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Non-fiction titles
A Beautiful Mind (bwl17 February 2003)  
A Bigger Prize: How competition isn't everything and WE do better (bwl73 Summer 2014)  
A Bike Ride (bwl10 August 2001)  
A Book of Condolences (bwl2 March 2000)  
A Book of Silence (bwl93 Summer 2019)  
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes (bwl88 Spring 2018)  
A Cack-Handed War (bwl63 Winter 2011)  
A Child Of The Forest (bwl15 October 2002)  
A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary 1939-1940 (bwl87 Winter 2018)  
A Curious Friendship: The Story of a Bluestocking and a Bright Young Thing (bwl91 Winter 2019)  
A Day Like Today (bwl95 Winter 2020)  
A Face to the World: on self portraits (bwl58 Autumn 2010)  
A Fish Caught in Time (bwl9 June 2001)  
A Fool and his Money: Life in a Partitioned Medieval Town (bwl70 Autumn 2013)  
A Foreign Field - A True Story of Love and Betrayal in the Great War (bwl18 April 2003)  
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership (bwl89 Summer 2018)  
A Home from Home: from Immigrant Boy to English Man (bwl94 Autumn 2019)  
A House in the Mountains: The Women who liberated Italy from Fascism (bwl104 Spring 2022)  
A House Unlocked (bwl105 Summer 2022)  
A Hundred and One Days - A Baghdad Journal (bwl33 February 2006)  
A Journey to Station X: The Story of Bletchley Park (bwl92 Spring 2019)  
A Life Discarded: 148 Diaries Found in a Skip (bwl82 Autumn 2016)  
A Life in Our Times (bwl34 April 2006)  
A Life in Secrets (bwl43 December 2007)  
A Life of my Own (bwl86 Autumn 2017)  
A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the struggle that shaped the Middle East (bwl66 Autumn 2012)  
A Little History of Poetry (bwl99 Winter 2021)  
A Little History of the World (bwl35 July 2006)  
A Long Way Gone - The true story of a child soldier (bwl45 April 2008)  
A Mad World, My Masters (bwl12 January 2002)  
A Notable Woman: The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt (bwl82 Autumn 2016)  
A Parrot in the Pepper Tree (bwl15 October 2002)  
A Prison Diary: Belmarsh: Hell; Wayland: Purgatory & North Sea Camp: Heaven (bwl62 Autumn 2011)  
A Promised Land (bwl100 Spring 2021)  
A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-life Adventures in Sex and Romance (bwl75 Winter 2015)  
A Royal Affair - George III and His Troublesome Siblings (bwl42 October 2007)  
A Separate Creation - How Biology Makes Us Gay (bwl44 February 2008)  
A Shepherd's Watch - Through the seasons with one man and his dogs (bwl48 November 2008)  
A Short History of Nearly Everything (bwl21 November 2003)  
A Short History of the World According to Sheep (bwl102 Autumn 2021)  
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (bwl14 June 2002)  
A Spy Named Orphan: The enigma of Donald McClean (bwl92 Spring 2019)  
A Strange Eventful History - The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and Their Remarkable Families (bwl48 November 2008)  
A Stranger in Italy (bwl62 Autumn 2011)  
A Time of Gifts (bwl20 September 2003)  
A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water (bwl33 February 2006)  
A Turbulent Decade - 1976-1985 - The Diaries of Auberon Waugh (bwl46 June 2008)  
A Tuscan Childhood (bwl1 January 2000)  
A Valley in Italy (bwl1 January 2000)  
A Venetian Bestiary (bwl45 April 2008)  
A Very English Scandal:Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment (bwl87 Winter 2018)  
A Walk in the Woods (bwl30 June 2005)  
A Widow's Story: A Memoir (bwl62 Autumn 2011)  
A Wild Herb Soup (bwl96 Spring 2020)  
