John Sutherland

Ha’p’orth of Tar

Richard Holmes

Beyond Courage

Bloody Victory: The Sacrifice on the Somme and the Making of the Twentieth Century

By William Philpott

David Cesarani

Passive Resistance

Living With Hitler: Liberal Democrats in the Third Reich

By Eric Kurlander

M R D Foot

Collaboration’s Twin

The Resistance: The French Fight Against the Nazis

By Matthew Cobb

Richard Barber

Atishoo, Atishoo

The Scourging Angel: The Black Death in the British Isles

By Benedict Gummer

Blair Worden

Of Margraves and Massacres

Europe’s Tragedy: A History of the Thirty Years War

By Peter H Wilson

Jonathan Fenby

A Ringside View

Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang

By Translated and edited by Bao Pu, Renee Chiang and Adi Ignatius

Charles Saumarez Smith

Mirror, Mirror

A Face to the World: On Self-Portraits

By Laura Cumming

Catherine Merridale

All Wood and Dreams

Tatlin’s Tower: Monument to Revolution

By Norbert Lynton

Frances Spalding

‘A New Mystery and Gaiety’

Winifred Nicholson

By Christopher Andreae

Alexander Waugh

Richer Sounds

Understanding Music: Philosophy and Interpretation

By Roger Scruton

Louis Barfe

His Master’s Voice

Perfecting Sound Forever: The Story of Recorded Music

By Greg Milner

Tim Tzouliadis

Reds Under the Beds

Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America

By John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr and Alexander Vassiliev

Alex Goodall

The Good Fight

Alger Hiss and the Battle for History

By Susan Jacoby

The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, and the Lessons of Anti-Communism

By Michael Kimmage

William Doyle

Robespierre’s Rival

Danton

By David Lawday

Carola Hicks

Behind the Black Legend

Eleanor of Aquitaine

By Ralph V Turner

Peter Watson

Particle Psychology

Deciphering the Cosmic Number: The Strange Friendship of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung

By Arthur I Miller

Roland Huntford

Arctic Junky

Franklin: Tragic Hero of Polar Navigation

By Andrew Lambert

J W M Thompson

Reticence & Rectitude

Attlee’s Great Contemporaries: The Politics of Character

By Frank Field (ed)

Michael Burleigh

It’s Good To Talk?

Talking to Terrorists: Making Peace in Northern Ireland and the Basque Country

By John Bew, Martyn Frampton and Iñigo Gurruchaga

John Sweeney

Poison Pentax

Kill Khalid: The Failed Mossad Assassination of Khalid Mishal and the Rise of Hamas

By Paul McGeough

Bernard O’Donoghue

Re: Joyce

Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Living

By Declan Kiberd

Kenneth O Morgan

Landscape Gardeners of the Centre Ground

Seeking a Role: The United Kingdom 1951–1970

By Brian Harrison

Allan Massie

Beer on the Breeze

Edinburgh: A History of the City

By Michael Fry

Bernard Hare

CCTV City

Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the Twenty-First-Century City

By Anna Minton

Tom Fort

Beeching’s Blunder

Eleven Minutes Late: A Train Journey to the Soul of Britain

By Matthew Engel

Valerie Grove

Demon Barber of Fleet Street

An Education

By Lynn Barber

Virginia Ironside

Not So Swinging

The Sixties

By Jenny Diski

Jonathan Mirsky

‘To Touch the Tiger’s Bottom’

Hunting Evil: The Nazi War Criminals who Escaped and the Dramatic Hunt to Bring Them to Justice

By Guy Walters

Dominic Sandbrook

History of the Present

Facts Are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name

By Timothy Garton Ash

Rosie Boycott

The Call of the Wild

Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

By Richard Louv

Colin Tudge

It Pays Not To Be Nice

Spent: Sex, Evolution and the Secrets of Consumerism

By Geoffrey Miller

Sara Wheeler

Search for the Hero Inside Yourself

The Third Man Factor: True Stories of Survival in Extreme Environments

By John Geiger

Adrian Turpin

Guide to Kittur

Between the Assassinations

By Aravind Adiga

John Dugdale

Charlie and the Dream Factory

Sunnyside

By Glen David Gold

Ophelia Field

The Last Laugh

My Father’s Tears & Other Stories

By John Updike

Rachel Hore

High Jinks in Highbury

We Are All Made of Glue

By Marina Lewycka

Francis King

Dr. Blanchisseur

Adam Gould

By Julia O’Faolain

Simon Baker

Bearing Crosses

To Heaven by Water

By Justin Cartwright

Charles Thomas

Cairo Tales

Khan al-Khalili

By Naguib Mahfouz (Translated by Roger Allen)

The Mirage

By Naguib Mahfouz (Translated by Nancy Roberts)

David Jays

Falling Off the Edge

This Is How

By M J Hyland

Patrick O’Connor

Opera Tales

Midsummer Nights

By Jeanette Winterson (ed)