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A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar (bwl17)  
A Bigger Prize: How competition isn't everything and WE do better by Margaret Hefferman (bwl73)  
A Bike Ride by Anne Mustoe (bwl10)  
A Book of Condolences by Harding Dyson (bwl2)  
A Book of Silence by Sara Maitland (bwl93)  
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes by Adam Rutherford (bwl88)  
A Cack-Handed War by Edward Blishen (bwl63)  
A Child Of The Forest by Winifred Foley (bwl15)  
A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary 1939-1940 by Iris Origo (bwl87)  
A Curious Friendship: The Story of a Bluestocking and a Bright Young Thing by Anna Tomasson (bwl91)  
A Day Like Today by John Humphrys (bwl95)  
A Face to the World: on self portraits by Laura Cumming (bwl58)  
A Fish Caught in Time by Samantha Weinberg (bwl9)  
A Fool and his Money: Life in a Partitioned Medieval Town by Ann Wroe (bwl70)  
A Foreign Field - A True Story of Love and Betrayal in the Great War by Ben Macintyre (bwl18)  
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership by James Comey (bwl89)  
A History of the World by Andrew Marr (bwl115)  
A Home from Home: from Immigrant Boy to English Man by George Alagiah (bwl94)  
A House in the Mountains: The Women who liberated Italy from Fascism by Caroline Moorhead (bwl104)  
A House Unlocked by Penelope Lively (bwl105)  
A Hundred and One Days - A Baghdad Journal by Asne Seierstad (bwl33)  
A Journey to Station X: The Story of Bletchley Park by Michael A Kushner (bwl92)  
A Life Discarded: 148 Diaries Found in a Skip by Alexander Masters (bwl82)  
A Life in Our Times by John Kenneth Galbraith (bwl34)  
A Life in Secrets by Sarah Helm (bwl43)  
A Life of my Own by Clare Tomalin (bwl86)  
A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the struggle that shaped the Middle East by James Barr (bwl66)  
A Little History of Poetry by John Carey (bwl99)  
A Little History of the World by E H Gombrich (bwl35)  
A Long Way Gone - The true story of a child soldier by Ishmael Beah (bwl45)  
A Mad World, My Masters by John Simpson (bwl12)  
A Notable Woman: The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt by edited by Simon Garfield (bwl82)  
A Parrot in the Pepper Tree by Chris Stewart (bwl15)  
A Prison Diary: Belmarsh: Hell; Wayland: Purgatory & North Sea Camp: Heaven by Jeffrey Archer (bwl62)  
A Promised Land by Barack Obama (bwl100)  
A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-life Adventures in Sex and Romance by Jane Juska (bwl75)  
A Royal Affair - George III and His Troublesome Siblings by Stella Tillyard (bwl42)  
A Separate Creation - How Biology Makes Us Gay by Chandler Burr (bwl44)  
A Shepherd's Watch - Through the seasons with one man and his dogs by David Kennard (bwl48)  
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (bwl21)  
A Short History of the World According to Sheep by Sally Coulthard (bwl102)  
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby (bwl14)  
A Spy Named Orphan: The enigma of Donald McClean by Roland Philipps (bwl92)  
A Strange Eventful History - The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and Their Remarkable Families by Michael Holroyd (bwl48)  
A Stranger in Italy by Hubert Kubly (bwl62)  
A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor (bwl20)  
A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water by Patrick Leigh Fermor (bwl33)  
A Turbulent Decade - 1976-1985 - The Diaries of Auberon Waugh by Auberon Waugh (bwl46)  
A Tuscan Childhood by Kinta Beevor (bwl1)  
A Valley in Italy by Lisa St Aubin de Teran (bwl1)  
A Venetian Bestiary by Jan Morris (bwl45)  
A Very English Scandal:Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment by John Preston (bwl87)  
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (bwl30)  
A Widow's Story: A Memoir by Joyce Carol Oates (bwl62)  
A Wild Herb Soup by Emile Carles (bwl96)  
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of Virginia Hall, WWII's Most Dangerous Spy by Sonia Purnell (bwl100)  
A year in Monchique by Paul McKay (bwl57)  
Accidence (Shall) Will Happen: the non-pedantic guide to English Usage by Oliver Kamm (bwl80)  
Admiral Collingwood - Nelson's Own Hero by Max Adams (bwl33)  