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of Virginia Hall, WWII's Most Dangerous Spy (bwl100 Spring 2021)  
A year in Monchique (bwl57 Summer 2010)  
Accidence (Shall) Will Happen: the non-pedantic guide to English Usage (bwl80 Spring 2016)  
Admiral Collingwood - Nelson's Own Hero (bwl33 February 2006)  
Admissions: A Life in Brain Surgery (bwl86 Autumn 2017)  
Adventures of a Wanderer (bwl23 April 2004)  
After Europe (bwl85 Summer 2017)  
Against the Tide (bwl110 Autumn 2023)  
Against Type: The Biography Of Burt Lancaster (bwl57 Summer 2010)  
Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy (bwl98 Autumn 2020)  
Agent Zigzag: the Story of Eddie Chapman (bwl45 April 2008)  
Alex Through the Looking-Glass: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life (bwl73 Summer 2014)  
All of these People (bwl96 Spring 2020)  
Alone of all her Sex (bwl4 July 2000)  
Am I a Chap? (bwl66 Autumn 2012)  
American Journey: Life on the Home Front in the Second World War (bwl39 April 2007)  
American Scream - The Bill Hicks Story (bwl48 November 2008)  
Americans in Paris: Life and Death under Nazi occupation 1940-1944 (bwl81 Summer 2016)  
Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A Life in Time (bwl75 Winter 2015)  
An Accidental MP (bwl15 October 2002)  
An Accidental MP (bwl5 October 2000)  
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (bwl83 Winter 2017)  
An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science (bwl105 Summer 2022)  
An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo (bwl69 Summer 2013)  
An Estate of Memory (bwl5 October 2000)  
An Improbable Life (bwl95 Winter 2020)  
An Italian Education (bwl10 August 2001)  
An Uncertain Hour - The French, The Germans, The Jews, The Klaus Barbie Trial, and the City of Lyon, 1940-1945 (bwl38 February 2007)  
An Uneasy Inheritance (bwl110 Autumn 2023)  
Anatomy of the Wine Trade - Abe's Sardines and Other Stories (bwl21 November 2003)  
And Finally, Matters of Life and Death (bwl107 Winter 2023)  
And The Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris (bwl65 Summer 2012)  
Anger is an Energy: My Life Uncensored (bwl81 Summer 2016)  
Angry White Pyjamas - An Oxford Poet Trains with the Tokyo Riot Police (bwl14 July 2002)  
Another Day in the Death of America: 24 Hours. 8 States. 10 Young Lives Lost to Gun Violence (bwl85 Summer 2017)  
Answered Prayers:England and the 1966 World Cup (bwl110 Autumn 2023)  
Antigona and Me (bwl56 Spring 2010)  
Anzio: The Friction of War - Italy and the Battle for Rome 1944 (bwl51 May 2009)  
Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the road to war (bwl94 Autumn 2019)  
Are you Dave Gorman? (bwl52 July 2009)  
Ariel: A Literary Life of Jan Morris (bwl83 Winter 2017)  
Arlott, Swanton and the Soul of English Cricket (bwl89 Summer 2018)  
Army of Roses - The Inside World of Women Suicide Bombers (bwl26 October 2004)  
Artist's Handbook of Materials & Techniques, The (bwl11 October 2001)  
At Home with the Marquis de Sade (bwl13 April 2002)  
At Home: Short History of Private Life (bwl73 Summer 2014)  
At Home: A short history of private life (bwl62 Autumn 2011)  
At the Existentialist CafĂ©: Freedom, Being and Apricot Cocktails (bwl86 Autumn 2017)  
At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being and Apricot Cocktails (bwl80 Spring 2016)  
At The Waters Edge: Fish With Fingers Whales With Legs . . . (bwl53 September 2009)  
Attlee and Churchill (bwl96 Spring 2020)  
Attlee: A Life in Politics (bwl62 Autumn 2011)  
August 1914 (bwl72 Spring 2014)  
Auto da Fay (bwl22 February 2004)