books by subject
European Historical Biographies

The Hidden Roads: A Memoir of Childhood

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

Clouds Of Glory: A Childhood in Hoxton

The State and Revolution

Dirt: Adventures in French Cooking from the bestselling author of Heat

Northampton: Patronage and Policy at the Court of James I

The Essays (Penguin Classics)

Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar

The Reforms of Peter the Great: Progress Through Violence in Russia

Dante

Peter the Great

In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny

A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's Perfumer

Resistance: Memoirs of Occupied France

John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland: Lord President of the Commons

Katherine Howard: The Tragic Story of Henry VIII's Fifth Queen

Shakespeare's Wife

Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life

Chernobyl Strawberries

Alastair Campbell

On the Marshes: A journey into England's waterlands

The Complete Poems

God's Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution

Anne Boleyn: The Queen of Controversy

Queen Bees: Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Society Hostesses Between the Wars - A Spectacle of Celebrity, Talent, and Burning Ambition

Henry VI

Queen Elizabeth and the Making of Policy, 1572-1588

Philip of Spain

Edward IV
