D J Taylor

Hearing Secret Disharmonies

Jonathan Mirksy

The Killer With A Gentle Smile

Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare

By Philip Short

Adam Sisman

More Than Just A Pair Of Legs

Perdita: The Life of Mary Robertson

By Paula Byrne

Diana Athill

A Well Moulded Man

Josiah Wedgwood: Entrepreneur To The Enlightenment

By Brian Dolan

Anthony Sattin

Walking the World

Odd Tom Coryate: The English Marco Polo

By R E Pritchard

Michael Waterhouse

Global Politics

The World of Gerard Mercator

By Andrew Taylor

Rupert Christiansen

Lady Of The Dance

Margot Fonteyn

By Meredith Daneman

Kenneth Rose

A Paying Guest In His Own Castle

Miles: A Portrait of the 17th Duke of Norfolk

By Gerard Noel

Jessica Mann

Not Witches

Alone! Alone! Lives of Some Outsider Women

By Rosemary Dinnage

Richard Overy

How I Won

In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing The Second World War

By David Reynolds

David Cesarani

Knowing When To Run

Pushing Time Away: My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna

By Peter Singer

The Frank Family That Survived

By Gordon F Sander

Paul Johnson

Boz’s Buddy

Phiz: The Man Who Drew Dickens

By Valerie Brown Lester

Patrick O'Connor

A Cut-Out Above

William Nicholson

By Sanford Schwartz

Simon Heffer

Another Kind of Corpsing

Letters From a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten - Volume 3, 1946-1951

By Donald Mitchell, Philip Reed, Mervyn Cooke (edd)

Allan Massie

Burmese Days

One Fourteenth of an Elephant: A Memoir of Life and Death on the Burma-Thailand Railway

By Ian Denys Peek

Sara Wheeler

Child Of The Pole

The Explorer's Daughter: A Young Englishwoman Rediscovers Her Arctic Childhood

By Kari Herbert

J W M Johnson

A Nation Writes

Our Hidden Lives: The Everyday Diaries of a Forgotten Britain 1945-1948

By Simon Garfield (ed)

Andrew Barrow

Whatever Next?

Ceaseless Turmoil: Diaries 1988-1982

By James Lee-Milne

Sheridan Morley

Wizard of Oz

Arguments with England: A Memoir

By Michael Blakemore

Crispin Tickell

Backwards In Time

The Ancestor's Tale

By Richard Dawkins

A C Grayling

A Theory to Believe In

A Reason for Everything: Natural Selection and the English Imagination

By Marek Kohn

Hazhir Teimourian

Dangerous Dynasties

House of Bush, House of Saud

By Craig Unger

Brenda Maddox

Coming of Age in White City

Uncertain Vision: Brit, Dyke and the Reinvention of the BBC

By Georgina Born

Sebastian Shakespeare

Listening to the Forest Grow

A Land of Ghosts: The Braided Lives of People and the Forest in Far Western Amazonia

By David G Campbell

Alexander Waugh

The Adventures of Lady Satin Tights

The Big House: The Story of a Country House and its Family

By Christopher Simon Sykes

Tom Fleming

Who Needs Hollywood?

Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance and the Rise of Independent Film

By Peter Biskind

Roger Vlitos

A Companion Fit for Pirates

Parrot Culture: Our 2,500-Year-Long Fascination with the World's Most Talkative Bird

By Bruce Thomas Boehrer

William Palmer

Summer In A Jar

The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us

By Bee Wilson

Nigel Jones

The Most Precocious Premier

William Pitt The Younger

By William Hague

John Dugdale

Imagine a Fascist in the White House

The Plot Against America

By Philip Roth

Carole Angier

Love & Art

Conversations in Bolzano

By Sándor Márai

Francis King

Judge And Be Judged

Old Filth

By Jane Gardam

Peter Straus

The Bear’s Hug

An Unfinished Life

By Mark Spragg

Madeleine Minson

Images From A Life

Sixty Lights

By Gail Jones

Christopher Hart

Drink With The Joneses

I'll Go to Bed at Noon

By Gerard Woodward