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The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 440 total.
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- Chopin's Funeral by Benita Eisler
- Christopher Lloyd: His Life at Great Dixter by Stephen Anderton
- Circulation: William Harvey's Revolutionary Idea by Thomas Wright
- Clara Colby: The International Suffragist by John Holliday
- Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
- Close to Holmes: A Look at the Connections Between Historical London, Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by Alistair Duncan
- A Corkscrew is Most Useful: The Travellers of Empire by Nicholas Murray
- A Corner of Paradise: A love story (with the usual reservations) by Brian Thompson
- The Countess: The Scandalous Life of Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey by Tim Clarke
- Crazy Rich: Power, Scandal and Tragedy Inside the Johnson & Johnson Dynasty by Jerry Oppenheimer
- The Crocodile by the Door: The Story of a House, a Farm and a Family by Selina Guinness
- The Cruise of Naromis: August in the Baltic 1939 by G A Jones
- Curing Hiccups with Small Fires: A Delightful Miscellany of Great British Eccentrics by Karl Shaw
- A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert 'Believe It or Not' Ripley by Neal Thompson
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- Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory by Keggie Carew
- Daisy: The Lives and Loves of the Countess of Warwick by Sushila Anand
- Dancing to the Precipice : Lucie De La Tour Du Pin and the French Revolution by Caroline Moorehead
- Darwin's Armada: Four Voyagers to the Southern Oceans and Their Battle for the Theory of Evolution by Iain McCalman
- Darwin: A Life in Science by John Gribbin and Michael White
- David Astor by Jeremy Lewis
- Dawn French: The Unauthorized Biography by Alison Bowyer
- Dear John by Joan Le Mesurier
- Death and the Virgin: Elizabeth, Dudley and the Mysterious Fate of Amy Robsart by Chris Skidmore
- The Devonshires: The Story of a Family and a Nation by Roy Hattersley
- Diaghilev: A Life by Sjeng Scheijen
- The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown
- Diana's Story by Deric Longden
- Dickens's Women: His Life and Loves by Anne Isba
- Dickens: A Memoir of Middle Age by Peter Ackroyd
- Dinner with Churchill: The Prime Minister's Tabletop Diplomacy by Cita Stelzer
- Dirty Bertie: An English King Made in France by Stephen Clarke
- Disaster was my God by Bruce Duffy
- Dotter of Her Father's Eyes by Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot
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- The Early Loves of Anne Boleyn by Josephine Wilkinson
- Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by John Matteson
- Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee
- Edward II: The Unconventional King by Kathryn Warner
- Edward IV & Elizabeth Woodville: A True Romance by Amy Licence
- Edward IV: Glorious Son of York by Jeffrey James
- Effie Gray by Suzanne Fagence Cooper
- Elizabeth's Rival: The Tumultuous Tale of Lettice Knollys, Countess of Leicester by Nicola Tallis
- Elizabeth's Women: The Hidden Story of the Virgin Queen by Tracy Borman
- Elizabeth: A Diamond Jubilee Portrait by Jennie Bond
- Elvis Has Left the Building: The Day the King Died by Dylan Jones
- Eminent Elizabethans by Piers Brendon
- Empress Dowager Cixi by Jung Chang
- Escape from the Nazis: The Incredible and Inspiring Saga of Two Young Jews on the Run in World War II Poland by Benjamin Mandelkern
- Escape to Provence by Maureen Emerson
- An Exclusive Love by Johanna Adorjan
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- Family Romance by John Lanchester
- Fantastic Mr Dahl by Michael Rosen
- Fasting and Feasting - The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray by Adam Federman
- The Fears of Henry IV: The Life of England's Self-Made King by Ian Mortimer
- The Fetish Room by Redmond O'Hanlon and Rudi Rotthier
- Fifty Sounds by Polly Barton
- A Fifty Year Silence by Miranda Richmond Mouillot
- Fifty Years In The Fiction Factory: The Working Life Of Herbert Allingham by Julia Jones
- Find Another Place by Ben Graff
- Finding Poland by Matthew Kelly
- Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London by Lauren Elkin
- For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond by Ben Macintyre
- Four Sisters:The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses by Helen Rappaport
- Frank Sinatra: An Extraordinary Life by Spencer Leigh
- The Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 by Brian Anderson
- Fred Couples by Katherine Bissell
- Frontline by David Loyn
- The Frood by Jem Roberts
