Anyone else into unusual biogs - especially historical?

[GrimDamnFanjo]

Finally think I've found my genre, books I've recently enjoyed include:
Handsome Brute
Wedlock
The Wicked Boy
A Woman of No Importance

Anyone else?

[tobee]

I've read Handsome Brute and found it fascinating - great insight into some aspects of that period; people living on the margins of society.

Now I'm going to have to look up the other ones you've mentioned!

[GrimDamnFanjo]

@tobee I've become a bit obsessed by this genre and you're right, much of the interest is about the depiction of the time and the use of records to tell the story.
A Woman of No Importance concerns WW2 and is an amazing story.

[Lagatha]

Wedlock was brilliant

[tobee]

Just got back from rural holiday with bad internet and have now been able to look up those titles. I've downloaded samples now and realise I have Wicked Boy as an audio book; downloaded a while ago in a sale. So that's me all sorted!

Any other recommendations anyone?

[GrimDamnFanjo]

Found some more:
Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of an English Dynasty
Beyond the Body Farm: A Legendary Bone Detective Explores - Bill Bass
Murders, Mysteries, and the Revolution in Forensic Science
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
by Barbara Demick

[tobee]

Ooh I have Black Diamonds too!

Can you elaborate a bit more on your criteria?

[Fere]

I started Black Diamonds on Audible and didn't get on with it. Maybe reading it would be better?

[LetterFromLorah]

I'm about to read L.E.L.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/L-L-literary-Romantics-Victorians/dp/0224079395/?tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-21

I heard a portion of it being read by Helena Bonham Carter on Radio 4 a while back and it sounds fascinating.