Anglo-Saxons in 100 Facts by Martin Wall
- Anonymity by John Mullan
- Another Sky: Voices of Conscience from Around the World by Lucy Popescu and Carole Seymour-Jones
- Anti-Judaism: A History of a Way of Thinking by David Nirenberg
- Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives!: A World without World War I by Richard Ned Lebow
- Armchair Nation: An intimate history of Britain in front of the TV by Joe Moran
- Arthur and the Kings of Britain: The Historical Truth Behind the Myths by Miles Russell
- Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and Devon: A Complete Tour Guide and Companion by Brian W Pugh, Paul R Spiring and Sadru Bhanji
- The Artist, The Philosopher and The Warrior by Paul Strathern
- The Assassination of JFK Minute by Minute by Jonathan Mayo
- The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Murder That Changed the World by Greg King and Sue Woolmans
- At The Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being and Apricot Cocktails by Sarah Bakewell
- Axis Sally: The American Voice of Nazi Germany by Richard Lucas
B
- The Baader-Meinhof Complex by Stefan Aust
- Bath Times and Nursery Rhymes by Pam Weaver
- The Battle of the Styles: Society, Culture and the Design of a new Foreign Office, 1855 - 61 by Bernard Porter
- Battle Royal: The Wars of Lancaster and York, 1450-1464 (Wars of the Roses Book 1) by Hugh Bicheno
- The Beauty and the Sorrow: An intimate history of the first world war by Peter Englund
- The Beauty of Her Age: A Tale of Sex, Scandal and Money in Victorian England by Jenifer Roberts
- Becoming Queen by Kate Williams
- Bedlam: London and Its Mad by Catharine Arnold
- Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler's Capital, 1939-45 by Roger Moorhouse
- Berlin in the Cold War: 1959 to 1966 by Allan Hailstone
- Birds in a Cage by Derek Niemann
- Birthright: The True Story That Inspired Kidnapped by A.Roger Ekirch
- The Black Count: Glory, revolution, betrayal and the real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
- Blades of Grass by Mark Aylwin Thomas
- Blood River by Tim Butcher
- Blood Royal: The Wars of Lancaster and York, 1462-1485 (Wars of the Roses Book 2) by Hugh Bicheno
- Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
- The Bloody White Baron by James Palmer
- Blue China by Bamboo Hirst
- Bomber County by Daniel Swift
- The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe and Anthony Bale (editor)
- Books that Changed the World: The 50 Most Influential Books in Human History by Andrew Taylor
- Born in Siberia by Tamara Astafieva, Michael Darlow and Debbie Slater
- The Boy Who Would Be Shakespeare by Doug Stewart
- The Boys In The Boat: An Epic Journey to the Heart of Hitler's Berlin by Daniel James Brown
- The Bridge by Geert Mak
- Brief Lives by John Aubrey
- Bright Young Things by Alison Maloney
- Britannia Obscura: Mapping Britain's Hidden Landscapes by Joanne Parker
- A British Lion in Zululand by William Wright
- The British Phonebox by Nigel Linge and Andy Sutton
- A Broken World: Letters, diaries and memories of the Great War by Sebastian Faulks and Hope Wolf
- Brothers in War by Michael Walsh
- Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years by David Talbot
- The Burma Campaign: Disaster into Triumph 1942-45 by Frank McLynn
- Burma: A Nation at the Crossroads by Benedict Rogers
- Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
- The Button Box by Lynn Knight
C
- The Cage by Gordon Weiss
- Calamities and Catastrophes: The Ten Absolutely Worst Years in History by Derek Wilson
- Calories and Corsets: A history of dieting over two thousand years by Louise Foxcroft
- The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide by Emma Smith
- Can I Come Home, Please? by Phil Robins
- Canton Elegy: A Father's Letter of Sacrifice, Survival and Love by Stephen Jin-Nom Lee and Howard Webster
- Capital Crimes: Seven centuries of London life and murder by Max Decharne
- Capital Punishment: London's Places of Execution by Robert Bard
- The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future by Robert Darnton
- Cathedrals and Abbeys (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts) by Stephen Halliday
- Catherine of Aragon: An Intimate Life of Henry VIII's True Wife by Amy Licence
- Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K Massie
- Caught in the Revolution by Helen Rappaport
- CDC: The happy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena' by Hans Bodmer
- Charging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car by Clive Wilkinson
- Charles Brandon: Henry VIII's Closest Friend by Steven Gunn
- Cheek by Jowl: A History of Neighbours by Emily Cockayne
- Chopin's Funeral by Benita Eisler
- Churchill's Bunker: The Secret Headquarters at the Heart of Britain's Victory by Richard Holmes
- Churchill's Children: The Evacuee Experience in Wartime Britain by John Welshman
- Clara Colby: The International Suffragist by John Holliday
- Clara's War by Clara Kramer
- The Classic Guide to Famous Assassinations (Classic Guides) by Sarah Herman
- Clean: An Unsanitised History of Washing by Katherine Ashenburg
- Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
- The Colonel by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
- The Colosseum by Keith Hopkins and Mary Beard
- The Comic Strip History of the World by Sally Kindberg and Tracey Turner
- A Concise History of Russia by Paul Bushkovitch
- A Corkscrew is Most Useful: The Travellers of Empire by Nicholas Murray
- The Crime and the Silence by Anna Bikont
- The Crooked Timber Of Humanity by Isaiah Berlin
- The Cruise of Naromis: August in the Baltic 1939 by G A Jones
- The Crusades: The War for the Holy Land by Thomas Asbridge
D
- Da Vinci's Ghost: The untold story of Vitruvian Man by Toby Lester
- Dancing to the Precipice : Lucie De La Tour Du Pin and the French Revolution by Caroline Moorehead
