Brenda Maddox

No To Nostalgia

Allister Heath

Survival of the Fittest

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

By Niall Ferguson

Michael Burleigh

Shades of Grey

The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism

By Ron Suskind

Dominic Sandbrook

Class of 1979

Angler: The Shadow Presidency of Dick Cheney

By Barton Gellman

William St Clair

The Spirit of His Age

William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man

By Duncan Wu

Claire Harman

The Best of Friends

Hester: The Remarkable Life of Dr Johnson’s ‘Dear Mistress’

By Ian McIntyre

Christine Kelly

More Than An Angel

Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend

By Mark Bostridge

Frances Wilson

Criminal Conversation

Lady Worsley’s Whim: An Eighteenth-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal and Divorce

By Hallie Rubenhold

Michael Jacobs

Colombian Tales

Gabriel García Márquez: A Life

By Gerald Martin

Richard Overy

A Dirty Conflict

World War Two Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West

By Laurence Rees

D J Taylor

Beautiful and Dammed

Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties

By Lucy Moore

Anne Somerset

Trust Not the Physician

The Sorcerer’s Tale: Faith and Fraud in Tudor England

By Alec Ryrie

Allan Massie

The Lonlie Planet

The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

By Ian Mortimer

Rupert Christiansen

‘Balding. Can’t Sing. Dances a Little’

Fred Astaire

By Joseph Epstein

Marcus Berkmann

Let’s Talk Film

Conversations with Woody Allen: His Films, the Movies and Movie-Making

By Eric Lax

Christopher Bray

Follow the Trail

‘Have You Seen…?’ A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films

By David Thomson

Jeremy Lewis

Publish and Be Doomed

Print for Victory: Book Publishing in England 1939–1945

By Valerie Holman

John de St Jorre

Chariots of Flesh

The Paris Olympia Press

By Patrick Kearney, Edited by Angus Carroll

Peter Washington

Literary Lucubrations

Reading Matters: Five Centuries of Discovering Books

By Margaret Willes

John Gribbin

Destination Moon

Earthrise: How Man First Saw the Earth

By Robert Poole

John Michell

Stony Ground

Stonehenge

By Rosemary Hill

David Cesarani

Oskar’s Story

Searching for Schindler: A Memoir

By Thomas Keneally

Claudia FitzHerbert

‘Life is the Only Cure for Life’

The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Volume 5: 1922

By Katherine Mansfield, (Edited by Vincent O’Sullivan and Margaret Scott)

Patrick O’Connor

Champagne & Kindness

Ever, Dirk: The Bogarde Letters

By John Coldstream (ed)

William Palmer

Navigating the Past

Maps of My Life

By Guy Browning

Andrew Lycett

Heroes of the Telemark

Two Planks and a Passion: The Dramatic History of Skiing

By Roland Huntford

Paul Johnson

On the Other Hand

The Sinister Side: How Left–Right Symbolism Shaped Western Art

By James Hall

Jonathan Mirsky

Slice and Dice

Death by a Thousand Cuts

By Timothy Brook, Jérôme Bourgon, and Gregory Blue

John Keay

Deep Currents

Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River

By Alice Albinia

Mark Almond

Germany’s Most Wanted

The Baader-Meinhof Complex

By Stefan Aust (Translated by Anthea Bell)

Oliver Gilmour

Harmony, Emotion & Intellect

Everything is Connected: The Power of Music

By Daniel Barenboim

Music at the Limits: Three Decades of Essays and Articles on Music

By Edward W Said

Andrew Barrow

Variety Pack

Turned Out Nice Again: The Story of British Light Entertainment

By Louis Barfe

Carole Angier

Messner’s Wrath

Indignation

By Philip Roth

Elspeth Barker

Mother Hunger

A Mercy

By Toni Morrison

Miranda France

Flower Powers

The Atmospheric Railway: New and Selected Stories

By Shena Mackay

Michael Arditti

Gurney’s End

In Zodiac Light

By Robert Edric

Francis King

Snubs & Slights

Black Orchids

By Gillian Slovo

Matt Thorne

Anatomy of Four Lobes

Liver

By Will Self