 | The Great Man: Sir Robert Walpole - Scoundrel, Genius and Britain's First Prime Minister by Edward Pearce
Buy new: £18.99 / Used from: £5.72 Politically astute, capturing the nuances of a difficult time
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 | Rough Crossings by Simon Schama
Buy used from: £1.63 The fight for freedom, some truths about slavery
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 | Persian Fire: The First World Empire, Battle for the West by Tom Holland
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £1.06 Persian expansion, reads almost like a thriller!
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 | Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King by Antonia Fraser
Buy new: £21.25 / Used from: £0.01 A must for anyone who loved Fraser's book on Marie Antoinette
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 | William Pitt the Younger: A Biography by William Hague
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £4.11 An easy to read, well researched book about an admirable prime minister
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 | Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir
Buy used from: £1.22 The tragedy of Lady Jane Grey
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 | Lady Hester by Lorna Gibb
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.99 An exciting but less well known woman from the Regency period who traveled across the Middle East having wonderful adventures.
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 | Beau Brummell by Ian Kelly
Buy new: £7.65 / Used from: £5.77 Made me wish I'd met him
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 | A Royal Affair: George III and His Troublesome Siblings by Stella Tillyard
Buy new: £6.72 / Used from: £0.37 Naughty Royals and lovely style
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 | The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War and Madness in Seventeenth-century England by Adrian Tinniswood
Buy new: £15.44 / Used from: £9.25 Good enough to be worth getting in hardback
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