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The Eyes of a Dead Fish

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Jonathan Keates

Mesdemoiselles Soleil

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Diana Athill

A Life Worth Reading About

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A Hack Without Influence

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Andrew Lycett

On the Couch

Freud’s Wizard: The Enigma of Ernest Jones

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Allan Massie

Dressed To Be Killed

Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France

By Lucy Moore

Alexander Waugh

The Devil You Don’t Know

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By Henry Ansgar Kelly

Michael Burleigh

A Churchillian Task

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By Andrew Roberts

Christopher Coker

Bella, Horrida Bella

War in Human Civilisation

By Azar Gat

Nigel Jones

Coeur de Lion, Coeur de Rat

Lionheart and Lackland: King Richard, King John and the Wars of Conquest

By Frank McLynn

Robert Irwin

Rancour and Revolt

Setting the Desert on Fire: T E Lawrence and Britain’s Secret War in Arabia, 1916–1918

By James Barr

Roy Hattersley

‘They Never Swung For Me’

White Heat

By Dominic Sandbrook

Sam Leith

Walking Into Nightmare

Kingdom Come

By J G Ballard

Gill Hornby

The Bawdy Bunch

A Spot of Bother

By Mark Haddon

Martyn Bedford

Beyond The Brothel

The Apple: New Crimson Petal Stories

By Michel Faber

John Dugdale

Joyce Would Be Proud

Only Revolutions

By Mark Z Danielewski

Christopher Bray

Learning to Live, Again

So Many Ways To Begin

By Jon McGregor

Christopher Hart

Mark T Chickpea

Imperium: A Novel

By Robert Harris

Sebastian Shakespeare

Corruption in the Congo

The Mission Song

By John le Carré

Peter Washington

The Times of Mr Woolf

Leonard Woolf

By Victoria Glendinning

Francis King

The Nation’s Favourite Only Child

Betjeman

By A N Wilson

P J Kavanagh

A Passion to Entertain

Ireland's Minstrel: A Life of Tom Moore: Poet, Patriot and Byron’s Friend

By Linda Kelly

Adam Sisman

Missives from a Master

Letters from Oxford: Hugh Trevor-Roper to Bernard Berenson

By Richard Davenport-Hines (ed)

Robert Nye

Name: Seemore. Crime: Extreme.

Collected Poems 1943–1993

By Martin Seymour-Smith (Edited by Peter Davies)

Hugh Massingberd

O Father, Where Art Thou?

Right Royal Bastards: The Fruits of Passion

By Peter Beauclerk-Dewar and Roger S Powell

John Martin Robinson

Sir Vavasour Firebrace

The Baronets’ Champion: Sir Richard Broun’s Campaigns for the Privileges of the Baronetage

By Ian Anstruther

Carole Angier

Mourning For His Mother

In the Blood

By Andrew Motion

Brendan Walsh

The Search For Grace

Seminary Boy

By John Cornwel

William Palmer

A Lost World

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

By Bill Bryson

Paul Johnson

They Know Their Place

The Middle Class: A History

By Lawrence James

Frances Wilson

What Earthlings Get Up To

The Culture of the Europeans: From 1800 to the Present

By Donald Sassoon

Justin Marozzi

A World of Wanderers

Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration

By Felipe Fernández-Armesto

A C Grayling

I, Anti-Realist

The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of a Universe

By Michael Frayn

Jonathan Mirsky

From Antioch To Xian

Shadow of the Silk Road

By Colin Thubron

Philip Mould

The Dark Art of Fakery

I Was Vermeer: The Legend of the Forger Who Swindled the Nazis

By Frank Wynne

Valerie Grove

Ladies on Longwave

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Ruth Padel

A Wounded World

Moral Disorder

By Margaret Atwood

Matt Thorne

Drying Out

Paula Spencer: A Novel

By Roddy Doyle

Philip Womack

Tryst & Joust

The Ruby in Her Navel

By Barry Unsworth

Amanda Craig

Secrets and Spies

Restless

By William Boyd

Michael Burleigh

Love Wins The Day

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900

By Andrew Roberts

Farrukh Dhondy

Listen Carefully, Gaandu

Sacred Games

By Vikram Chandra

Lucy Lethbridge

Shenanigans at Sixty

No! I Don’t Want to Join a Bookclub

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