A Composer & a Gentleman

George Frideric Handel: A Life with Friends

By Ellen T Harris

Unlucky Voice

The Castrato and His Wife

By Helen Berry

High Tide to Low Ebb

City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire

By Roger Crowley

All Roads Lead to Rome

A Duke Abroad

Letters from London and Europe

By Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (Translated by J G Nichols)

The Redemption of Music

The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824

By Harvey Sachs

‘The Paradise of Cities’

Ruskin on Venice

By Robert Hewison

His Marmoreal Buttocks

Venus of Empire: The Life of Pauline Bonaparte

By Flora Fraser

Sink or Swim

Italian Venice: A History

By R J B Bosworth

Seismic Shift

Wrath of God: The Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755

By Edward Paice

Vasyl Vyshyvanyi

The Red Prince: The Fall of a Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Europe

By Timothy Snyder

The Paladin of Panache

Cyrano: The Life and Legend of Cyrano de Bergerac

By Ishbel Addyman

Palazzo Plunkett

Lucia in the Age of Napoleon

By Andrea di Robilant

Risorgimento Plan

Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero

By Lucy Riall

Mesdemoiselles Soleil

Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King

By Antonia Fraser

An Appreciation of Emilie

Passionate Minds: The Great Enlightenment Love Affair

By David Bodanis

Shimmering Salons

The Age of Conversation

By Benedetta Craveri (Translated by Teresa Waugh)

Une Femme Gallante

The Princess and the Politicians: Sex, Intrigue and Diplomacy, 1812–40

By John Charmley

Wolfgang’s World

Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune: Serving the Emperor, 1788–1791

By Christoph Wolff