The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective

The Pen and the Spade

In the Shadow of Big Brother

A Cheat Dog-Collared

Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior

Thinkers and Drinkers

Newton the Alchemist

A Romantic Modernist

The Dragon: Fear and Power

Treasures of a Trailblazer

A Lover and a Fighter

Never Knowingly Understaffed: A Domestic History of the Royal Household

The lives of the surrealists

Plenty of Dish: On the Letters of Tennessee Williams

Plenty of Sex and Nowhere to Sit: Art, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris

Author of Himself: On Evelyn Waugh

He Made Masterpieces with Manure: Traces of Vermeer

Homo Duplex: Joseph Conrad in a Global World

Treasured Island: Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa

Did They Invent Hair Gel? Caesar’s Footprints: Journeys to Roman Gaul

Witness to a Century

Political Orchestra: The Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics During the Third Reich

Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli’s Lifelong Quest for Freedom

Voice from the Asylum: The Poetry, Politics and Madness of Ezra Pound

Kilt for Hire

Revolting Mind: Jonathan Swift – The Reluctant Rebel

Playing Away: Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor

Near the Madding Crowd: Thomas Hardy, Half a Londoner

Paranoid Android: The Divine Madness of Philip K Dick

Eternity’s Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake

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