books by subject
European Historical Biographies
Samuel Johnson & the Impact of Print
Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism
The Notorious Astrological Physician of London: Works and Days of Simon Forman
Chamfort: A Biography
Margaret Thatcher: The grocer's daughter
The Renaissance in the Fields: Family Memoirs of a Fifteenth-century Tuscan Peasant
Dante the Maker
Augustus the Strong: A Study in Artistic Greatness and Political Fiasco
Lionessheart: The Life and Times of Joanna Plantagenet
Ravenous: A Life of Barbara Villiers, Charles II's Most Infamous Mistress
Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess
All His Spies: The Secret World of Robert Cecil
Storm's Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney
Queen James
Unfortunately, She Was a Nymphomaniac: A New History of Rome's Imperial Women
Operation Biting
I Will Come Back for You: The Undercover Hewish Commando Who Helped Defeat the Nazis
The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham
Churchill's Citadel: Chartwell and the Gatherings Before the Storm
Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman's Astonishing Life of Seduction, Intrigue and Power
Eighteen: The Young Lives of 18 Leading Britons
The Rose, the Bastard and the Saint King: The Murder of Henry VI
William & Catherine: Their Lives, Their Wedding
The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels
Gatsby's Oxford: Scott, Zelda, and the Jazz Age Invasion of Britain: 1904-1929
Attlee and Churchill: Allies in War, Adversaries in Peace
Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me
Richard III
Richard III: In Fact and Fiction