Carole Angier

Age-Banding Biography

Paul Addison

‘Events, Dear Boy, Events’

Harold Macmillan

By Charles Williams

Jonathan Mirsky

Reluctant Dictator

The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China

By Jay Taylor

Frank McLynn

‘Gracie, Of Course!’

High Society: Grace Kelly and Hollywood

By Donald Spoto

Paul Johnson

The Great and the Good

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2001–2004

By Lawrence Goldman (ed)

John Gray

The Cosy Philosopher

Enlightening: Letters 1946–1960

By Isaiah Berlin, (Edited by Henry Hardy and Jennifer Holmes with the assistance of Serena Moore)

Hugh Haughton

Not Yet I

The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1929–1940

By Martha Dow Fehsenfeld (ed) and Lois More Overbeck (ed)

Richard Overy

Ice-Cold in Coyoacan

Stalin’s Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky

By Bertrand Patenaude

Simon Heffer

The Stench of Death

D-Day: The Battle for Normandy

By Antony Beevor

David Stafford

A Year of Troubles

1938: Hitler’s Gamble

By Giles MacDonogh

Christopher Kelly

Birth Pangs

Empires and Barbarians: Migration, Development and the Birth of Europe

By Peter Heather

Leslie Mitchell

‘Every Glove Must Be Off…’

Pistols at Dawn: Two Hundred Years of Political Rivalry from Pitt & Fox to Blair & Brown

By John Campbell

Claire Harman

A Dissenting Voice

Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voice of the Enlightenment

By William McCarthy

Catherine Peters

Brief Encounter

Eminent Lives: George Eliot

By Brenda Maddox

Philip Davis

Charm and Death

Rosenfeld’s Lives: Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing

By Steven J Zipperstein

P J Kavanagh

The Muse and the Mastiff

Dreaming of Babylon: The Life and Times of Ralph Hodgson

By John Harding

Ion Trewin

Prince Among Publishers

Max Reinhardt: A Life in Publishing

By Judith Adamson

Adolf Wood

Adolf Wood on Three New Books about South Africa

South Africa’s Brave New World: The Beloved Country Since the End of Apartheid

By R W Johnson

After Mandela: The Battle for the Soul of South Africa

By Alec Russell

A Legacy of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream

By Mark Gevisser

Mary Killen

Island Records

From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island

By Lorna Goodison

The Dead Yard: Tales of Modern Jamaica

By Ian Thomson

Peter Jones

On the Edge

The Empire Stops Here: A Journey along the Frontiers of the Roman World

By Philip Parker

John Keay

Urban Underbelly

Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity

By Sam Miller

Thomas Wide

Taking A Stand

Out of Steppe: The Lost Peoples of Central Asia

By Daniel Metcalfe

Caroline Moorehead

Soldier, Soldier

The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time and Fighting Wars

By Patrick Hennessey

Ben Wilson

Power to the People

The Life and Death of Democracy

By John Keane

Edward Norman

Like, Totally Religious

God is Back: How the Global Rise of Faith is Changing the World

By John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge

Andrew Lambert

Courage Under Fire

Men of War: The Changing Face of Heroism in the 19th Century Navy

By David Crane

Stephen Halliday

Buzz, Buzz, Buzz

Bugs and the Victorians

By J F M Clark

John McEwen

Dealer’s Choice

Sleuth: The Amazing Quest for Lost Art Treasures

By Philip Mould

On Roads: A Hidden History

Highway 101

Joe Moran

By Profile Books 290pp £14.99

Tim Rice

The Never-Ending Series

Ashes to Ashes: 35 Years of Humiliation (and About 20 Minutes of Ecstasy) Watching England v Australia

By Marcus Berkmann

Gillian Tindall

End of Days

Hodd

By Adam Thorpe

Elspeth Barker

The Little Owl

Lavinia

By Ursula K Le Guin

Suzi Feay

Mystery at the Mansion

The Little Stranger

By Sarah Waters

Adrian Turpin

Goons, Guns, and Women

Nobody Move

By Denis Johnson

Julian Preece

Nineteen Forty-Four

Alone in Berlin

By Hans Fallada (Translated by Michael Hofmann)

Joanna Kavenna

Portraits of the Artists

How to Paint a Dead Man

By Sarah Hall

Beau Hopkins

The Ties that Bind

Hearts and Minds

By Amanda Craig

Sebastian Shakespeare

Stormy Weather

Turbulence

By Giles Foden

Rasheed El-Enany

Up Close and Personal

Friendly Fire: Tales of Today’s Egypt

By Alaa Al Aswany (Translated by Humphrey Davies)

Charlotte Appleyard

Lab Rats

Intuition

By Allegra Goodman