Francis King

The Good Life

Nigel Jones

An Uncivil War

1776: When Britain and America Went to War

By David McCullough

Gregor Dallas

Naval Gazing

Trafalgar and the Making of the English Hero

By Adam Nicolson

Mary Emma Baxter

Haggling Their Way out of Hell

Medici Money

By Tim Parks

Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson

Heads Will Roll

The Terror: Civil War in the French Revolution

By David Andress

Rowland Smith

Doomed to Decay?

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History

By Peter Heather

Henrietta Garnett

Reassembling The Jigsaw

Quicksand

By Sybille Bedford

William Palmer

Manunkind

E E Cummings: A Biography

By Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno

Richard Boston

Natural Born Protestor

The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett

By Richard Ingrams

Carole Angier

His English Elements

Pinter in the Theatre

By Ian Smith (ed)

Caroline Moorehead

‘Practising Science in Hell Itself’

After Daybreak: The Liberation of Belsen, 1945

By Ben Shephard

Richard Overy

The Child’s View

Witnesses of War: Children’s Lives under the Nazis

By Nicholas Stargardt

Frank Fairfield

Bodyguard of Lies

The Sinking of the Lancastria: Britain's Greatest Maritime Disaster and Churchill’s Cover-Up

By Jonathan Fenby

Simon Heffer

Fan of the Fuhrer

Winifred Wagner: A Life at the Heart of Hitler’s Bayreuth

By Brigitte Hamann

Francis Beckett

The Traitor’s Tale

Haw-Haw: The Tragedy of William and Margaret Joyce

By Nigel Farndale

Alexander Waugh

An Unrepentant Englishman: The Life of S P B Mais, Ambassador of the Countryside

An Unrepentant Englishman: The Life of S P B Mais, Ambassador of the Countryside

By Maisie Robson

Betka Zamoyska

The Actress, the King, and Squintabella

Nell Gwyn: A Biography

By Charles Beauclerk

Christopher Ondaatje

Hate and Wait

The Serpent and the Moon: Two Rivals for the Love of a Renaissance King

By Her Royal Highness Princess Michael of Kent

Nick Smith

A Ruff-Diamond in the Kush

The Khyber Rifles: From the British Raj to Al Qaeda

By Jules Stewart

Hazhir Teimourian

Proud To Be Huns

Sons of the Conquerors: The Rise of the Turkic World

By Hugh Pope

Harry Mount

Slumming It

East End Chronicles: Three Hundred Years of Mystery and Mayhem

By Ed Glinert

Salaam Brick Lane: A Year in the New East End

By Tarquin Hall

Paul Johnson

Pandora’s Paintbox

XXX The Mirror of the Gods: Classical Mythology in Renaissance Art

By Malcolm Bull

Leo McKinstry

The Wealth of the Nation

Rich is Beautiful: A Very Personal Defence of Mass Affluence

By Richard D North

David Cesarani

A Language For the People

Words On Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish

By Dovid Katz

Yiddish Civilisation: The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation

By Paul Kriwaczek

Jonathan Mirsky

What The Dark Is For

At Day's Close: A History of Nighttime

By A Roger Ekirch

Alice Pitman

Anarchy in the Aisles

Trolley Wars: The Battle of the Supermarkets

By Judi Bevan

The Farm: The Story of One Family and the English Countryside

By Richard Benson

Sam Leith

A Life in the Library

The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

By Umberto Eco (Translated by Geoffrey Block)

John Dugdale

Adventures of an Antic Mind

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

By Jonathan Safran Foer

Chris Paling

Saving Grace

The Sea

By John Banville

Paul Binding

Leaving Women and Children Behind

Sudden Rain

By Maritta Wolff

D J Taylor

Facists on Film

Unity

By Michael Arditti

Tristan Quinn

Loneliness and Isolation in Modern America

You Remind Me of Me

By Dan Chaon

Marcus Berkmann

Suicide Central

A Long Way Down

By Nick Hornby

Lucy Beresford

Finding Faith

Minaret

By Leila Aboulela

Tom Fleming

Bedtime Stories

The Alchemy of Desire

By Tarun J Tejpal

Matthew Alexander

Stage of Life

Real

By Stephanie Merritt

Melissa McClements

Little Boy Lost

Hide & Seek

By Clare Sambrook

Susan Crosland

Audiobook

The House on the Strand

By Daphne du Maurier (Read by Michael Maloney)

Philip Oakes

Crime