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Eighteen: The Young Lives of 18 Leading Britons

By Alice Loxton

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

By Sonia Purnell

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

By Katherine Carter

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

By Lucy Hughes-Hallett

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

By Daniel Huhn

Operation Biting

By Max Hastings

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

By Joan Smith

Queen James

By Gareth Russell

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

By Peter Marshall

All His Spies: The Secret World of Robert Cecil

By Stephen Alford

Samuel Johnson & the Impact of Print

By Alvin B. Kernan

Elizabeth: Behind Palace Doors

By Nicholas Davies

Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic: An Alternative History of Postwar Germany

By Paul Hockenos

The Queen and Di

By Ingrid Seward

Too Many Mothers: An East End Childhood

By Roberta Taylor

My Father Had this Luger...: A True Story of Hitler's Greece

By Evangelos Louizos

The Churchills: A Family at the Heart of History -- from the Duke of Marlborough to Winston Churchill

By Mary S. Lovell

Shiny Pennies And Grubby Pinafores: How we overcame hardship to raise a happy family in the 1950s

By Foley, Winifred

The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler: Leading Millions Into the Abyss

By Laurence Rees

The Kings & Queens of Scotland

By Richard Oram, Richard D. Oram

Galileo in Rome: The Rise and Fall of a Troublesome Genius

By William R. Shea, Mariano Artigas

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

By Duccio Balestracci

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

By Andrea Zuvich

Lionessheart: The Life and Times of Joanna Plantagenet

By Catherine Hanley

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

By Tim Blanning

Dante the Maker

By William Anderson

Chamfort: A Biography

By Claude Arnaud

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

Zigzag: The Incredible Wartime Exploits of Double Agent Eddie Chapman

By Nicholas Booth