Alexander Waugh

Authors Awake!

Michael Burleigh

Sapphic Saudis

Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia

By Robert Lacey

John Keay

Down By The River

Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India

By William Dalrymple

Hazhir Teimourian

A Tale of Two Peoples

The Persians: Ancient, Medieval and Modern Iran

By Homa Katouzian

Shah Abbas: The Ruthless King who Became an Iranian Legend

By David Blow

Jonathan Sumption

After Agincourt

Conquest: The English Kingdom of France, 1417–1450

By Juliet Barker

Blair Worden

A Very British Coup

1688: The First Modern Revolution

By Steve Pincus

Richard Carwardine

No Southern Comfort

The American Civil War

By John Keegan

Charles Esdaile

The Bear Against The Cockerel

Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814

By Dominic Lieven

Richard Overy

‘So You’re Back Then’

Demobbed: Coming Home After World War Two

By Alan Allport

John Keay

Beyond The Myth

Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India

By William Dalrymple

David Wootton

The Credulous Chemist

Boyle: Between God and Science

By Michael Hunter

Michael Slater

‘The Grimacing, Filching, Irresistible Clown’

The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi: Laughter, Madness and the Story of Britain’s Greatest Comedian

By Andrew Stott

Jessie Childs

Murder Most Royal

The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn

By Alison Weir

Brenda Maddox

She Sold Seashells

The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World

By Shelley Emling

Remarkable Creatures

By Tracy Chevalier

Nicholas Rankin

Murky Waters

Papa Spy: Love, Faith and Betrayal in Wartime Spain

By Jimmy Burns

Michael Farr

Blistering Barnacles

Hergé: The Man Who Created Tintin

By Pierre Assouline

David Kynaston

Saturday Specials

Dear Mr Bigelow: A Transatlantic Friendship

By Frances Woodsford

Elspeth Barker

Desperately Seeking Dylan

My Father’s Places

By Aeronwy Thomas

Robert Chesshyre

His Life and Times

My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times – An Autobiography

By Harold Evans

J W M Thompson

‘I Whirl Aimlessly’

Climbing the Bookshelves: The Autobiography

By Shirley Williams

Leslie Mitchell

Through The Keyhole

Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England

By Amanda Vickery

Norma Clarke

The Harlots’ Progress

The Secret History of Georgian London: How the Wages of Sin Shaped the Capital

By Dan Cruickshank

Charles Elliott

Foetid Romanticism

Paradise of Exiles: The Anglo-American Gardens of Florence

By Katie Campbell

Andrea Wulf

Arcadias of the West

Great Gardens of America

By Tim Richardson

Hugh Haughton

On The Eliots’ Table

The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Volume I, Britain and Ireland 1880–1955

By Peter Brooker and Andrew Thacker (eds)

Richard Gray

From Columbus to Obama

A New Literary History of America

By Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors

Fergus Fleming

Northern Delights

The Magnetic North

By Sara Wheeler

Roland Huntford

The Icemen Cometh

Arctic Labyrinth: The Quest for the Northwest Passage

By Glyn Williams

Allister Heath

True Blue Stays Green

The Constant Economy: How the Create a Stable Society

By Zac Goldsmith

John Cornwell

Decoding Darwin

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

By Richard Dawkins

David Profumo

Hello Salar

To Sea and Back: The Heroic Life of the Atlantic Salmon

By Richard Shelton

Edward Norman

Crosses to Bear

A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years

By Diarmaid MacCulloch

Anthony Burton

Track Records

Blood, Iron & Gold: How the Railways Transformed the World

By Christian Wolmar

M R D Foot

Fighting Talk

The Making of the British Army: From the English Civil War to the War on Terror

By Allan Mallinson

Philip Womack

Stuff Happens

What on Earth is Going on? A Crash Course in Current Affairs

By Tom Baird and Arthur House

Elaine Showalter

Brinkmanship

A Gate at the Stairs

By Lorrie Moore

Caroline Moorehead

Against the Dying Light

The Dogs and the Wolves

By Irène Némirovsky (Translated by Sandra Smith)

Tim Martin

Westminster in Sandals

Lustrum

By Robert Harris

Jonathan Barnes

Crowology

Juliet, Naked

By Nick Hornby

Toby Lichtig

Up The Creek

Last Night in Twisted River

By John Irving

Adrian Turpin

The Concern

Transition

By Iain Banks

Suzi Feay

London Gothic

Her Fearful Symmetry

By Audrey Niffenegger