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Samuel Johnson & the Impact of Print

By Alvin B. Kernan

Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism

By J. C. D. Clark

The Notorious Astrological Physician of London: Works and Days of Simon Forman

By Barbara Howard Traister

Chamfort: A Biography

By Claude Arnaud

Margaret Thatcher: The grocer's daughter

By John Campbell

The Renaissance in the Fields: Family Memoirs of a Fifteenth-century Tuscan Peasant

By Duccio Balestracci

Dante the Maker

By William Anderson

Augustus the Strong: A Study in Artistic Greatness and Political Fiasco

By Tim Blanning

Lionessheart: The Life and Times of Joanna Plantagenet

By Catherine Hanley

Ravenous: A Life of Barbara Villiers, Charles II's Most Infamous Mistress

By Andrea Zuvich

Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess

By Adam Zamoyski

All His Spies: The Secret World of Robert Cecil

By Stephen Alford

Storm's Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney

By Peter Marshall

Queen James

By Gareth Russell

Unfortunately, She Was a Nymphomaniac: A New History of Rome's Imperial Women

By Joan Smith

Operation Biting

By Max Hastings

I Will Come Back for You: The Undercover Hewish Commando Who Helped Defeat the Nazis

By Daniel Huhn

The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham

By Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Churchill's Citadel: Chartwell and the Gatherings Before the Storm

By Katherine Carter

Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman's Astonishing Life of Seduction, Intrigue and Power

By Sonia Purnell

Eighteen: The Young Lives of 18 Leading Britons

By Alice Loxton

The Rose, the Bastard and the Saint King: The Murder of Henry VI

By Andrew Boardman

William & Catherine: Their Lives, Their Wedding

By Andrew Morton

The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels

By Adam Nicolson

Gatsby's Oxford: Scott, Zelda, and the Jazz Age Invasion of Britain: 1904-1929

By Christopher A Snyder

Attlee and Churchill: Allies in War, Adversaries in Peace

By Leo McKinstry

Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me

By Matthew Lewis

Richard III

By David Baldwin

Richard III: In Fact and Fiction

By Matthew Lewis

Shooting Victoria: Madness, Mayhem, and the Rebirth of the British Monarchy

By Paul Thomas Murphy