Those British Authors

P. G. Wodehouse
Wodehouse: A Life, by Robert McCrum
http://www.amazon.com/Wodehouse-Life-Robert-McCrum/dp/0393051595/ref=sr_1_14/103-1263163-9116636?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189979064&sr=1-14
P.G. Wodehouse: A Portrait of a Master , David A. Jasen
http://www.amazon.com/P-G-Wodehouse-Portrait-David-Jasen/dp/0825672759/ref=sr_1_11/103-1263163-9116636?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189978974&sr=1-11


The Life of Kingsley Amis, by Zachary Leader, Pantheon

Churchill

Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped to Save England, by Lynne Olson, Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Edwardians

The Edwardians, by Roy Hattersley, St. Martin's

I've been reading the big biography of David Lloyd George, and this is a period that we Americans don't know much about, but the controversies are not so different from our times today.