LAST PRINCESS, THE: THE DEVOTED LIFE OF QUEEN VICTORIA'S YOUNGEST DAUGHTER

ETERNAL BOY

During the week Kenneth Grahame sat behind a mahogany desk as Secretary of the Bank of England; at the weekend he retired to his house in the country and took lengthy walks along the Thames in Berkshire. The result of these pastoral wanderings was 'The Wind in the Willows' (616375). Matthew Dennison covers the facts, producing a vivid impression of this strange, shy, awkward figure.

THE QUEEN

An elegant and magisterial new biography of Her Majesty The Queen, tracing the events of a reign that now spans seven decades, and evaluating her achievement as a practitioner of monarchy across the entirety of her reign. For millions of people, both in Britain and across the world, Elizabeth II is the embodiment of monarchy. Her long life spans nearly a century of national and global history, from a time before the Great Depression to the era of Covid-19. Her reign embraces all but seven years of Britain's postwar history; she has been served by fifteen UK prime ministers from Churchill to Johnson, and witnessed the administrations of thirteen US presidents from Truman to Trump. The vast majority of Britons cannot remember a world without Elizabeth II as head of state and the Commonwealth. In this brand-new new biography of the longest-reigning sovereign in British history, Matthew Dennison traces her life and reign across an era of unprecedented and often seismic social change.