Leslie Mitchell

Derby’s Days

The Forgotten Prime Minister: The 14th Earl of Derby (Volume I: Ascent, 1799–1851)

By Angus Hawkins

Jane Ridley

Alpha Female

Jennie Churchill: Winston’s American Mother

By Anne Sebba

Graham Stewart

Slick Willie

Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidency

By Nigel Hamilton

Simon Heffer

The Master & The Fuhrer

The Wagner Clan

By Jonathan Carr

Winnie and Wolf

By A N Wilson

Frank McLynn

Catnip to the Señoritas

Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride

By Michael Wallis

Mary Kenny

Her Ireland Story

Dorothy Macardle: A Life

By Nadia Clare Smith

David Cesarani

High Rollers

Plutocrats: A Rothschild Inheritance

By George Ireland

Raymond Seitz

Milestones of Diplomacy

Summits: Six Meetings that Shaped the Twentieth Century

By David Reynolds

John Adamson

Wrong But Wromantic

Cavalier: A Tale of Chivalry, Passion and Great Houses

By Lucy Worsley

Nigel Jones

Rum, Sodomy and the Lash

The Line Upon a Wind: An Intimate History of the Last and Greatest War Fought at Sea Under Sail, 1793–1815

By Noel Mostert

Cochrane the Dauntless: The Life and Adventures of Admiral Thomas Cochrane, 1775–1860

By David Cordingly

Storm and Conquest: The Battle for the Indian Ocean, 1809

By Stephen Taylor

Sarah Wise

The Great Pretender

The Tichborne Claimant: A Victorian Sensation

By Rohan McWilliam

William Anthony Hay

London Burning

The First Day of the Blitz

By Peter Stansky

Richard Overy

Twentieth Century Monsters

Lenin, Stalin and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe

By Robert Gellately

Jonathan Mirsky

The Mighty Qin

The First Emperor of China

By Frances Wood

The First Emperor: China's Terracotta Army

By Jane Portal (ed)

V S Naipaul

From ‘A Writer’s People: Ways of Looking and Feeling’ By V S Naipaul

Ronald Blythe

A World Behind Our Own

The Wild Places

By Robert Macfarlane

Christopher Hart

Magical Depths

Thames: Sacred River

By Peter Ackroyd

Gillian Tindall

Wild France

The Discovery of France

By Graham Robb

Katherine Duncan-Jones

The Stratford Wife

Shakespeare’s Wife

By Germaine Greer

Alexander Waugh

‘A Leetle Beet Mad’

The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters

By Charlotte Mosley (ed)

Allan Massie

Odd Cove

Conan Doyle: The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes

By Andrew Lycett

Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters

By Daniel Stashower, Jon Lellenberg and Charles Foley

William Palmer

Too Little Ragtime

Bernard Malamud: A Writer’s Life

By Philip Davis

Ben Wilson

Libertarian’s Progress

Towards the Light: The Story of the Struggles for Liberty and Rights that Made the Modern West

By A C Grayling

Jonathan Sumption

The Sacred and Profane

Blasphemy in the Christian World: A History

By David Nash

Michael Burleigh

Legacy of Ashes

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

By Tim Weiner

Douglas Murray

Fundamental Flaw

Allies for Armageddon: The Rise of Christian Zionism

By Victoria Clark

Valerie Grove

Long Wavering Radio

Life on Air: A History of Radio Four

By David Hendy

Oscar Humphries

Beau Horsley

Dandy in the Underworld

By Sebastian Horsley

Christopher Silvester

Horrors of Hollywood

Bambi vs Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business

By David Mamet

Carole Angier

The Heart and the Head

Diary of a Bad Year

By J M Coetzee

Matt Thorne

57% Irish

The Deportees and Other Stories

By Roddy Doyle

Pamela Norris

Fragility of Happiness

The Rain Before It Falls

By Jonathan Coe

John Thieme

Pip in the Pacific

Mister Pip

By Lloyd Jones

John De Falbe

Seductive Separation

Divisadero

By Michael Ondaatje

Rachel Hore

Looking Back

With My Little Eye

By Francis King

Martyn Bedford

The Vanguard of Dystopia

The Carhullan Army

By Sarah Hall

Simon Baker

Mood Indigo

Starbook

By Ben Okri