Kathryn Hughes

Biographical Fever

Francis King

A Very Greek Affair

John Fowles: A Life in Two Worlds

By Eileen Warburton

Jessica Mann

The Secret Gardener

Frances Hodgson Burnett

By Gretchen H Gerzina

J W M Thompson

Travels With My Lover

In Search of a Beginning: My Life with Graham Greene

By Yvonne Cloetta as told to Marie-Françoise Allain (Translated by Euan Cameron)

Carole Angier

Brief Encounters

A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists, 1854-1967

By Rachel Cohen

Richard Overy

He Regretted Having Been So Benevolent

Inside Hitler's Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich

By Joachim Fest

Nigel Jones

Best of Enemies Worst of Amis

Edward Vii and the Entente Cordiale

By Ian Dunlop

Alan Palmer

His Empire For Some Horses

1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow

By Adam Zamoyski

The Age of Napoleon

By Alistair Home

Michael Burleigh

Modern Malaise

The Anatomy of Facism

By Robert Paxton

Allan Massie

The Cross and the Crescent

The First Crusade: A New History

By Thomas Asbridge

The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople

By Jonathan Phillips

Graham Stewart

The Armada Victorious

What Might Have Been: Leading Historians on Twelve What Ifs of History

By Andrew Roberts (ed)

Rupert Christiansen

Close Up But Eerily Distant

Bill Brandt: A Life

By Paul Delany

Behind The Camera: Bill Brandt

By Bill Brandt (Intr David Mellowr, Mark Haworth-Booth

Jonathan Keates

Drama Queen

Eugénie: The Empress and Her Empire

By Desmond Seward

Charlie Campbell

Tales from the Cryptanalyst

The Reader of Gentlemen's Mail: Herbert O Yardley and the Birth of American Codebreaking

By David Kahn

Geordie Greig

The Miniature Monarch

Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric

By Veronica Buckley

Andrew Lycett

Love Behind A Mask

A Venetian Affair: A True Story of Impossible Love in the Eighteenth Century

By Andrea di Robilant

Christabel King

The Explorer’s Wife

The Stolen Woman: Florence Baker's Extraordinary Life from the Harem to the Heart of Africa

By Pat Shipman

Jonathan Mirsky

The Lama’s Dilemma

The Dance of 17 Lives: The Incredible True Story of Tibet's 17th Karmapa

By Mick Brown

Michael Jacobs

The Mosques Beneath

Andalus: Unlocking The Secrets of Moorish Spain

By Jason Webster

Andrew Cowley

Who Is Putin?

Putin's Progress: A Biography of Russia's Enigmatic President, Vladimir Putin

By Peter Truscott

Inside Putin's Russia

By Andrew Jack

Black Earth: Russia After The Fall

By Andrew Meier

Diana Athill

A Dream Betrayed

Where I Was From

By Joan Didion

Valerie Grove

Still Lighting Up

The Smoking Diaries

By Simon Gray

Dennis Sewell

The Anecdotal Hero

Better Than Working

By Patrick Skene Catling

Claus Bulow

Annabel’s Party

Annabel: An Unconventional Life - The Memoirs of Lady Annabel Goldsmith

By Annabel Goldsmith

Christopher Bray

Christopher Bray

Hollywood Animal: A Memoir of Love and Betrayal

By Joe Eszterhas

Hazhir Teimourian

No Two Sides to Genocide

The Burning Tigris: A History of the Armenian Genocide

By Peter Balakian

David Cesarani

Scions of the Survivors

After Such Knowledge: Memory, History, and the Legacy of the Holocaust

By Eva Hoffman

Robert Chandler

Giving Voice

A House of Air: Selected Writings

By Penelope Fitzgerald

Tom Holland

Beyond Our Ken

London: A Short History

By A N Wilson

Underground London: Trabels Beneath the City Streets

By Stephen Smith

Christopher Ondaatje

The Parson’s Pastime

Village Cricket

By Tim Heald

Pamela Norris

Writers’ War

The Finishing School

By Muriel Spark

Sebastian Shakespeare

In Flight From Memory

A Hero's Daughter

By Andrei Makine

Andrew Barrow

Murderers, Monks and Media Moguls

My Name Is Legion

By A N Wilson

Madeleine Minson

Life Through A Deluge

The Flood

By Maggie Gee

Geordie Williamson

Writing For His Life

The Tyrant's Novel

By Thomas Keneally

Elisa Segrave

Sweet Fiction

The Distance Between Us

By Maggie O'Farrell

Lucy Beresford

Lucy Beresford on First Novels

• Julian Fellowes, 
• Michael Byers, 
• John Harwood, 
• Le Thi Diem Thuy, 
• Helen Walsh