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?

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!

@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.

Wedlock was brilliant

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?

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

Ooh I have Black Diamonds too!

Can you elaborate a bit more on your criteria?

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

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

https://www.amazon.co.uk/L-L-literary-Romantics-Victorians/dp/0224079395/

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