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Disraeli: The Victorian Dandy Who Became Prime Minister

By Christopher Hibbert

Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Collins Classics)

By Thomas De Quincey

Cupid and the King: Five Royal Paramours

By Her Royal Highness Princess Michael of Kent

Table Talk

By Martin Luther

In Search of Churchill

By Martin Gilbert

Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship

By Jon Meacham

Last Guardians: Crown Service in Sudan, Northern Rhodesia and Britain

By Philip Bowcock

The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire: Political Leaders From Lenin to Gorbachev

By Dmitri Volkogonov

Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest

By Wade Davis

Barrington Family Letters 1628-1632

By A. Searle

Overland Launch

By C.Walter Hodges

John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain 1937 - 1946

By Robert Skidelsky

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

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

By Nick Hawton

Here I Stand

By Roland H. Bainton

Edward VI

By Jennifer Loach, George Bernard, Penry Williams