Peter Washington

Age Cannot Wither Us

Anton La Guardia

1979 and All That

A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East

By Lawrence Freedman

Richard Overy

At the Edge of War

Munich: The 1938 Appeasement Crisis

By David Faber

Allan Massie

Paris Under the Swastika

Resistance: Memoirs of Occupied France

By Agnes Humbert (Translated by Barbara Mellor)

Max Egremont

Awaking the Demons

The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915–1919

By Mark Thompson

Jonathan Keates

Seismic Shift

Wrath of God: The Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755

By Edward Paice

Diarmaid MacCulloch

Not That Nigh

Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom

By Tom Holland

Simon Heffer

Tractatus Musico – Philosophicus

The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War

By Alexander Waugh

Peter Jones

The Scourge of God

Attila the Hun: Barbarian Terror and the Fall of the Roman Empire

By Christopher Kelly

Leslie Mitchell

In the House & At the Turf

The Forgotten Prime Minister: The 14th Earl of Derby, Vol Two – Achievement, 1851–1869

By Angus Hawkins

John Cornwell

Plastic Fantastic

The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

By Norman Doidge

Timothy Brook

Sapient Sinophile

Bomb, Book and Compass: Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China

By Simon Winchester

Fergus Fleming

Footloose

Racing with Death: Douglas Mawson – Antarctic Explorer

By Beau Riffenburgh

Dominic Sandbrook

King Dubya

The Eagle and the Crown: Americans and the British Monarchy

By Frank Prochaska

In Defence of America

By Bronwen Maddox

Michael Holman

Les Fous D’Afrique

Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles

By Richard Dowden

Jason Burke

A Reliable Witness

The Forever War: Dispatches from the War on Terror

By Dexter Filkins

Mary Kenny

Ordovician Eruption

Connemara: The Last Pool of Darkness

By Tim Robinson

Rupert Christiansen

Luvvie Lives

A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and Their Remarkable Families

By Michael Holroyd

Louis Barfe

Jolly Good Fun

Bounder! The Biography of Terry-Thomas

By Graham McCann

Alastair Sim: The Star of Scrooge and the Belles of St Trinian's

By Mark Simpson

Christopher Bray

A Sentimental Journey

Doris Day: The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door

By David Kaufman

Doris Day: Reluctant Star

By David Bret

Kenneth O Morgan

Unelected & Underrated

Downing Street Diary: Volume Two – With James Callaghan in No 10

By Bernard Donoughue

J W M Thompson

What the Sovereign Saw

Our Times: The Age of Elizabeth II

By A N Wilson

Amol Rajan

Terms of Estrangement

Balti Britain: A Journey Through the British Asian Experience

By Ziauddin Sardar

Tim Richardson

Heritage Horticulture

Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History

By Adam Nicolson

Harry Mount

Oh What A Lovely Pile

The English House

By Clive Aslet

Jonathan Mirsky

Animals Before the Fall

Leviathan, or The Whale

By Philip Hoare

Brenda Maddox

Books Maketh the Man

Oscar's Books

By Thomas Wright

Miranda Seymour

Out of the Caskets

In Tearing Haste: The Letters of Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor

By Charlotte Mosley (ed)

John Cornwell

Spiritually Exercised

A Long Retreat

By Andrew Krivak

Nigel Jones

In Like Flint

Panther Soup: A European Journey in War and Peace

By John Gimlette

Christopher Hart

Shit Happens

The Big Necessity: Adventures in the World of Human Waste

By Rose George

Jason Goodwin

Memory Maps

Origins: A Memoir

By Amin Maalouf (Translated by Catherine Temerson)

Elaine Showalter

Life on the Range

Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories

By Annie Proulx

Pamela Norris

Return of the Native

Home

By Marilynne Robinson

D J Taylor

Feet of Clay

The Believers

By Zoe Heller

Lindy Burleigh

Land of Poets & Blood

The Wasted Vigil

By Nadeem Aslam

Sebastian Shakespeare

Fire Dreamer

One Morning like a Bird

By Andrew Miller

Simon Baker

Phantom Farm

The Gate of Air: A Ghost Story

By James Buchan

Rachel Hore

Hoodwinked

Dreaming Iris

By John de Falbe

Thomas Marks

Thomas Marks on First Novels

• Jennie Rooney, 
• Georges-Marc Benamou, 
• Andrew Davidson, 
• Mark Sarvas