Linda Porter

A Catholic & a Gentleman

Mary and Philip: The Marriage of Tudor England and Habsburg Spain

By Alexander Samson

Richard Acton

A Blue Robe For Poor Henry

Lancaster & York: The Wars of the Roses

By Alison Weir

Francis King

Not Such a Bad Fellow

The Death of an Emperor

By Thomas Cramp

David Gelber

Lucky Bastards

The Braganzas: The Rise and Fall of the Ruling Dynasties of Portugal and Brazil, 1640–1910

By Malyn Newitt

Jonathan Sumption

Bringing Up the Bodies

The Brothers York: An English Tragedy

By Thomas Penn

Richard III: The Self-Made King

By Michael Hicks

Roy Porter

It Is No Yoke

The Republic of Britain: 1760 to the Present

By Frank Prochaska

Anne Curry

How to Lose Two Crowns

Shadow King: The Life and Death of Henry VI

By Lauren Johnson

Munro Price

She Wasn’t Just in It for the Dresses

Marie-Antoinette: The Making of a French Queen

By John Hardman

Jessica Mann

A Familiar Tale Well Told Again

Queen Victoria

By Christopher Hibbert

Veronica Buckley

Sovereign on Whom The Sun Never Set

King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV

By Philip Mansel

Val Hennessy

My Spermy, Fattening Gland Turned Cold

Raincharm for the Dutchy and Other Laureate Poems

By Ted Hughes

Anthony Pagden

Not Quite Master of All He Surveyed

Emperor: A New Life of Charles V

By Geoffrey Parker

Ragnhild Hatton

Charles II

King Charles II

By Antonia Fraser

Stephen Bates

The Woman Who Wouldn’t be Queen

Untitled: The Real Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor

By Anna Pasternak

Anne Somerset

Marriage Plots

Rival Queens: The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots

By Kate Williams

Devices & Desires: Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England

By Kate Hubbard