Bryan Appleyard

A Brave New Genre

Richard Overy

A Man of Steel

Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

Jonathan Mirsky

The Shanghai Beat

Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift In Shanghai

By Robert Bickers

Peter Washington

Sons of Scotland

Tobias Smollett

By Jeremy Lewis

Electric Shepard: A Likeness of James Hogg

By Karl Miller

Brenda Maddox

The Adjunct’s Tale

Kafka's Last Love: The Mystery of Dora Diamant

By Kathi Diamant

Christopher Silvester

Mirror Writing

Newspapermen: Hugh Cudlipp Cecil Harmswoth King and the Glory Days of Fleet Street

By Ruth Dudley Edwards

Max Egremont

A Man Apart

Storm of Steel

By Ernst Jünger (Translated by Michael Hofmann)

Dennis Sewell

The Politics of Piety

Living History

By Hillary Rodham Clinton

The Clinton Wars: An Insider's Account of the White House Years

By Sidney Blumenthal

Allan Massie

Flower Of Scotland

Capital of the Mind: How Edinburgh Changed The World

By James Buchan

Jessica Mann

Upstairs, Downstairs

The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed

By Judith Flanders

Geordie Greig

To Lose A King

The People's King: The Story of the Abdication of the First Modern Monarch

By A Susan Williams

Michael Burleigh

The Weight of History

Our Shadowed Present: Modernism, Postmodernism and History

By Jonathan Clarke

Tim Heald

The Weight of History

Fortress Malta: An Island Under Siege 1940-1943

By James Holland

William Boyd

On The Move

Waugh Abroad: Collected Travel Writing

By Evelyn Waugh

William Reeve

Love and Literature in Afghanistan

The Bookseller of Kabul

By Asne Seierstad, Ingrid Christophersen (trans)

Anna Reid

Princess of the Caspian

The Taste of Dreams: An Obsession with Russia and Caviar

By Vanor Bennett

Kathryn Hughes

Interview: Marina Warner

Alexander Waugh

Music And Madness

Piano Notes: The Hidden World of the Pianist

By Charles Rosen

Christopher Bray

Melody Makers

The People's Music

By Ian MacDonald

Bryan Applyeard

On Horror

Regarding the Pain of Others

By Susan Sontag

Hazhir Teimourian

Wise Words

What is Good? The Search for the Best Way to Live

By A C Grayling

Victoria Griffin

Ladies of Pleasure

Courtesans

By Katie Hickman

Grandes Horizontales: The Lives and Legends of Four Nineteenth-Century Courtesans

By Virginia Rounding

Andrew Taylor

Mappa Mundi

Imagined Corners: Exploring the World's First Atlas

By Paul Binding

The Mapmakers' Quest: Depicting New Worlds In Renaissance Europe

By David Buisseret

Alan Rafferty

Weird Science

A Short History Of Nearly Everything

By Bill Bryson

David Profumo

From Pinocchio to ‘Pataphysics

The Encyclopaedia of Stupidity

By Matthijs van Boxsel, Arnold and Erica Pomerans (trans.)

Charlie Campbell

Slim’s Pickings

Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People

By Amarillo Slim

Poker Nation

By Andy Bellin

Phantoms of the Card Table

By David Britland

D J Taylor

East Coast Escapades

The Sea House

By Esther Freud

Miranda France

Darkness Falls

Double Vision

By Pat Barker

Francis King

Trollopes Abroad

Fanny: A Fiction

By Edmund White

James Morrison

Unknown Heroes

Soldiers of Salamis

By Javier Cercas, Anne McLean (trans.)

Steve King

Mean Streets

The Clerkenwell Tales

By Peter Ackroyd

Pamela Norris

A Writer’s Refuge

Mr Golightly's Holiday

By Salley Vickers

Christopher Ondaatje

Of Mudaliyars and Men

The Hamilton Case

By Michelle de Krester

Christopher Hart

Existence of an Exile

Nowhere Man: The Pronek Fantasies

By Aleksandar Hemon

Theordora Sutcliffe

A Numinous Dog Story

Someone To Run With

By David Grossman, Vered Almog (trans.), Maya Gurantz (trans.)

Wendy Holden

Shakespeare Reloaded

Love In Idleness

By Amanda Craig

Andrew Barrow

Trapping The Titled

Hunting Unicorns

By Bella Pollen

Madeleine Minson

Madeleine Minson on Three Sharp New Collections of Short Stoires

Faithless: Tales of Transgression

By Joyce Carol Oates

Who Taught the Beekeeper to Read

By Susan Hill

A Few Short Notes of Tropical Butterflies

By John Murray

Siobahan Dowd

Aung San Suu Kyi