Carole Angier

He Wept For Tess

Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man

By Claire Tomalin

Diana Athill

The Odd Couple

The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge

By Adam Sisman

Peter McDonald

Types of Truth

William Empson: Against the Christians

By John Haffenden

Frank McLynn

The Hoyden Within

Kate: The Woman who was Katharine Hepburn

By William J Mann

Peter Jones

The Republic Restored?

The First Emperor: Caesar Augustus and the Triumph of Rome

By Anthony Everitt

Simon Heffer

Strife Without End

Sacred Causes: Religion and Politics from the European Dictators to Al Qaeda

By Michael Burleigh

Allan Massie

International Rescue

Villa Air-Bel: The Second World War, Escape and a House in France

By Rosemary Sullivan

Sebastian Shakespeare

The Rebel Emperor

The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857

By William Dalrymple

Lucy Wooding

Poetry, Treason, and Plot

Henry VIII’s Last Victim: The Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

By Jessie Childs

Nigel Jones

Georgie, Will, Nicky

King, Kaiser, Tsar: Three Royal Cousins Who Led the World to War

By Catrine Clay

Paul Addison

Anything But Dull

Having It So Good: Britain in the Fifties

By Peter Hennessy

Fergus Fleming

In Shackleton’s Shadow

The Lost Men

By Kelly Tyler-Lewis

Jason Goodwin

Thalassa! Thalassa!

The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean

By John Julius Norwich

Mary Kenny

Dispossessed Princes

Connemara: Listening to the Wind

By Tim Robinson

Miranda Seymour

Lares Et Penates

Household Gods: The British and Their Possessions

By Deborah Cohen

Charles Elliott

Horticultural Masters

The Sun King’s Garden: Louis XIV, André Le Nôtre and the Creation of the Gardens of Versailles

By Ian Thompson

Strange Blooms: The Curious Lives and Adventures of the John Tradescants

By Jennifer Potter

Paul Addison

Galoshes Galore

Having It So Good: Britain in the Fifties

By Peter Hennessy

Simon Heffer

Scorn and Scandal

Bringing the House Down: A Family Memoir

By David Profumo

Mick Brown

American Grotesque

The Joke's Over: Memories of Hunter S Thompson

By Ralph Steadman

John Dugdale

The Artist as Geek

The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History

By Jonathan Franzen

Christopher Silvester

Loser Lit

The Sound of No Hands Clapping: A Memoir

By Toby Young

Elisabeth Luard

Top Dog to Kitchen Bitch

Heat

By Bill Buford

Peter Washington

Glittering Quirks

Phantasmagoria

By Marina Warner

Juliet Barker

Private Devotion

Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers, 1240–1570

By Eamon Duffy

Paul Johnson

A Fundamentalist Not Bothered By God

The God Delusion

By Richard Dawkins

Hugo Vickers

Beatrix Who?

On Royalty

By Jeremy Paxman

Hugh Massingberd

‘VVSITPQ’

Last Curtsey: The End of the English Debutante

By Fiona MacCarthy

Jane Rye

Art From the Edge

Simon Schama’s Power of Art

By Simon Schama

Patrick O’Connor

Singing & Silence

On Opera

By Bernard Williams

Virginia Ironside

From Zeroes to Heroes

Nul Points

By Tim Moore

Simon Baker

Resurrection

The Slaves of Solitude

By Patrick Hamilton

Kate Saunders

A Spaghetti-Tangle

Mothers and Sons

By Colm Tóibín

Francis King

African Queen

My Mother’s Lovers

By Christopher Hope

Alan Rafferty

Drawing A Blank

Travels in the Scriptorium

By Paul Auster

Martyn Bedford

Coming of Age

A Sea Change

By Michael Arditti

Matt Thorne

Puberty and Lies

Carry Me Down

By M J Hyland

Olivia Cole

Facing an Emotional Storm

The Other Side of the Bridge

By Mary Lawson

Richard Godwin

Vengeful Victorians

The Meaning of Night

By Michael Cox