Richard Davenport-Hines

Cosmopolitan Connections

Parallel Lives: A Love Story from a Lost Continent

By Iain Pears

Veronica Buckley

Sovereign on Whom The Sun Never Set

King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV

By Philip Mansel

Anthony Pagden

Not Quite Master of All He Surveyed

Emperor: A New Life of Charles V

By Geoffrey Parker

John Edwards

Sovereign of the Seas

Isabella of Castile: Europe’s First Great Queen

By Giles Tremlett

John Adamson

A Fine Ligne

Prince of Europe: The Life of Charles-Joseph De Ligne, 1735-1814

By Philip Mansel

David Cesarani

Knowing When To Run

Pushing Time Away: My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna

By Peter Singer

The Frank Family That Survived

By Gordon F Sander

Michael Waterhouse

Global Politics

The World of Gerard Mercator

By Andrew Taylor

Paul Johnson

Battler for Britain

Marlborough: England’s Fragile Genius

By Richard Holmes

Tim Blanning

What Now, Little Man?

Napoleon: Volume 1 – Soldier of Destiny, 1769–1805

By Michael Broers