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Thomas Blaikie
Hair & Spare
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Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown
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Kiss Me, Chudleigh
The Duchess Countess: The Woman Who Scandalised a Nation
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Miranda Seymour
Hostess with the Mostest
Lady M: The Life and Loves of Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne 1751–1818
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Andrew Roberts
Peer Reviewed
Lansdowne: The Last Great Whig
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Christopher Ondaatje
An Island For One
Count de Mauny: Friend of Royalty
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J W M Thompson
Thinker, Scientist, Banker, Spy
Elusive Rothschild: The Life of Victor, Third Baron
By Kenneth Rose
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Kenneth Rose
A Paying Guest In His Own Castle
Miles: A Portrait of the 17th Duke of Norfolk
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Frances Wilson
The Rollicking Regency
An Aristocratic Affair: The Life of Georgiana’s Sister, Harriet Spencer, Countess of Bessborough
By Janet Gleeson
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Frances Wilson
Criminal Conversation
Lady Worsley’s Whim: An Eighteenth-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal and Divorce
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Jane Ridley
Woman in Black
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By Richard Davenport-Hines
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Allan Massie
A Bellicose Bibliophile
The Raven King: Matthias Corvinus and the Fate of his Lost Library
By Marcus Tanner
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Jane Ridley
Unhappy Valley
The Bolter: Idina Sackville – The Woman who Scandalised 1920s Society and Became White Mischief’s Infamous Seductress
By Frances Osborne
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Bountiful Buttocks
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Jane Ridley
The Marriage Plot
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By Robert Sackville-West
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