Vicky Pryce

When Mortgages Were Just for Men

The Double X Economy: The Epic Potential of Women’s Empowerment

By Linda Scott

Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood in Modern Britain

By Helen McCarthy

Adrian Tinniswood

Hour of the She-Intelligencer

Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain

By Nadine Akkerman

Jan Morris

Rather Like Margaret

Joan of Arc

By Mary Gordon

Joan of Arc: A Military Leader

By Kelly Devries

Sarah Fraser

Philosopher Queen

The First Iron Lady: A Life of Caroline of Ansbach

By Matthew Dennison

Anne Somerset

In Many Ways our Henry was an Incurable Romantic

The Six Wives of Henry VIII

By Antonia Fraser

Gillian Darley

Just Good Friends

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

By Frances Harris

Frances Wilson

The Rollicking Regency

An Aristocratic Affair: The Life of Georgiana’s Sister, Harriet Spencer, Countess of Bessborough

By Janet Gleeson

Leanda de Lisle

Courting Disaster

Catherine of Aragon: Henry’s Spanish Queen

By Giles Tremlett

Peter Marshall

Daughters of Boudicca

She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth

By Helen Castor

Claire Harman

The Best of Friends

Hester: The Remarkable Life of Dr Johnson’s ‘Dear Mistress’

By Ian McIntyre

Richard Toye

A Liberal Lover

The Pain and the Privilege: The Women in Lloyd George’s Life

By Ffion Hague

Jane Ridley

Day of the Spinster

Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived Without Men After the First World War

By Virginia Nicholson

Betka Zamoyska

The Actress, the King, and Squintabella

Nell Gwyn: A Biography

By Charles Beauclerk

Andrew Lycett

Maiden Voyages

The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj

By Anne de Courcy

David Astor

An American in Parliament

Nancy: The Story of Lady Astor

By Adrian Fort