Peter Ackroyd Dickens

Peter Ackroyd London

Anglo Saxon Chronicles

Hans Andersen Stories and Tales

Maya Angelou I Know why the Caged Bird Sings

Karen Armstrong The Spiral Staircase

Catharine Arnold City of Sin: London and Its Vices

Catharine Arnold Bedlam: London and Its Mad

John Aubrey Brief Lives

WH Auden Poems

St Augustine Confessions

Richard Bach Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Jean-Dominique Bauby Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Mary Beard Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town

Mrs Beeton Book of Household Management

Antony Beevor Stalingrad

Brandan Behan Borstal Boy

Alex Bellos Alex’s Adventures in Numberland

Beowulf

Tony Benn Diaries

Alan Bennett Plays

John Berendt Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

John Berger Ways of Seeing

John Betjeman Summoned by Bells

William Blake Songs of Innocence and Experience

Mark Bostridge Florence Nightingale

Joe Boyd White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s

Lloyd Bradley Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King

Constance Briscoe Ugly

Vera Brittain Testament of Youth

Dee Brown Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee

Robert Browning Poems

Bill Bryson Complete Notes

Bill Bryson Short History of Nearly Everything

Vincent Bugliosi Helter Skelter

John Bunyan The Pilgrims Progress

Michael Burleigh The Third Reich

Tim Butcher Blood River

Lord Byron Poems

Truman Capote In Cold Blood

Rachel Carson Silent Spring

Jeff Chang Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation

Henri Charriere Papillon

Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales

Noam Chomsky Essential Chomsky

Jung Chung Wild Swans

Jung Chung Mao

Alan Clark Diaries

Kenneth Clark Civilisation

Carl Von Clausewitz On War

Wendy Cope Poems

Quentin Crisp Naked Civil Servant

William Dalrymple City of Djinns

Dante The Divine Comedy

Charles Darwin The Origin of the Species

Elizabeth David French Provincial Cooking

Elizabeth David South Wind Through the Kitchen

Saul David Zulu

Nick Davies Flat Earth News

Norman Davies Europe: A History

Richard Dawkins The Blind Watchmaker

Richard Dawkins The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins God Delusion

Simone De Beauvoir Second Sex

Barbara Demick Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea

Rene Descartes Discourse on Method

Edmund De Waal The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance

Jared Diamond Guns, Germs and Steel

John Donne Poems

John Dryden Selected Poems

Carol Ann Duffy Poems

Eamonn Dunphy Only a Game?

Ben Dupre 50 Philosophy Ideas You Really Need to Know

Gerald Durrell My Family and Other Stories

Betty Edwards New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

Albert Einstein Essential Einstein

T S Eliot Poems

Richard Ellmann James Joyce

Epic of Gilgamesh

Richard P Feynman Six Easy Pieces

Orlando Figes Natasha’s Dance

Orlando Figes Peoples Tragedy

Robert Fisk The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East

Michael Foot Aneurin Bevin

Amanda Foreman Georgiana

Amanda Foreman World on Fire

R F Foster Modern Ireland

Janet Frame An Angel at my Table

Anne Frank Diary of Anne Frank

Betty Friedan Feminine Mystique

Sigmund Freud Interpretation of Dreams

Robert Frost Poems

Anna Funder Stasiland

John Kenneth Galbraith The Affluent Society

Elizabeth Gaskell A Life of Charlotte Bronte

Edward Gibbon Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Kahlil Gibran The Prophet

Malcolm Gladwell The Tipping Point

Victoria Glendinning Jonathan Swift

Ed Glinert East End Chronicles

Ben Goldacre Bad Science

William Goldman Adventures in the Screen Trade

Philip Gourevitch We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families

Robert Graves Goodbye to All That

John Gray Men are from Mars Women are from Venus

Brian Greene The Elegant Universe

Germaine Greer The Female Eunuch

John Gribbin Science: a History

Jacob Grimm Fairy Tales

Stephen Hawking A Brief History of Time

Seamus Heaney Poems

Peter Hennessy Having it so Good

John Hersey Hiroshima

D G Hessayon The Complete Garden Expert

D G Hessayon House Plant Expert

Christopher Hill World Turned Upside Down

Rosemary Hill God’s Architect

Thomas Hobbes Leviathan

Richard Hoggart The Uses of Literacy

Eva Hoffman Lost in Translation

Richard Holmes Wellington

Richard Holmes Coleridge: Early Visions

Richard Holmes Coleridge: Darker Reflections

Michael Holroyd Lytton Strachey

Michael Holroyd A Strange Eventful History

John Holt How Children Learn

Holy Bible

Ken Hom Complete Chinese Cookery

Homer The Iliad

Homer The Odyssey

Gerard Manley Hopkins Poems

A E Housman Collected Poems

Robert Hughes The Fatal Shore

Robert Hughes The Shock of the New

Ted Hughes Poems

Tristram Hunt English Civil War

Roland Huntford Shackleton

Aldous Huxley Doors of Perception

Henrik Ibsen Plays 2

Gary Imlach My Father ….

