Peter Jones

Tackling the Propagandists

Richard Toye

A Liberal Lover

The Pain and the Privilege: The Women in Lloyd George’s Life

By Ffion Hague

Kevin Myers

Troublemaker

Paisley: From Demagogue to Democrat?

By Ed Moloney

Jane Ridley

Unhappy Valley

The Bolter: Idina Sackville – The Woman who Scandalised 1920s Society and Became White Mischief’s Infamous Seductress

By Frances Osborne

Stephen Amidon

High Plains Drifter

The Legend of Colton H Bryant

By Alexandra Fuller

Frank McLynn

Spartans of the Plains

The Comanche Empire

By Pekka Hämäläinen

Adam LeBor

Change by the Sea

Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922 – The Destruction of Islam’s City of Tolerance

By Giles Milton

Nikolai Tolstoy

Tale of the Tsars

The Romanovs: Ruling Russia 1613–1917

By Lindsey Hughes

Richard Barber

Bones and Buboes

The Black Death: An Intimate History of the Plague

By John Hatcher

Jonathan Keates

Vasyl Vyshyvanyi

The Red Prince: The Fall of a Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Europe

By Timothy Snyder

Stephen Halliday

Eastenders

The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum

By Sarah Wise

Frances Wilson

Words of Love

Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles 1910–1939

By Katie Roiphe

Bruce Palling

The World, The World

Semi-Invisible Man: The Life of Norman Lewis

By Julian Evans

Jeremy Lewis

Passion For Print

The Man Who Made Penguins: The Life of Sir William Emrys Williams Editor-in-Chief, Penguin Books 1936–1965

By Sander Meredeen

Richard Overy

General Plan East

Hitler’s Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe

By Mark Mazower

David Cesarani

Lethal Indifference

Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution

By Ian Kershaw

Nigel Jones

Sparks of Humanity

The Zookeeper's Wife

By Diane Ackerman

M R D Foot

‘War is a Condition, Like Peace’

Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization

By Nicholson Baker

Donald Rayfield

From Russia with Love

Stalin’s Children: Three Generations of Love and Betrayal

By Owen Matthews

John Gray

Revolt Against Death

Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son’s Memoir

By David Rieff

John Keay

Savouring the Exotic

Halfway to Venus: A One-Armed Journey

By Sarah Anderson

Jonathan Mirsky

Sky Burials in the Land of the Snows

A Year in Tibet: A Voyage of Discovery

By Sun Shuyun

Holder of the White Lotus: The Lives of the Dalai Lama

By Alexander Norman

The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama

By Pico Iyer

Richard Boyes

Poles Apart

A Country in the Moon: Travels in Search of the Heart of Poland

By Michael Moran

James Owen

Amazon, and on

Tree of Rivers: The Story of the Amazon

By John Hemming

Michael Waterhouse

A Final Sparkle

The Dying Game: A Curious History of Death

By Melanie King

Mortal Coil: A Short History of Living Longer

By David Boyd Haycock

Easeful Death: Is There a Case for Assisted Dying?

By Mary Warnock & Elisabeth Macdonald

John Cornwell

Bounded in a Nutshell

The Kingdom of Infinite Space: A Fantastical Journey Around Your Head

By Raymond Tallis

Michael Burleigh

Be Prepared

Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century

By Philip Bobbitt

Peter McDonald

Firbank, Bellini and Rare Steak

W H Auden: Prose, Volume III – 1949–1955

By Edward Mendelson (ed)

Alexander Waugh

Much Love From Frisky

Madresfield: The Real Brideshead – One House, One Family, One Thousand Years

By Jane Mulvagh

Patrick O’Connor

Keeping Time

The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century

By Alex Ross

Tim Richardson

Happy Horticulturalists

The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession

By Andrea Wulf

Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination

Pungent Unguents

Paul Freedman

By Yale University Press 275pp £20

Harry Mount

Delusions of Originality

In Search of the English Eccentric: A Journey

By Henry Hemming

Caroline Moorehead

Changing China

Beijing Coma

By Ma Jian (Translated by Flora Drew)

I Love Dollars: And Other Stories of China

By Zhu Wen (Translated by Julia Lovell)

Rachel Hore

Gondwana Folly

The Impostor

By Damon Galgut

Francis King

Hankering For Home

The Lost Dog

By Michelle de Kretser

John de Falbe

Taking A Dive

The Standing Pool

By Adam Thorpe

Matt Thorne

Surf, Sport, and Auto-Asphyxiation

Breath

By Tim Winton

Amanda Craig

Urban Degeneration

Glister

By John Burnside

Simon Baker

Simon Baker on Four First Novels

• Isabel Fonseca, 
• Sadie Jones, 
• James Miller, 
• Alan Drew