William Palmer

Losing the Past

Max Egremont

Terror of the Trenches

World War One: A Short History

By Norman Stone

Diary of a Dead Officer: Being the Posthumous Papers of Arthur Graeme West

By Arthur Graeme West (Introduction by Nigel Jones)

Richard Overy

The Fury that Followed the Fall

After the Reich: From the Liberation of Vienna to the Berlin Airlift

By Giles MacDonogh

Endgame 1945: Victory, Retribution, Liberation

By David Stafford

Evan Mawdsley

Eastern Front

Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War – A Modern History

By Chris Bellamy

Simon Heffer

Decline and Fall

The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire

By Peter Clarke

Paul Addison

A Nation of Shoppers

A History of Modern Britain

By Andrew Marr

Allan Massie

The July Monarchy

The Perilous Crown: France Between Revolutions, 1814–1848

By Munro Price

Dominic Sandbrook

Dark Content

Barbarism and Civilisation: A History of Europe in Our Time

By Bernard Wasserstein

Christopher Coker

They Deserved Each Other

Nixon: The Invincible Quest

By Conrad Black

Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power

By Robert Dallek

Peter Washington

Out of the Fog

Joseph Conrad: A Life

By Zdzislaw Najder

The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad

By John Stape

A C Grayling

Locke’s Laundry

Locke: A Biography

By Roger Woolhouse

John Martin Robinson

By Religious Design

God’s Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain

By Rosemary Hill

Andro Linklater

His Own Guinea Pig

Suffer and Survive: Gas Attacks, Miners’ Canaries, Spacesuits and the Bends: The Extreme Life of Dr J S Haldane

By Martin Goodman

Andrew Lycett

Hard on Their Heels

Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer

By Tim Jeal

Dr Livingstone, I Presume? Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers & Empire

By Clare Pettitt

Hugh Massingberd

Sweet and Sour

Princess Margaret: A Life Unravelled

By Tim Heald

Claudia FitzHerbert

Claudia FitzHerbert meets Philip Pullman

Carole Angier

The Pounding of Silence

Peeling the Onion

By Günter Grass (Translated by Michael Henry Heim)

Jonathan Mirsky

Betrayed From Within and Without

A Garden of Eden in Hell: The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer

By Melissa Müller and Reinhard Piechocki

The Diary of Petr Ginz: 1941–1942

By Chava Pressburger (ed), (Translated by Elena Lappin)

David Gilmour

Divided It Stands

Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire

By Alex von Tunzelmann

The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan

By Yasmin Khan

Charles Allen

A Great Soul

Gandhi: The Man, His People and the Empire

By Rajmohan Gandhi

Sankarshan Thakur

A Functioning Anarchy

India After Gandhi

By Ramachandra Guha

Holy Warriors: A Journey into the Heart of Indian Fundamentalism

By Edna Fernandes

Lucy Lethbridge

Upstairs, Downstairs

Mrs Woolf and the Servants: The Hidden Heart of Domestic Service

By Alison Light

Virginia Ironside

A Grubby Lot

Clean: A History of Personal Hygiene and Purity

By Virginia Smith

Jane Ridley

Day of the Spinster

Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived Without Men After the First World War

By Virginia Nicholson

David Cesarani

Rotten Apples

The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil

By Philip Zimbardo

J W M Thompson

A Restoration Rogue

The Plot Against Pepys

By James Long and Ben Long

Leo McKinstry

Pioneers at Work

The Industrial Revolutionaries: The Creation of the Modern World 1776–1914

By Gavin Weightman

Michael Coren

The Big Smoke

Churchill’s Cigar

By Stephen McGinty

Sam Leith

The Angry Brigade

My Revolutions

By Hari Kunzru

John Dugdale

Go West

Away

By Amy Bloom

John de Falbe

Harsh Terrain

The Kingdom of Ashes

By Robert Edric

Francis King

In Tasmania

Secrets of the Sea

By Nicholas Shakespeare

Christopher Hart

Beneath the Surface

The Dig

By John Preston

Matt Thorne

Snack Daddy

Absurdistan

By Gary Shteyngart

Lindy Burleigh

Birth of a Terrorist

Sirens of Baghdad

By Yasmina Khadra

Dan Gwynne Jones

D-Day and Derring-Do

Coward on the Beach

By James Delingpole

Simon Baker

Simon Baker on Four First Novels

• Julie Maxwell, 
• Ben Dolnick, 
• Nikita Lalwani, 
• Segun Afolabi