Lawrence James Raj

Lawrence James Rise and Fall of the British Empire

Lisa Jardine Worldly Goods

Susan Jeffers Feel the Fear and do it Anyway

Roy Jenkins Asquith

Roy Jenkins Churchill

Roy Jenkins Gladstone

Jenkins, Simon A Short History of England

Steve Jones Language of the Genes

Steve Jones Y

C Jung Memories, Dreams Reflections

Susanna Kaysen Girl, Interrupted

John Keats Poems

John Keegan The Face of Battle

Brian Keenan An Evil Cradling

Helen Keller The Story of my Life

Ian Kershaw Hitler Hubris

Ian Kershaw Hitler Nemesis

J M Keynes General Theory of Employment Interest

Martin Luther King Autobiography

Martin Luther King I Have a Dream

Naomi Klein No Logo

Naomi Klein The Shock Doctrine

Stephen Knight The Brotherhood

Koran

David Kynaston Austerity Britain

Robert Lacey Year 1000

John Lahr Prick up Your Ears

Philip Larkin Poems

Nella Last Nella Last’s War

T E Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom

Nigella Lawson How to be a Domestic Goddess

Edward Lear Book of Nonsense

Steven Leavitt Freakonomics

Laurie Lee Cider with Rosie

Primo Levi If this be a Man

Steven Levitt Superfreakanomics

James Lovelace Gaia

Fiona MacCarthy Byron

Fiona MacCarthy Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes

Pete McCarthy The Road to McCarthy

Frank McCourt Angela’s Ashes

Machiavelli The Prince

Norman Mailer Marilyn

Malcolm X Autobiography

Janet Malcolm The Journalist and the Murderer

Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom

Andrew Marr Making of Modern Britain

Marcus Aurelius Meditations

Andrew Marvell Poems

Karl Marx Capital

Karl Marx Manifesto of the Communist Party

Alexander Masters Stuart: A life Backwards

John Stuart Mill On Liberty

Arthur Miller Plays

Simon Sebag Montefiore Stalin

Thomas More Utopia

Desmond Morris The Naked Ape

John Mortimer Voyage Around my Father

Andrew Motion Philip Larkin

Chris Mullin A View from the Foothills

Eric Newby Short Walk to the Hindu Kush

Fredrich Nietzsche Thus Spoke Zarathustra

David Niven The Moons a Balloon

Philip Norman Shout!: The True Story of the Beatles

Sean O’Casey Sean O’Casey

Jamie Oliver Jamie’s Kitchen

Jamie Oliver The Naked Chef

Iona Opie Lore and Language of Schoolchildren

George Orwell Down and out in London and Paris

George Orwell Essays

George Orwell The Orwell Diaries

George Orwell The Road to Wigan Pier

Oxford Companion to Family and Local History

Wilfred Owen Poems

Thomas Paine The Rights of Man

Michael Palin Around the World in 80 Days

M Scott Peck Road Less Travelled

David Peltzer A Child called It

Samuel Pepys Diaries

Lisa Picard Restoration London

Nicholas Pileggi Goodfellas

Steven Pinker How the Mind Works

Harold Pinter Plays

Alexander Pope The Major Works

Sue Prideaux Edvard Munch

Robert Prising Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Plato The Republic

Roy Porter Enlightenment

Andrew Rawnsley Servants of the People

Readers Digest Guide to Sewing

Gary Rhodes Rhodes around Britain

Gary Rhodes Keeping it Simple

Richard Rhodes Making of the Atomic Bomb

Matt Ridley Genome

Mary Roach Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

John Ruskin Modern Painters

Bertrand Russell History of Western Philosophy

Oliver Sacks Awakenings

Carl Sagan Cosmos

Edward Said Orientalism

Dominic Sandbrook Never Had it so Good

Dominic Sandbrook White Heat

Jean Paul Sartre The Age of Reason

Siegfried Sassoon Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man

Simon Schama Citizens

Eric Schlosser Fast Food Nation

E F Schumacher Small is Beautiful

Sellar and Yeatman 1066 and All That

Gita Sereny Albert Speer

Robert Service Lenin

Robert Service Trotsky

Robert Service Stalin

William Shakespeare Collected works

Peter Shapiro Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco

G B Shaw Pygmalion

G B Shaw Saint Joan

Neil Sheehan A Bright Shining Lie

Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems

Randy Shilts, And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic

Clay Shirky Here Comes Everybody: how Change Happens when People Come Together

Joe Simpson Touching the Void

Simon Singh Fermat’s Last Theorem

Robert Skildelsky John Maynard Keynes

Nigel Slater Toast

Adam Smith The Wealth of Nations

Delia Smith Complete Cookery Course

Delia Smith How to Cook

Stevie Smith Poems

Dava Sobel Longitude

Alexander Solzhenitsyn Gulag Archipelago

Susan Sontag On Photography

Sophocles Plays

Jon Stallworthy Anthem for Doomed Youth

David Starkey Six Wives of Henry VIII

Tom Stoppard Plays

Lytton Strachey Eminent Victorians

Kate Summerscale Suspicions of Mr Whicher

D J Taylor Orwell: A Life

Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poems

Hugh Thomas The Slave Trade

EP Thompson Making of the English Working Class

Stella Tillyard The Aristocrats

Clare Tomalin Samuel Pepys

Claire Tomalin Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man

Jenny Uglow A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration 1660 - 1670

Jenny Uglow Hogarth

Vasari Lives of the Artists

Amanda Vicker Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England

Virgil The Aeneid

James Watson Double Helix

Ed Weintaub London Encyclopedia

Oscar Wilde Ballad of Reading Gaol

Oscar Wilde Complete Works

Precious Williams Precious

Sarah Wise The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum

Naomi Wolf The Beauty Myth

Tom Wolfe The Right Stuff

Mary Wollstonecraft Vindication of the Rights of Women

Michael Wood In Search of the Trojan War

William Wordsworth Poems

Lucy Worsley, If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home

Richard Wright Black Boy

W B Yeats Poems

Michael Young Family and Kinship in East London