Recommendations from our site
“Tremlett reveals Catherine through her role in events and relationships with people significant not only in her life, but in the course of European history: royal births, weddings, and deaths; alliances and intrigues of leaders jockeying for power; and the ever fascinating, ever despicable, Henry VIII.” Read more...
The best books on Goya and the art of biography
Janis Tomlinson, Art Historians, Critics & Curator
Our most recommended books
-
Thomas Cromwell: A Life
by Diarmaid MacCulloch -
The Prince
by Niccolo Machiavelli -
Britain and Barbary, 1589-1689
by Nabil Matar -
The Ancien Régime and the Revolution
by Alexis de Tocqueville -
Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance
by Lisa Jardine -
Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus: A Ghost Story and a Biography
by Clifton Crais and Pamela Scully