The Body in the Cistern

That Dark Spring: A True Story of Death and Desire in 1920s Provence

By Susannah Stapleton

Peril in St Petersburg

The Rebel Romanov: Julie of Saxe-Coburg, the Empress Russia Never Had

By Helen Rappaport

The Lives and Deaths of the Princesses of Hesse: The Curious Destinies of Queen Victoria’s Granddaughters

By Frances Welch

Fights & Tights

Bluestockings: The First Women’s Movement

By Susannah Gibson

Poet for Our Time

And It’s Go, Go, Go!

The Race to the Future: The Adventure that Accelerated the Twentieth Century

By Kassia St Clair

A Camera of One’s Own

Thoroughly Modern: The Pioneering Life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, Photographer, and Her Brilliant, Bohemian Friends

By Sarah Knights

Sun Kings & Shady Characters

Once Upon a Time World: The Dark and Sparkling Story of the French Riviera

By Jonathan Miles

Last Dance in Buenos Aires

No One Taught Me to Tango: Memories of Anglo-Argentina

By Trevor Grove

Testament of Friendship

Between Friends: Letters of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby

By Elaine and English Showalter (edd)

From Grand Duke to Dustbin Man

After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris Between the Wars

By Helen Rappaport

Dancing Up a Storm

Diaghilev’s Empire: How the Ballets Russes Enthralled the World

By Rupert Christiansen

In the Land of the Rusalki

Other Worlds: Peasants, Pilgrims, Spirits, Saints

By Teffi (Translated from Russian by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Maria Bloshteyn, Anne Marie Jackson, Sabrina Jaszi, Sara Jolly & Nicolas Pasternak Slater)

Fashion & Fascism

Miss Dior: A Story of Courage and Couture

By Justine Picardie

A Quadrille at the Asylum

The Mad Women’s Ball

By Victoria Mas (Translated from French by Frank Wynne)

Kiss Me, Chudleigh

The Duchess Countess: The Woman Who Scandalised a Nation

By Catherine Ostler

He Looked Best in a Skirt

Dangerous to Show: Byron and His Portraits

By Geoffrey Bond & Christine Kenyon Jones

Must You Stay?

The House Party: A Short History of Leisure, Pleasure and the Country House Weekend

By Adrian Tinniswood

What We Did in Bed: A Horizontal History

By Brian Fagan & Nadia Durrani

A Songbird in Knightsbridge

L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated ‘Female Byron’

By Lucasta Miller

What the Valet Did

Murder by the Book: A Sensational Chapter in Victorian Crime

By Claire Harman