books by subject
European Historical Biographies

Louis XIV

The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter

Love in a Time of Hate: The Story of Magda and Andre Trocme and the Village That Said No to the Nazis

The Last Templar: The Tragedy of Jacques de Molay, Last Grand Master of the Temple

War in Val d'Orcia. An Italian war diary 1943-44

Germany Calling: A Personal Biography of William Joyce - 'Lord Haw-Haw'

Bringing the House Down

Joanna: The Notorious Queen of Naples, Jerusalem and Sicily

Michael of Romania: The King and the Country

Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire

Catherine de Medici: A Biography

Eugenie: The Empress and Her Empire

Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy

Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Freedom

The Keys to Avalon: The True Location of Arthur's Kingdom Revealed

Revolutions in the Earth: James Hutton and the True Age of the World

The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History

Einstein's Clocks and Poincare's Maps

Bombay to Bloomsbury: A Biography of the Strachey Family

All of These People: A Memoir

Tete-A-Tete

My Darling Heriott: Henrietta Luxborough, Poetic Gardener and Irrepressible Exile

The Fate of the Romanovs

Catherine The Great

Lola Montez: Her life and conquests

Rosebery

El Cid: The Making of a Legend

Christina Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric

Empire Adrift: The Portuguese Court in Rio de Janeiro 1808-1821
