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Mountbatten

By Philip Ziegler

The Bolter: Idina Sackville - The woman who scandalised 1920s Society and became White Mischief's infamous seductress

By Frances Osborne

Churchill

By Sebastian Haffner, John Brownjohn, Ian Pindar, Peter Hennessy

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

Barrington Family Letters 1628-1632

By A. Searle

Bonnie Prince Charlie

By Fitzroy Maclean

Margaret Thatcher: The Abridged

By John Campbell

The Sorrows of the Quaker Jesus: James Nayler and the Puritan Crackdown on the Free Spirit

By Leo Damrosch

Fisher: The Admiral Who Reinvented the Royal Navy

By David Wragg

Diaries Volume One: Prelude to Power

By Alastair Campbell

The Borgias: History's Most Notorious Dynasty

By Mary Hollingsworth

Ed: The Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader

By Mehdi Hasan

Relish: The Extraordinary Life of Alexis Soyer, Victorian Celebrity Chef

By Ruth Cowen