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Embargo Shmembargo

Peter Washington

Serious About Sex

D H Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider

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Richard Boston

Judicious Clowning

The Laughter of Triumph: William Hone and the Fight for the Free Press

By Ben Wilson

Diana Athill

Beyond his Blindness

The Red Letters: My Father's Enchanted Period

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Dark Harbor: Building House and Home on an Enchanted Island

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Remembering Mr Shawn's New Yorker: The Invisible Art of Editing

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David Pryce-Jones

Kooks & Conservatives

Hurrah for the Blackshirts!

By Martin Pugh

Richard Holmes

Two Teutonic Titans

The Warlords: The Campaigns of Hindenburg and Ludendorff

By John Lee

Mary Kenny

Trouble At The Gates

The Siege of Derry: A History

By Carlo Gébler

Lucy Lethbridge

False Idols

England's Lost Eden: Adventures in a Victorian Utopia

By Philip Hoare

Frank McLynn

The Deadly Decorator

John the Painter: Britain’s First International Terrorist

By Jessica Warner

Nina Bawden

To Safety By Sea

Out of Harm's Way: The Wartime Evacuation of Children From Britain

By Jessica Mann

John McEwen

The Open Window

Matisse the Master

By Hilary Spurling

Jane Rye

Summoning the Vortex

Wyndham Lewis

By Richard Humphreys

Michael Waterhouse

Agent Provocateur

Nick Broomfield: Documenting Icons

By Jason Wood (ed)

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Lord Alfred

It's Only a Movie: Alfred Hitchcock – A Personal Biography

By Charlotte Chandler

Raymond Seitz

A Realistic Visionary

His Excellency George Washington

By Joseph J Ellis

Francis King

Fettered by the Multiplicity of His Talents

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By Norman Rose

Jonathan Mirsky

Towing the Party Line

The Man Who Changed China: The Life and Legacy of Jiang Zemin

By Robert Lawrence Kuhn

Nigel Jones

The Good Spy

Betraying Hitler: Fritz Kolbe, the Most Important Spy of the Second World War

By Lucas Delattre

Andrew Taylor

Uncharted Waters

The Rattlesnake: A Voyage of Discovery to the Coral Sea

By Jordan Goodman

The English Dane

By Sarah Bakewell

Nick Smith

The Arctic Atlantis

The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule

By Joanna Kavenna

Barnaby Rogerson

The Joy of Sects

The Hall of a Thousand Columns: Hindustan to Malabar with Ibn Battutah

By Tim Mackintosh-Smith

Christopher Ondaatje

Between The Rock and a Hard Place

Theatre of Fish: Travels through Newfoundland and Labrador

By John Gimlette

Peter Jones

Better Than Wembley

The Colosseum

By Keith Hopkins and Mary Beard

Michael Prowse

The Market Man

Against The Flow

By Samuel Brittan

Paul Binding

Cabbies and Caves

The Tower of London: Tales of Victorian London

By Natsume Soseki (Translated from the Japanese and introduced by Damian Flanagan)

A C Grayling

Mapping the Mind

The 21st-Century Brain: Explaining, Mending and Manipulating the Mind

By Steven Rose

David Singmaster

Thinking Big

The Infinite Book: A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless

By John D Barrow

Paul Davies

A Galaxy of Egos

Empire of the Stars

By Arthur I Miller

Leo McKinstry

One Left Foot

The Vote: How It Was Won and How It Was Undermined

By Paul Foot

John Michell

Living With ET

Aliens: Why They Are Here

By Bryan Appleyard

D J Taylor

Nearing Completion

Never Let Me Go

By Kazuo Ishiguro

Michael Arditti

Meeting the Other

Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance

By Matthew Kneale

Sam Leith

The Thump in the Loins

Exposure

By Talitha Stevenson

Francis King

Having Faith

Guardian of the Dawn

By Richard Zimler

Martyn Bedford

Following Fyodor

Summer in Baden-Baden

By Leonid Tsypkin (Translated by Roger and Angela Keys)

Chris Bray

Stories From The Inside

The Monsters of Gramercy Park

By Danny Leigh

Alan Rafferty

Sisters Doing it for Themselves

The Old Ladies of Nazareth

By Naim Attallah

Tom Teodorczuk

Romance On The Run

All For Love

By Dan Jacobson

Lindy Burleigh

Man-Eater

Reader, I Married Him

By Michèle Roberts

Sebastian Shakespeare

Streetwalker

The Insatiable Spiderman

By Pedro Juan Gutierrez

Melissa McClements

Where Nobody Knows Your Name

A Town by the Sea

By Chris Paling

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• Clare Clark, 
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Philip Oakes

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