Anthony Blond

Too Much to Do

The Grand Strategy of Philip II

By Geoffrey Parker

Kate Saunders

A Handsome Windsor

The Prince

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David Gelber

The Woman Who Would Be King

Njinga of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen

By Linda M Heywood

Donald Rayfield

The Boy Scout & the Butcher

The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution

By Robert Service

Lenin the Dictator: An Intimate Portrait

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Thomas Shippey

A Very Modern Viking

Cnut the Great

By Timothy Bolton

Philip Parker

Uneasy Lies the Head…

Athelstan: The Making of England

By Tom Holland

Æthelred the Unready

By Levi Roach

Raymond Carr

Ethnic Cleansing Time

Isabel the Queen: Life and Times

By Peggy Liss

Linda Porter

Like Father, Like Son

The Last Royal Rebel: The Life and Death of James, Duke of Monmouth

By Anna Keay

Charles II: The Star King

By Clare Jackson

Susan Doran

Gloriana’s Twilight

Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years

By John Guy

Sarah Bradford

Prince of Pleasure

Edward VII: The Cosmopolitan King

By Richard Davenport-Hines

Douglas Johnson

Leading Rake or Early Socialist?

The Man Who Would be King: The Life of Philippe d’Orléans, Regent of France

By Christine Pevitt

Julian Fellowes

Tell Us More About the Fat Empress

The Habsburg Monarchy 1618–1815

By Charles Ingrao

Charles Allen

Playboy Prince

The Last Maharaja: A Biography of Sawai Man Singh II, Maharaja of Jaipur

By Quentin Crewe

Anne Somerset

How to Poison a King

The Murder of King James I

By Alastair Bellany & Thomas Cogswell

Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd

A Diverting Read

The Men Who Would Be King

By Nicholas Shakespeare

Francis Wheen

Off With Their Heads

The Enchanted Glass: Britain and Its Monarchy

By Tom Nairn

Simon Heffer

Heirs & Graces

Victoria: Queen, Matriarch, Empress

By Jane Ridley

William III & Mary II: Partners in Revolution

By Jonathan Keates

James II: The Last Catholic King

By David Womersley