A Gambling Man
by Jenny Uglow | 
Nell Gwyn
by Charles Beauclerk | 
Love and Louis XIV
by Antonia Fraser | 
The Verneys
by Adrian Tinniswood | 
Royal Panoply
by Carolly Erickson | 
Great Harry
by Carolly Erickson | 
Victoria's Daughters
by Jerrold M. Packard | 
Thomas Cromwell
by Tracy Borman | 
Ungrateful Daughters
by Maureen Waller | 
Arbella
by Sarah Gristwood | 
The Life of Elizabeth I
by Alison Weir | 
Queen Isabella
by Alison Weir | 
Becoming Queen Victoria
by Kate Williams |
Cromwell
by Antonia Fraser | 
Catherine of Aragon
by Giles Tremlett | 
Mary Tudor
by Anna Whitelock | 
The Wright Brothers
by David McCullough | 
Empire of the Summer Moon
by S. C. Gwynne | 
The Professor and the Madman
by Simon Winchester | 
Zeitoun
by Dave Eggers |
Following a youth of poverty and bitter exile after his father's execution, the ousted king first challenged, then made his magnificent escape from, Cromwell's troops before he was eventually restored to his throne in triumph in 1660.