Kathryn Hughes

Festival Frolics

Gerard Baker

Saint Ronald

The Reagan Diaries

By Douglas Brinkley (ed)

David Cesarani

Blood Relations

The Himmler Brothers: A German Family History

By Katrin Himmler

David Kynaston

East End Chronicles

Call the Midwife

By Jennifer Worth

Family and Kinship in East London

By Michael Young and Peter Willmott

Jonathan Mirsky

Creation Myth

The Fourth of July and the Founding of America

By Peter de Bolla

Julia Keay

Dangerous Liasons

Femme Fatale: A Biography of Mata Hari

By Pat Shipman

Raleigh Trevelyan

The Cretan Lawrence

The Rash Adventurer: A Life of John Pendlebury

By Imogen Grundon, with a Foreword by Patrick Leigh Fermor

Brenda Maddox

You Never Know

Max Perutz and the Secret of Life

By Georgina Ferry

Christopher Coker

How to Fight a Cold War

George Kennan: A Study in Character

By John Lukacs

Simon Heffer

Lechery, Libel and Lieder

Robert Schumann

By John Worthen

Hugh Massingberd

Bounty Bar Bates

Otherwise Engaged: The Life of Alan Bates

By Donald Spoto

David Ellis

Chronicles of A Life Story

Biography: A Brief History

By Nigel Hamilton

Edward Norman

What Next For God?

The Bible: A Biography

By Karen Armstrong

Damian Thompson

Oh Lord!

God Is Not Great: The Case Against Religion

By Christopher Hitchens

Richard Gray

How To Write A Hero

James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years

By Wayne Franklin

Frances Wilson

Hardly Human

Death and the Maidens: Fanny Wollstonecraft and the Shelley Circle

By Janet Todd

Being Shelley: The Poet’s Search for Himself

By Ann Wroe

Charles Elliott

Letters From America

The Way It Wasn’t: From the Files of James Laughlin

By Barbara Epler and Daniel Javitch (ed)

Counterpoints: 25 Years of The New Criterion on Culture and the Arts

By Roger Kimball and Hilton Kramer (ed)

Jessica Mann

Bohemian Girl

Paper Houses: A Memoir of the 70s and Beyond

By Michèle Roberts

Evelyn Toynton

Liber Amoris

Hazlitt in Love: A Fatal Attachment

By Jon Cook

Thomas Hodgkinson

Affair To Remember

Alfred Douglas: A Poet’s Life and His Finest Work

By Caspar Wintermans

William Palmer

Ten-Shilling Notes

The Boy Who Loved Books: A Memoir

By John Sutherland

Alan Ryan

The Danger of Utopia

Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia

By John Gray

Graham Stewart

Global Breakdown

Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism

By Eric Hobsbawm

John Gribbin

Quantum Leaps

Faust in Copenhagen

By Gino Segrè

Doomsday Men: The Real Dr Strangelove and the Dream of the Superweapon

By P D Smith

Alexander Masters

Igum and Igibum

Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra

By John Derbyshire

Allister Heath

Economical Reading

Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations

By P J O’Rourke

Jason Goodwin

Storm in A Teacup

Tea: The Drink that Changed the World

By John Griffiths

Elisabeth Luard

Elizabeth Luard Dines Out on Three Books on Food

Feast: Why Humans Share Food

By Martin Jones

The Last Food of England: English Food, Its Past, Present and Future

By Marwood Yeatman

Food in Early Modern England: Phases, Fads and Fashions 1500–1760

By Joan Thirsk’

Nick Garrard

Nick Garrard Looks at A Batch of Recent Graphic Novels

• Will Eisner, 
• Simone Lia, 
• Marjane Satrapi, 
• Martin Lemelman, 
• Andrzej Klimowski

Cressida Connolly

Crevices of the Soul

Cheating at Canasta

By William Trevor

John Dugdale

Boy’s Own Story

Now Is the Hour

By Tom Spanbauer

Pamela Norris

Bearing Witness

Life Class

By Pat Barker

Nigel Jones

Hot and Gold

Charlemagne and Roland

By Allan Massie

Martyn Bedford

Mistress of Disguise

The Missing Person’s Guide to Love

By Susanna Jones

Francis King

An American In Paris

The Condor’s Head: An American Romance

By Ferdinand Mount

Matt Thorne

The Mexicans Are Coming

If You Liked School You’ll Love Work

By Irvine Welsh

Louise Guinness

Threads of Life

Consequences

By Penelope Lively

Lindy Burleigh

Dark Young Things

Safe Houses

By David Pryce-Jones

Susan Crosland

The Portrait of A Lady

The Portrait of A Lady

By Henry James (Read by Gayle Hunnicutt)