Brenda Maddox

What’s Passed is Past

Lucy Lethbridge

Still Cooking Up A Storm

The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton

By Kathryn Hughes

Caroline Moorehead

Back in Vogue

Lee Miller: A Life

By Carolyn Burke

Francis King

Misanthrope At Large

The Journals: Volume II

By John Fowles (Edited and introduced by Charles Drazin)

Jessica Mann

From Drab Poverty to Colourful Pottery

Clarice Cliff

By Lynn Knight

Comprehensively Clarice Cliff

By Greg Slater with Jonathan Brough (ed)

Patrick O’Connor

Peel Me A Grape

Mae West: It Ain’t No Sin

By Simon Louvish

Carole Angier

Was He A Jesuit Spy?

Descartes: The Life of René Descartes and Its Place in his Times

By A C Grayling

Mary Kenny

Collinsmania On Trial

Mick: The Real Michael Collins

By Peter Hart

Simon Heffer

Treasonous from a Tender Age

Speaking for England

By David Faber

Frank Fairfield

Poisonous Publishers and Barking Brigadiers

All My Friends Will Buy It: A Bottlefield Tour

By Leo Cooper (Foreword by Sir John Keegan)

Frances Wilson

The First Metrosexual

Beau Brummell: The Ultimate Dandy

By Ian Kelly

Nicholas Haslam

Hey, Good-Looking

The Last Playboy: The High Life of Porfirio Rubirosa

By Shawn Levy

Sheridan Morley

Acting Out Of His Skin

Olivier: The Authorised Biography

By Terry Coleman

Paul Johnson

For Heaven Or Hell

Earthly Powers: Religion and Politics in Europe from the Enlightenment to the Great War

By Michael Burleigh

Raymond Seitz

Freedom in Freetown

Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution

By Simon Schama

Tobias Abse

Men On The Make

Mussolini’s Italy: Life under the Dictatorship, 1915–1945

By R J B Bosworth

Justin Marozzi

Murdered By The Mahdi

Khartoum: The Last Imperial Adventure

By Michael Asher

Blair Worden

To Kill A King

The Tyrannicide Brief

By Geoffrey Robertson

Allan Mallinson

Monty, the Bull, and the Grand Old Duke of York

Generals: Ten British Commanders Who Shaped the World

By Mark Urban

Richard Barber

We Band Of Brothers

Agincourt

By Juliet Barker

Norman Longmate

When London Burned

Blitz: The Story of 29 December 1940

By M J Gaskin

Allan Massie

Bringing Home The Bacon

Shakespeare: The Biography

By Peter Ackroyd

Nigel Jones

Mad About The Boys

Siegfried Sassoon: A Biography

By Max Egremont

Nick Smith

Candour In Kandy

Woolf in Ceylon: An Imperial Journey in the Shadow of Leonard Woolf, 1904–1911

By Christopher Ondaatje

Gillian Tindall

Fated For Each Other

Two Lives

By Vikram Seth

Hazhir Teimourian

Bob Of Arabia

The War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East

By Robert Fisk

Jonathan Mirsky

A Border Boiling Over

Rogue Regime: Kim Jong Il and the Looming Threat of North Korea

By Jasper Becker

Peter Jones

Suicidal Snake-Strangler

Hercules: Scenes from an Heroic Life

By Alastair Blanshard

Peter McDonald

Erotic Carnoustie

Selected Poems

By Robert Crawford

Jeremy Lewis

Setting Down His Pen

The Milk of Paradise: Diaries, 1993–1997

By James Lees-Milne (Edited by Michael Bloch)

John Clay

The Game Of Life

Vulnerable in Hearts: A Memoir of Fathers, Sons and Contract Bridge

By Sandy Balfour

John Dugdale

More American Psychos

Lunar Park

By Bret Easton Ellis

Ophelia Field

Secrets In The Attic

Mother, Missing

By Joyce Carol Oates

Francis King

All In The Mind

Human Traces

By Sebastian Faulks

Tristan Quinn

Escape From Reality

The Fahrenheit Twins

By Michel Faber

Lindy Burleigh

Ruthless Bohemians

In the Fold

By Rachel Cusk

Simon Baker

Love On The Run

This is the Country

By William Wall

Philip Oakes

Crime

• Robert B Parker, 
• Arturo Perez-Reverte, 
• Ian Rankin, 
• Michel Dibdin, 
• Andrea Camilleri, 
• Mike Ripley, 
• Joseph Kanon

Susan Crosland

Audiobook

Shakespeare: The Biography

By Peter Ackroyd (Read by Simon Callow)