- Frost: That Was The Life That Was: The Authorised Biography by Neil Hegarty
- Furniture with Soul: Master Woodworkers and Their Craft by David Savage
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- Gandhi: Naked Ambition by Jad Adams
- George Harrison: Behind the Locked Door by Graeme Thomson
- The Georgian Star: How William and Caroline Herschel Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Cosmos by Michael D Lemonick
- Giants: The Dwarfs of Auschwitz: The Extraordinary Story of the Lilliput Troupe by Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev
- Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan: His Life and Character by Andrew Crowther
- Ginger Geezer: The Life of Vivian Stanshall by Chris Welch and Lucian Randall
- Golden Parasol by Wendy Law-Yone
- Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo
- Grace: Her Lives - Her Loves: The startling royal exposé by Robert Lacey
- A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain by Marc Morris
- Great British Eccentrics by S D Tucker
- Greta and Cecil by Diana Souhami
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- H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
- Handel: The Man and His Music by Jonathan Keates
- Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz by Thomas Harding
- The Happy Passion: A Personal View of Jacob Bronowski by Anthony James
- The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund de Waal
- Hemingway's Boat: Everything he loved in life, and lost, 1934-1961 by Paul Hendrickson
- The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life by Bettany Hughes
- Henrietta Maria by Dominic Pearce
- Henry III: The Son of Magna Carta by Matthew Lewis
- Henry V: The Life of the Warrior King & the Battle of Agincourt by Teresa Cole
- HHhH by Laurent Binet
- Hieronymus by Marcel Ruijters and Laura Watkinson (translator)
- High Society: Grace Kelly and Hollywood by Donald Spoto
- Hitler at Home by Despina Stratigakos
- Hockney: The Biography, Volume 1, 1937-1975 by Christopher Simon Sykes
- Hocus Pocus by Paul Kieve
- The Holy Fox: The Life of Lord Halifax by Andrew Roberts
- A House Full of Daughters by Juliet Nicolson
- House of Exile: War, Love and Literature, from Berlin to Los Angeles by Evelyn Juers
- How Could He Do It? by Emma Charles
- How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
- How to Read a Novelist: Conversations with Writers by John Freeman
- How to Survive the Titanic or the Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay by Frances Wilson
- HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes
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- I & I: The Natural Mystics by Colin Grant
- I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen by Sylvie Simmons
- Ian Dury: The Definitive Biography by Will Birch
- Idle Thoughts on Jerome K Jerome: A 150th Anniversary Celebration by Jeremy Nicholas
- If Women Rose Rooted by Sharon Blackie
- An Illuminated Life: Belle Da Costa Greene's Journey from Prejudice to Privilege by Heidi Ardizzone
- The Immortal Dinner: A famous evening of genius and laughter in literary London, 1817 by Penelope Hughes-Hallett
- Immortal Longings: F.W.H. Myers and the Victorian Search for Life After Death by Trevor Hamilton
- In Search of Dr Watson - A Sherlockian Investigation by Molly Carr
- In the Footsteps of the Six Wives of Henry VIII: The visitor's companion to the palaces, castles & houses associated with Henry VIII's iconic queens by S Morris and N Grueninger
- In the Midnight Hour: The Life & Soul of Wilson Pickett by Tony Fletcher
- Inferno Decoded: The essential companion to the myths, mysteries and locations of Dan Brown's Inferno by Michael Haag
- Innocence by Roald Dahl
- Inside The Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk
- The Insider by Piers Morgan
- Into The Frame: The Four Loves of Ford Madox Brown by Angela Thirlwell
- Into The Mountain, A Life of Nan Shepherd by Charlotte Peacock
- The Invention of Angela Carter by Edmund Gordon
- The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science by Andrea Wulf
- Invisible Ink: A Family Memoir by Martha Leigh
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- J K Rowling: the Mystery of Fiction by Lindsey Fraser
- J.M. Coetzee: A life in writing by J C Kannemeyer
- Jack Hobbs: England's Greatest Cricketer by Leo McKinstry
- James Ravilious: A Life by Robin Ravilious
- Jane and Dorothy: A True Tale of Sense and Sensibility by Marian Veevers
- Jeff Lynne: The Electric Light Orchestra - Before and After by John Van der Kiste
- John Aubrey: My Own Life by Ruth Scurr
- John Daly by Gavin Newsham
- John le Carre: The Biography by Adam Sisman
