Definitive, concise, and very interesting...

From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain`s most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time.
Each book in the series is based upon the biographical entry from the world-famous Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
The Very Interesting People series includes the following titles:

1.William Shakespeare by Peter Holland
2. George Eliot by Rosemary Ashton
3. Charles Dickens by Michael Slater
4. Charles Darwin by Adrian Desmond, James Moore, and Janet Browne
5. Isaac Newton by Richard S.Westfall
6. Elizabeth I by Patrick Collinson
7. George III by John Cannon
8. Benjamin Disraeli by Jonathan Parry
9. Christopher Wren by Kerry Downes
10. John Ruskin by Robert Hewison
11. James Joyce by Bruce Stewart
12. John Milton by Gordon Campbell
13. Jane Austen by Marilyn Butler
14. Henry VIII by Eric Ives
15. Queen Victoria by K. D. Reynolds and H. C. G. Matthew
16. Winston Churchill by Paul Addison
17. Oliver Cromwell by John Morrill
18. Thomas Paine by Mark Philp
19. J. M. W. Turner by Luke Herrmann
20. William and Mary by Tony Claydon and W. A. Speck