Kathryn Hughes

The Joy of Paperbacks

Piers Brendon

Black Dogs

The Morbid Age: Britain Between the Wars

By Richard Overy

Francis Wheen

When Candlemakers Got Rich

When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies

By Andy Beckett

Oleg Gordievsky

Anatomy of a Nightmare

The Rise and Fall of Communism

By Archie Brown

Andrew Roberts

The Green-Ink Brigade

Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History

By David Aaronovitch

Jonathan Sumption

Trouble with Taxes

Summer of Blood: The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381

By Dan Jones

Jonathan Sumption

Tudor Trailblazer

Summer of Blood: The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381

By Dan Jones

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Our Man In Spain

Spain, Europe and the Wider World, 1500–1800

By J H Elliott

Nikolai Tolstoy

Kisse My Tayle

Lost Londons: Change, Crime and Control in the Capital City, 1550–1660

By Paul Griffiths

Jonathan Keates

His Marmoreal Buttocks

Venus of Empire: The Life of Pauline Bonaparte

By Flora Fraser

Hugo Vickers

Beautiful Charmer

Chaplin's Girl: The Life and Loves of Virginia Cherrill

By Miranda Seymour

Brenda Maddox

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

The Lost Child: A True Story

By Julie Myerson

Michael Burleigh

Buyer’s Remorse

Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Islam, Immigration and the West

By Christopher Caldwell

John Cornwell

A Dig at Ditchkins

Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate

By Terry Eagleton

Peter Washington

‘These Fragments I Have Shored Against my Ruins’

Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism

By Cathy Gere

Elspeth Barker

Getting On With It

A Jury of her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx

By Elaine Showalter

Peter McDonald

Faces in the Crowd

The Verse Revolutionaries: Ezra Pound, H D and the Imagists

By Helen Carr

Alan Brownjohn

The Rise of the Ordinary Bloke

The Movement Reconsidered: Essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, Davie and Their Contemporaries

By Zachary Leader (ed)

Richard Gray

The Maternal Imaginary

Faulkner and Love: The Women Who Shaped His Art

By Judith L Sensibar

Allan Massie

Promenades

Footprints in Paris: A Few Streets, A Few Lives

By Gillian Tindall

Michael Holman

Towards the Light

We Have Tomorrow: Stirrings in Africa 1959–1967

By Peter Mackay

John Keay

Javanism and Jihad

A Shadow Falls: In the Heart of Java

By Andrew Beatty

Jonathan Derbyshire

Fight For Your Rights

What Price Liberty? How Freedom Was Won and Is Being Lost

By Ben Wilson

Adrian Weale

Hard Times

The Secret Life of War: Journeys Through Modern Conflict

By Peter Beaumont

Jonathan Mirsky

Found At Sea

Sweet Water and Bitter: The Ships That Stopped the Slave Trade

By Sîân Rees

Ronald Hutton

Hocus Pocus

Grimoires: A History of Magic Books

By Owen Davies

Paul Johnson

The Paint Froze On His Brush

Eric Ravilious: Landscape, Letters & Design

By Anne Ullmann, Christopher Whittick & Simon Lawrence

Patrick O’Connor

High Notes

Tenor: History of a Voice

By John Potter

Frank McLynn

Southern Comfort

Frankly, My Dear: Gone with the Wind Revisited

By Molly Haskell

Patricia Duncker

Cromwell At Court

Wolf Hall

By Hilary Mantel

Sam Leith

Oceans Apart

Brooklyn

By Colm Tóibín

Ursula K Le Guin

Touching the Void

The Post Office Girl

By Stefan Zweig

Pamela Norris

Potted Histories

The Children’s Book

By A S Byatt

Cressida Connolly

The Weight of Water

The Winter Vault

By Anne Michaels

D J Taylor

Bridge Passage

Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall

By Kazuo Ishiguro

Michèle Roberts

Expressions of Exile

That Thing Around Your Neck

By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Philip Womack

The Violent Machine

The Quickening Maze

By Adam Foulds

Thomas Marks

Thomas Marks on Three Collections of Short Stories

It’s Beginning to Hurt

By James Lasdun

Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned

By Wells Tower

An Elegy for Easterly

By Petina Gappah

Peter Scott

Peter Scott on Four First Novels

• Yiyun Li, 
• Saul David, 
• Gil Adamson, 
• Patrick deWitt

Lucy Popescu

Roxana Saberi