Jeremy Lewis

Not the Men They Were

Frank McLynn

Year of the Sea Dog

England and the Spanish Armada: The Necessary Quarrel

By James McDermott

Lucy Lethbridge

Look What the Tide Dragged In

The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights and Plundered Ships

By Bella Bathurst

Paul Johnson

Mineral Madness

The Age Of Gold: The Story Of An Obsession That Swept The World

By H W Brands

Richard Holmes

Bellicose and Brave

Warriors: Extraordinary Tales from the Battlefield

By Max Hastings

Christine Kelly

Dispatches from the Valley of Death

The Thin Red Line: An Eyewitness History of the Crimean War

By Julian Spilsbury

Frank Fairfield

The Day the Raj Died

The Butcher of Amritsar: General of Reginald Dyer

By Nigel Collet

Peter Washington

Of Her Darker Purposes

Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life

By Julia Briggs

Patrick O'Connor

The Rhinoceros in the Wings

Peter Brook: A Biography

By Michael Kustov

Isabel Quigly

Dark Side of A Star

Cary Grant: A Biography

By Marc Eliot

William Palmer

The Lion and the Child

With Billie

By Julia Blackburn

Paul Binding

Artist of the Archipelago

August Strindberg: Painter, Writer, Photographer

By Olle Granath (ed)

A Dream Play

By August Strindberg

Peyton Skipwith

Furnishing A Utopia

International Arts and Crafts

By Karen Livingstone and Linda Parry (ed)

Phillip Webb: Pioneer of the Arts & Crafts Architecture

By Shelia Kirk

An Anthology of the Arts and Crafts Movement

By Mary Greensted

Diana Athill

A Lost Voice

Campo Santo

By W G Sebald (Translated by Anthea Bell)

Jonathan Mirsky

Looking Back in Horror

No Escape: My Young Years Under Hitler's Shadow

By W John Koch

In My Brother's Shadow

By Uwe Timm (Translated from the German by Anthea Bell)

John Sweeney

Through A Pint Glass, Darkly

All of These People: A Memoir

By Fergal Keane

Robin Denniston

The Cape Crusader

Publisher

By Tom Maschler

Norman Stone

A City Facing West

Istanbul: Memories of A City

By Orhan Pamuk (Translated by Maureen Freely)

John Keay

The India Gate

Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found

By Suketu Mehta

Joanna Kavenna

Tracks in the Snow

Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia

By Piers Vitebsky

Christopher Ondaatje

Riddle of A River

The Quest for the Secret Nile

By Guy Yeoman

Jane Rye

Magnificent Mulch

In Camera: Francis Bacon – Photography, Film and the Practice of Painting

By Martin Harrison

Michael Prowse

The Gekko’s Lair

Wall Street: A Cultural History

By Steve Fraser

Selina O’Grady

A Familiar World

Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy

By Malcolm Gaskill

David Cesarani

A People’s Path

By Jonathan Freedland

Nicholas Bagnall

More than Words

Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World

By Henry Hitchings

David Cameron

Solitary Musing

The Rain and the Glass: 99 Poems, New and Selected

By Robert Nye

Francis King

Haunted by the Master

A Jealous Ghost

By A N Wilson

Allan Massie

Back in the USSR

The Earth And Sky Of Jacques Dorme

By Andreï Makine (Translated by Geoffrey Strachan)

Brian Martin

The Tune of Change

The India House

By William Palmer

Madeleine Minson

Original Sins

The Turning

By Tim Winton

Sarah Mahaffy

A Family Affair

Grace and Truth

By Jennifer Johnston

Amanda Craig

Every Man in His Humour

Divided Kingdom

By Rupert Thomson

Norman Jeffares

From the Tiger’s Thicket

The Faber Book of Best New Irish Short Stories 2004–5

By David Marcus (ed)

John Murray

Suicide for the Faint of Heart

A Matter of Death and Life

By Andrey Kurkov (Translated by George Bird)

Philip Womack

A Sleuth Awoken

The Final Solution

By Michael Chabon

Sam Leith

The Appalling Snow

His Coldest Winter

By Derek Beaven

James Morrison

A Tipping Point

Stuart: A Life Backwards

By Alexander Masters

Lucy Beresford

Lucy Beresford Praises Five Bold First Novels

• Vikas Swarup, 
• John Haskell, 
• Peter Pouncey, 
• Marya Hornbacher, 
• Tamar Yellin

Philip Oakes

Crime

• Philip Purser, 
• John Harvey, 
• Lee Child, 
• Lee Jackson