Michael Waterhouse

Remembering Loved Ones By Their Smell

The Changing Face of Death: Historical Accounts of Death and Disposal

By Peter C Jupp and Glennys Howarth (ed)

Nikolai Tolstoy

A Genial Man Despite His Humble Origins

Anton Chekhov: A Life

By Donald Rayfield

James Harding

Poète Maudit

The Life of Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

By A W Raitt

Miranda Seymour

The Marriage Plot

The Trials of the King of Hampshire: Madness, Secrecy and Betrayal in Georgian England

By Elizabeth Foyster

William Whyte

The Battle of Big Ben

Mr Barry’s War: Rebuilding the Houses of Parliament After the Great Fire of 1834

By Caroline Shenton

April Fitzlyon

George Sand

Winter in Majorca

By George Sand, Robert Graves (trans. and ed.)

My Convent Life

By George Sand

Indiana

By George Sand

William Dalrymple

The Sweet Name of Parkyns

The Gentleman Savage: A Life of Mansfield Parkyns

By Duncan Cumming

Matthew Sturgis

An Ideal Husband?

Wilde’s Women: How Oscar Wilde Was Shaped by the Women He Knew

By Eleanor Fitzsimons

The Fall of the House of Wilde: Oscar Wilde and His Family

By Emer O’Sullivan

Douglas Smith

Russia’s Wild East

The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile under the Tsars

By Daniel Beer

Alan Bell

Remembered Chiefly For His ‘Wife’s’ Novels

G H Lewes: A Life

By Rosemary Ashton

Frank McLynn

Not Enough Selection

Darwin

By Adrian Desmond & James Moore

Rosemary Stoyle

Anorexic Emily

Emily Brontë: A Chainless Soul

By Katherine Frank

John Bayley

Boz’s Little Bit

The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens

By Claire Tomalin

Anne Clark Amor

Badly Soiled in the Struggle for Life

The Love of Many Things: A Life of Vincent Van Gogh

By David Sweetman