Allan Massie

Books on the Box

Paul Johnson

Deist, Altruist, Terrorist

Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution

By Ruth Scurr

Nigel Jones

The Case for the Prosecution

Blackshirt: Sir Oswald Mosley and British Fascism

By Stephen Dorril

Peter Jones

Kai Su, Teknon

Caesar

By Adrian Goldsworthy

Frank McLynn

Mister Bombastic

Orson Welles: Hello Americans

By Simon Callow

A C Grayling

Great Minds Don’t Think Alike

Rousseau's Dog

By David Edmonds and John Eidinow

The Courtier and the Heretic

By Matthew Stewart

Jonathan Keates

An Appreciation of Emilie

Passionate Minds: The Great Enlightenment Love Affair

By David Bodanis

Raymond Seitz

The Second Oldest Profession

The Ambassadors: From Ancient Greece to the Nation State

By Jonathan Wright

Irwin Stelzer

From Hawk To Chicken

After the Neocons: America at the Crossroads

By Francis Fukuyama

Daniel Johnson

They Think It’s All Over

Don’t Mention the War: The British and the Germans since 1980

By John Ramsden

Richard Overy

A Curious Correspondence

My Dear Mr Stalin: The Complete Correspondence of Franklin D Roosevelt and Joseph V Stalin

By Susan Butler (ed), Foreward by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Mary Kenny

De Valera In the Dock

The Emergency: Neutral Ireland 1939–45

By Brian Girvin

Jerry Brotton

Speaking with the Dead

The English Civil War: A People’s History

By Diane Purkiss

Jane Ridley

Dancing on a Volcano

The Perfect Summer

By Juliet Nicolson

John Sweeney

Middle East Mayhem

The Tribes Triumphant: Return Journey to the Middle East

By Charles Glass

Justin Marozzi

Angry Young Seyyed

Occupational Hazards

By Rory Stewart

Hazhir Teimourian

What the Persians Did For Us

Mirrors of the Unseen: Journeys in Iran

By Jason Elliot

Jonathan Mirsky

The Talking Wounded

Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China and the West

By Peter Hessler

James Owen

Stopping the Strangler

A Death in Belmont

By Sebastian Junger

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Carving Up A Continent

Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492–1830

By J H Elliott

Simon Heffer

Expanding Empire

Victoria’s Wars

By Saul David

Vyvyen Brendon

Sheep and Dust

Strangerland: A Family at War

By Helena Drysdale

Jeremy Lewis

What Adam Told Eve

The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes

By John Gross (ed)

Diana Athill

The Road To Empathy

Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

By Jane Smiley

Philip Womack

The Genius Hero of Troy

Homer’s Odyssey

By Simon Armitage

David Watkin

De Botton The Builder

The Architecture of Happiness

By Alain de Botton

William Packer

Star-Struck

Visiting Picasso: The Notebooks and Letters of Roland Penrose

By Elizabeth Cowling

Rupert Christiansen

The Premier Division

The Royal Ballet: 75 Years

By Zoë Anderson

Gillian Darley

Sylvian Escapades

John Evelyn: The Diary

By John Evelyn, Introduced and with passages selected by Roy Strong

A Passion for Trees: The Legacy of John Evelyn

By Maggie Campbell-Culver

Charles Elliott

A Green-Fingered Globe

The Oxford Companion to the Garden

By Patrick Taylor (ed)

Richard Boston

A City Built On Bones

Necropolis: London and its Dead

By Catharine Arnold

Harry Mount

Why Ask If Shad Do It?

The Big Oyster: New York in the World – A Molluscular History

By Mark Kurlansky

John Dugdale

Mortality Tale

Everyman

By Philip Roth

Sebastian Shakespeare

Blankety Blank

Seeing

By José Saramago (Translated by Margaret Jull Costa)

Miranda France

One Up For Ireland

Matters of Life and Death

By Bernard MacLaverty

Francis King

North African Charms

Miss Webster and Chérif

By Patricia Duncker

Matt Thorne

Troubled Times

The Island of Lost Souls

By Martyn Bedford

Gill Hornby

Trials Of Adoption

Digging to America

By Anne Tyler

Susanna Jones

Haunted In Tokyo

In Search of a Distant Voice

By Taichi Yamada (Translated by Michael Emmerich)

Susan Crosland

Waiting For Godot

Waiting for Godot

By Samuel Beckett (Unabridged. Directed by John Tydeman Read by Sean Barrett, David Burke, Terence Rigby and Nigel Anthony)