Allan Massie

Living for Literature

The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V S Naipaul

By Patrick French

Belinda Jack

No Romance

Wartime Notebooks: and Other Texts

By Marguerite Duras, Edited by Sophie Bogaert and Olivier Corpet, (Translated by Linda Coverdale)

James Owen

Dilettante Doctor

Axel Munthe: The Road to San Michele

By Bengt Jangfeldt

Nicholas Murray

Cerebrotonic Missives

Selected Letters of Aldous Huxley

By James Sexton

Adrian Weale

Counting the Cost

Muqtada Al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq

By Patrick Cockburn

The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict

By Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes

Michael Burleigh

Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

Brother Tariq: The Doublespeak of Tariq Ramadan

By Caroline Fourest

Allister Heath

Pouring on Cold Water

An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming

By Nigel Lawson

Sarah Bradford

My Last Duchess

Isabella de’ Medici: The Glorious Life and Tragic End of a Renaissance Princess

By Caroline P Murphy

Adrian Tinniswood

Romance Story

Read My Heart: Dorothy Osborne and Sir William Temple – A Love Story in the Age of Revolution

By Jane Dunn

Jonathan Mirsky

A Straitlaced Sage

Confucius: A Life of Thought and Politics

By Annping Chin

Simon Heffer

Mannic Depression

In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain: The Erica and Klaus Mann Story

By Andrea Weiss

Carole Angier

Reich Rebel

My Father’s Country: The Story of a German Family

By Wibke Bruhns (Translated by Shaun Whiteside)

Henrietta Garnett

Maynard’s Muse

Bloomsbury Ballerina: Lydia Lopokova, Imperial Dancer and Mrs John Maynard Keynes

By Judith Mackrell

Isabel Quigly

The Edge of Reason

Who was Sophie?

By Celia Robertson

John Adamson

Ruled By an Orange

Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland’s Glory

By Lisa Jardine

Tom Holland

To Be Frank…

God’s Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570–1215

By David Levering Lewis

Andrew Lycett

Day of the Detective

The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, or The Murder at Road Hill House

By Bloomsbury 360pp £14.99

Alexander Waugh

The Maestro Matures

Diaries 1915–1923: Behind the Mask

By Sergey Prokofiev (Translated and annotated by Anthony Phillips)

Diana Athill

The Oxygen of Influence

Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes

By Ferdinand Mount

Jonathan Beckman

Cut Adrift

Foreskin’s Lament: A Memoir

By Shalom Auslander

Phillip Knightley

The Socialist at Centre-Half

Comrade Jim: The Spy Who Played for Spartak

By Jim Riordan

David Ellis

Still Smoking

The Last Cigarette

By Simon Gray

John Sweeney

Laughing all the Way to the Money-Launderers

McMafia: Crime Without Frontiers

By Misha Glenny

Brenda Maddox

The Wizards of Id

Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis

By George Makari

Philip Davis

Mind Over Matter

Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

By Maryanne Wolf

John Martin Robinson

Urban Wasteland

Britain’s Lost Cities

By Gavin Stamp

Frank McLynn

Sound and Fury

What Happens Next: A History of American Screenwriting

By Marc Norman

Alan Brownjohn

Consolations of Age

Last Poems

By James Michie, Foreword by Richard Ingrams

Ronald Mutebi

Lords of Poverty

The Trouble with Africa: Why Foreign Aid Isn’t Working

By Robert Calderisi

D J Taylor

Only Connect

Born Yesterday: The News as a Novel

By Gordon Burn

Martyn Bedford

Smiddy’s Tale

Kieron Smith, Boy

By James Kelman

Simon Baker

Trial by Tayswengo

The Butt

By Will Self

Matt Thorne

Dreams of Space

Sputnik Caledonia

By Andrew Crumey

Francis King

The Boy Who Didn’t Fit

Pilcrow

By Adam Mars-Jones

Lindy Burleigh

Lindy Burleigh on Four First Novels

• Lesley Downer, 
• Dan Vyleta, 
• Aravind Adiga, 
• Ross Raisin

Paul Binding

So the Garden…

The Northern Clemency

By Philip Hensher

Philip Womack

An Hour with a Houri

The Aviary Gate

By Katie Hickman

Tristan Quinn

Terror & Trauma

The Omega Force

By Rick Moody

Peter Beech

A Boy in Winter

The White King

By György Dragomán (Translated by Paul Olchváry)