Jeremy Lewis

Cover Story

Leslie Mitchell

High Politics

Robert Peel: A Biography

By Douglas Hurd

Jane Ridley

The Righteous Reformer

William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner

By William Hague

Andrew Roberts

As Emperor Apparent

Napoleon: The Path to Power 1769–1799

By Philip Dwyer

Jonathan Mirsky

A Giant Among Pygmies

John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics

By Richard Parker

Brenda Maddox

Maybe He Does Play Dice

Einstein: His Life and Universe

By Walter Isaacson

Sarah Wise

The Emperor of Vice

The Fox and the Flies: The World of Joseph Silver, Racketeer and Psychopath

By Charles van Onselen

Jason Burke

Beyond The Spectacle

Travels with Herodotus

By Ryszard Kapuscinski

Donald Rayfield

Dispatches From Russia

A Russian Diary

By Anna Politkovskaya (Translated by Arch Tait)

Beslan: The Tragedy of School No.1

By Timothy Phillips

Russia’s Islamic Threat

By Gordon M Hahn

Tom Stacey

The Terrified Traveller

Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart

By Tim Butcher

John Gray

The Pathology of Faith

The Islamist

By Ed Husain

Paul Johnson

From Bromsgrove to Trinity

The Letters of A E Housman

By Archie Burnett (ed)

David Kynaston

Look Back In Amusement

Clever Girl: A Sentimental Education

By Brian Thompson

Lucy Lethbridge

A Family Affair

The Mistress’s Daughter: A Memoir

By A M Homes

John Dugdale

LA Story

You Don’t Love Me Yet

By Jonathan Lethem

Hugh Cecil

A Myth Reborn

The Children of Húrin

By J R R Tolkien (Edited by Christopher Tolkien with illustrations by Alan Lee)

Christopher Ross

The Big Sleep

After Dark

By Haruki Murakami (Translated by Jay Rubin)

John de Falbe

Not So Ordinary

Between Each Breath

By Adam Thorpe

Francis King

Grrrl On The Loose

Michael Tolliver Lives

By Armistead Maupin

Amanda Craig

Poles Apart

The Road Home

By Rose Tremain

Philip Womack

Streets Ahead

Barnaby Grimes: Curse of the Night Wolf

By Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell

Christopher Coker

Tipping Points

Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940–1941

By Ian Kershaw

Allan Massie

Panic in Paris

Fleeing Hitler: France 1940

By Hanna Diamond

Piers Brendon

The Sun Does Set

Britain’s Declining Empire: The Road to Decolonisation, 1918–1968

By Ronald Hyam

Peter Parsons

Valete Romani!

Farewell Britannia: A Family Saga of Roman Britain

By Simon Young

John Jolliffe

A King, Not A Doge

Return of the King: The Restoration of Charles II

By Charles Fitzroy

Clare Keegan

Surrender (after McGahren)

Charles Elliott

Politics and Parterres

The Arcadian Friends: Inventing the English Landscape Garden

By Tim Richardson

Hugh Massingberd

This Green Plot

The Park: The Story of the Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park

By David Conville

Michael Burleigh

Loose Nukes

The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor

By William Langewiesche

Gillian Tindall

West End Wonders

Full of Soup and Gold: The Life of Henry Jermyn

By Anthony Adolph

West End Chronicles: Three Hundred Years of Glamour and Excess in the Heart of London

By Ed Glinert

Simon Heffer

Ignore the Girls, Look at the Gables

The Buildings of England: Essex

By James Bettley and Nikolaus Pevsner

John McEwen

More than Just Matchstick Men

L S Lowry: A Life

By Shelley Rohde

A C Grayling

The Country of the Word

At the Same Time

By Susan Sontag

William Palmer

Music & Rum

Anacaona: The Amazing Adventures of Cuba’s First All-Girl Dance Band

By Alicia Castro, with Ingrid Kummels (Translated by Steven Murray)

Sebastian Shakespeare

Arduous Asylum

What is the What

By Dave Eggers

Sam Leith

Spirit of the Jester

Darkmans

By Nicola Barker

Gill Hornby

Little Lawrence

When We Were Romans

By Matthew Kneale

Simon Willis

Tragedy of Loneliness

Julius Winsome

By Gerard Donovan

Simon Baker

Simon Baker on Four First Novels

• Peter Ho Davies, 
• Ivo Stourton, 
• Owen Sheers, 
• Anita Amirrezvani

Leo Benedictus

See You in Hell, Chess Player

The Secrets of the Chess Machine

By Robert Löhr (Translated by Anthea Bell)

Susan Crosland

Point of Origin

Point of Origin

By Patricia Cornwell (Abridged. Read by Joan Allen)