Andrew Roberts

A Date with History

Robert Nye

A Notable Disliker Of Milk and Martyrdom

John Donne: The Reformed Soul

By John Stubbs

Adam Sisman

Poesy & Apostasy

Robert Southey: Entire Man of Letters

By W A Speck

Ben Morgan

Playmates

Shakespeare and Co

By Stanley Wells

Sebastian Shakespeare

The Dark Prince of Providence

H P Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life

By Michel Houellebecq

Francis King

A Marmoreal Mind

A Stranger on Earth: The Life and Work of Anna Kavan

By Jeremy Reed

Simon Heffer

Bismarck’s Bastion

Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947

By Christopher Clark

Nigel Jones

Finest Hour

The British Empire and the Second World War

By Ashley Jackson

Adam LeBor

The Battle for Budapest

Twelve Days: Revolution 1956 – How the Hungarians Tried To Topple Their Soviet Masters

By Victor Sebestyen

Jonathan Mirsky

Seeking Shangri-La

The High Road to China: George Bogle, the Panchen Lama and the First British Expedition to Tibet

By Kate Teltscher

Allan Massie

Regarding Rudolf

The Theatre of the World: Alchemy, Astrology and Magic in Renaissance Prague

By Peter Marshall

John Sweeney

Tyranny and Treachery

Murder in Samarkand: A British Ambassador’s Controversial Defiance of Tyranny in the War on Terror

By Craig Murray

Donald Rayfield

No Room for Russians?

Rulers and Victims: The Russians in the Soviet Union

By Geoffrey Hosking

Christopher Hart

Only in South America

Ghost Train through the Andes: On My Grandfather’s Trail in Chile and Bolivia

By Michael Jacobs

James Owen

Tropical Noir

Dead Man in Paradise

By James MacKinnon

Frances Spalding

Angel of the North East

Lady Trevelyan and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

By John Batchelor

Henrietta Garnett

What Katey May Have Done

Katey: The Artist Daughter of Charles Dickens

By Lucinda Hawksley

Frances Wilson

The Rollicking Regency

An Aristocratic Affair: The Life of Georgiana’s Sister, Harriet Spencer, Countess of Bessborough

By Janet Gleeson

Anne de Courcy

A Girl’s Own Story

Sand in My Shoes: Wartime Diaries of a WAAF

By Joan Rice

Catherine Peters

The Lust for Acquisition

Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain

By Judith Flanders

Waxing Mythical: The Life and Legend of Madame Tussaud

By Kate Berridge

David Watkin

Help!

Interpreting the Renaissance: Princes, Cities and Architecture

By Manfredo Tafuri (Translated by Daniel Sherer)

Dan Jones

Six of the Best

Medieval Schools: Roman Britain to Renaissance England

By Nicholas Orme

Patrick O’Connor

A Vision In A Dream

Wagner and the Art of the Theatre

By Patrick Carnegy

The Ring: An Illustrated History of Wagner’s Ring at the Royal Opera House

By John Snelson

William Palmer

The Ragman’s Trumpet

William Packer

Sex, Too, Is Useful

Creators: From Chaucer to Walt Disney

By Paul Johnson

John Dugdale

High-School Jihad

Terrorist

By John Updike

John de Falbe

The Experience of Love

Be Near Me

By Andrew O’Hagan

John Thieme

Monochrome Morality

Wizard of the Crow

By Ngugi wa Thiong’o

Wendy Brandmark

Setting the Golem Free

Collected Stories

By Cynthia Ozick

Matt Thorne

Modern Gothic

The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs

By Irvine Welsh

Martyn Bedford

Clough’s Wake

The Damned Utd

By David Peace

Michael Arditti

Seeing The Funny Side

Kalooki Nights

By Howard Jacobson

Tom Fleming

Living with Terrorism

The Attack

By Yasmina Khadra (Translated from the French by John Cullen)

Marcella Edwards

The Sane Woman in the Attic

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

By Maggie O' Farrell

Esther Walker

Double Prep

The Man of My Dreams

By Curtis Sittenfeld

Brian Martin

Dextrous Wiles

The Religion

By Tim Willocks

Inigo Wallace

Teacher’s Secrets

Sacrifices

By Michael Fishwick

Olivia Cole

Olivia Cole Enjoys Five First Novels

• Justin Tussing, 
• Will Ashon, 
• Hugo Rifkind, 
• Aminatta Forna, 
• Hisham Matar

Jessica Mann

Crime

• Christian Jungersen, 
• Kate Atkinson, 
• Boris Starling, 
• Louise Welsh, 
• Arnaldur Indridason, 
• Anne Holt, 
• Lucretia Grindle, 
• Dan Fesperman, 
• Judith Cutler