Frank McLynn

The Perfect Biopic

Paul Johnson

Slaying the Monstre Sacré

Tête-à-Tête: The Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre

By Hazel Rowley

Leslie Mitchell

Cautionary Tales

A Royal Affair: George III and His Troublesome Siblings

By Stella Tillyard

Richard Gray

Innocence & Experience

Mark Twain: A Life

By Ron Powers

Richard Boston

In Search of Lost Bones

The Trouble with Tom: The Strange Afterlife and Times of Thomas Paine

By Paul Collins

Piers Brendon

First In Her Field

The Excellent Doctor Blackwell: The Life of the First Woman Physician

By Julia Boyd

Christopher Coker

Most Of Us Survived

The Cold War

By John Lewis Gaddis

Richard Overy

The Myth of the Master Race

The Master Plan: Himmler’s Scholars and the Holocaust

By Heather Pringle

Blair Worden

Far From Glorious

The Glorious Revolution: 1688 – Britain’s Fight for Liberty

By Edward Vallance

Richard Barber

The Missing Monarch

The Perfect King: The Life of Edward III, Father of the English Nation

By Ian Mortimer

Hazhir Teimourian

Islamic Schism

The Heirs of the Prophet Muhammad: The Two Paths of Islam

By Barnaby Rogerson

Gregor Dallas

The Snake Winds Forward

Civilization: A New History of the Western World

By Roger Osborne

Donald Rayfield

Russia’s Special Rules

Russian Conservatism and Its Critics: A Study in Political Culture

By Richard Pipes

Mary Kenny

The Rise of the Kerns

Men that God Made Mad: A Journey through Truth, Myth and Terror in Northern Ireland

By Derek Lundy

Stuart Hensel

Drawing Out The Poison

Ukraine's Orange Revolution

By Andrew Wilson

Lucy Lethbridge

The Bright Incongruity of It All

Gone to New York: Adventures in the City

By Ian Frazier

John Sweeney

Harrowing Dispatches

Contact Wounds: A War Surgeon’s Education

By Jonathan Kaplan

Charles Glass

A Bargain Odysseus

A Life of Privilege, Mostly

By Gardner Botsford

Diana Athill

Still Smoking

The Year of the Jouncer

By Simon Gray

Robert Thicknesse

The Perfection Our Souls Long for

Mozart and his Operas

By David Cairns

Peyton Skipwith

The Lino of Beauty

The Inward Laugh: Edward Bawden and his Circle

By Malcolm Yorke

William Palmer

International Herald Trombone

The Parisian Jazz Chronicles

By Mike Zwerin

Allan Massie

The Great Modernist Dinner

A Night at the Majestic

By Richard Davenport-Hines

Jonathan Keates

Shimmering Salons

The Age of Conversation

By Benedetta Craveri (Translated by Teresa Waugh)

Irving Wardle

Why Are We Waiting?

The Coming of Godot: A Short History of a Masterpiece

By Jonathan Croall

Anthony Thwaite

A Stylish Eve

Poems

By Alan Ross (Selected and Introduced by David Hughes)

Gillian Tindall

Rolling Back The Smog

City of Cities: The Birth of Modern London

By Stephen Inwood

Ronald Blythe

Enchanting Excursion

Edge of the Orison: In the Traces of John Clare’s ‘Journey out of Essex’

By Iain Sinclair

Charles Elliott

The Telos of Titchmarsh

A Philosophy of Gardens

By David E Cooper

Hugh Massingberd

The Revered Reviewer

Some Poets, Artists and ‘A Reference for Mellors’

By Anthony Powell

Iain Bain

A Multitude of Niceties

Book Typography: A Designer’s Manual

By Michael Mitchell & Susan Wightman

Martyn Bedford

Serial Sunrise

The Diviners

By Rick Moody

Ophelia Field

Three-Way Knot

The Drift Latitudes

By Jamal Mahjoub

Simon Baker

Eloquent Moaning

Mother’s Milk

By Edward St Aubyn

Tristan Quinn

Cowgirl Vampires

Linger Awhile

By Russell Hoban

Francis King

Teeming Panoramas

Kept: A Victorian Mystery

By D J Taylor

Lindy Burleigh

Exploded Certainties

An Irresponsible Age

By Lavinia Greenlaw

Lucy Beresford

Love Among The Rubble

The Night Watch

By Sarah Waters

Philip Womack

The Pursuit of Love

The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets

By Eva Rice

Philip Oakes

Crime

• Simon Brett (ed), 
• Laura Wilson, 
• Jonathan Gash, 
• Guy Walters, 
• Tom Harper, 
• Robert B Parker

Susan Crosland

Audiobook

• Grant Eustace (Read by Edward Kelsey), 
• Stephen Fry