Alexander Waugh

The Poisoned Chalice of Choice

Frank Fairfield

A Bit Bloodless

From The Shadow of Dracula: A Life of Bram Stoker

By Paul Murray

Catherine Peters

The Nurse’s Nest

Nightingales: The Story of Florence Nightingale and Her Remarkable Family

By Gillian Gill

Andrew Lycett

Charm, Guile and Gab

Codename Tricycle: The True Story of the Second World War's Most Extraordinary Agent

By Russell Miller

Miranda Seymour

Family Affairs

The Rare and the Beautiful: The Lives of the Garmans

By Cressida Connolly

Louis Barfe

From Here to Modernity

Ernö Goldfinger: The Life of an Architect

By Nigel Warburton

Kenneth Rose

Life of Bryan

Royal Servent, Family Friend: The Life and Times of Naval Equerry Captain Sir Bryan Godfrey-Faussett RN, 1836-1945

By George Godfrey-Faussett

Adam LeBor

Lord of the Fortunate Conjunction

Tamerlane: Sword of Islan Conqueror of the World

By Justin Marozzi

Peter Jones

The Life and Appetites of a Precocious Emperor

Alexander the Great: The Hunt For A New Past

By Paul Cartledge

Paul Johnson

The Most Cunning Of Presidents

My Life

By Bill Clinton

Patrick West

A Troubled Sould

Himself Alone: David Trimble and The Ordeal of Unionism

By Dean Godson

Simon Heffer

This Tedious Priest

Know The Truth: A Memoir

By George Carey

Nigel Jones

Trainspotting

The Secrets of Rue St Roch: Intelligence Operations Behind Enemy Lines In The First World War

By Janet Morgan

William Palmer

War Story

The Boys' Crusade: American GIs In Europe - Chaos and Fear In World War Two

By Paul Fussell

Douglas Johnson

Believing In Boney

The Legend of Napoleon

By Sudhir Hazareesingh

Peter Weston

Toying With History

Wellington's Smallest Victory: The Duke, The Model Maker and The Secret of Waterloo

By Peter Hofschröer

Norman Stone

Coming from Behind and Catching Us Up

The Turks Today

By Andrew Mango

Allan Massie

Machistory

Curios Scotland: Tales From A Hidden History

By George Rosie

Francis King

Cosmopolis

Alexandria: City of Memory

By Michael Haag

Jonathan Mirsky

Death In Tibet

Sky Burial

By Xinran (Julia Lovell, Esther Tyldesley (Trans)

Alan Rafferty

Of All the Gin Joints in All the World

Rowing to Alaska and Other True Stories

By Wayne McLennan

John Dugdale

Star Story

The Book Nobody Read

By Owen Gingerich

John Hemming

The Girth of the Earth

The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder and Survival in the Amazon

By Robert Whitaker

Christopher Ondaatje

The Potent Pod

Vanilla: Travels in Search of the Luscious Substance

By Tim Ecott

Thomas Hodgkinson

I’m Tom Hodgkinson

How To Be Idle

By Tom Hodgkinson

Carole Angier

To the Brink of Silence

Unrecounted: 33 Texts and 33 Etchings

By W G Sebald, Jan Peter Tripp (Trans Michael Hamburger)

Patrick O'Connor

Remembrance of Things Past

Latrigue: Album of a Century

By Martine d'Astier, Quentin Bajac, Alan Sayag (edd)

The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter

By Henri Murger (Trans Ellen Marriage and John Selwyn)

J W M Thompson

Highly-Strung Hero

Stradivarius: Five Violins One Cello And A Genius

By Toby Faber

John Murray

The Man In The Mirror

The Double

By José Saramago

Christopher Hart

Heart And Seoul

The Red Queen: A Transcultural Tragicomedy

By Margaret Drabble

Sebastian Shakespeare

Quantum Leaps

Quantum Leaps

By Andrew Crumey

Sam Leith

What The Doctor Did

Don't Move

By Margaret Mazzantini

Madeleine Minson

Urban Legends

The Lambs of London

By Peter Ackroyd

Geordie Greig

Miss Judd, the Fraudster

The Promise of Happiness

By Justin Cartwright

Lindy Burleigh

Hard-Boiled History

Alchemy

By Maureen Duffy