Alexander Waugh

Raise A Glass

Paul Johnson

The Madness of Architecture

Joseph Gandy: An Architectural Visionary in Georgian England

By Brian Lukacher

John McEwen

Gilty Love

Sir Thomas Lawrence

By Michael Levey

William Packer

A Writer’s Gaze

Still Looking: Essays on American Art

By John Updike

Allan Massie

The Old Quarrel

That Sweet Enemy

By Robert and Isabelle Tombs

Michael Jacobs

A Pact of Forgetting

Ghosts of Spain: Travels through a Country’s Hidden Past

By Giles Tremlett

Dogs of God: Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors

By James Reston, Jr

Adam LeBor

A Gigantic ‘Balagan’

The People on the Street: A Writer’s View of Israel

By Linda Grant

Graham Hutchings

No Stone Left Unturned

The Great Wall: China Against the World, 1000 BC – 2000 AD

By Julia Lovell

Richard Overy

Deep War

Thunder in the East: The Nazi–Soviet War 1941–1945

By Evan Mawdsley

Colin Smith

King Rats

Prisoners of the Japanese

By Gavan Daws

Jerry Brotton

Fundamentalist Friar

Scourge and Fire: Savonarola and Renaissance Italy

By Lauro Martines

Simon Heffer

Unity At All Costs

Revolution: The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy 1685–1720

By Tim Harris

John Keay

The Shoots Of Fanaticism

God’s Terrorists: The Wahhabi Cult and the Roots of Modern Jihad

By Charles Allen

Fiammetta Rocco

No Kenya Cowboy

Too Close to the Sun: The Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton

By Sara Wheeler

Jonathan Mirsky

Blue Elephant Unleashed

Mencken: The American Iconoclast

By Marion Rodgers

Alistair Horne

A Twentieth-Century Gentleman

A British Achilles: The Story of George, 2nd Earl Jellicoe

By Lorna Almonds Windmill, with a foreword by Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor

Reg Gadney

The Man with the Golden Smile

Unforgivable Blackness : The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

By Geoffrey C Ward

Peter Jones

Annus Horribilis

69 AD: The Year of the Four Emperors

By Gwyn Morgan

Carole Angier

A Brutal Blankness

The Dead Man in the Bunker: Discovering My Father

By Martin Pollack (Translated by William Hobson)

David Cesarani

The Privileged Prisoner

Those Who Trespass Against Us: One Woman’s War Against the Nazis

By Countess Karolina Lanckoronska (Translated by Noel Clark)

William Palmer

As Much As You Can Bear

A Lie About My Father

By John Burnside

David Pryce-Jones

Malignant Charlatanry

For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies

By Robert Irwin

Bernard Green

Was It All Just a Meme?

Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origins of Belief

By Lewis Wolpert

Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

By Daniel C Dennett

The Great Transformation: The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah

By Karen Armstrong

Bryan Appleyard

Gaia Help Us

The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back – and How We Can Still Save Humanity

By James Lovelock

Donald Rayfield

Scholars All At Sea

The Philosophy Steamer: Lenin and the Exile of the Intelligentsia

By Lesley Chamberlain

Francis King

From Middle-Class Sissy to Heroic Samurai

Mishima’s Sword

By Christopher Ross

Jessica Mann

South Bank Survivor

The House by the Thames and the People Who Lived There

By Gillian Tindall

Inigo Wallace

The Boy Grows Up

In Touch with His Roots

By Naim Attallah

Caroline Moorehead

A Lost Manuscript

Suite Française

By Irène Némirovsky (Translated by Sandra Smith)

D J Taylor

A High Wire Act

Ludmila’s Broken English

By D B C Pierre

Pamela Norris

A Hamper Of Delights

The Tent

By Margaret Atwood

John Dugdale

Brightness Revisited

The Good Life

By Jay McInerney

James Fleming

Missing the Mark

Rifling Paradise

By Jem Poster

Paul Binding

Albanian Turmoil

The Successor

By Ismail Kadare (Translated by David Bellos)

Lindy Burleigh

Flight of the Finns

House of Orphans

By Helen Dunmore

Nigel Jones

Past Masters

Winter in Madrid

By C J Sansom

A Pair of Silver Wings

By James Holland

Company of Spears

By Allan Mallinson

Sebastian Shakespeare

Far From Home

The Match

By Romesh Gunesekera