- John Lennon: The Life by Philip Norman
- Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage by Philip Weinstein
- Josephine: Desire, Ambition, Napoleon by Kate Williams
- Jumpin' Jack Flash: David Litvinoff and the Rock'n'Roll Underworld by Keiron Pim
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- Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr by Linda Porter
- Keeping Mum by Brian Thompson
- The Kennedy Wives: Triumph and Tragedy in America's Most Public Family by Amber Hunt and David Batcher
- King's Mistress, Queen's Servant: Henrietta Howard by Tracy Borman
- The King's Pearl: Henry VIII and His Daughter Mary by Melita Thomas
- The Kingmaker's Sisters: Six Powerful Women in the Wars of the Roses by David Baldwin
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- La Grande Therese by Hilary Spurling
- The Lady and the Generals: Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle for Freedom by Peter Popham
- Lady Blue Eyes: My Life With Frank Sinatra by Barbara Sinatra
- Lancelot 'Capability' Brown: The Omnipotent Magician 1716-1783 by Jane Brown
- The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter by Matthew Dennison
- The Last Resort by Douglas Rogers
- Lawson Lies Still in the Thames: The Extraordinary Life of Vice-Admiral Sir John Lawson by Gill Blanchard
- Leonardo's Legacy: How Da Vinci Reinvented the World by Stefan Klein
- Let Not The Waves of the Sea by Simon Stephenson
- Letters from Oxford: Hugh Trevor-Roper to Bernard Berenson by Richard Davenport-Hines (Editor)
- Letters To Vicky by Andrew Roberts (Editor)
- Life in a Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford The Biography by Laura Thompson
- The Life of Handel by Victor Schoelcher (Author), Anton de Moresco (Editor), James Lowe (Translator)
- The Life of Irene Nemirovsky by Patrick Lienhardt, Olivier Philipponnat and Euan Cameron
- The Life of Rebecca Jones by Angharad Price
- The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune 1915-1964 by Zachary Leader
- Lily, Duchess of Marlborough (1854 - 1909): A Portrait with Husbands by Sally E Svenson
- Little Liberia: An African Odyssey in New York City by Jonny Steinberg
- Lives in Writing by David Lodge
- The Lives of the Famous and the Infamous: Everything You Need To Know About Everyone Who Mattered by The Week
- Lord Of All the Dead by Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)
- The Lost City of Z: A Legendary British Explorer's Deadly Quest to Uncover the Secrets of the Amazon by David Grann
- The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox by Alison Weir
- The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev by Simon Morrison
- Loving the Enemy: Building bridges in a time of war by Andrew March
- Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits by Barney Hoskyns
- Lucky by Alice Sebold
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- Macaulay: Britain's Liberal Imperialist by Zareer Masani
- Machiavelli: A Life Beyond Ideology by Paul Oppenheimer
- The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother and Me by Sofka Zinovieff
- The Madness of Queen Maria: The Remarkable Life of Maria I of Portugal by Jenifer Roberts
- Magic Words: The Extraordinary Life of Alan Moore by Lance Parkin
- Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable
- Man of Good Hope by Jonny Steinberg
- The Man Who Ate the Zoo: Frank Buckland, forgotten hero of natural history by Richard Girling
- The Man Who Sold The World: David Bowie And The 1970s by Peter Doggett
- The Many Lives of Tom Waits by Patrick Humphries
- Margaret Pole: The Countess in the Tower by Susan Higginbotham
- Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox by Lois Banner
- Marooned in the Arctic by Peggy Caravantes
- Marty Feldman: The Biography of a Comedy Legend by Robert Ross
- Matilda: Wife of the Conqueror, first Queen of England by Tracy Borman
- Matt Monro: The Singer's Singer by Michele Monro
- Maus by Art Spiegelman
- Me Cheeta by James Lever
- Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of Russia by David Greene
- Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh by Amy Raphael (Editor)
- The Mistress of Paris by Catherine Hewitt
- The Mistress's Daughter by A M Homes
- Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
- Mr and Mrs Disraeli: A Strange Romance by Daisy Hay
- Mr Manchester and the Factory Girl: The Story of Tony and Lindsay Wilson by Lindsay Reade
- My Father's Fortune: A Life by Michael Frayn
- My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf
- My Husband and I: The Inside Story of 70 Years of the Royal Marriage by Ingrid Seward
- The Mystery of Princess Louise: Queen Victoria's Rebellious Daughter by Lucinda Hawksley