- The Dangerous Book of Heroes by Conn Iggulden and David Iggulden
- Darwin's Armada: Four Voyagers to the Southern Oceans and Their Battle for the Theory of Evolution by Iain McCalman
- Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins by Adrian Desmond and James Moore
- Dear Mr Bigelow: A Transatlantic Friendship by Frances Woodsford
- Death and the Virgin: Elizabeth, Dudley and the Mysterious Fate of Amy Robsart by Chris Skidmore
- Death in the Baltic: The World War II Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff by Cathryn J Prince
- Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of the Information Age by Adrian Johns
- The Death of Mao: The Tangshan Earthquake and the Birth of the New China by James Palmer
- Deep Thought: 42 Fantastic Quotes that Define Philosophy by Gary Cox
- Defeating Hitler: Whitehall's Top Secret Report on Why Hitler Lost the War by Paul Winter
- Defending the Motherland: The Soviet Women Who Fought Hitler's Aces by Lyuba Vinogradova and Arch Tait (translator)
- Defiance by Nechama Tec
- Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes by Tamim Ansary
- Destiny in the Desert: The Road to El Alamein - the Battle that Turned the Tide by Jonathan Dimbleby
- The Diaries of Nella Last: Writing in War and Peace by Patricia Malcolmson and Robert Malcolmson (Editors)
- The Diary of Lena Mukhina: A Girl's Life in the Siege of Leningrad by Lena Mukhina and Amanda Love Darragh (translator)
- Did We Meet on Grub Street? by Emma Tennant, Hilary Bailey and David Elliott
- Dillinger's Wild Ride: The Year That Made America's Public Enemy Number One by Elliott J Gorn
- Dinner with Churchill: The Prime Minister's Tabletop Diplomacy by Cita Stelzer
- The Divorce of Henry VIII: The Untold Story by Catherine Fletcher
- Divorced, Beheaded, Died...: The History of Britain's Kings and Queens in Bite-Sized Chunks by Kevin Flude
- Dot-Dash To Dot.Com by Andrew Wheen
- The Double Cross System by J C Masterman
- Down to the Sea in Ships by Horatio Clare
- Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?: Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers and Empire by Claire Pettitt
- Dragons: Ten Entrepreneurs Who Built Britain by Liam Byrne
- Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World by Wade Graham
- Dubai: The Story of the World's Fastest City by Jim Krane
- Dynasties: Fortune and Misfortune in the World's Great Family Businesses by David Landes
E
- The Early Loves of Anne Boleyn by Josephine Wilkinson
- Edgelands by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts
- Edward IV: Glorious Son of York by Jeffrey James
- Edward VI: The Lost King of England by Chris Skidmore
- Egyptian Dawn: Exposing the Real Truth Behind Ancient Egypt by Robert Temple
- Egyptomania: Our Three Thousand Year Obsession with the Land of the Pharaohs by Bob Brier
- Ekaterinburg: The Last Days of the Romanovs by Helen Rappaport
- Elbow Grease: How our Grandmothers and Great-Grandmothers Kept House by Jacqueline Percival
- Electric Shock: From the Gramophone to the iPhone - 125 Years of Pop by Peter Doggett
- Elizabeth of York by Alison Weir
- Elizabeth's Women: The Hidden Story of the Virgin Queen by Tracy Borman
- Empire of the Sun by J G Ballard
- An Empire on the Edge by Nick Bunker
- Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British by Jeremy Paxman
- Empress Dowager Cixi by Jung Chang
- Enemies of Books by William Blades, Randolph G. Adams, Bagher Bachchha (Editor)
- The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe by Andrew Wheatcroft
- The English Civil War in 100 Facts by Andrew Lacey
- Escape from the Nazis: The Incredible and Inspiring Saga of Two Young Jews on the Run in World War II Poland by Benjamin Mandelkern
- Everyday Life in Tudor London: Life in the City of Thomas Cromwell, William Shakespeare & Anne Boleyn by Stephen Porter
- An Exclusive Love by Johanna Adorjan
- Exodus From the Alamo by Phillip Thomas Tucker
- The Explorer Gene by Tom Cheshire
F
- The Family of Richard III by Michael Hicks
- The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy by Tim Pat Coogan
- Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen
- Farewell To The East End by Jennifer Worth
- The Fears of Henry IV: The Life of England's Self-Made King by Ian Mortimer
- A Fiery and Furious People: A History of Violence in England by James Sharpe
- Fighting on the Home Front: The Legacy of Women in World War One by Kate Adie
- Finding Poland by Matthew Kelly
- The First Atlantic Liner: Brunel's Great Western Steamship by Helen Doe
- The First Bohemians: Life and Art in London's Golden Age by Vic Gatrell
- First Class: A History of Britain in 36 Postage Stamps by Chris West
- The First Crusade: The Call from the East by Peter Frankopan
- The First Emperor of China by Frances Wood
- The First Ladies of Rome: The Women Behind the Caesars by Annelise Freisenbruch
- Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London by Lauren Elkin
- Flights for Freedom by Steven Burgauer
- For College, Club & Country - A History of Clifton Rugby Football Club by Patrick Casey and Richard I Hale
- For Honour and Fame: Chivalry in England 1066-1500 by Nigel Saul
- For King and Country: Voices from the First World War by Brian MacArthur
- For the Love of Letters: The Joy of Slow Communication by John O'Connell
- The Forbidden City by Geremie R Barme
- Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin
- Forgotten History: Unbelievable Moments from the Past by Jem Duducu
- The Fourteenth Day: JFK and the Aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis by David G Coleman
- The Fourth of July: And the Founding of America by Peter De Bolla
- The Fourth Part of the World: The Epic Story of History's Greatest Map by Toby Lester
- Franco's Crypt: Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936 by Jeremy Treglown
