Kathryn Hughes

The Importance of Autumn

John Adamson

Holding Out until the Last Slice of Polenta

The Siege of Venice

By Jonathan Keates

Blair Worden

A Society Of Stages

The Fellowship: The Story of a Revolution

By John Gribbin

Diana Athill

Scared of Nothing but Their Fathers

Debs at War: How Wartime Changed Their Lives, 1939–1945

By Anne de Courcy

Nigel Jones

The Toy Soldier’s Story

A Model Victory: Waterloo and the Battle for History

By Malcolm Balen

J F Lazenby

Trouble with Triremes

Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West

By Tom Holland

Jason Goodwin

The Last Roman City

Constantinople: The Last Great Siege, 1453

By Roger Crowley

Donald Rayfield

The War From the East

A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941–1945

By Antony Beevor (ed) (Translated by Luba Vinogradova)

Ivan’s War: The Red Army 1939–1945

By Catherine Merridale

David Cesarani

The Geopolitics of Memory

The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians

By Donald Bloxham

Allan Massie

A Big Read for Little People

A Little History of the World

By E H Gombrich

Robert Thicknesse

Shouldn’t There Be More Sex

Mozart’s Women

By Jane Glover

Chandak Sengoopta

Shooting in Crowds On the Streets of Calcutta

Satyajit Ray: A Vision of Cinema

By Andrew Robinson; photographs by Nemai Ghosh; drawings by Satyajit Ray

Frank McLynn

In It For the Money

Michael Caine: A Class Act

By Christopher Bray

John Keay

Little Tin Gods

The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj

By David Gilmour

Vyvyen Brendon

Bearded and Brave

Sahib: The British Soldier in India 1750–1914

By Richard Holmes

Leo McKinstry

Britannia Bows Out

After the Victorians

By A N Wilson

John McEwen

She Knew Not The Nude

Miss Angel: The Art and World of Angelica Kauffman

By Angelica Gooden

Elisa Segrave

Simpson & SImpson

Days from a Different World: A Memoir of Childhood

By John Simpson

Peter McDonald

The Heart or the Head?

The Letters of Robert Lowell

By Saskia Hamilton (ed)

Patrick O’Connor

A Knotty Composer

The Selected Letters of Michael Tippett

By Thomas Schuttenhelm (ed)

John Bayley

Calm Endurance

Anna of all the Russias: The Life of Anna Akhmatova

By Elaine Feinstein

Mary Kenny

A Priestly Writer

Memoir

By John McGahern

Francis King

His Own Favourite Number

My Lives

By Edmund White

Valerie Grove

Et Alors?

John Mortimer: The Devil's Advocate – The Unauthorised Biography

By Graham Lord

Ian Whitcomb

Ringing Benjamin Britten’s Bell

February House

By Sherill Tippins

Gillian Tindall

A River Runs Through It

Victorian London: The Life of a City 1840–1870

By Liza Picard

The Thames: England’s River

By Jonathan Schneer

Diana Athill

From Vermont to Nepal

Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya

By Jamaica Kincaid

D J Taylor

Faculty Blues

On Beauty

By Zadie Smith

Anthony Gardner

The Hard Road of Love

Slow Man

By J M Coetzee

John Dugdale

Scarred For Life

Until I Find You

By John Irving

Martyn Bedford

Who Killed the Father of India?

Shalimar the Clown

By Salman Rushdie

Jonathan Barnes

The Entertainer

Dancing in the Dark

By Caryl Phillips

Toby Lichtig

Zero Zero One

Beasts of No Nation

By Uzodinma Iweala

George Norton

Of Men and Mules

Explorers of the New Century

By Magnus Mills

John Murray

Lost Innocence

Fatelessness

By Imre Kertész (Translated by Tim Wilkinson)

Tristan Quinn

Learning to Love

My Cleaner

By Maggie Gee

Jessica Mann

Effortlessly Ethical

Friends, Lovers, Chocolate

By Alexander McCall Smith

Philip Oakes

Crime

• James Crumley, 
• Patricia Wentworth, 
• Mike Ripley, 
• Elmore Leonard, 
• Anthony McGowan, 
• Simon Kernick, 
• Maxim Jakubowski (ed)