Jonathan Mirsky

This Is What Bombs Do

Into the Darkness: An Account of 7/7

By Peter Zimonjic

Michael Burleigh

War Without End?

Descent into Chaos: How the War Against Islamic Extremism is Being Lost in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia

By Ahmed Rashid

Caroline Moorehead

Ghosts of Abu Ghraib

Standard Operating Procedure: A War Story

By Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris

Gerard Baker

The Rise of the Rest

The Post-American World

By Fareed Zakaria

Donald Rayfield

Forgotten By Ford

The Forsaken: From the Great Depression to the Gulags – Hope and Betrayal in Stalin’s Russia

By Tim Tzouliadis

Richard Overy

It Wasn’t That Bad

‘We Danced All Night’: A Social History of Britain Between the Wars

By Martin Pugh

Leslie Mitchell

A Mob on the Stair

1848: Year of Revolution

By Mike Rapport

Lisa Jardine

The Half-Open Window

Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World

By Timothy Brook

Simon Heffer

Two Fingers to the Tories

The Kit-Cat Club: Friends Who Imagined a Nation

By Ophelia Field

Allan Mallinson

Forgotten Heroes

Dunkirk: Retreat to Victory

By Major General Julian Thompson

Dunkirk: The Men They Left Behind

By Sean Longden

Aidan Hartley

In the Killing Fields of Sudan

The Translator: A Tribesman’s Memoir of Darfur

By Daoud Hari

Adam LeBor

Black Vs White

The Last Jews of Kerala

By Edna Fernandes

Miranda France

Raunchy Rhythms

Long After Midnight at the Niño Bien: The Tango and Argentina

By Brian Winter

Roland Huntford

More Thank Ikea

Fishing in Utopia: Sweden and the Future that Disappeared

By Andrew Brown

Dea Birkett

Hombre Muy Macho

Bandit Roads: Into the Lawless Heart of Mexico

By Richard Grant

Peter Washington

It’s All Relative

House of Wits: An Intimate Portrait of the James Family

By Paul Fisher

Frank McLynn

The Rest is Silence

Douglas Fairbanks

By Jeffrey Vance

Paul Johnson

Scribble, Scribble

Samuel Johnson: A Biography

By Peter Martin

G W Bernard

‘Farewell, My Dear Child, & Pray For Me

A Daughter’s Love: Thomas and Margaret More

By John Guy

Philip Davis

The Shakespeared Britain

Sudhir Hazareesingh

Vive La Republique

Children of the Revolution: The French 1799–1914

By Robert Gildea

Allan Massie

Vaulting Ambition

The Man Who Outshone the Sun King: The Rise and Fall of Nicholas Foucquet

By Charles Drazin

Sarah Bradford

One Long Party?

The French Renaissance Court

By Robert J Knecht

Catherine Peters

‘The Spark I Got From You’

Captivated: J M Barrie, the du Mauriers & the Dark Side of Never Never Land

By Piers Dudgeon

David Norbrook

These Sceptred Isles

Archipelagic English: Literature, History, and Politics 1603–1707

By John Kerrigan

Reg Gadney

Gallery of Rogues

Grub Street Irregular: Scenes from Literary Life

By Jeremy Lewis

A C Grayling

Touching the Third Rail

Strange Fruit: Why Both Sides Are Wrong in the Race Debate

By Kenan Malik

Frances Spalding

Back in the Frame

Hidden in the Shadow of the Master: The Model-Wives of Cezanne, Monet, & Rodin

By Ruth Butler

Christopher Silvester

The Birds

Spellbound by Beauty: Alfred Hitchcock and His Leading Ladies

By Donald Spoto

Vyvyen Brendon

‘All His Uncles and Aunts Spanked Him’

Growing Up in England: The Experience of Childhood 1600–1914

By Anthony Fletcher

New Lives for Old: The Story of Britain’s Child Migrants

By Roger Kershaw and Janet Sacks

Gerald Butt

Come Fly with Me

The Balloon Factory: The Story of the Men Who Built Britain’s First Flying Machine

By Alexander Frater

John Redwood

A Necessary Evil?

Political Hypocrisy: The Mask of Power from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond

By David Runciman

David Singmaster

Here’s Looking at Euclid

Lewis Carroll in Numberland: His Fantastical Mathematical Logical Life

By Robin Wilson

Nick Parker

From Drew to Dru

Becoming Drusilla: One Life, Two Friends, Three Genders

By Richard Beard

David Jays

Psychodrama

Trauma

By Patrick McGrath

Pamela Norris

Facing Up To Death

The Spare Room

By Helen Garner

Carole Angier

Saeva Indignato

Human Love

By Andreï Makine

Patricia Duncker

Coming to America

Unaccustomed Earth

By Jhumpa Lahiri

Francis King

Seeking Grace

Towards Another Summer

By Janet Frame

Lindy Burleigh

Lindy Burleigh anatomises four first novels

• Sulaiman Addonia, 
• Zoe Ferraris, 
• Mohammed Hanif, 
• Gerbrand Bakker (translated from the Dutch by David Colmer)

Matt Thorne

State of Play

The Broken World

By Tim Etchells

John Dugdale

Primary Colours

America America

By Ethan Canin

Philip Womack

Malign Spirits

The Possession of Mr Cave

By Matt Haig

Gill Hornby

Family Fortunes

The Story of a Marriage

By Andrew Sean Greer