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Letters to Sir William Temple (Classics)

By Osborne, Dorothy, Parker, Kenneth

Memoirs of Sir John Reresby: the complete text and a selection from his letters

By John Reresby, Andrew Browning, Mary K. Geiter, W.A. Speck

Sister Queens: Katherine of Aragon and Juana Queen of Castile

By Fox, Julia

Madame de Sevigne: A Seventeenth-century Life (Berg Women's Series)

By William T. Ojala & Jeanne A. Ojala

William Tyndale: A Very Brief History (Very Brief Histories)

By Melvyn Bragg

Thomas Cromwell: The Rise And Fall Of Henry VIII's Most Notorious Minister

By Hutchinson, Robert

Martin Luther: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

By Hendrix, Scott H.

Cromwell: the Lord Protector (Historical Biography Series)

By Fraser, Antonia

The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym: A Times Book of the Year 2021

By Byrne, Paula

Knowledge is Power: How Magic, the Government and an Apocalyptic Vision Helped Francis Bacon to Create Modern Science

By Henry, John

The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe

By Nicholl, Charles

A Foreign Field

By MacIntyre, Ben

Peter the Great: His Life And World (Abacus Books)

By Massie, Robert K.

The Sisters Who Would Be Queen: The tragedy of Mary, Katherine and Lady Jane Grey

By Lisle, Leanda de

The Betrayal of Anne Frank: Less a Mystery Unsolved Than a Secret Well Kept

By Sullivan, Rosemary

The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Volume V – 1664: 5

By Pepys, Samuel

The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Volume I – 1660

By Pepys, Samuel

Thomas Cromwell: The True Story of 'Wolf Hall'

By J. Patrick Coby

Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940-45

By Max Hastings

So Idle a Rogue: Life and Death of Lord Rochester

By Lamb, Jeremy

Drake of Tavistock

By Helen Joy Harris

Elizabeth I and the Government of England

By Keith Randell

Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1960s A Series)

By Joan Didion

Londonopolis: A Curious and Quirky History of London

By Martin Latham, Joe McLaren

Flash Crash: A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History

By Liam Vaughan

From Russia with Blood: Putin's Ruthless Killing Campaign and Secret War on the West

By Heidi Blake

Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West

By Catherine Belton

The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters

By Adam Nicolson

Inside the Tudor Court: Henry VIII and his Six Wives through the eyes of the Spanish Ambassador

By Lauren Mackay

Alexander the Great

By Richard Stoneman (University of Exeter, UK)