Jeremy Lewis

Whose Life is it Anyway?

Richard Overy

The Man Who Plotted for Peace

Hitler’s Spy Chief: The Wilhelm Canaris Mystery

By Richard Bassett

Carole Angier

The Language of Destruction

The End: Hamburg 1943

By Hans Erich Nossack (Translation and Foreword by Joel Agee)

Saul David

Cry Freedom

Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery

By Adam Hochschild

Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees

By Caroline Moorehead

Tom Pocock

Humbuggery

Waterloo

By Andrew Roberts

Tim Heald

Courage In The Clouds

Tail-End Charlies: The Last Battles of the Bomber War 1944–45

By John Nichol and Tony Rennell

Bomber Crew: Taking on the Reich

By John Sweetman

Peter Weston

For Valour

Symbol of Courage: A History of the Victoria Cross

By Max Arthur

Supreme Courage: Heroic Stories from 150 Years of the Victoria Cross

By General Sir Peter de la Billière

Henrietta Garnett

Arbitrators of the Mind

The Strachey Family

By Barbara Caine

Adam Sisman

He Lived Too Long

Fiery Heart: The First Life of Leigh Hunt

By Nicholas Roe

The Wit in the Dungeon: Leigh Hunt and His Circle

By Anthony Holden

Allan Massie

Smoking Interrupted Only for Kissing and Coughing

Robert Louis Stevenson

By Claire Harman

Selina O’Grady

A Life of Experiment

Mary Wollstonecraft: A New Genus

By Lyndall Gordon

Jonathan Keates

Daddy’s Girl

The Pope’s Daughter

By Caroline P Murphy

Paul Johnson

Civil Warrior

Robert E Lee: Icon for a Nation

By Brian Holden Reid

James Le Fanu

Pickled Parts

The Knife Man: The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, the Father of Modern Surgery

By Wendy Moore

Francis King

Drawing Conclusions

Wrong About Japan

By Peter Carey

John Adamson

Where Have All the Aboriginals Gone?

In Tasmania

By Nicholas Shakespeare

Jonathan Mirsky

Hacking Out An Empire

Mad About the Mekong: Exploration and Empire in South East Asia

By John Keay

Matthew Leeming

Jewels and Giardia

The Gem Hunter: True Adventures of an American in Afghanistan

By Gary W Bowersox

Christopher Ondaatje

Meeting the Unknown

Cassell’s Tales of Endurance

By Fergus Fleming

Michael Burleigh

Bush’s Buddies

The Right Nation: Why America is Different

By John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge

Neoconservatism

By Irwin Stelzer (Ed)

Stephen Gardiner

From the Bottom Up

Breaking Ground: Adventures in Life and Architecture

By Daniel Libeskind

Diana Athill

Sick in the Suburbs

Germs: A Memoir of Childhood

By Richard Wollheim

Lucy Lethbridge

The Pied Piper of Manhattan

Rats: A Year with New York’s Most Unwanted Inhabitants

By Robert Sullivan

Jane Rye

A Picture in a Thousand Words

Hang-Ups: Essays on Painting (Mostly)

By Simon Schama

Alexander Waugh

From ‘Gilgamesh’ To ‘Doctor No’

The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories

By Christopher Booker

Diarmaid Ó Muirithe

Towers of Babel

Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World

By Nicholas Ostler

William Palmer

Bogarde But Not Bogart

Shepperton Babylon: The Lost Worlds of British Cinema

By Matthew Sweet

C A R Hills

The Immoralist

Arts and Letters

By Edmund White

Lilian Pizzichini

Paradise Lost

The Vanished Landscape: A 1930s Childhood in the Potteries

By Paul Johnson

James Delingpole

Who’s Your Daddy

Fatherhood

By Marcus Berkmann

Elaine Showalter

A Mother’s Love

Runaway

By Alice Munro

Pamela Norris

The Will to Survive

Is There Anything You Want?

By Margaret Forster

Susanna Jones

Talking Cats and Willing Women

Kafka on the Shore

By Haruki Murakami (Translated by Philip Gabriel)

Ophelia Field

An Absent Mind

Villages

By John Updike

John Dugdale

Money Matters

Human Capital

By Stephen Amidon

Lindy Burleigh

Lonely Lives

Leaving Home

By Anita Brookner

Nick Parker

This Superhero Life

Men and Cartoons

By Jonathan Lethem

Philip Womack

Treasured Schooldays

Love Lies Bleeding

By Jeremy Simpson

Tristan Quinn

Private Eyes

City of Glass

By Paul Auster (Adaptation by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli)

Lucy Beresford

Lucy Beresford Enjoys Five Very Different First Novels

• Mark Gatiss, 
• Susan Barker, 
• Rana Dasgupta, 
• Delia Jarrett-Macauley, 
• Michael André Bernstein

Rose Wilkins

Hot Mammas

The Wives of Bath

By Wendy Holden

Philip Oakes

Crime

• Martin O’Brien, 
• Boris Akunin, 
• Mark Winegardner, 
• Sue Grafton, 
• Jefferson Parker, 
• Michael Connelly and Otto Penzler (Ed)