Richard Overy

A Short, Sharp War

Warsaw 1920: Lenin’s Failed Conquest of Europe

By Adam Zamoyski

Christopher Duggan

The Dawn of Il Duce

Mussolini and the Rise of Fascism

By Donald Sassoon

Nigel Jones

Not What It Seemed

The Hunt for Nazi Spies: Fighting Espionage in Vichy France

By Simon Kitson (Translated by Catherine Tihanyi)

Frederick Taylor

Inside the Nightmare

On the Other Side: Letters to My Children from Germany 1940–46

By Mathilde Wolff-Mönckeberg

John Adamson

Pursuit of the Pastoral

Earls of Paradise: England and the Dream of Perfection

By Adam Nicolson

Blair Worden

The Pen & the Sword

God’s Fury, England’s Fire: A New History of the English Civil Wars

By Michael Braddick

Brian Young

What It Is To Be Human

A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century

By John Burrow

Jonathan Keates

The Paladin of Panache

Cyrano: The Life and Legend of Cyrano de Bergerac

By Ishbel Addyman

Paul Johnson

On New Grub Street

George Gissing: A Life

By Paul Delany

John Gribbin

Playing With Fire

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J Robert Oppenheimer

By Kai Bird & Martin J Sherman

Simon Heffer

The Poet Pamphleteer

Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England: John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Marchamont Nedham

By Blair Worden

Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer and Patriot

By Anna Beer

Frances Wilson

A Champion of Women

Queen of the Wits: A Life of Laetitia Pilkington

By Norma Clarke

Allan Massie

A Gentleman and a Drunk

Poe: A Life Cut Short

By Peter Ackroyd

Oleg Gordievsky

The Bear Bites Back

The New Cold War: How the Kremlin Menaces both Russia and the West

By Edward Lucas

M R D Foot

Albanian Operations

The Wildest Province: SOE in the Land of the Eagle

By Roderick Bailey

Sara Wheeler

‘Crikey, I’ve fallen for the Hotel Barman’

Going as Far as I Can: The Ultimate Travel Book

By Duncan Fallowell

Patrick O’Connor

Notes From the Underground

Metrostop Paris: History from the City’s Heart

By Gregor Dallas

David Pryce-Jones

From Dissident to President

To the Castle and Back

By Václav Havel (Translated by Paul Wilson)

Sam Leith

Strange Reality

Miracles of Life: An Autobiography

By J G Ballard

Michael Waterhouse

Will We Live Forever?

The Living End: The Future of Death, Aging and Immortality

By Guy Brown

Lewis Wolpert

Coping With Loss

The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression

By Darian Leader

Pamela Norris

Out of the Attic

Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present

By Lisa Appignanesi

Allister Heath

Practice Makes Perfect

The Craftsman

By Richard Sennett

Bryan Appleyard

The New Hucksterism

Counterknowledge: How We Surrendered to Conspiracy Theories, Quack Medicine, Bogus Science and Fake History

By Damian Thompson

D J Taylor

Terror Effects

The Second Plane: September 11, 2001–2007

By Martin Amis

Patricia Fara

A Storehouse of Ideas

Dry Store Room No 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum

By Richard Fortey

Emily Cockayne

Gems, Guano and Sludge

The Great Filth: The War against Disease in Victorian England

By Stephen Halliday

David Watkin

Design for Living

The English House

By Hermann Muthesius (Edited by Dennis Sharp, translated by Jane Seligman & Stewart Spencer)

Vernon Bogdanor

After Bagehot

The British Constitution

By Anthony King

Peter Washington

Critical Mass

Lucy Lethbridge

Class Myths

Master and Servant: Love and Labour in the English Industrial Age

By Carolyn Steedman

Sarah Anderson

The Birth of Baedeker

Worth the Detour: A History of the Guidebook

By Nicholas T Parsons

Christopher Silvester

By the Fireside

At Large and At Small: Confessions of a Literary Hedonist

By Anne Fadiman

Carole Angier

Hidden Treasure

The Seventh Well

By Fred Wander (Translated by Michael Hofmann)

Francis King

A Pause in Dying

Death At Intervals

By José Saramago

Ophelia Field

From Camden to the Taliban

We Are Now Beginning Our Descent

By James Meek

John De Falbe

Outlaws

His Illegal Self

By Peter Carey

Elspeth Barker

Odi et Amo

Counting the Stars

By Helen Dunmore

Sebastian Shakespeare

Loving Lily

The Bad Girl

By Mario Vargas Llosa (Translated by Edith Grossman)

Matt Thorne

Media Madness

The Girl Who Was Going To Die

By Glyn Maxwell

Jonathan Mirsky

Sweet and Sour

The Budding Tree: Six Stories of Love in Edo

By Aiko Kitahara (Translated by Ian MacDonald)

Rachel Hore

Wine and Sympathy

Friday Nights

By Joanna Trollope