Moshenka has previously published an excellent biography of Sir Kenelm Digby (A Stain in the Blood). His earlier academic work - Feeling Pleasures: The Sense of Touch in Renaissance England ... read more
An entertaining group-biog of the American babes who inherited money and married titles. The usual line-up: Mary Davies (Grosvenor), Consuelo Vanderbilt (Marlborough); Singer, Fellowes, de J... read more
Catherine was the sister of Christian; in WW2 she worked with the French Resistance but was arrested in 1944 and sent to Ravensbrück. Miraculously she survived, and was awarded both the Cro... read more
When Crane died at 28, he was a star: the adventurous veteran of the Wild West and Cuba during the Spanish American War, the author of a masterpiece (The Red Badge of Courage), and an exile ... read more
Newly explored archives reveal that the post-Abdication lives of this pair were fraught with treachery and lurid affairs to a degree that astonishes even their many detractors. The author of... read more
Following renewed interest in one of Britain's most popular Prime Ministers, this new biog draws attention to his considerable achievements instead of dwelling on Munich to the exclusion of ... read more
'The lion of Panjshir' was the Afghan politician and military commander who fought brilliantly against the Russians during their occupation, and led the Northern Alliance that resisted the T... read more
The Director of the V&A looks at how the great ceramicist and Lunar man transformed society by creating an early form of international mass market, while also significantly contributing to t... read more