British Historical Biographies

Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK

By Simon Kuper

Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingston

By Dugard, Martin

A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (Picador Books)

By Sheehan, Neil

May at 10

By Anthony Seldon

The Day They Took the Children: Illustrated Personal Memories of Britain's 3, 500, 000 Evacuees

By Wicks, Ben

Hons and Rebels: The Mitford Family Memoir

By Jessica Mitford

Longitude

By Sobel, Dava, Dava Sobel

An Old Woman's Reflections (Oxford Paperbacks)

By Sayers, Peig, Rodgers, W. R., Ennis, Seamus

The Spy Who Loved: The secrets and lives of Christine Granville, Britain's first female special agent of WWII

By Clare Mulley

Maeve's Times

By Binchy, Maeve

The Bolter: Idina Sackville - The woman who scandalised 1920s Society and became White Mischief's infamous seductress

By Frances Osborne

Medieval Graffiti: The Lost Voices of England's Churches

By Champion, Matthew

Fishers of Men - The Gripping True Story of a British Undercover Agent in Northern Ireland

By Rob Lewis

Politics On the Edge

By Rory Stewart

ITN Royal Year: 1993

By Tim Graham

Soldiers of the First World War (One Shot)

By Adams, Simon

Brown's Britain

By Peston, Robert

David Ricardo

By J. King

The Downing Street Years

By Thatcher, Margaret

My Mad Fat Diary

By Rae Earl

Dangerous Hero: Corbyn's Ruthless Plot for Power

By Tom Bower

Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall

By Spike Milligan

Kings in the North

By Alexander Rose

Not for Turning

By Robin Harris

Alastair Campbell

By Peter Oborne

Taste: The No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller

By Stanley Tucci

Prince Charles: In the Shadow of the Throne

By Sally Bedell Smith

The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District

By Rebanks, James

The Valley: A Hundred Years in the Life of a Yorkshire Family

By Richard Benson, Benson, Richard

A Town's Pride: Victorian Lifeboatmen and Their Community: 1

By Rob Blann