Nigel Andrew

Bestseller Ho!

Literature for the People: How the Pioneering Macmillan Brothers Built a Publishing Powerhouse

By Sarah Harkness

Jessica Mann

A Familiar Tale Well Told Again

Queen Victoria

By Christopher Hibbert

Catherine Peters

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

Catherine Peters

Desperate Housewife

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

By Kathy Chamberlain

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

Janet Barron

Same Mephitic Odours

The Letters of Edith Wharton

By RWB Lewis & Nancy Lewis

Elizabeth Longford

Six of the Best

Eminent Victorians

By A N Wilson

Gillian Tindall

Great Scott

Gothic for the Steam Age: An Illustrated Biography of George Gilbert Scott

By Gavin Stamp

Leslie Mitchell

Billiards, My Dear?

Palmerston: A Biography

By David Brown

Paul Johnson

The Frozen Deep

Charles Dickens: A Life Defined by Writing

By Michael Slater

Julia Keay

At the Court of Siam

Bombay Anna: The Real Story and Remarkable Adventures of The King and I Governess

By Susan Morgan

Paul Johnson

On New Grub Street

George Gissing: A Life

By Paul Delany

Toby Thomas

Prurient Puritan

Muckraker: The Scandalous Life and Times of W T Stead

By W Sydney Robinson

Adam Sisman

He Lived Too Long

Fiery Heart: The First Life of Leigh Hunt

By Nicholas Roe

The Wit in the Dungeon: Leigh Hunt and His Circle

By Anthony Holden