Allan Massie

Writers and the Golden Age

Katherine Duncan-Jones

Bawdier Than The Bard

Christopher Marlowe, Poet & Spy

By Park Honan

John McDermott

A Genuine Fake

The Real Life of Anthony Burgess

By Andrew Biswell

William Palmer

The Golden Trashery

Ogden Nash: The Life and Work of America’s Laureate of Light Verse

By Douglas M Parker

A C Grayling

The Ambassador of Utopia

Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Freedom

By Roger Pearson

Carole Angier

Paint it Black

Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream

By Sue Prideaux

Diana Athill

Art For Heart’s Sake

Peggy Guggenheim: Mistress of Modernism

By Mary V Dearborn

John Adamson

Venice Once Was Dear

The City of Falling Angels

By John Berendt

Hazhir Teimourian

He’s no Uday, but…

The New Lion of Damascus: Bashar al Asad and Modern Syria

By David W Lesch

Tom Fleming

What Lies Beneath

A Crack in the Edge of the World: The Great American Earthquake of 1906

By Simon Winchester

Richard Overy

Falling For the Fuhrer

The Third Reich in Power: 1933-1939

By Richard J Evans

Philip Ziegler

Did They Matter?

The Whig World

By Leslie Mitchell

Nigel Jones

Unforgettable, Unforgotten

The Unknown Soldier: The Story of the Missing of the Great War

By Neil Hanson

Max Egremont

An Admirable Aristocrat

It Is Bliss Here: Letters Home 1939–1945

By Myles Hildyard (Introduction by Antony Beevor)

Selina O’Grady

Remember, Remember

Gunpowder Plots: A Celebration of 400 Years of Bonfire Night

By Brenda Buchanan, David Cannadine, Justin Champion, David Cressy, Pauline Croft, Antonia Fraser, Mike Jay

God’s Secret Agents: Queen Elizabeth’s Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot

By Alice Hogge

Fergus Fleming

The World’s Most Famous Failure

Scott of the Antarctic

By David Crane

Journals: Captain Scott’s Last Expedition

By Max Jones (ed)

Simon Heffer

Hooray For Horatio

The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson

By Roger Knight

John Sweeney

Three Fruitcakes

Frontline: The True Story of the British Mavericks Who Changed the Face of War Reporting

By David Loyn

Michael Burleigh

Thinking For Britain

Gentle Regrets: Thoughts from a Life

By Roger Scruton

Jonathan Mirsky

A 300 Per Center

My China Eye: Memoirs of a Jew and a Journalist

By Israel Epstein

Ian Whitcomb

At Least They’ve Got It Off Their Chests

Take a Girl Like Me: Life with George

By Diana Melly

Slowing Down

By George Melly

Charlie Campbell

The Madness of King George

Books, Baguettes and Bedbugs: The Left Bank World of Shakespeare and Co

By Jeremy Mercer

Andrew Lycett

Elementary Deduction

Sherlock Holmes: The Biography

By Nick Rennison

Hugo Vickers

Suits You, Sir

Dressed to Rule: Royal and Court Costume from Louis XIV to Elizabeth II

By Philip Mansel

C A R Hills

Take Me To Your Liedder

Dressed to Rule: Royal and Court Costume from Louis XIV to Elizabeth II

By Philip Mansel

Michael Fishwick

Whither The Wilderness?

Fencing Paradise: Reflections on the Myths of Eden

By Richard Mabey

Elisabeth Luard

Stirring Words

Culinary Pleasures: Cook Books and the Transformation of British Cuisine

By Nicola Humble

Isabel Quigly

Parental Pasts

Statues Without Shadows

By Anna Swan

Lucy Lethbridge

A Matter of Taste

The Pineapple: King of Fruits

By Fran Beauman

Pamela Norris

Dreams and Loneliness

The Darkness of Wallis Simpson

By Rose Tremain

Alan Rafferty

Ordinary New Yorkers

The Brooklyn Follies

By Paul Auster

John Dugdale

A Devil on the Highway

No Country for Old Men

By Cormac McCarthy

Sebastian Shakespeare

Desire and Dystopia

The Possibility of an Island

By Michel Houellebecq

Lucy Beresford

Campus Affairs

Truth and Consequences

By Alison Lurie

Caroline Moorehead

The Language of Exile

The Ministry of Pain

By Dubravka Ugresic (Translated by Michael Henry Heim)

Philip Oakes

Crime

• P D James, 
• Catherine Sampson, 
• Michael Connelly, 
• Walter Mosley, 
• Ed McBain