Sarah Wise

The Case for Cricky

Sebastian Shakespeare

Oranges & Lemons

Leslie Mitchell

Pistols in Putney

The Duel: Castlereagh, Canning and Deadly Cabinet Rivalry

By Giles Hunt

Gillian Tindall

Glued Together By Their Lies

A Dangerous Liaison

By Carole Seymour-Jones

John Gray

Under Western Eyes

Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle between East and West

By Anthony Pagden

Peter Washington

The Outsider

Isaac Rosenberg: The Making of a Great War Poet

By Jean Moorcroft Wilson

Paul Johnson

Ideas in Action

The Roads to Modernity: The British, French and American Enlightenments

By Gertrude Himmelfarb

Raleigh Trevelyan

The Red Hot Rake

Italy’s Sorrow: A Year of War 1944–45

By James Holland

M R D Foot

Silence at the Front

The Greatest Day in History: How the Great War Really Ended

By Nicholas Best

Peter Marshall

Cloistered Lives

The Last Office: 1539 and the Dissolution of a Monastery

By Geoffrey Moorhouse

Paul Addison

Are We Declining?

From Anger to Apathy: The British Experience since 1975

By Mark Garnett

Richard Barber

A Very Busy Monarch

A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain

By Marc Morris

Diana Athill

Astonishing Intimacy

The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth

By Frances Wilson

Peter Jones

International Man of History

Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend

By Richard Stoneman

Anthony Sattin

Monster on the March

The Bloody White Baron

By James Palmer

Mary Kenny

Caught in the Crossfire

Watching the Door: Cheating Death in 1970s Belfast

By Kevin Myers

Cressida Connolly

The Croc’s Larder

Nothing to be Frightened of

By Julian Barnes

Adam LeBor

Atrocity in Europe

Like Eating a Stone: Surviving the Past in Bosnia

By Wojciech Tochman (Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones)

Jason Goodwin

Spanning the Past

The Bridge: A Journey between Orient and Occident

By Geert Mak (Translated by Sam Garrett)

Aidan Hartley

Doing the Lord’s Work

The Wizard of the Nile: The Hunt for Africa’s Most Wanted

By Matthew Green

Michael Jacobs

A Golden Age?

Imagining Spain: Historical Myth and National Identity

By Henry Kamen

John Keay

Zhang of the Ming

Return to Dragon Mountain

By Jonathan Spence

Donald Rayfield

Other Stories

Children’s World: Growing up in Russia, 1890–1991

By Catriona Kelly

Gerard Woodward

Gardening

Simon Heffer

From Fenian to Jihadist

Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism

By Michael Burleigh

Allister Heath

Assume A Tin Opener

Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet

By Jeffrey D Sachs

Caroline Moorehead

The Innocent Dead

Killing Civilians: Method, Madness and Morality in War

By Hugo Slim

Patricia Fara

Lab Lit

The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing

By Richard Dawkins

Frances Welch

Mineral Monstrosities

Fabergé’s Eggs: The Extraordinary Story of the Masterpieces that Outlived an Empire

By Toby Faber

John de St Jorre

Agent Provocateur

Obelisk: A History of Jack Kahane and the Obelisk Press

By Neil Pearson

Lucy Lethbridge

No Mary Poppins

Other People’s Daughters: The Lives and Times of the Governess

By Ruth Brandon

Julia Keay

The World Was Their Nursery

Flower Hunters

By Mary and John Gribbin

Stephen Amidon

Satire on Steroids

The Brain-dead Megaphone

By George Saunders

John Michell

‘Glaston’s Glory’

The Rediscovery of Glastonbury: Frederick Bligh Bond, Architect of the New Age

By Tim Hopkinson-Ball

Pamela Norris

The Little Things

Taking Pictures

By Anne Enright

Jonathan Mirsky

Leading the Pack

Wolf Totem

By Jiang Rong (Translated by Howard Goldblatt)

Sebastian Shakespeare

Couch Confessions

Something to Tell You

By Hanif Kureishi

Simon Baker

Bedtime Stories

A Partisan’s Daughter

By Louis de Bernières

Francis King

Kully’s Story

Child of All Nations

By Irmgard Keun (Translated by Michael Hofmann)

David Ellis

The Wife’s Tale

A Quiet Adjustment

By Benjamin Markovits

Richard Godwin

Richard Godwin on a Quartet of Four First Novels

• Junot Díaz, 
• Joe Dunthorne, 
• Lucie Whitehouse, 
• Lucy Beresford

Lindy Burleigh

Costume Drama

The Clothes on their Backs

By Linda Grant

Matt Thorne

Dad Rock

I Play the Drums in a Band Called Okay

By Toby Litt

Daniel Igra

Words in the Earth

The Accordionist's Son

By Bernardo Atxaga (Translated by Margaret Jull Costa)

Elisa Segrave

Into the Woods

Out of Breath

By Julie Myerson