Admissions: A Life in Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh (bwl86)  
Adventures of a Wanderer by Sydney Powell (bwl23)  
After Europe by Ivan Krastev (bwl85)  
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich 1945-1955 by Harald Jahner (bwl117)  
Against the Tide by Roger Scruton (bwl110)  
Against Type: The Biography Of Burt Lancaster by Gary Fishgall (bwl57)  
Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy by Ben MacIntyre (bwl98)  
Agent Zigzag: the Story of Eddie Chapman by Ben Macintyre (bwl45)  
Alex Through the Looking-Glass: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life by Alex Bellos (bwl73)  
All of these People by Fergal Keane (bwl96)  
All the Beauty in the World by Patrick Bringley (bwl117)  
Alone of all her Sex by Marina Warner (bwl4)  
Am I a Chap? by Gustav Temple (bwl66)  
American Journey: Life on the Home Front in the Second World War by Alistair Cooke (bwl39)  
American Scream - The Bill Hicks Story by Cynthia True (bwl48)  
Americans in Paris: Life and Death under Nazi occupation 1940-1944 by Charles Glass (bwl81)  
Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A Life in Time by Penelope Lively (bwl75)  
An Accidental MP by Martin Bell (bwl5)  
An Accidental MP by Martin Bell (bwl15)  
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson (bwl83)  
An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science by Edward J Larson (bwl105)  
An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo by Richard Davenport-Hines (bwl69)  
An Estate of Memory by Ilona Karmel (bwl5)  
An Improbable Life by Trevor McDonald (bwl95)  
An Italian Education by Tim Parks (bwl10)  
An Uncertain Hour - The French, The Germans, The Jews, The Klaus Barbie Trial, and the City of Lyon, 1940-1945 by Ted Morgan (bwl38)  
An Uneasy Inheritance by Polly Toynbee (bwl110)  
Anatomy of the Wine Trade - Abe's Sardines and Other Stories by Simon Loftus (bwl21)  
And Finally, Matters of Life and Death by Henry Marsh (bwl107)  
And The Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris by Alan Riding (bwl65)  
Anger is an Energy: My Life Uncensored by John Lydon (bwl81)  
Angry White Pyjamas - An Oxford Poet Trains with the Tokyo Riot Police by Robert Twigger (bwl14)  
Another Day in the Death of America: 24 Hours. 8 States. 10 Young Lives Lost to Gun Violence by Gary Younge (bwl85)  
Answered Prayers:England and the 1966 World Cup by Duncan Hamilton (bwl110)  
Antigona and Me by Kate Clanchy (bwl56)  
Anzio: The Friction of War - Italy and the Battle for Rome 1944 by Lloyd Clark (bwl51)  
Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the road to war by Tim Bouverie (bwl94)  
Are you Dave Gorman? by Dave Gorman (bwl52)  
Argo:How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History by Antonio Mendez (bwl113)  
Ariel: A Literary Life of Jan Morris by Derek Johns (bwl83)  
Arlott, Swanton and the Soul of English Cricket by David Kynaston and Stephen Fay (bwl89)  
Army of Roses - The Inside World of Women Suicide Bombers by Barbara Victor (bwl26)  
Artist's Handbook of Materials & Techniques, The by Ralph Mayer (bwl11)  
Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women they Destroyed by Maureen Callahan (bwl114)  
At Home with the Marquis de Sade by Francine du Plessix Gray (bwl13)  
At Home: Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson (bwl73)  
At Home: A short history of private life by Bill Bryson (bwl62)  
At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being and Apricot Cocktails by Sarah Bakewell (bwl86)  
At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails by Sarah Bakewell (bwl114)  
At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being and Apricot Cocktails by Sarah Bakewell (bwl80)  
At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails by Sarah Bakewell (bwl116)  
At The Waters Edge: Fish With Fingers Whales With Legs . . . by Carl Zimmer (bwl53)  
Attlee and Churchill by Leo McKinstry (bwl96)  
Attlee: A Life in Politics by Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds (bwl62)  
August 1914 by Barbara Tuchman (bwl72)  
Auto da Fay by Fay Weldon (bwl22)  
Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World by Anne Applebaum (bwl114)