European Historical Biographies

The Mistresses of Cliveden: Three Centuries of Scandal, Power and Intrigue in an English Stately Home

By Natalie Livingstone

Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh

By Anna Beer

The Mitford Girls: The Biography of an Extraordinary Family

By Mary S. Lovell

Men of Honour: Trafalgar and the Making of the English Hero

By Nicolson, Adam

The Secret Rooms: A Castle Filled with Intrigue, a Plotting Duchess and a Mysterious Death

By Bailey, Catherine

George Seferis: Waiting for the Angel: A Biography

By Roderick Beaton

A Venetian Affair: A true story of impossible love in the eighteenth century

By Andrea Di Robilant

The Co-Op's Got Bananas

By Hunter Davies

Christmas Around the Village Green: In a WWII 1940s rural village, family means the world at Christmastime

By Dot May Dunn

The Diana Chronicles

By Tina Brown

Driftwood and Tangle

By Margaret Leigh

At Home with the Queen: Life Through the Keyhole of the Royal Household

By Brian Hoey

Deutsche Literaturgeschichte: Von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart

By BEUTIN, Wolfgang.

A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean

By Roland Philipps

Mammoth Book of British Kings and Queens

By Michael Ashley

Jane Austen's Christmas: The Festive Season in Georgian England

By Maria Hubert

Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare

By Sir Jonathan Bate

The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague

By Timothy Garton Ash

Burma: The Longest War, 1941-45

By Louis Allen

The Essays: A Selection (Penguin Classics)

By Montaigne, Michel, Screech, M., Screech, M., Screech, M., Screech, M.

Hildegard of Bingen: The Woman of Her Age

By Fiona Maddocks

Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen and Legend

By D. D. R. Owen (University of St Andrews)

These Poor Hands: The Autobiography of a Miner Working in South Wales

By B. L. Coombes, Bill Jones, Chris Williams

The Duel: The Eighty-Day Struggle Between Churchill and Hitler

By John D. Lukacs

The King's Wife

By Valerie Irvine

Reform or Revolution?: A Diary of Reform in England, 1830-32

By E. A. Smith

Masters of the English Reformation

By Marcus Loane

Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man

By Sebag-Montefiore, Hugh

Gladstone 1809-1898

By H. C. G. Matthew (late Professor of Modern History, late Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford)

Diaries: Into Politics

By Clark, Alan