Peter Washington

Classics Lite

John Gray

The Great Game Goes On

After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire

By John Darwin

Christopher Clark

Sex and Summitry

Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna

By Adam Zamoyski

Simon Heffer

King V Parliament

The Noble Revolt: The Overthrow of Charles I

By John Adamson

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

The Alchemy of Exile

The Disinherited: The Exiles Who Created Spanish Culture

By Henry Kamen

Frances Wilson

Cutting Through Humbug

Decency and Disorder: The Age of Cant 1789–1837

By Ben Wilson

Donald Rayfield

The Kulak Tragedy

The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin’s Special Settlements

By Lynne Viola

Charles Allen

What Did the Mughals Ever Do For Us?

A Teardrop on the Cheek of Time: The Story of the Taj Mahal

By Diana and Michael Preston

Christine Kelly

Women At The Front

No Place for Ladies: The Untold Story of Women in the Crimean War

By Helen Rappaport

Christopher Hart

Offal & Ordure

Hubbub: Filth, Noise and Stench in England, 1600–1770

By Emily Cockayne

Elisabeth Luard

What We Eat Is What We Are

Planet Chicken: The Shameful Story of the World's Favourite Bird

By Hattie Ellis

The English at Table

By Digby Anderson

Adrian Weale

An Occupation in Pieces

The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace

By Ali A Allawi

Michael Burleigh

The Long War

Warrant for Terror: The Fatwas of Radical Islam and the Duty of Jihad

By Shmuel Bar

William Reeve

An Unholy Alliance

The Punishment of Virtue

By Sarah Chayes

Sara Wheeler

Canoes & Cockfights

The South American Diaries

By John Hopkins

Philip Womack

April 2007 Children’s Books Round-up

Here Lies Arthur

By Philip Reeve

Snakehead

By Ann Halam

Double or Die

By Charlie Higson

Rupert Christiansen

A Shameful Episode

Medusa: The Shipwreck, The Scandal, The Masterpiece

By Jonathan Miles

Patrick O’Connor

The Right Notes

Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera

By Philip Gossett

Start-up at the New Met: The Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts 1966–1976

By Paul Jackson

Ian Whitcomb

Tycoon of Teen

Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector

By Mick Brown

A C Grayling

Passion & Possibility

Shakespeare the Thinker

By A D Nuttall

Shakespeare Revealed: A Biography

By René Weis

William Palmer

Hidden Lives

Family Romance: A Memoir

By John Lanchester

Chandak Sengoopta

Hero of the Hernia

Digging Up the Dead: Uncovering the Life and Times of an Extraordinary Surgeon

By Druin Burch

Virginia Ironside

What A Character, Eh!

You Cannot Live as I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This: The Thoroughly Disgraceful Life and Times of Willie Donaldson

By Terence Blacker

Philip Womack

Interview: Philip Reeve

David Stafford

A Man With No Side

Thirty Secret Years: A G Denniston’s Work in Signals Intelligence 1914–1944

By Robin Denniston

Frederick Taylor

Grim Gallantry

Bomber Boys

By Patrick Bishop

David Cesarani

Return to Bolechow

The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million

By Daniel Mendelsohn

J W M Thompson

At Daggers Drawn

Friendship and Betrayal

By Graham Stewart

Allan Massie

A Writer’s Century

Inner Workings: Literary Essays, 2000–2005

By J M Coetzee

Thomas Hodgkinson

Now Look Here

The Eye: A Natural History

By Simon Ings

Dan Jones

Dan Jones Wrestles with Two Books on Fighting

The Last Wrestlers: A Far Flung Journey in Search of a Manly Art

By Marcus Trower

Tent Boxing: An Australian Journey

By Wayne McLennan

Carole Angier

The Inadequacy of Words

A Tranquil Star: Unpublished Stories

By Primo Levi (Translated by Ann Goldstein and Alessandra Bastagli)

Gill Hornby

Bright Beginings

South of the River

By Blake Morrison

Sebastian Shakespeare

Teutonic Titans

Measuring the World

By Daniel Kehlmann

D J Taylor

Revelation Before Dawn

Tomorrow

By Graham Swift

Matt Thorne

A Shot of Anxiety

The Unknown Terrorist

By Richard Flanagan

Sam Leith

Memory Is the Key

Dancing with Eva

By Alan Judd

Francis King

Trade Secrets

Skin Lane

By Neil Bartlett

Richard Godwin

The Dark Side of Er

Hospital

By Toby Litt

Pamela Norris

Mother’s Myths

Seizure

By Erica Wagner

Martyn Bedford

In Extremis

Day

By A L Kennedy

Tom Fleming

Holy Mackerel

Gold

By Dan Rhodes

Simon Baker

Simon Baker Considers a Quartet of First Novels

• Phil LaMarche, 
• Ruth Thomas, 
• Jane Feaver, 
• Joe Treasure