books by subject
Historical Biographies 1501-1700

The Cradle King

The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters

Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940-45

So Idle a Rogue: Life and Death of Lord Rochester

Drake of Tavistock

Elizabeth I and the Government of England

Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1960s A Series)

Londonopolis: A Curious and Quirky History of London

Thomas Cromwell: The True Story of 'Wolf Hall'

Alexander the Great

Shaftesbury: The Poor Man's Earl

Francis Drake: The Lives of a Hero

The Defeat Of The Spanish Armada

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Tudors But Were Afraid to Ask

Naples 1944: War, Liberation and Chaos

Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That Shook Europe

First Among Friends: George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism

The Elizabethans

The King's Bed: Sex, Power and the Court of Charles II

Grey Eminence

John Knox

Guy Fawkes & The Gunpowder Plot

Ground Truth: 3 Para Return to Afghanistan

James II (Penguin Monarchs): The Last Catholic King

The Shakespeares

An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo

Anna and the Black Knight: Incorporating Anna's Book

The Reckoning: How the Killing of One Man Changed the Fate of the Promised Land

Elizabeth's Rival: The Tumultuous Tale of Lettice Knollys, Countess of Leicester
