Thomas Blaikie

Hair & Spare

Three Times a Countess: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Raine Spencer

By Tina Gaudoin

Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown

By Valentine Low

Miranda Seymour

Kiss Me, Chudleigh

The Duchess Countess: The Woman Who Scandalised a Nation

By Catherine Ostler

Miranda Seymour

Hostess with the Mostest

Lady M: The Life and Loves of Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne 1751–1818

By Colin Brown

Andrew Roberts

Peer Reviewed

Lansdowne: The Last Great Whig

By Simon Kerry

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

Kenneth Rose

A Paying Guest In His Own Castle

Miles: A Portrait of the 17th Duke of Norfolk

By Gerard Noel

Frances Wilson

The Rollicking Regency

An Aristocratic Affair: The Life of Georgiana’s Sister, Harriet Spencer, Countess of Bessborough

By Janet Gleeson

Frances Wilson

Criminal Conversation

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

By Hallie Rubenhold

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

Jane Ridley

Unhappy Valley

The Bolter: Idina Sackville – The Woman who Scandalised 1920s Society and Became White Mischief’s Infamous Seductress

By Frances Osborne

Jane Ridley

The Marriage Plot

The Disinherited: A Story of Love, Family and Betrayal

By Robert Sackville-West