D J Taylor

In Defence of the Hack

John Adamson

A Fine Ligne

Prince of Europe: The Life of Charles-Joseph De Ligne, 1735-1814

By Philip Mansel

Simon Heffer

An Unlucky Man

Eden: The Life and Times of Anthony Eden, First Earl of Avon, 1897-1977

By D R Thorpe

Frank McLynn

The Wisest Fool in Christendom

The Cradle King: A Life of James VI and I

By Alan Stewart

Robert Irwin

Percy of Persia

Persia in the Great Game: Sir Percy Sykes, Explorer, Consul, Soldier Spy

By Antony Wynn

Christopher Ondaatje

At Least He Had A Conscience

Carnegie

By Peter Krass

Christopher Bray

A Visionary Victorian

Motion Studies: Time, Space and Eadweard Muybridge

By Rebecca Solnit

Marcus Berkmann

The Meaning of Life

Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams

By M J Simpson

Anne Somerset

A Royal Rivalry

Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals Queens

By Jane Dunn

Peter Washington

Austen’s Onion

Becoming Jane Austen: A Life

By Jon Spence

Jane Austen's 'Outlandish Cousin': The Life and Letters of Eliza de Feuillide

By Deirdre Le Faye

Juliet Barker

A Call to Alms

Hannah More: The First Victorian

By Anne Stott

Jessica Mann

An Eye On Posterity

The Journals of Mary Butts

By Nathalie Blondel (ed)

Mary Butts: Scenes From The Life- A Biography

By Nathalie Blondel

Joan Smith

Death and Taxis

Tina Modotti: Between Art and Revolution

By Letizia Argenteri

Charlie Campbell

The Body-Snatchers

Madame Tussaud and the History of Waxworks

By Pamela Pilbeam

Andrew Barrow

She Was A Man

Who War Dr Charlotte Back?

By Francis Wheen

Michael Burleigh

The State We’re In

The West and the Rest: Globalisation and the Terrorist Threat

By Roger Scruton

Hazhir Teimourian

Priests And Mullahs

The Cross and the Crescent: Christianity and Islam from Muhammad to the Reformation

By Richard Fletcher

Justin Marozzi

Desert Cockerels

The Sword and the Cross: The Conquest of the Sahara

By Fergus Fleming

Sahara: The Life of the Great Desert

By Marq de Villiers, Sheila Hirtle

Aidan Hartley

Beauty and the Beast

Emma's War: Love, Betrayal and Death in the Sudan

By Deborah Scroggins

Christopher Ross

Escape To Iberia

Duende: A Journey In Search of Flamenco

By Jason Webster

Allan Massie

Caught By Surprise

The Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion of 1940

By Julian Jackson

Peter Weston

A Snow-White Hell

The Winter War: The Russo-Finnish War of 1939-40

By William R Trotter

Jeremy Lewis

Press Gangs and Pensioners

Limeys: The True Story of One Man's War Against Ignorance, The Establishment and the Deadly Scurvy

By David I Harvie

Leonie Frieda

Murder In The Cathedral

April Blood: Florence & the Plot against the Medici

By Lauro Martines

Matthew Leeming

Off Our Heads

Bevis Hillier

Last of the Total Styles

Art Deco 1910-1939

By Charlotte Benton, Tim Benton and Ghislaine Wood

Sebastian Shakespeare

All Human Life Is Here

What I Saw: Reports From Berlin 1920-33

By Joseph Roth (Translated by Michael Hofmann)

Gillian Darley

Just Good Friends

Transformations of Love: The Friendship of John Evelyn and Margaret Godolphin

By Frances Harris

A C Grayling

Objectively Speaking

Truth And Truthfulness: An Essay In Genealogy

By Bernard Williams

Patrick O'Connor

The Art of Dyeing

On Blondes

By Joanna Pitman

Tristan Quinn

You Gotta Move

31 Songs

By Nick Hornby

Peter Jones

An Ancient Stew

Around the Roman Table

By Patrick Faas, Shaun Whiteside (trans.)

Sebastian Shakespeare

Sebastian Shakespeare Talks to Susanna Jones

Martyn Bedford

Crimes & Misdemeanours

Water Lilly

By Susanna Jones

John Dugdale

Brothers In Arms

The Time of Our Singing

By Richard Powers

Sarah A Smith

Forbidden Dreams

Welcome To Paradise

By Mahi Binebine, Lulu Norman (trans.)

Francis King

Love in Visiting Hours

The Light of Day

By Graham Swift

Christopher Hart

Modern Manhood

The Love Secrets of Don Juan

By Tim Lott

Jonathan Mirsky

Mission Impossible

A House by the River

By Sid Smith

Elisa Segrave

Dear Diary

Diary of an Ordinary Woman

By Margaret Forster

Madeleine Minson

A Doctor Calls

Doctor Glas

By Hjalmr Soderberg, Paull Britten Austin (trans.)