Andrew Lycett

Permission Granted

John Gray

The Fragility of the Ego

The Death of Sigmund Freud: Fascism, Psychoanalysis and the Rise of Fundamentalism

By Mark Edmundson

Peter Washington

The Birth of Sredni Vashtar

The Unbearable Saki: The Work of H H Munro

By Sandie Byrne

Henrietta Garnett

Acting the Part

Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life

By Deirdre David

Adam LeBor

Drunk Again, Khayyam?

Omar Khayyam: Poet, Rebel, Astronomer

By Hazhir Teimourian

Max Egremont

The Man and the Myth

The Good Soldier: A Biography of Douglas Haig

By Gary Mead

Anton La Guardia

A Hero of the Hashemites

Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace

By Avi Shlaim

Ben Wilson

On Liberty

John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand

By Richard Reeves

Jonathan Keates

Palazzo Plunkett

Lucia in the Age of Napoleon

By Andrea di Robilant

Francis King

The Constant Philanderer

A Voyage Round John Mortimer

By Valerie Grove

Nigel Jones

Jack the Bad

The Vienna Woods Killer: A Writer's Double Life

By John Leake

Raymond Seitz

Puritan’s Progress

Pilgrims: New World Settlers and the Call of Home

By Susan Hardman Moore

Justin Marozzi

Tewodros the Tragic

The Barefoot Emperor: An Ethiopian Tragedy

By Philip Marsden

Paul Legg

Don’t Be Fooled

Algeria: Anger of the Dispossessed

By Martin Evans and John Phillips

Leslie Mitchell

Keeping an Eye on the Neighbours

Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire, 1714–1783

By Brendan Simms

David Cesarani

The Romance of Israel

Churchill and the Jews

By Martin Gilbert

Churchill’s Promised Land: Zionism and Statecraft

By Michael Makovsky

Richard Overy

War and Progress

Liberation or Catastrophe? Reflections on the History of the Twentieth Century

By Michael Howard

Paul Johnson

Painter of All Nature

George Stubbs, Painter: Catalogue raisonné

By Judy Egerton

John McEwen

I am God, I am God

A Life of Picasso: Volume III – The Triumphant Years, 1917–1932

By John Richardson (with the collaboration of Marilyn McCully)

Frances Spalding

Menace in the Mundane

Edward Burra: Twentieth-Century Eye

By Jane Stevenson

Frances Wilson

A Sketch in the Margin

Eye Rhymes: Sylvia Plath’s Art of the Visual

By Kathleen Connors and Sally Bayley (ed)

Charles Saumarez Smith

Private Riches

Great Collectors of Our Time: Art Collecting Since 1945

By James Stourton

Alexander Waugh

Loony Tunes

This is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession

By Daniel Levitin

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

By Oliver Sacks

Simon Heffer

Encore, Encore

Janácek: Years of a Life, Volume 2

By John Tyrrell

William Palmer

Sax Life: Five Books About Jazz

• Ben Ratliff, 
• Dave Gelly, 
• Marybeth Hamilton, 
• Alyn Shipton, 
• Richard Cook

Jane Ridley

Eminence Rose

Clarissa Eden: A Memoir – from Churchill to Eden

By Cate Haste (ed)

Christopher Coker

The Economist’s Progress

The Age of Turbulence

By Alan Greenspan

Alan Brownjohn

How the Poet Became

Letters of Ted Hughes

By Christopher Reid (ed)

Patrick O’Connor

Love From Snoopie

The Letters of Noël Coward

By Barry Day (ed)

Carole Angier

Cool Clear Burn

Somewhere Towards the End

By Diana Athill

Jeremy Lewis

Noms de Plume

Anonymity: A Secret History of English Literature

By John Mullan

Bernard O’Donoghue

Forms of Exile

The Poetry of Derek Mahon

By Hugh Haughton

Jonathan Mirsky

The Word Merchant

Due Considerations: Essays and Criticisms

By John Updike

Michael Arditti

The Ugly Duckling

The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen

By Maria Tatar and Julie K Allen

Michael Burleigh

Where It All Began

The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising

By Yaroslav Trofimov

John Gribbin

Fly Me to the Moon

Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age

By Matthew Brzezinski

Dark Side of the Moon: The Magnificent Madness of the American Lunar Quest

By Gerard DeGroot

A C Grayling

Simply Hideous

The Complement of Beauty On Ugliness

By Umberto Eco

Anthony Cheetham

Elegy For Guttenberg?

Print is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age

By Jeff Gomez

Allan Massie

Art Against Authority

Modernism: The Lure of Heresy

By Peter Gay

Andrew Roberts

House of Windsor

Monarchy: The Royal Family at Work

By Robert Hardman

Miranda Seymour

These Enchanted Woods

Beechcombings: The Narratives of Trees

By Richard Mabey

Michael Barber

Comic Cuts

Eagle Annual: The Best of the 1950s Comic

By Daniel Tatarsky (ed)

The Complete Peanuts: Volume 1 1950–52, Volume 2 1953–54

By Charles M Schulz

John Dugdale

Well-Made Tales

The New Granta Book of the American Short Story

By Richard Ford (ed)

Caroline Moorehead

Unravelling the Past

Homecoming

By Bernhard Schlink (Translated by Michael Henry Heim)

Miranda France

The Flash of Fireflies

Beethoven was One-Sixteenth Black, and Other Stories

By Nadine Gordimer

John de Falbe

Hijinks at the Hotel Ambassador

Rivers of Babylon

By Peter Pišt’anek (Translated by Peter Petro)

Elspeth Barker

Beetle-Headed Whelp!

The Other Book

By Philip Womack

Matt Thorne

Young at Heart

My Tango with Barbara Strozzi

By Russell Hoban

Lindy Burleigh

Picasso’s Pretender

The Painter of Battles

By Arturo Pérez-Reverte (Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden)

Martyn Bedford

Grumpy Auld Man

Old Men in Love

By Alasdair Gray

Raffaella Barker

Village Romp

Filthy Rich

By Wendy Holden