Michael Burleigh

What A State To Be In

Raymond Carr

A Champion of the Underdog

Telegram From Guernica: The Extraordinary Life of George Steer, War Correspondent

By Nicholas Rankin

Allan Massie

The Prince in the Tower

Perkin: A Story of Deception

By Ann Wreo

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

Bringing Back the Booty

Sir John Hawkins: Queen Elizabeth's Slave Trader

By Harry Kelsey

Norman Stone

A Sinister Clown

Khrushchev: The Man and His Era

By William Taubman

Paul Johnson

An Eye For Leadership

An Eye For Leadership

By Edgar Vincent

Alexander Waugh

An Unusually Gifted Composer

Beethoven: The Music and the Life

By Lewis Lockwood

Diana Mosley

The Pursuit of Love

Life in a Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford - Portrait of a Contradictory Woman

By Laura Thompson

Sarah Bradford

Renaissance Woman

Lavinia Fontana: A Painter and Her Patrons In Sixteenth-Century Bologna

By Caroline P Murphy

Geordie Greig

The Fragrance of His Time

Sassoon: The Worlds of Philip and Sybil

By Peter Stansky

Nicky Haslan

Two Manhattan Mascara Madams

War Paint: Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden - Their Lives, their Times, their Rivalry

By Lindy Woodhead

Bryan Appleyard

An Ocean Apart

Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order

By Robert Kagan

Aidan Hartley

The View From the Ground

Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War

By Anthony Swofford

Simon Heffer

The Return of Supermac

The Macmillan Diaries: The Cabinet Years, 1950-1957

By Peter Catterall (ed)

J W M Thompson

‘My Name is A L Rowse…’

The Diaries of A L Rowse

By A L Rowse, Richard Ollard (ed)

Jonathan Mirsky

One Man and His Lama

Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History

By Patrick French

Thomas Hodgkinson

Right To Roam

Ghost Riders: Travels with American Nomads

By Richard Grant

Christopher Ondaatje

The Buck Starts Here

Greenback: The Almighty Dollar and the Invention of America

By Jason Goodwin

Charlie Campbell

Droit Du Seigneur

The Natural History of the Rich: A Field Guide

By Richard Conniff

David Cesarani

A Chronicle of Suffering and Spirituality

The Pity of It All: A Portrait of German Jews 1743-1933

By Amos Elon

William Palmer

When the Circus Came to Town

Kitty and the Prince

By Ben Shepard

Patrick West

Trouble and Strife

A Secret History of the IRA

By Ed Moloney

Armed Struggle: The Story of the IRA

By Richard English

Tom Coghland

Where the Wild Things Are

The Tower Menagerie: Being The Amazing True Story of the Royal Collection of Wild and Ferocious Beasts

By Daniel Hahn

Tim Heald

History By Numbers

1603: A Turning Point in British History

By Christopher Lee

Jessica Mann

Girls on Top

The Ascent of Woman: A History of the Suffragette Movement

By Melanie Phillips

A C Grayling

Brain Matters

Nature Via Nurture: The Origin of the Individual

By Matt Ridley

The Essential Difference: Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain

By Simon Baron-Cohen

Kathryn Hughes

Mad Cows & Englishman

Beef and Liberty: Roast Beef, John Bull and the English Nation

By Ben Rogers

Mark Almond

Survivors’ Tales

On the Natural History of Destruction

By W G Sebald

Christopher Woodward

Allotments of Albion

The Picturesque Garden In Europe

By John Dixon Hunt

Gerald Frost

Portrait of a Cold War Warrior as an Artist

The Other Brian Croziers

By Brian Croziers

Davina Langdale

Sly Fun Abroad

Pretty Girl in Crimson Rose

By Sand Balfour

Julian Preece

Baltic Nightmare

Crabwalk

By Gunter Grass, Krishna Winston (trans.)

Martyn Bedford

This is her life

Personality

By Andrew O'Hagan

Francis King

The Wind of Change

Frankie and Stankie

By Barbara Trapido

Sam Leith

After Birth

The Schemes for Full Employment

By Magnus Mills

Sam Leith

On the Road to Nowhere

The Scheme for Full Employment

By Magnus Mills

John Thieme

Beyond Boundary

Bethany, Bettany

By Fred D'Aguiar

John Murray

Gimme Shelter

Heliogland

By Shena Mackay

Sarah A Smith

Sarah A Smith Looks at three collections of short stories

Seven Tales of Sex and Death

By Patricia Duncker

The Whole Story and Other Stories

By Ali Smith

Things You Should Know

By A M Homes

Alan Rafferty

Doctor Who?

In Search of Klingsor

By Jorge Volpi

Siobhan Dowd

Le Chi Quang