Charles Elliott

Green Fingers

Lives of the Great Gardeners

By Stephen Anderton

Frances Wilson

Poetry & Pose

Byron’s Women

By Alexander Larman

Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd

A Diverting Read

The Men Who Would Be King

By Nicholas Shakespeare

Harold Acton

A Complicated Clan

The House of Mitford

By Jonathan Guinness and Catherine Guinness

Christopher Hitchens

The First Family

The Kennedys

By Peter Collier and David Horowitz

Lucy Moore

The Ice-Breakers

Speed Kings

By Andy Bull

Gillian Darley

Just Good Friends

Transformations of Love: The Friendship of John Evelyn and Margaret Godolphin

By Frances Harris

Nicky Haslan

Two Manhattan Mascara Madams

War Paint: Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden - Their Lives, their Times, their Rivalry

By Lindy Woodhead

Jonathan Mirsky

A Sorority of Character

Four Sisters of Hofei

By Annping Chin

Adam Sisman

Lamb Stew

A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb

By Sarah Burton

Miranda Seymour

The Untouchables

The Lives of the Muses: Nine Woman And The Artists They Inspired

By Francine Prose

David Profumo

He Had The Biggest Cock

Gods, Mongrels and Demons: 101 Brief But Essential Lives

By Angus Calder

David Bodanis

A Few Nice Men

The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

By Walter Isaacson

Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader

By Brent Schlender & Rick Tetzeli

Valerie Grove

Keeping Up with the Burne-Joneses

A Profound Secret: May Gaskell, Her Daughter Amy, and Edward Burne Jones

By Josceline Dimbleby

Graham Steward

Men At Arms

The Guardsmen: Harold Macmillan, Four Friends and the World They Made

By Simon Ball

Hazhir Teirmourian

Revolution And Reform

In The Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran

By Christopher de Bellaigue

Jonathan Keates

Sappho’s Priestesses

Wild Girls: Paris, Sappho and Art - The Lives and Loves of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks

By Diani Souhami