Christopher Ondaatje

An Island For One

Count de Mauny: Friend of Royalty

By S Chomet

J W M Thompson

Thinker, Scientist, Banker, Spy

Elusive Rothschild: The Life of Victor, Third Baron

By Kenneth Rose

Jonathan Keates

Dedicated Follower of Fashion

Last of the Dandies: The Scandalous Life and Escapades of Count D'Orsay

By Nick Foulkes

Victoria Griffin

Ladies of Pleasure

Courtesans

By Katie Hickman

Grandes Horizontales: The Lives and Legends of Four Nineteenth-Century Courtesans

By Virginia Rounding

Carole Angier

Pomp Prodigy

Mad Madge: Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, Royalist, Writer and Romantic

By Katie Whitaker

Carole Seymour-Jones

Fatal Attraction

Beatrice's Spell: The Enduring Legend of Beatrice Cenci

By Belinda Jack

Anne Somerset

The Scottish Widow

'My Heart is My Own': The Life of Mary Queen of Scots

By John Guy

Victor Sebestyen

Memoirs of a Changing Man

The Phoenix Land

By Miklós Bánffy (Translated by Patrick Thursfield, Katalin Bánffy-Jelen)

Claus Bulow

Annabel’s Party

Annabel: An Unconventional Life - The Memoirs of Lady Annabel Goldsmith

By Annabel Goldsmith

Jonathan Keates

Drama Queen

Eugénie: The Empress and Her Empire

By Desmond Seward

Alexander Waugh

Nanny Knows Best

In Defence of Aristocracy

By Peregrine Worsthorne

Simon Heffer

Oak of the Realm

Burke's Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage

By Charles Mosley (ed)

Tim Heald

Another Man’s Palace

Hampton Court: A Social and Architectural History

By Simon Thurley

Alexander Waugh

The Adventures of Lady Satin Tights

The Big House: The Story of a Country House and its Family

By Christopher Simon Sykes

Kenneth Rose

A Paying Guest In His Own Castle

Miles: A Portrait of the 17th Duke of Norfolk

By Gerard Noel

Frances Wilson

Criminal Conversation

Lady Worsley’s Whim: An Eighteenth-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal and Divorce

By Hallie Rubenhold

Jonathan Sumption

‘Can One Save a King Who is on Trial?’

A History of Political Trials from Charles I to Saddam Hussein

By John Laughland

Jane Ridley

Woman in Black

Ettie: The Intimate Life and Dauntless Spirit of Lady Desborough

By Richard Davenport-Hines

Allan Massie

A Bellicose Bibliophile

The Raven King: Matthias Corvinus and the Fate of his Lost Library

By Marcus Tanner

Peter Jones

He Drank His Enemies Under the Table

Philip II of Macedonia

By Ian Worthington