Gilded Youth: Privilege, Rebellion and the British Public School by James Brooke-Smith
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Gilded Youth is woven through with a sure knack for storytelling and eye for vivifying detail.
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Harry: A Biography of a Prince by Angela Levin
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A grounded but readable biography of Prince Harry; faux-forensic but faintly fawning.
Read MoreElizabeth's Rival by Nicola Tallis
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This is the colorful material insanely prolific historical novelist Victoria Holt used for one of her best novels, 1979's My Enemy, the Queen.
Read MorePeculiar Ground by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
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Lucy Hughes-Hallett comes to the world of fiction after writing nonfiction, including The Pike, a very good book about Italian writer and gold-plated weirdo Gabriele D'Annunzio. Her opulent new book Peculiar Ground, her debut work of fiction, is probably predictably steeped in history, split between two very different eras.
Read MoreA Bygone Present
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At the heart of Elmet is the idea that societal systems aren’t designed to protect the vulnerable – women, the poor, the landless, the uneducated.
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