 | The Sum Of Our Days: A Memoir Isabel Allende   Recounting the years following the death of her daughter, Paula hbk £17.99 |
 | Amis & Son: Two Literary Generations Neil Powell   A dual biography of the writers hbk £20 |
 | A Dangerous Liaison Carole Seymour-Jones   A new biography of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre hbk £20 |
 | William Beckford: A Bibliography Jon Millington   hbk £50 |
 | Burghley: William Cecil At The Court Of Elizabeth 1 Stephen Alford   An authoritative study of the man and his times hbk £25 |
 | The Raven King: Matthias Corvinus And The Fate Of His Lost Library Marcus Tanner   One of Europe's most charismatic Renaissance monarchs, whose treasures were dispersed following the Ottoman invasion after his death hbk £20 |
 | Holder of the White Lotus: The Secret Lives Of The Dalai Lama Alexander Norman   The institution and current individual hbk £20 |
 | The Remarkable Lives Of Bill Deedes Stephen Robinson   hbk £20 |
 | Downing Street Diary 2: With James Callaghan In No 10 Bernard Donoughue   hbk £30 |
 | So I Have Thought Of You: The Letters Of Penelope Fitzgerald Terence Dooley (ed)   hbk £25 |
 | Black Diamonds: The Rise & Fall Of An English Dynasty Catherine Bailey   The jaw-dropping rise and fall of the Fitzwilliams, England's richest mining dynasty, and their palace, Wentworth. This excellent book disappeared very soon in hardback, but is now available again pbk £8.99 |
 | The Red Prince: The Fall Of A Dynasty And The Rise Of Modern Europe Timothy Snyder   The colourful Archduke Wilhelm von Habsburg (1895-1947), Paris playboy of the 1930s who died, a spy for Britain, in a Soviet prison hbk £20 |
 | House Of Wits: An Intimate Portrait Of The James Family Paul Fisher   Henry, William et al pbk £16.99 |
 | The Semi-Invisible Man: A Life Of Norman Lewis Julian Evans   The great travel writer revealed hbk £25 |
 | The Pain And The Privilege: The Women In Lloyd George's Life Ffion Hague   hbk £25 |
 | The Bloomsbury Ballerina Judith Mackrell   A biography of Lydia Lopokova, Imperial dancer & Mrs John Maynard Keynes hbk £25 |
 | Madame de Maintenon Veronica Buckley   From the author of 'Christina, Queen of Sweden', a rags to riches story as the Sun King's wife hbk £25 |
 | Marlborough: England's Fragile Genius Richard Holmes   hbk £25 |
 | Isabella de Medici Caroline P Murphy   The life of Cosimo's daughter hbk £20 |
 | Cold Cream: My Early Life And Other Mistakes Ferdinand Mount   Now a successful novelist, Mount recalls a varied career - writing speeches for Mrs Thatcher, editing the 'TLS', and more - with tremendous charm hbk £20 |
 | The World Is What It Is Patrick French   The first major biography of V.S.Naipaul. Written with the subject's support, and access to papers hbk £20 |
 | Trying To Please John Julius Norwich   Wartime evacuee, the British Embassy in Paris, Belgrade & Beirut: the autobiography of a well-travelled writer hbk £20 |
 | Read My Heart: Dorothy Osborne And Sir William Temple Jane Dunn   A vivid portrait of two remarkable people who sustained their clandestine love through wonderfully romantic letters, despite the implacable opposition of their divided Royalist and Parliamentarian families hbk £25 |
 | Frances Partridge Anne Chisholm   The life of the great diarist hbk £20 |
 | Legacy: Cecil Rhodes, The Rhodes Trust And Rhodes Scholarships Philip Ziegler   hbk £25 |
 | Ekaterinburg: The Last Days Of The Romanovs Helen Rappaport   A serious book on what happened in the Ipatiev House, taking into account evidence that has emerged since 1989, and the dynamics among the Bolsheviks hbk £18.99 |
 | Isaac Rosenberg Jean Moorcroft Wilson   A new account of the poet's life from Sassoon's biographer hbk £25 |
 | The Bolter Frances Osborne   The story of Idina Sackville, the 'seductress' of Happy Valley who scandalised 1920s society, by her great-granddaughter hbk £18.99 |
 | Snowdon: The Biography Anne de Courcy   (mid-June) hbk £20 |
 | Blue Remembered Hills Rosemary Sutcliff   This is the first in a new series of reprints from the quarterly, 'Slightly Foxed'. Attractively produced in a little blue hardback, this is Sutcliff's classic account of her Devon childhood and evolution into celebrated children's writer hbk £12.50 |
 | The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher Kate Summerscale   A marvellous account of a celebrated murder, solved by Detective Whicher, which inspired both Wilkie Collins (The Moonstone) and also Conan Doyle. From the author of "Queen of Whale Cay" hbk £14.99 |
 | The Ballad Of Dorothy Wordsworth Frances Wilson   An examination of the life - 'culminating in 30 years madness' - of the poet's sister hbk £18.99 |