Love and Louis XIV
by Antonia Fraser | 
Privilege and Scandal
by Janet Gleeson | 
Bess of Hardwick
by Mary S. Lovell | 
History of William the Conqueror
by Jacob Abbott | 
God's Englishman
by Christopher Hill | 
Arbella
by Sarah Gristwood |
Richard I
by John Gillingham | 
King Charles II
by Antonia Fraser | 
Nell Gwyn
by Charles Beauclerk |
King John
by W. L. Warren |
The Trial of Charles I
by C. V. Wedgwood |
Queen Victoria
by Lucy Worsley | 
Eleanor of Aquitaine
by Marion Meade |
Henry II
by W. L. Warren |
The Verneys
by Adrian Tinniswood |
Aristocrats
by Stella Tillyard | 
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 |
In Cromwell, award-winning biographer Antonia Fraser tells of one of England's most celebrated and controversial figures, often misunderstood and demonized as a puritanical zealot. Oliver Cromwell rose from humble beginnings to spearhead the rebellion against King Charles I, who was beheaded in 1649, and led his soldiers into the last battle against the Royalists and King Charles II at Worcester, ending the civil war in 1651. Fraser shows how England's prestige and prosperity grew under Cromwell, reversing the decline it had suffered since Queen Elizabeth I's death.