Ruth Dudley Edwards Books in Order

A visual guide to two millennia of Irish history, using maps, charts, and short narrative sections to explain political, social, economic, and religious change. It is a handy reference as well as a readable overview.

A compact illustrated portrait of Daniel O'Connell that places the great Irish campaigner in the political and social world around him. It works as a quick introduction to both the man and nineteenth-century Ireland.

A short, brisk study of the socialist leader James Connolly, from labor politics in Edinburgh and Dublin to the 1913 Lockout and the Easter Rising. It pays close attention to the pull between socialism and nationalism.

When a hated Whitehall mandarin is battered to death with a piece of abstract sculpture, Superintendent Jim Milton turns to young civil servant Robert Amiss. The result is a sharp, funny mystery about bureaucracy, ambition, and revenge.

Loaned from the civil service to a bleak public corporation, Robert Amiss lands among bored, bitter men and office politics gone sour. Practical jokes turn vicious, poisoned chocolates arrive, and a murder hunt begins.

An illustrated portrait of Harold Macmillan, from his Victorian childhood to the premiership and beyond. Using photographs from his own archives, the book shows both the public statesman and the private family man.

A full biography of the publisher and campaigner Victor Gollancz, founder of the Left Book Club and a relentless public crusader. The book follows his idealism, contradictions, and large influence on British intellectual life.

A major biography of Patrick Pearse that places him inside the cultural and political world that led to the 1916 Rising. Dudley Edwards examines the schoolmaster, writer, propagandist, and rebel without smoothing away the contradictions.

Out of work and short on options, Robert Amiss goes undercover as an English teacher at a language school with a run of suspicious deaths. The job is absurd, the suspects are messy, and the danger keeps climbing.

Robert Amiss goes undercover as a waiter in a decaying gentlemen's club after a suspicious death. Behind the rituals and crusty manners, he finds money worries, old secrets, and plenty of reasons to kill.

A history of The Economist across 150 years, told through its arguments, editors, owners, and obsessions. It tracks how one paper responded to huge questions in politics, economics, punishment, empire, and reform.

Based on wide reporting inside the Foreign Office, this book follows British diplomats at home and abroad as they negotiate, travel, and cope with family strain. It is a clear look at how diplomacy really works.

A huge bequest should rescue a struggling Cambridge college, but it instead triggers a vicious fight over who deserves the money. Jack Troutbeck sends Robert Amiss into the chaos, and murder follows close behind.

Fresh in the House of Lords, Jack Troutbeck throws herself into battle over an anti-hunting bill. Threats from activists and violence among the peers turn parliamentary farce into a murder case.

A new evangelical dean throws a cathedral city into turmoil, and Jack Troutbeck sends Robert Amiss in to help. Faction fights, church politics, and a death inside the cathedral turn culture war into murder.

Robert Amiss is sent into the offices of a venerable political magazine that is bleeding money and allergic to change. Then a murder turns a fight over tradition, takeover bids, and survival into a very personal crisis.

A close look at the Orange Order and related loyal institutions in Northern Ireland, written by an outsider who spent time inside the culture. The book explores history, ritual, fear, loyalty, and the symbolism behind the parades.

Jack Troutbeck is a terrible choice to chair a conference on Anglo-Irish cultural sensitivities, which is exactly why the book works. When delegates start dying, diplomacy, grievance, and murder knot together fast.

A joint biography of Hugh Cudlipp and Cecil King, the very different men who built the Daily Mirror empire. It is also a lively portrait of Fleet Street, class, ambition, friendship, and a spectacular falling-out.

A grand literary prize turns deadly when its chair dies and the judges start looking vulnerable. Robert Amiss calls in Jack Troutbeck, who faces vanity, gossip, and murder among people used to passing judgment on everyone else.

Jack Troutbeck arrives at an Indiana university as a visiting professor and finds intimidation, grade inflation, and rotten campus politics. When investigators die and tempers explode, she and Robert Amiss go looking for a killer.

An account of the Omagh bombing and the families who refused to let the case die. Dudley Edwards follows their long civil fight for justice, showing grief, persistence, and the brutal human cost of terrorism.

Baroness Jack Troutbeck vanishes into a nasty feud in the London art world, where curators, dealers, and conceptual-art stars start disappearing. The case becomes a darkly funny attack on fashion, money, and murder dressed up as culture.

A group biography of the seven signatories of the 1916 Proclamation, and a fresh look at how their lives converged. The book asks what they believed, why they chose violence, and what their legacy has meant for Ireland.