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Non-fiction titles
S P Q R: A History of Ancient Rome (bwl105 Summer 2022)  
Samuel Pepys - The Unequalled Self (bwl18 April 2003)  
Samuel Pepys - The Unequalled Self (bwl30 June 2005)  
Samuel Pepys - The Unequalled Self (bwl34 April 2006)  
Samurai William - The Adventurer who Unlocked Japan (bwl27 December 2004)  
Samurai William: The Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan (bwl71 Winter 2014)  
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (bwl78 Autumn 2015)  
Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest (bwl83 Winter 2017)  
Schott's Food and Drink Miscellany (bwl22 February 2004)  
Schott's Original Miscellany (bwl17 February 2003)  
Seabiscuit - An American Legend (bwl22 February 2004)  
Seahenge: A Quest for Life and Death in Bronze Age Britain (bwl56 Spring 2010)  
Secondhand Time: An Oral History of the Fall of the Soviet Union (bwl79 Winter 2016)  
Secret Knowledge - Rediscovering the lost techniques of the old masters (bwl12 January 2002)  
Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey Into Manhood and Back (bwl57 Summer 2010)  
Selling Hitler: The Story of the Hitler Diaries (bwl66 Autumn 2012)  
Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia (bwl105 Summer 2022)  
Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops (bwl99 Winter 2021)  
Seven Miles of Steel Thistles: Reflections on Fairy Tales (bwl83 Winter 2017)  
Sex, Art and American Culture (bwl40 June 2007)  
Sexual Personae - Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (bwl21 November 2003)  
Shackleton's Journey (bwl77 Summer 2015)  
Shadow of the Silk Road (bwl111 Winter 2022)  
Shadow of the Silk Road (bwl111 Winter 2024)  
Shadowlands: A Journey Through Lost Britain (bwl105 Summer 2022)  
Shakespeare - The World as a Stage (Eminent Lives) (bwl47 September 2008)  
Shakespeare - The Biography (bwl33 February 2006)  
Shakespeare - The Man Who Pays the Rent (bwl111 Winter 2024)  
Shakespeare: The World as a Stage (bwl56 Spring 2010)  
Shockaholic (bwl66 Autumn 2012)  
Shooting History - A Personal Journey (bwl28 February 2005)  
Shoppng, Seduction and Mr. Selfridge: The True Story that Inspired the ITV Drama (bwl68 Spring 2013)  
Short breaks in Northern France (bwl15 October 2002)  
Shrines of Our Lady in England (bwl26 October 2004)  
Shrinking Violets: A Field Guide to Shyness (bwl82 Autumn 2016)  
Sicily (bwl83 Winter 2017)  
Siegfried Sassoon (bwl74 Autumn 2014)  
Sightlines - A Stadium Odyssey (bwl25 August 2004)  
Simple French Cuisine from Provence and Languedoc (bwl3 May 2000)  
Simply Fish (bwl18 April 2003)  
Singled Out - How Two Million Women Survived Without Men After the First World War (bwl48 November 2008)  
Sisters, Secrets and Sacrifice: The True Story of WWII Special Agents (bwl71 Winter 2014)  
Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister (bwl88 Spring 2018)  
Six Wives - The Queens of Henry VIII (bwl26 October 2004)  
Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't be Wrong - what makes the French so French (bwl24 June 2004)  
Slender Thread - The Origins and Development of the English Benedictine mission at Bungay, 1657-2007 (bwl39 April 2007)  
Small Wonder (bwl49 January 2009)  
So Much to Tell: The biography of Kaye Webb (bwl61 Summer 2011)  
Soldaten - On Fighting, Killing and Dying: The Secret Tapes of German POWs (bwl102 Autumn 2021)  
Somebody I Used to Know (bwl92 Spring 2019)  
Somewhere Towards the End (bwl63 Winter 2011)  
Sotheby's - The Inside Story (bwl45 April 2008)  
Sotheby's: Bidding for Class (bwl103 Winter 2022)  
Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare (bwl52 July 2009)  
Spade Among the Rushes (bwl108 Spring 2023)  
Spain in our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War (bwl84 Spring 2017)  
Speaking Out: Lessons in Life and Politics (bwl83 Winter 2017)  
Spike & Co: Inside the House of Fun with Milligan, Sykes, Galton & Simpson (bwl62 Autumn 2011)  
Spineless Wonders - The Joys of Formication (sic! Formication means a sensation of insects crawling on the skin) (bwl36 September 2006)  
Spitfire: The Biography (bwl53 September 2009)  
Stage Blood: Five Tempestuous Years in the Life of the National Theatre (bwl70 Autumn 2013)  
Stalin (bwl21 November 2003)  
Stalin's Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky (bwl56 Spring 2010)  
Stalingrad (bwl4 July 2000)  
Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy (bwl63 Winter 2011)  
Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer (bwl53 September 2009)  
Stasiland - Stories from behind the Berlin Wall (bwl45 April 2008)  
Status Anxiety (bwl26 October 2004)  
Step by Step: The Life in my Journeys (bwl94 Autumn 2019)  
Steve Jobs (bwl63 Winter 2011)  
Stop What You're Doing and Read This (bwl65 Summer 2012)  
Strange Places, Questionable People (bwl16 December 2002)  
Strategy Strikes Back: How Star Wars Explains Modern Military Conflict (bwl96 Spring 2020)  
Stupid White Men (bwl18 April 2003)  
Suggs and the City: My journeys through disappearing London (bwl75 Winter 2015)  
Supergrasses & Informers: Informal History of Undercover Police Work (bwl52 July 2009)  
Sviatoslav Richter - Notebooks and Conversations (bwl22 February 2004)