Amanda Craig

Turkey Twizzlers for the Mind

Patrick French

Tinkerty-Tonk!

Paul Johnson

A Dance With the Devil

Seize the Hour: When Nixon Met Mao

By Margaret MacMillan

David Pryce-Jones

Raus Mit Uns

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

By Ilan Pappe

David Gilmour

Problems of Partition

The Shadow of the Great Game: The Untold Story of India’s Partition

By Narendra Singh Sarila

Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India

By Stanley Wolpert

Graham Stewart

Political Publicists

The Lion and the Unicorn: Gladstone and Disraeli

By Richard Aldous

Giles MacDonogh

A Country Immured

The Berlin Wall: 13 August 1961 – 9 November 1989

By Frederick Taylor

Frank McLynn

Randy Old Goat

The Life of Kingsley Amis

By Zachary Leader

Michael Jacobs

Sketches of Spain

Beaumarchais in Seville

By Hugh Thomas

Gillian Tindall

Master Of All Trades

John Evelyn: Living for Ingenuity

By Gillian Darley

Adam Sisman

A Huguenot Heavyweight

Europe’s Physician: The Various Life of Sir Theodore de Mayerne

By Hugh Trevor-Roper

Alan Powers

Blake’s Antitype

Nature’s Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick

By Jenny Uglow

James Burge

The Skill of the Showman

Dante: The Poet, the Political Thinker, the Man

By Barbara Reynolds

Raymond Seitz

Puritan’s Progress

God Won’t Save America: Psychosis of a Nation

By George Walden

Jonathan Mirsky

Saigon Stories

Vietnam: The Definitive Oral History Told From All Sides

By Christian G Appy

Tom Stacey

Dire Straits

Into the Abyss: Explorers on the Edge of Survival

By Benedict Allen

Alexander Waugh

La Paille et La Poutre

50 Reasons to Hate the French

By Jules Eden and Alex Clarke

John Laughland

John Laughland on a Half Century of Unrest at the UN

Michael Burleigh

Times of Terror

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda’s Road to 9/11

By Lawrence Wright

Celsius 7/7: How the West’s Policy of Appeasement Has Provoked Yet More Fundamentalist Terror – and What Has To Be Done Now

By Michael Gove

Patrick O’Connor

Patrick O’Connor Meets Edgardo Cozarinsky

Raleigh Trevelyan

The Ranby Brigade

Time at War

By Nicholas Mosley

Robert Fraser

A Scrum Too Far

The Arms of the Infinite

By Christopher Barker

Richard Overy

The Moral Low Ground

Europe at War, 1939–1945: No Simple Victory

By Norman Davies

Frank Fairfield

Fibs and Fantasy

The Nuremberg Interviews: Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses

By Leon Goldensohn, edited by Robert Gellately

Nuremberg: Evil on Trial

By James Owen

Simon Heffer

Liberal at Heart

The English National Character: The History of an Idea from Edmund Burke to Tony Blair

By Peter Mandler

Edward Norman

Extreme Unction

Last Rites: The End of the Church of England

By Michael Hampson

Catherine Peters

House of Eliot

142 Strand: A Radical Address in Victorian London

By Rosemary Ashton

Thomas Hodgkinson

How To Be A Real Man

Mr Jones Rules: How To Be a Modern Man

By Dylan Jones

The Man's Book

By Thomas Fink

Patrick Bishop

Aerial Totty

Spitfire: The Biography

By Jonathan Glancey

John Dugdale

Reality and Writing

The Lay of the Land

By Richard Ford

Miranda France

A Writer’s Roots

The View from Castle Rock

By Alice Munro

Christopher Hart

Bald Heads and Boiled Eggs

The Fall of Troy

By Peter Ackroyd

Martyn Bedford

Creatures of Fear

Surveillance

By Jonathan Raban

Francis King

The Traitor’s Tale

My Name Was Judas

By C K Stead

Gill Hornby

Campus Conflicts

Black Girl / White Girl: A Novel

By Joyce Carol Oates

Richard Godwin

Richard Godwin Enjoys a Quarter of Four First Novels

• Diane Setterfield, 
• Merisha Pessl, 
• Tom McCarthy, 
• Mike Stocks