 | White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in 18th-Century India: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-century India by William Dalrymple
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 A good introduction to the period and a lovely story too
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 | The Kindness of Strangers : The Autobiography by Kate Adie
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 Fabulous life of a woman that I admire greatly
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 | Setting the Desert on Fire: T.E. Lawrence and Britain's Secret War in Arabia, 1916-18 by James Barr
Buy used from: £5.00 A well written and gripping book that taught me so much about the relationship between East and West in this period
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 | Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin
Buy new: £7.66 / Used from: £2.98 Not so recent, but my wife's favourite!
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 | Lady Hester by Lorna Gibb
Buy new: £6.00 / Used from: £1.48 My wife bought this, we both loved it. More than just a bio, this really helps the reader understand the background to some of the current conflicts in the Middle East
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 | Napoleon In Egypt: The Greatest Glory by Paul Strathern
Buy new: £17.00 / Used from: £8.17 Exciting and detailed, well worth the effort
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 | 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro
Buy new: £6.01 / Used from: £0.40 Very original look and the best bio I've read on the bard. Shapiro writes as well as a novelist
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 | Beethoven: The Music and the Life by L Lockwood
Buy new: £9.24 / Used from: £5.99 A good solid bio of the great man
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 | Hitler, 1936-1945: Nemesis (Allen Lane History) by Ian Kershaw
Buy new: £10.49 / Used from: £5.98 Horrible, fascinating...
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 | A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr
As the review said the sad victory 'of shopping over politics'. Insightful and great to read
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 | The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
Buy new: £9.06 / Used from: £6.23 Fisk at his usual insightful best.
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 | The Islamist: Why I joined radical Islam in Britain, what I saw inside and why I left by Ed Husain
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £2.12 A personal look at something of very public concern. A real eye opener.
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