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Europe's Most Wanted Man: The Quest for Radovan Karadzic

By Nick Hawton

The Holy Fox: Biography of Lord Halifax

By Andrew Roberts

A Pilgrimage of Passion: The Life of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

By Elizabeth Longford

Improper Pursuits

By Carola Hicks

Outcasts' Outcast

By Peter Stanford

Wicked Ernest: The Truth About the Man Who Was Almost Britain's King

By John Wardroper

The Importance of Being Awkward: The Autobiography of Tam Dalyell

By Tam Dalyell

Dreams of Empire: Napoleon and the First World War, 1792-1815

By Paul Fregosi

Cardinal Wolsey: Church, State and Art

By S. J. Gunn (Merton College, Oxford), P. G. Lindley

With His Face to the Foe: The Life and Death of Louis Napoleon, The Prince Imperial Zululand 1879

By Ian Knight

No Retreat: The Secret War Between Britain's Anti-Fascists and the Far Right

By Dave Hann, Steve Tilzey

Botham's Book of the Ashes

By Ian Botham

The Politics of Irish Freedom

By Gerry Adams

A Life of John Calvin: A Study in the Shaping of Western Culture

By Alister E. McGrath (University of Oxford)

Churchill

By Paul Johnson

Larissa Reisner: A Biography

By Cathy Porter

The Borgias: History's Most Notorious Dynasty

By Mary Hollingsworth

Edward VI

By Jennifer Loach, George Bernard, Penry Williams

Power and Pragmatism

By Malcolm Rifkind

Here I Stand

By Roland H. Bainton

William Marshal: Court, Career and Chivalry in the Angevin Empire 1147-1219

By D. Crouch

God's Gentle Rebels: The Great Saints of Christianity

By Christian Feldman

Relish: The Extraordinary Life of Alexis Soyer, Victorian Celebrity Chef

By Ruth Cowen

Ed: The Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader

By Mehdi Hasan

The Sorrows of the Quaker Jesus: James Nayler and the Puritan Crackdown on the Free Spirit

By Leo Damrosch

Barrington Family Letters 1628-1632

By A. Searle

Bonnie Prince Charlie

By Fitzroy Maclean

Margaret Thatcher: The Abridged

By John Campbell

John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain 1937 - 1946

By Robert Skidelsky

Fisher: The Admiral Who Reinvented the Royal Navy

By David Wragg