 | Churchill: A Biography by Roy Jenkins
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 The greatest Briton of all (of course)
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 | Gladstone by Roy Jenkins
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £4.23 The next greatest - and a Christian. too!
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 | Blair by Anthony Seldon
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.50 Penetrating account of Blair and Blairism
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 | Free at Last!: Diaries, 1991-2001 by Tony Benn
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £0.59 All the previous volumes are worth a read, too. Brilliant, warm-hearted, slightly dotty diarist
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 | Donne: The Reformed Soul by John Stubbs
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £5.75 Poet and priest converted to the Reformed faith
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 | The Last Diaries: In and Out of the Wilderness by Alan Clark
Buy new: £8.32 / Used from: £0.01 As with Benn, the other vols are well worth a read too.
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 | Cromwell, Our Chief Of Men by Antonia Fraser
Buy new: £8.39 / Used from: £0.49 Sympathetic portrait of complex & controversial Briton
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 | Dickens by Peter Ackroyd
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £4.99 Superb biog of our greatest novelist
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 | Disraeli (Lost Treasures) by Robert Blake
Buy used from: £19.00 Great biography of founder of one nation conservatism
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 | Harold Macmillan Volume 1: 1894-1956 by Alistair Horne
Buy new: £28.09 / Used from: £0.73 Classic biography of great PM -see also vol 2
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 | Life of Elizabeth I, The by Alison Weir
Buy used from: £7.48 Gifted and influential first female monarch
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 | William Pitt the Younger: A Biography by William Hague
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £5.00 Youngest ever PM
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 | The Course of My Life: The Autobiography of Edward Heath by Edward Heath
Buy new: £52.07 / Used from: £2.68 Autobiography
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 | Henry VIII: King and Court by Alison Weir
Buy used from: £5.00 Monarch or monster who changed the face of England
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 | In the Lion's Court: Power, Ambition and Sudden Death in the Reign of Henry VIII - A Study in Political Intrigue by Derek Wilson
Buy used from: £2.63 The rise and fall of the six Thomases surrounding Henry VII
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 | Monarchy: From the Middle Ages to Modernity by David Starkey
Buy new: £14.00 / Used from: £6.56 Monarchs from the middle ages to modernity
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 | The Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth II by Ben Pimlott
Buy used from: £3.56 Life and times of Queen Elizabeth II
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 | The Brontes by Juliet R.V. Barker
Buy new: £15.00 / Used from: £49.80 Intriguing story of the literary sisters from the Yorkshire parsonage
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 | Betjeman: A Life by A. N. Wilson
Buy used from: £6.85 Poet & architectural enthusiast
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 | Jonathan Swift (Pimlico) by Victoria Glendinning
Buy used from: £0.01 Poet, polemicist, pampleteer, & wit
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