Alexander Waugh

Paperback Blighters

Charles Saumarez Smith

The Artist’s Artist

Joshua Reynolds: The Life and Times of the First President of the Royal Academy

By Ian McIntyre

Patrick O'Connor

Opera’s Renegades

Puccini: A Biography

By Mary Jane Phillips-Matz

Edgard Varese

By Alan Clayson

Simon Heffer

Spare-Time Soviet

Prokofiev: From Russia To The West 1891-1935

By David Nice

Peter Washington

War Made Him

Siegfried Sassoon: The Journey from the Trenches - A Biography (1918-1967)

By Jean Moorcroft Wilson

Frank McLynn

How the West Was Filmed

Searching For John Ford: A Life

By Joseph McBride

Philip Oakes

Local Hero

Fear and Loathing in Fitzrovia: The Bizarre Life of Writer, Actor, Soho Dandy Julian Maclaren-Ross

By Paul Willetts

Jonathan Keates

Dedicated Follower of Fashion

Last of the Dandies: The Scandalous Life and Escapades of Count D'Orsay

By Nick Foulkes

Jonathan Mirsky

A Sorority of Character

Four Sisters of Hofei

By Annping Chin

J W M Thompson

Thinker, Scientist, Banker, Spy

Elusive Rothschild: The Life of Victor, Third Baron

By Kenneth Rose

Michael Prowse

Reason And Unreason

Al Qaeda and What it Means to Be Modern

By John Gray

Richard Overy

Poisonous TImes

Stalin's Last Crime: The Doctors' Plot

By Jonathan Brent & Vladimir P Naumov

Graham Stewart

Premier Passenger

Chasing Churchill: The Travels of Winston Churchill

By Celia Sandys

Dennis Sewell

Learning From The Mob

Reefer Madness

By Eric Schlosser

Justin Marozzi

Angels in Disguise

The Third Sex: Kathoey - Thailand's Ladyboys

By Richard Totman

Christopher Ondaatje

An Island For One

Count de Mauny: Friend of Royalty

By S Chomet

Donald Rayfield

Travels with My Uncle Vanya

Reading Chekhov: Critical Journey

By Janet Malcolm

Jessica Mann

Life After Crime

The Letters of Dorothy L Sayers

By P D James (preface), Barbara Reynolds (ed)

Sebastian Shakespeare

The Man Who Talked to Letter Boxes

The Lesson of the Master: On Borges And His Work

By Norman Thomas di Giovanni

Stephen Amidon

Still Raging

Kingdom of Fear

By Hunter S Thompson

Anthony Daniels

The Road of Excess

A Million Little Pieces

By James Frey

Teresa Waugh

Seeing Spirits

Giving Up The Ghost

By Hilary Mantel

Paul Johnson

A Good Book

The Bible In English

By David Daniell

Sara Wheeler

The Pursuit of Fear

Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination

By Robert Macfarlane

A C Grayling

Evolutionary Minds

A Devil's Chaplain

By Richard Dawkins

DNA: The Secret of Life

By James D Watson

Tim Rice

Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines

Fighter Boys: Saving Britain

By Patrick Bishop

Thomas Hodgkinson

A Handcuff?

Irish Peacock & Scarlet Marquess: The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde

By Merlin Holland (ed)

Elaine Showalter

Creative Juices

Seek My Face

By John Updike

Pamela Norris

The Snowman’s Tale

Oryx and Crake

By Margaret Atwood

Martyn Bedford

Nostalgia Ain’t What It Used to Be

The North of England Home Service

By Gordon Burn

Francis King

Going For Gold

The Colour

By Rose Tremain

William Palmer

Septentrional Wizadry

Jazz ETC.

By John Murray

Sophia Topley

In Denial

This Is Not A Novel

By Jennifer Johnston

Siobhan Dowd

Jiang Qisheng