D J Taylor

Crass Market

Andrew Roberts

An Officer and A Gentleman

Archibald Wavell: The Life and Times of an Imperial Servant

By Adrian Fort

John Gribbin

The Shakespeare of Physics

The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac Quantum Genius

By Graham Farmelo

Allister Heath

‘What Stock Do You Like, Warren?’

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

By Alice Schroeder

Frances Wilson

The Magnet of Love

Doctor of Love: James Graham and his Celestial Bed

By Lydia Syson

Gillian Tindall

A Meeting of Minds

Germaine de Staël & Benjamin Constant: A Dual Biography

By Renée Winegarten

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Tsar Boot Sale

History’s Greatest Heist: The Looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks

By Sean McMeekin

Richard Overy

The Memory of Suffering

Haunted City: Nuremberg and the Nazi Past

By Neil Gregor

Carola Hicks

What Did the Normans Ever Do For Us?

The Battle of Hastings: The Fall of Anglo-Saxon England

By Harriet Harvey Wood

Leslie Mitchell

Alpha Minus

Making History Now and Then: Discoveries, Controversies and Explorations

By David Cannadine

Dominic Sandbrook

Most Agreeable

Journals 1952–2000

By Arthur M Schlesinger Jr

Elaine Showalter

‘I Create Myself’

Reborn: Early Diaries 1947–1964

By Susan Sontag

Brenda Maddox

Infinite Mischief

Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell

By Thomas Travisano (ed) with Saskia Hamilton

Diana Athill

The Final Entry

Coda

By Simon Gray

Michael Burleigh

Kefaya

Inside Egypt: The Land of the Pharaohs on the Brink of a Revolution

By John R Bradley

Justin Marozzi

See No Evil

The Weight of a Mustard Seed

By Wendell Steavenson

Hazhir Teimourian

Over A Barrel

Prophets and Princes: Saudi Arabia from Muhammad to the Present

By Mark Weston

Oleg Gordievsky

The Great Bear Boar

Putin and the Rise of Russia: The Country that Came in from the Cold

By Michael Stuermer

Allan Massie

A Man For A’ That

The Bard: Robert Burns, a Biography

By Robert Crawford

Paul Johnson

Born to Believe

Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy: The Making of GKC, 1874–1908

By William Oddie

Francis King

Only Connect

Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love

By Sheila Rowbotham

John Dugdale

Out of the Crucible

Arthur Miller: The Definitive Biography

By Christopher Bigsby

Roy Strong

Busy Lizzy

Elizabeth in the Garden: A Story of Love, Rivalry and Spectacular Design

By Trea Martyn

Charles Elliott

A Blackbird’s Nest

The Morville Hours: The Story of a Garden

By Katherine Swift

Tim Richardson

The Garden Over the Pond

A Genius for Place: American Landscapes of the Country Place Era

By Robin Karson

Tom Holland

The Glory of Kingdoms

Babylon: Myth and Reality

By The British Museum 13 November 2008–15 March 2009

Babylon: Myth and Reality

By Edited by I L Finkel and M J Seymour

Anne Somerset

Doomed From Birth

The Sisters Who Would Be Queen: The Tragedy of Katherine, Mary and Lady Jane Grey

By Leanda de Lisle

Ann Wroe

Delirium Regens

The Man Who Believed He Was King of France: A True Medieval Tale

By Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri (Translated by William McCuaig)

Victoria Rounding

Virginia Rounding on the Royal Ladies and Glamour Girls of Biography

• Veronica Buckley, 
• Kate Williams, 
• Susan Nagel, 
• Lisa Hilton

Alexander Waugh

The Pied Piper Effect

The Triumph of Music: Composers, Musicians and their Audiences, 1700 to the Present

By Tim Blanning

Patrick O’Connor

Jabs & Bullets

Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life

By John Adams

Ursula K Le Guin

A Moor of One’s Own

A Book of Silence

By Sara Maitland

John Gray

The Nature of the Beast

The Philosopher and the Wolf: Lessons from the Wild on Love, Death and Happiness

By Mark Rowlands

Raymond Seitz

Kilroy Was Here

Tippecanoe and Tyler Too: Famous Slogans and Catchphrases in American History

By Jan R van Meter

Allan Mallinson

Ruling the Waves

Admirals: The Naval Commanders Who Made Britain Great

By Andrew Lambert

Simon Heffer

Close Contacts

The Hugo Young Papers

By Ion Trewin (ed)

Christopher Hart

Hedonists Handbook

Sex, Drugs and Chocolate: The Science of Pleasure

By Paul Martin

Andrew Barrow

Absolutely Confabulous

The Art of Conversation

By Catherine Blyth

Jonathan Mirsky

Death of the Baiji

Witness to Extinction: How We Failed to Save the Yangtze River Dolphin

By Samuel Turvey

Tom Fort Makes Four Natural Selections

• Chris Yates, 
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• Hugh Warwick, 
• Robert Macfarlane

Peter Davies

Peter Davies on a Clutch of Bird Books

• Tim Birkhead, 
• Colin Tudge, 
• Jonathan Elphick and David Tipling, 
• Introduction by Richard Rhodes, Scientific Commentary by Scott V Edwards, Foreword by Leslie A Morris

Pamela Norris

Bluestocking as Buffoon

Apology for the Woman Writing

By Jenny Diski

Michèle Roberts

Gospel Truths

The Fire Gospel

By Michel Faber

Caroline Moorehead

The Garden Party

Esther’s Inheritance

By Sándor Márai (Translated by George Szirtes)

John de Falbe

Junja Din

The Wooden Village

By Peter Pišt’anek (Translated by Peter Petro)

The End of Freddy

By Peter Pišt’anek (Translated by Peter Petro)

Sam Leith

A Mesopotamian Palimpsest

Land of Marvels

By Barry Unsworth

Carole Angier

The Dying Light

Scarred Hearts

By Max Blecher (Translated from the Romanian by Henry Howard)

Lucy Beresford

Mapping Disquiet

The First Person and Other Stories

By Ali Smith

Tadzio Koelb

A Painter In Paris

Me and Kaminski

By Daniel Kehlmann (Translated by Carol Brown Janeway)

Susanna Jones

A Frog in a Narrow Well

The China Lover

By Ian Buruma