Jeremy Lewis

Hopping the Fence

Richard Overy

Counting the Cost

The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy

By Adam Tooze

Donald Rayfield

A Russian Anne Frank

I Want to Live: The Diary of a Young Girl in Stalin’s Russia

By Nina Lugovskaya (Translated by Andrew Bromfield)

Peter Jones

Britons Never Shall Be Slaves

An Imperial Possession: Britain in the Roman Empire, 54 BC – AD 409

By David Mattingly

Jason Goodwin

Batten The Hatches

Victory of the West: The Story of the Battle of Lepanto

By Niccolò Capponi

Frank Fairfield

For Whom The Bell Tolls

The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of José Robles

By Stephen Koch

Guerra! Living in the Shadows of the Spanish Civil War

By Jason Webster

Nigel Jones

Too Many To Speak Of

• Martin Gilbert, 
• Christopher Duffy, 
• Sidney Rogerson, 
• Gavin Stamp

Giles MacDonogh

Nazis and Narcissism

Berlin Games: How Hitler Stole the Olympic Dream

By Guy Walters

Chandak Sengoopta

Night of Doom

The Black Hole: Money, Myth and Indian Empire

By Jan Dalley

Simon Heffer

His Genius Preceded Him

Stravinsky (Vol 2): The Second Exile, France and America, 1934–1971

By Stephen Walsh

Patrick O’Connor

The Libertine Librettist

Lorenzo Da Ponte: The Adventures of Mozart’s Librettist in the Old and New Worlds

By Rodney Bolt

The Man Who Wrote Mozart: The Extraordinary Life of Lorenzo Da Ponte

By Anthony Holden

William Palmer

Before Elvis

And They All Sang: The Great Musicians of the 20th Century Talk about Their Music

By Studs Terkel

Julia Keay

How To Be Lank, Fleet and Nimble

The Bloodless Revolution: Radical Vegetarians and the Discovery of India

By Tristram Stuart

Charles Elliott

Biological Beauty

Seed to Seed: The Secret Life of Plants

By Nicholas Harberd

Richard Holmes

The Pen and The Sword

Captain Professor: The Memoirs of Sir Michael Howard

By Michael Howard

Frank McLynn

Witch, Bitch or Ingénue?

Bette Davis: The Girl Who Walked Home Alone

By Charlotte Chandler

Ursula Buchan

Get Thee to a Shrubbery

My Darling Herriott: Henrietta Luxborough, Poetic Gardener and Irrepressible Exile

By Jane Brown

Dominic Sandbrook

Soaked in 007

The Man Who Saved Britain

By Simon Winder

Hazhir Teimourian

From the House of the Believers

On the Road to Kandahar: Travels through Conflict in the Islamic World

By Jason Burke

John Sweeney

A Lost World

City of Oranges: Arabs and Jews in Jaffa

By Adam LeBor

John McEwen

Stormy Genius

John Constable: A Kingdom of His Own

By Anthony Bailey

Henrietta Garnett

A Palette of Painters

The Private Lives of the Impressionists

By Sue Roe

Allan Massie

Plus Paris Change…

Paris: The Secret History

By Andrew Hussey

Justin Marozzi

Eastern Enlightenment

Temptations of the West: How To Be Modern in India, Pakistan and Beyond

By Pankaj Mishra

John Clay

Prisoners of Oz

The Commonwealth of Thieves: The Story of the Founding of Australia

By Thomas Keneally

Bound for Botany Bay: British Convict Voyages to Australia

By Alan Brooke and David Brandon

The Fever of Discovery: The Story of Matthew Flinders

By Marion Body

Dennis Sewell

On The Road

American Journey: Life on the Home Front in the Second World War

By Alistair Cooke

Christopher Ross

Memoirs of a Gaijin

Atomic Sushi

By Simon May

A C Grayling

Lectures on Liberty

Isaiah Berlin: Political Ideas in the Romantic Age

By Henry Hardy (ed), with an introduction by Joshua Cherniss

Des Spence

Looking For the Magic Bullet

One in Three

By Adam Wishart

Michael Burleigh

Intellectual Lives

The Moral Imagination: From Edmund Burke to Lionel Trilling

By Gertrude Himmelfarb

Marcus Berkmann

Thompson and Thomson… and Derrida

Tintin and the Secret of Literature

By Tom McCarthy

Alice Pitman

Shopping’s Behemoth

The Wal-Mart Effect

By Charles Fishman

Kathy Watson

Navel-Gazing

On Trying to Keep Still

By Jenny Diski

John Dugdale

Micro-Societies

The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil and In Persuasion Nation

By George Saunders

Christopher Hart

Flooding the Valley

Gathering the Water

By Robert Edric

Susanna Jones

A Box of Treats

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

By Haruki Murakami (Translated by Philip Gabriel and Jay Rubin)

Martyn Bedford

Identity Theft

Talk Talk

By T C Boyle

Paul Binding

A Cargo of Longings

The Sunlight on the Garden

By Francis King

Richard Godwin

Richard Godwin Savours Five First Novels

• Olga Grushin, 
• Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal, 
• Moni Mohsin, 
• Jasper Joffe, 
• Jeremy Dyson

William Brett

Intoxicating Africa

Whiteman

By Tony D’Souza

Marcella Edwards

Dublin In Stasis

The Free and Easy

By Anne Haverty

Philip Womack

A Lack of Fulfilment

Adverbs

By Daniel Handler