Francis King

Make It Short

Allan Massie

The Too Distant Front

Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945

By Christoper Bayly, Tim Harper

Andrew Roberts

Appeasing Adolf

Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry, The Nazis and the Road to War

By Ian Kershaw

Simon Heffer

The Pride of the Fleet

The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815

By N A M Rodger

Christopher Lee

Ships Hoping to Pass in the Night

The Real Cruel Sea: The Merchant Navy in the Battle of the Atlantic 1939-1943

By Richard Woodman

Frank McLynn

What Really Happened At Rorke’s Drift

Zulu: The Heroism and Tragedy of the Zulu War of 1879

By Saul David

Peter Washington

The Man and The Mask

Wodehouse: A Life

By Robert McCrum

William Palmer

Books And The Night

Borges: A Life

By Edwin Williamson

David Jays

Miss Lamb Is From Home

The Devil Kissed Her: The Story of Mary Lamb

By Kathy Watson

Jessica Mann

Life at the Back End of a Pantomime Horse

Living With A Writer

By Dale Salwak (ed)

Jonathan Keates

The Madman’s Maidens

Princesses: The Six Daughters of George III

By Flora Fraser

Charles Allen

The Jewels in the Crown

Maharanis: The Lives and Times of Three Generations of Indian Princesses

By Lucy Moore

Sarah Bradford

The Marrying Kind

Fortune's Daughters: The Extravagant Lives of the Jerome Sisters- Jennie Churchill, Clara Frewen and Leonie Leslie

By Elisabeth Kehoe

Norman Stone

Centre of Tension

Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews

By Mark Mazower

John Dickie

Stay Calm, Stay Indignant

Berlusconi's Shadow: Crime, Justice and the Pursuit of Power

By David Lane

Michael Jacobs

Castro Championed

Cuba: A New History

By Richard Gott

Aidan Hartley

The Lost White Tribe

Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier

By Alexandra Fuller

Carole Angier

Writing to Fill the Silence

A Tale of Love and Darkness

By Amos Oz (Translated by Nicholas de Lange)

Diana Athill

You’re Meant to Be Kind to Your Readers

Mantrapped

By Fey Weldon

Tim Heald

Ghost Boy

Gweilo: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood

By Martin Booth

Valerie Grove

In Restaurants, Other Diners Applauded When He Left

Jew Made in England

By Anthony Blond

Patrick O'Connor

He Could Laugh at Everything

Buster Keaton: Tempest In A Flat Hat

By Edward McPherson

Rupert Christiansen

The High Notes Of Love

Susanna, The Captain & The Castrato: Scenes From The Burney Salon, 1779-80

By Linda Kelly

Nick Smith

A Native of the Ends of the Earth

Sir James Wordie, Polar Crusader: Exploring the Arctic and Antarctic

By Michael Smith

Donald Rayfield

A Ruthless Martinet

Zhukov: The Conqueror of Berlin

By John Colvin

Hazhir Teimourian

Making Music

The Girl in Rose: Haydn's Last Love

By Peter Hobday

Bryan Appleyard

The Ruins of The Future

Cities

By John Reader

Paul Johnson

Sitting At Ease

John Singer Sargent: The Later Portraits

By Richard Ormond, Elaine Kilmurray

Jonathan Mirsky

Angkor Where?

Ghost Ships: A Surrealist Love Triangle

By Robert McNab

Christopher Ondaatje

The Time of the Bodysnatchers

The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave-Robbery in 1830s London

By Sarah Wise

D J Taylor

Where Mischief Starts

Magic Seeds

By V S Naipaul

Tristan Quinn

The Speed of the Sound of Loneliness

Elanor Rigby

By Douglas Coupland

Margaret Forster

Africa’s Most Corrupt

The In-Between World of Vikram Lall

By M G Vassanji

Geordie Greig

O For A Bestseller

Author, Author: A Novel

By David Lodge

Michael Arditti

A Place For Secrets

The Quarry

By Damon Galgut

Sebastian Shakespeare

The Forty-Ninth Sharpest Man in Britain

The Closed Circle

By Jonathan Coe

Madeleine Minson

Drink Through It

Paradise

By A L Kennedy

Sam Leith

Living In A Box

Clear: A Transparent Novel

By Nicola Barker