D J Taylor

Literature and Leviathan

Scott Mandelbrote

A Man and His Myth

Newton

By Peter Ackroyd

Paul Johnson

The Man From Kirkcaldy

Adam Smith and the Pursuit of Perfect Liberty

By James Buchan

Allan Massie

Sympathy For A Devil

Elizabeth’s Spy Master: Francis Walsingham and the Secret War that Saved England

By Robert Hutchinson

Chandak Sengoopta

Beware of the Water

The Medical Detective: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera

By Sandra Hempel

Frank McLynn

A Wicked, Wicked Life

Ava Gardner

By Lee Server

Roger Scruton

A Quest For Truth

Treacherous Bonds and Laughing Fire: Politics and Religion in Wagner’s Ring

By Mark Berry

Charles Saumarez Smith

Treasure Going Cheap

The Sale of the Late King’s Goods: Charles I and His Art Collection

By Jerry Brotton

Jane Rye

The Studio in the South

The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles

By Martin Gayford

Michael Prodger

Brushes at Twenty Paces

The Judgement of Paris: Manet, Meissonier and an Artistic Revolution

By Ross King

Farrukh Dhondy

Interview: V S Naipaul

Simon Heffer

Swept Under The Carpet

Bad Faith: The Forgotten History of Family and Fatherland

By Carmen Callil

The Unfree French: Life Under the Occupation

By Richard Vinen

Jonathan Mirsky

A Bodyguard of Lies

The Long March

By Sun Shuyun

David Cesarani

Foiling The Führer

Killing Hitler: The Third Reich and the Plots Against the Führer

By Roger Moorhouse

In the Bunker with Hitler: 23 July 1944 – 29 April 1945

By Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven with François d’Alençon (Translated by John Gilbert)

Norman Stone

The People of the Pontus

Twice a Stranger: How Mass Expulsion Forged Modern Greece and Turkey

By Bruce Clark

Andrew Roberts

A Model of the Old School

Wavell: Soldier and Statesman

By Victoria Schofield

Justin Marozzi

He on Honey-Dew Hath Fed

Kublai Khan: From Xanadu to Superpower

By John Man

Charles Wheeler

After The Bomb

American Shogun: MacArthur, Hirohito and the American Duel with Japan

By Robert Harvey

Allan Mallinson

Despatches from the Front

Dusty Warriors: Modern Soldiers at War

By Richard Holmes

Peter McDonald

The Clutch of Earth

District and Circle

By Seamus Heaney

Andro Linklater

Orkney’s Laureate

The Life of George Mackay Brown: Through the Eye of a Needle

By Maggie Fergusson

Michael Burleigh

No Pointy-Heads Here?

Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain

By Stefan Collini

Abigail Green

Political Landscaping

The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape and the Making of Modern Germany

By David Blackbourn

Richard Overy

The Case for the Prosecution

Among the Dead Cities

By A C Grayling

Tim Heald

Plain Tales

Return to Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village in the 21st Century

By Craig Taylor

Lucy Lethbridge

Of Barons and Butchers

The Sunlight on the Garden: A Family in Love, War and Madness

By Elizabeth Speller

Crispin Tickell

Cutting Out Carbon

The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change

By Tim Flannery

Sara Wheeler

Shagathon

The Founding of Arvon: A Memoir of the Early Years of the Arvon Foundation

By John Moat

Hugh Massingberd

The Legion that Never was ‘Listed

Penguins Stopped Play: Eleven Village Cricketers Take On the World

By Harry Thompson

Pamela Norris

The Art of Introspection

The Other Side of You

By Salley Vickers

Francis King

Living Legend

The Woman Who Waited

By Andreï Makine

Andrew Barrow

From Russia With Love

White Blood

By James Fleming

Donald Rayfield

Last Exit To Uzbekistan

The Railway

By Hamid Ismailov (Translated by Robert Chandler)

Lindy Burleigh

Portrait of A Painting

Keeping the World Away

By Margaret Forster

Tristan Quinn

Worlds of Hope

Chronicler of the Winds

By Henning Mankell

Philip Womack

Untying The Knot

A Bit of a Marriage

By Karina Mellinger

Simon Baker

First Novels

• Jane Harris, 
• Naomi Alderman, 
• J M Ledgard, 
• Andrew Kaufman, 
• Harriet Vyner