Carole Angier

The Hound of Heaven

John Gray

The Dorset Proust

Descents of Memory: The Life of John Cowper Powys

By Morine Krissdóttir

Porius

By John Cowper Powys

Piers Brendon

Indian Inspiration

Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling

By Charles Allen

Robert Nye

Love’s Lodgings Lost

The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street

By Charles Nicholl

Paul Johnson

Lady of Letters

The Collected Letters of Harriet Martineau

By Deborah Anna Logan (ed)

Brenda Maddox

On the Stein Trail

Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice

By Janet Malcolm

David Cesarani

‘My Soul Is Scorched’

The Year of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews 1939–1945

By Saul Friedländer

David Butler

At the Ballot Box

Politics and the People: A History of British Democracy Since 1918

By Kevin Jefferys

Frederick Taylor

Dramatic Divide

Iron Curtain: From Stage to Cold War

By Patrick Wright

Saul David

Out of the Turmoil

Diamonds, Gold and War: The Making of South Africa

By Martin Meredith

Leslie Mitchell

A Gentleman In Politics

Balfour: The Last Grandee

By R J Q Adams

Simon Heffer

Seven Symphonies Strong

Sibelius

By Andrew Barnett

Jonathan Mirsky

Tropical Fever

Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters: An Outrageous Englishwoman and Her Lost Kingdom

By Philip Eade

Jeremy Lewis

Life in the Footnotes

As I Was Going to St Ives: A Life of Derek Jackson

By Simon Courtauld

Fiona Macintosh

Move Over, Aristotle

How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today

By Simon Goldhill

Oswyn Murray

Ho Pais Kalos Estin

The Greeks and Greek Love: A Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality in Ancient Greece

By James Davidson

Harry Mount

It Came, It Saw, It Conquered

Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin

By Nicholas Ostler

Allan Massie

Victory March

The Roman Triumph

By Mary Beard

Peter Jones

Julius Through The Ages

Caesar: A Life in Western Culture

By Maria Wyke

Patrick C K Duncombe

Armpit Pluckers Required

Orgy Planner Wanted

By Vicki Leon

Gerard Baker

From the Marxist’s Mouth

My Life

By Fidel Castro with Ignacio Ramonet (Translated by Andrew Hurley)

John Sweeney

Atrocity Uncut

One Soldier’s War in Chechnya

By Arkady Babchenko (Translated by Nick Allen)

Walter Gratzer

Venter’s Version

A Life Decoded: My Genome – My Life

By J Craig Venter

Jessica Mann

A True Pioneer

Selective Memory

By Katharine Whitehorn

Irving Wardle

Look Back In Wonder

State of the Nation: British Theatre Since 1945

By Michael Billington

Frank McLynn

King of Hokum

Cecil B DeMille and the Golden Calf

By Simon Louvish

Francis King

Coarse and Classy

Coral Browne: ‘This Effing Lady’

By Rose Collis

Jane Rye

A Broad Canvas

Mirror of the World: A New History of Art

By Julian Bell

Caroline Moorehead

Brutal Truths

Rape: A History from 1860 to the Present Day

By Joanna Bourke

Frances Wilson

Hymn to the Hymen

Virgins: A Cultural History

By Anke Bernau

Stephen Halliday

Trainspotting

Fire and Steam: A New History of the Railways in Britain

By Christian Wolmar

Hazhir Teimourian

Khayyamania

A Book of Verse: The Biography of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

By Garry Garrard

The Art of Omar Khayyam: Illustrating FitzGerald’s Rubaiayat

By William H Martin and Sandra Mason

Elisabeth Luard

Catnip to the Gastronome

Delizia! The Epic History of the Italians and their Food

By John Dickie

The Oxford Companion to Italian Food

By Gillian Riley

David Watkin

Trading Places

Moving Rooms: The Trade in Architectural Salvages

By John Harris

Thomas Hodgkinson

Ectoplasm and Elephant Man

Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife

By Mary Roach

Pamela Norris

The Mysterious Visitor

The People on Privilege Hill

By Jane Gardam

Matt Thorne

On Mischief Bent

Gentlemen of the Road

By Michael Chabon

Graham Foster

Endless Flight

The Gravedigger’s Daughter

By Joyce Carol Oates

Simon Baker

Lost Souls

Self Help

By Edward Docx

Alice Waugh

Boston Bloodlines

Run

By Ann Patchett

Molly Guinness

Stars In Their Eyes

Defying Reality

By Karina Mellinger

George Norton

Playing, the Fool

Jude: Level One

By Julian Gough