David Cesarani

Striped Pyjamas

Patricia Fara

Watchers of the Skies

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

By Richard Holmes

Sarah Wise

On the Slab

The Making of Mr Gray’s Anatomy: Bodies, Books, Fortune, Fame

By Ruth Richardson

Brenda Maddox

Reading the Rocks

Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform

By Martin J S Rudwick

Richard Overy

A War Quartet

Masters and Commanders: How Roosevelt, Churchill, Marshall and Alanbrooke Won the War in the West

By Andrew Roberts

Piers Brendon

The Fakir and the Bulldog

Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age

By Arthur Herman

Paul Addison

Gabbo & Bovril

Churchill’s Wizards: The British Genius for Deception 1914–1945

By Nicholas Rankin

Frederic Raphael

Revenge of the Second-Rate

The Shameful Peace: How French Artists and Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation

By Frederic Spotts

Norman Stone

Downfall

The Third Reich at War

By Richard J Evans

John Keay

Who’s the Daddy?

The Man Who Invented History: Travels with Herodotus

By Justin Marozzi

Rowland Smith

‘Trader or Pirate?’

Travelling Heroes: Greeks and Their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer

By Robin Lane Fox

Allan Massie

Walking with Ghosts

Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town

By Mary Beard

Frances Spalding

Artist of the Floating World

Chagall: Love and Exile

By Jackie Wullschlager

G W Bernard

When I Grow Up

Henry: Virtuous Prince

By David Starkey

Julia Keay

At the Court of Siam

Bombay Anna: The Real Story and Remarkable Adventures of The King and I Governess

By Susan Morgan

Mick Brown

Friends of Dorothy

My Judy Garland Life

By Susie Boyt

Nigel West

Smoking Gun

The Sixth Man

By James McNeish

Katherine Duncan-Jones

As You Like Him

Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare

By Jonathan Bate

Stephen Amidon

Wild Bard of Woody Creek

Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S Thompson

By William McKeen

Jeremy Lewis

Grub Street Grouser

Julian Maclaren-Ross: Selected Letters

By Paul Willetts (ed)

Diana Athill

Biographia Literaria

Magic Moments: Life-Changing Encounters with Books, Films, Music…

By John Sutherland

Michael Jacobs

Into the Rebel Zone

We Saw Spain Die: Foreign Correspondents in the Spanish Civil War

By Paul Preston

Jonathan Mirsky

Sore Feet, Heavenly Eyes

China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation

By Xinran (Translated by Esther Tyldesley, Nicky Harman and Julia Lovell)

Nikolai Tolstoy

From the English Quay

St Petersburg and the British: The City through the Eyes of British Visitors and Residents

By Anthony Cross

Allister Heath

No Free Lunch

Supercapitalism: The Battle for Democracy in an Age of Big Business

By Robert Reich

Peter Oborne

The Thing About…

What Next? Surviving the Twenty-First Century

By Chris Patten

Vernon Bogdanor

The Long View

Britain Since 1918: The Strange Career of British Democracy

By David Marquand

Nigel Jones

Life on the Ocean Wave

Jack Tar: Life in Nelson's Navy

By Roy & Lesley Adkins

John Cornwell

And God Created…

Dissent Over Descent: Intelligent Design’s Challenge to Darwinism

By Steve Fuller

David Profumo

Lost in Translation

Stop Me If You’ve Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes

By Jim Holt

Jane Rye

The Wild Shores of Buggery

Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma

By Michael Peppiatt

Francis Bacon: Studies for a Portrait

By Michael Peppiatt

William Cash

An Overheated Balloon

Seven Days in the Art World

By Sarah Thornton

James Delingpole

Rah-Rah for Reredos

A Lust for Window Sills: A Lover’s Guide to British Buildings from Portcullis to Pebble-Dash

By Harry Mount

Caroline Moorehead

Ashes to Ashes

All Our Worldly Goods

By Irène Némirovsky (Translated by Sandra Smith)

John Dugdale

Magic Moments

The Widows of Eastwick

By John Updike

Francis King

Wither the Wether?

The Pages

By Murray Bail

Patricia Duncker

Prison Notebooks

From A to X: A Story in Letters

By John Berger

Rachel Hore

Memory & Misery

The Beacon

By Susan Hill

Sebastian Shakespeare

There Will Be Blood

The Vampire of Ropraz

By Jacques Chessex (Translated by W Donald Wilson)

David Ellis

It’s Behind You!

The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein

By Peter Ackroyd

David Jays

Into the Wild

The Other

By David Guterson