Deb’s Distress

Miss Palmer’s Diary: The Secret Journals of a Victorian Lady

By Gillian Wagner

J W M Thompson

He Took a Prostitute to Meet Queen Victoria

American Scoundrel: Love, War And Politics In Civil War America

By Thomas Keneally

Sarah Bradford

Family Planning

Queen Victoria’s Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe

By Deborah Cadbury

Patricia Fara

Clean Bill of Health

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

By Lindsey Fitzharris

Catherine Peters

Come Dine with We

The Greedy Queen: Eating with Victoria

By Annie Gray

Richard Dorment

An Actress, perhaps, but Granny was not a Tart

The Actress and the Brewer's Wife: Two Victorian Vignettes

By Virginia Surtees

Catherine Peters

Desperate Housewife

Jane Welsh Carlyle and Her Victorian World: A Story of Love, Work, Friendship, and Marriage

By Kathy Chamberlain

Anne Sebba

Rank & Style

The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York

By Anne de Courcy

John Banville

Scoundrel Manages to Keep his Secrets

Wainewright The Poisoner

By Andrew Motion

Robert Woof

Convivial Study

Tennyson: A Biography

By Peter Levi

Dominic Green

Victorians in Togas

Lawrence Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity

By Elizabeth Prettejohn & Peter Trippi (edd)

John Sutherland

Body Language

Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum

By Kathryn Hughes

Justin Beplate

Coming out of the Coffin

Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula

By David J Skal

Jessica Mann

Working Girl

Love and Dirt: The Marriage of Arthur Munby and Hannah Cullwick

By Diane Atkinson

Alan Bell

Remembered Chiefly For His ‘Wife’s’ Novels

G H Lewes: A Life

By Rosemary Ashton

Frank McLynn

Not Enough Selection

Darwin

By Adrian Desmond & James Moore

John Bayley

Boz’s Little Bit

The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens

By Claire Tomalin

Anne Clark Amor

Most Artists is Very Dissipated

Ruskin on Turner

By Dinah Birch

The Victorian Painter’s World

By Paula Gillett