Allan Massie

News That Stays News

Christopher Kelly

Embracing The Everyday

428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire

By Giusto Traina

Robert Irwin

Onward Christian Soldiers

Holy Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades

By Jonathan Phillips

Richard Barber

Annus Mirabilis

1415: Henry V’s Year of Glory

By Ian Mortimer

Adrian Tinniswood

A Heroic Part

A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration

By Jenny Uglow

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

In Aleppo Once

Pashas: Traders and Travellers in the Islamic World

By James Mather

Dominic Sandbrook

Regarding Henry

Kissinger’s Year: 1973

By Alistair Horne

Nigel Jones

Nigel Jones On Five Books On The Great War

• Peter Parker, 
• Richard van Emden (ed), 
• Mark Pottle and John Ledingham, 
• Max Arthur, 
• Juliet Nicolson

Patrick O’Connor

The Exuberant Boy

Journeying Boy: The Diaries of the Young Benjamin Britten 1928–1938

By John Evans (ed)

Tim Blanning

High Notes

The Gilded Stage: A Social History of Opera

By Daniel Snowman

Rupert Christiansen

‘ÉTONNE-MOI’

Diaghilev

By Sjeng Scheijen (Translated by Jane Hedley-Prole and Stephen S Leinbach)

Jonathan Beckman

Title Stories

Aristocracy and Its Enemies in the Age of Revolution

By William Doyle

Alexander Waugh

A Class Apart

Aristocrats: Power, Grace and Decadence

By Lawrence James

Richard Overy

Cosmopolitanauts

The Eitingons: A Twentieth-Century Story

By Mary-Kay Wilmers

David Cesarani

The Fuhrer’s Mouthpiece

Joseph Goebbels: Life and Death

By Toby Thacker

Sarah Bradford

Worse Than The Baglioni?

The House of Borgia

By Christopher Hibbert

Paul Johnson

The Highland Rembrandt

Edwin Landseer: The Private Drawings

By Richard Ormond

Tom Nichols

The Old Master

Titian: The Last Days

By Mark Hudson

David Watkin

Towers Of Glass

Elizabethan Architecture: Its Rise and Fall, 1540–1640

By Mark Girouard

Anthony Daniels

Fearing The Worst

Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives

By Brian Dillon

Paul Bailey

Supersize Us

Fat, Gluttony and Sloth: Representing Obesity in Literature, Art and Medicine

By David Haslam and Fiona Haslam

John Sutherland

Between The Covers

Howards End is On the Landing

By Susan Hill

Robert Chesshyre

Teddy Dear

True Compass: A Memoir

By Edward M Kennedy

Catherine Peters

Trailfinders’ Tales

Passageways: The Story of a New Zealand Family

By Ann Thwaite

Jonathan Mirsky

Tora Bora To Harvard

Confessions of a Mullah Warrior

By Masood Farivar

Sebastian Shakespeare

Anyone Who’s Anyone

Redeeming Features: A Memoir

By Nicholas Haslam

Michael Burleigh

World Order

No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations

By Mark Mazower

Ben Wilson

Darwin’s Demons

The Political Gene: How Darwin’s Ideas Changed Politics

By Dennis Sewell

Jonathan Derbyshire

Down & Out

Diaries

By George Orwell (Edited by Peter Davison)

Richard Davenport-Hines

Places To Go, People To See…

Contact!

By Jan Morris

Mary Kenny

Country Matters

Occasions of Sin: Sex & Society in Modern Ireland

By Diarmaid Ferriter

Diana Athill

Lore of the Land

The Plot: A Biography of an English Acre

By Madeleine Bunting

Jeremy Lewis

Metroland

The Freedoms of Suburbia

By Paul Barker

John Dugdale

Rough Cuts

Beginners

By Raymond Carver

John de Falbe

Secrets & Lies

Your Face Tomorrow 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell

By Javier Marías

Ophelia Field

Once Upon A Time In Mexico

The Lacuna

By Barbara Kingsolver

Alan Rafferty

Murder He Wrote

Invisible

By Paul Auster

Christopher Bigsby

All The Luck

Presence: Collected Stories

By Arthur Miller

John Murray

Koyla’s Odyssey

The Good Angel of Death

By Andrey Kurkov (Translated by Andrew Bromfield)

Toby Lichtig

The Boy Who Was a Wolf & a King

The Wild Things

By Dave Eggers