books by subject
Historical Biographies

Below the Parapet

Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter

Nostradamus: A Life and Myth

Perdita: The Life of Mary Robinson

The Ambassadors: From Ancient Greece to the Nation State

Michael Foot - A Life

Conrad and Lady Black: Dancing on the Edge

The Downing Street Years

The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu: The Story of This Distant City and the Race to Save its Lost Written Treasures

John Stuart Mill

Kinnock

Grundrisse

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

Under Fire: An American Story - The Explosive Autobiography of Oliver North

Shakespeare (Eminent Lives)

The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things

How to Survive the Titanic: The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay

The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy

Muhammad

The Last Republicans: Inside the Extraordinary Relationship Between George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush

The End of an Era: Diaries 1980-90

Years of Hope: Diaries, Letters and Papers, 1940-62

Open Secret: The Autobiography of the Former Director-General of MI5

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: The shocking story of how America really took over the world

Sweet Mandarin

Forgotten Voices of D-Day: A Powerful New History of the Normandy Landings in the Words of Those Who Were There

3 Commando: Helmand Assault

Hannah: The Complete Story

Family Secrets
