Founding Mothers

The Jamestown Brides: The Untold Story of England’s ‘Maids for Virginia’

By Jennifer Potter

Loom & Bust

The Queen’s Embroiderer: A True Story of Paris, Lovers, Swindlers, and the First Stock Market Crisis

By Joan DeJean

Honour among Thieves

Playboys & Mayfair Men: Crime, Class, Masculinity, and Fascism in 1930s London

By Angus McLaren

Jewel Identitites

Koh-i-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond

By William Dalrymple & Anita Anand

Contempt of Court

Love, Madness, & Scandal: The Life of Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck

By Johanna Luthman

Ladies Bountiful

The Riviera Set, 1920-1960: The Golden Years of Glamour and Excess

By Mary S Lovell

Queen Bees: Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Society Hostesses between the Wars

By Siân Evans

A Life Less Ordinary

Defiance: The Life and Choices of Lady Anne Barnard

By Stephen Taylor

Halved Lives

The Radium Girls

By Kate Moore

Front Row at the Revolution

Germaine de Staël: A Political Portrait

By Biancamaria Fontana

Stitches in Time

The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives

By Lynn Knight

Martha, My Dear

George and Martha Washington: A Revolutionary Marriage

By Flora Fraser

The Ice-Breakers

Speed Kings

By Andy Bull

When the Ship Goes Down

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

By Erik Larson

In Vogue

Elsa Schiaparelli: A Biography

By Meryle Secrest

Alone in New York

Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Loss of One of the World’s Greatest Fortunes

By Bill Dedman & Paul Clark Newell Jr

Reach for the Skies

One Summer: America 1927

By Bill Bryson

Martinique to Malmaison

Josephine: Desire, Ambition, Napoleon

By Kate Williams