 | Empire Adrift: The Portuguese Court in Rio De Janeiro, 1808-1821 by Patrick Wilcken
Buy new: £3.58 / Used from: £2.00 model of how to write history
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 | If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £0.01 wonderfully poetic writing
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 | Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire by Alex von Tunzelmann
Buy new: £5.84 / Used from: £6.67 Outstanding account of the end of empire, sags a little at the end, but does not reflect from first rate history
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 | Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna by Adam Zamoyski
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £2.73 Diplomacy as social occasion, well written, a pacy narrative, a lot of detail but worth ploughing through the 500 pages
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 | Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Traitor, Hero, Spy by Ben Macintyre
Buy new: £4.74 / Used from: £0.01 A reminder that while war is terrible for some it is an opportunity
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 | The Civil War: An Illustrated History by Geoffrey C. Ward
Buy used from: £3.76 Near definitive account of a war that shaped America
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 | Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories: The Complete Ghost Stories of M. R. James v. 1 (Penguin Classics) by M.R. James
Buy new: £4.01 / Used from: £3.95 bit dated but worth reading to see where most modern horror comes from
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 | Vanity Fair: Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero (Oxford World's Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 For me the best English novel of the nineteenth century, I re read time and again and it never fades
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 | Belshazzar's Daughter by Barbara Nadel
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Absolutely gripping narrative, one of the best novels i have read in years
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 | The English Patient: 21 Great Bloomsbury Reads for the 21st Century (21st Birthday Celebratory Edn) by Michael Ondaatje
Buy new: £1.31 / Used from: £0.01 Not an easy read but a rewarding one
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