Damian Thompson

Bible Bashing

Simon Heffer

The Lost Liberal

Rosebery: Statesman in Turmoil

By Leo McKinstry

Diana Athill

Man On A Mission

Penguin Special: The Life and Times of Allen Lane

By Jeremy Lewis

Frank Fairfield

No Surrender

Carson: The Man Who Divided Ireland

By Geoffrey Lewis

Gregor Dallas

More To Him Than Vichy

Pétain

By Charles Williams

John McEwen

Bric-A-Brac Painter

Georges Braque: A Life

By Alex Danchev

Allan Mallinson

He Lunched Alone

Douglas Haig: War Diaries and Letters 1914–1918

By Gary Sheffield and John Bourne (ed)

Nigel Jones

Sodden Sand

Together We Stand

By James Holland

Linda Melvern

A Land Forsaken

Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda

By Lt-Gen Roméo Dallaire with Major Brent Beardsley

Tom Pocock

Port in Peril

The Fall of Toulon: The Last Opportunity to Defeat the French Revolution

By Bernard Ireland

Peter Weston

Untold Suffering

Surviving the Sword: Prisoners of the Japanese 1942–45

By Brian MacArthur

John Keay

Considerate Killers

Thug: The True Story of India’s Murderous Religion

By Mike Dash

Michael Estorick

Getting the Job Done

Continue to Pester, Nag and Bite: Churchill’s War Leadership

By Martin Gilbert

Donald Rayfield

The Manufacture of A Martyr

Comrade Pavlik: The Rise and Fall of a Soviet Boy Hero

By Catriona Kelly

Selina O’Grady

Gloriana Succeeded

After Elizabeth: How James King of Scots Won the Crown of England in 1603

By Leanda de Lisle

John Adamson

Pistol Politics

The Awful End of Prince William the Silent: The First Assassination of a Head of State with a Hand-gun

By Lisa Jardine

Lucy Lethbridge

A Pioneer in Pantaloons

Lady Hester: Queen of the East

By Lorna Gibb

John Sweeney

Eating People Is Normal

In the Time of Madness

By Richard Lloyd Parry

Christopher Ondaatje

First Contact

The Oxford Book of Exploration

By Robin Hanbury-Tenison (ed)

David Cesarani

Probing A Nation’s Psyche

The Question of Zion

By Jacqueline Rose

Paul Johnson

Haute Hypocrisie

The American Enemy: The History of French Anti-Americanism

By Philippe Roger

A C Grayling

The Study of a Sacred Term

Set the People Free

By John Dunn

Leo McKinstry

A Dying Creed

The Strange Death of Tory England

By Geoffrey Wheatcroft

Francis King

An Indomitable Spirit

Dear Austen

By Nina Bawden

Gillian Darley

Cracks in the Foundations

The Genius in the Design: Bernini, Borromini, and the Rivalry that Transformed Rome

By Jake Morrissey

Alan Ryan

The Joy Of Thought

The Heart of Things

By A C Grayling

Peter McDonald

Poet on Holiday

The Prodigal

By Derek Walcott

Michael Arditti

Sleepy Satire

Notes from a Coma

By Mike McCormack

Tristan Quinn

Writing on the Fall

They Were Counted

By Miklós Bánffy (Translated by Patrick Thursfield and Katalin Bánffy-Jelen)

Martyn Bedford

All Mixed Up

The Ballad of Lee Cotton

By Christopher Wilson

Nick Parker

A Hideous Beast

The Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-reading Monster Hercules Barefoot, His Wonderful Love and his Terrible Hatred

By Carl-Johan Vallgren

Lindy Burleigh

Death in the Family

Beyond Black

By Hilary Mantel

Toby Lichtig

Small Town Tales

Pieces for the Left Hand

By J Robert Lennon

Ed Caesar

Not For Farangs

Sightseeing

By Rattawut Lapcharoensap

Lucy Beresford

A Taste of New York

Boogaloo on Second Avenue

By Mark Kurlansky

Sophie Lewis

Keeping it in the Family

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

By Marina Lewycka

Rose Wilkins

Something Naaarsty in the Sports Hut…

Bed of Roses

By Daisy Waugh

Linda Kelly

A History of Hardship

Berlin Mosaic: A Family Chronicle

By Eva Tucker

James Morrison

Living in Limbo

A Game with Sharpened Knives

By Neil Belton

Tim Souster

Niagra Falls

Seeing Double

By Patrick Wilmot

Ophelia Field

Conversation Signifying Nothing

Look at the Dark

By Nicholas Mosley

Philip Oakes

Crime

• Barbara Vine, 
• Frank Tallis, 
• Leonardo Padura, 
• Tim Heald, 
• Michael Connelly, 
• David Wolstencraft, 
• Robert Crais