Dmitri Levitin

Deifying Gravity

Priest of Nature: The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton

By Rob Iliffe

Philip Mansel

State of the Arts

The Sovereign Artist: Charles Le Brun and the Image of Louis XIV

By Wolf Burchard

Lucy Moore

Contempt of Court

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

By Johanna Luthman

Michael Hunter

The Whole World in His Hans

Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane

By James Delbourgo

Tim Harris

Heir Loss

The Prince Who Would Be King: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart

By Sarah Fraser

John Banville

He Discovered the True Philosopher’s Stone

Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer

By Michael White

Paul Lay

Wrangling Radicals

The Leveller Revolution

By John Rees

Allan Massie

Toxic Relations

City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris

By Holly Tucker

David Gelber

The Woman Who Would Be King

Njinga of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen

By Linda M Heywood

Adrian Tinniswood

Roads Less Travelled

The Nine Lives of John Ogilby: Britain’s Master Map Maker and His Secrets

By Alan Ereira

Randy Lee Cutler

Tales of Perjury

Salem Story: Reading the Witch Trials of 1692

By Bernard Rosenthal

Richard Bourke

Rational Selections

The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy

By Anthony Gottlieb

Adrian Tinniswood

Charlie’s Angels

Royal Renegades: The Children of Charles I and the English Civil Wars

By Linda Porter

Peter Bradshaw

Sex Mad Soap Opera

Fire from Heaven: Life in an English Town in the Seventeenth Century

By David Underdown

Linda Porter

Like Father, Like Son

The Last Royal Rebel: The Life and Death of James, Duke of Monmouth

By Anna Keay

Charles II: The Star King

By Clare Jackson

Adrian Tinniswood

Reason’s Season

The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind

By A C Grayling