Harry Mount

Kindled Spirits

Piers Brendon

What Winston Really Wanted

Churchill’s Empire: The World that Made Him and the World He Made

By Richard Toye

Robert Irwin

Last of the Moriscos

Blood and Faith: The Purging of Muslim Spain 1492–1614

By Matthew Carr

Dominic Sandbrook

Go West

Dominion from Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power

By Bruce Cumings

Saul David

Hearts of Darkness

The Killer Trail: A Colonial Scandal in the Heart of Africa

By Bertrand Taithe

John Keay

The East Rises

Empires at War: A Short History of Modern Asia since World War II

By Francis Pike

John Gray

Life Of A Giant

Koestler: The Indispensable Intellectual

By Michael Scammell

Claire Harman

The Belle of Amherst?

Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family’s Feuds

By Lyndall Gordon

Carole Angier

At The Mind’s Limits

The Philosopher of Auschwitz: Jean Améry and Living with the Holocaust

By Irène Heidelberger-Leonard (Translated by Anthea Bell)

Patricia Duncker

The Hour of the Star

Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

By Benjamin Moser

Alastair Niven

Things Come Together

The Education of a British-Protected Child

By Chinua Achebe

Pamela Norris

‘Always Travel Heavy’

Lesley Blanch: Inner Landscapes, Wilder Shores

By Anne Boston

Jonathan Derbyshire

The Joy of Text

Who Was Jacques Derrida? An Intellectual Biography

By David Mikics

Christopher Bray

Penny Lane

You Never Give Me Your Money: The Battle for the Soul of the Beatles

By Peter Doggett

Frank McLynn

Much Ado About Nothing

How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood

By William J Mann

Andrew Miller

Murder She Wrote

Nothing But the Truth: Selected Dispatches

By Anna Politkovskaya (Translated by Arch Tait)

Jonathan Mirsky

Life Under Kim

Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea

By Barbara Demick

Miranda Seymour

Don’t Mention The War

Germania: A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern

By Simon Winder

Gillian Darley

Under the Volcano

Vesuvius: A Biography

By Alwyn Scarth

Charles Elliott

A Ghost Village

Ninfa: The Most Romantic Garden in the World

By Charles Quest-Ritson

Jonathan Keates

‘The Paradise of Cities’

Ruskin on Venice

By Robert Hewison

Jonathan Fenby

‘God’s Masterpiece’?

The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the Birth of Modern China

By Hannah Pakula

Leslie Mitchell

Sulk & Bulster

Pitt the Elder: Man of War

By Edward Pearce

Roderick Bailey

The Spy Who Loved Men

The Shooting Star: Denis Rake MC, A Clandestine Hero of the Second World War

By Geoffrey Elliott

Allan Massie

‘You Are Quite Right, Darling. Now SHUT UP’

Must You Go? My Life With Harold Pinter

By Antonia Fraser

Allister Heath

What Went Wrong

Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy

By Joseph Stiglitz

Whoops! Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay

By John Lanchester

Lindy Woodhead

In the Eye of the Shareholder

Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Business

By Geoffrey Jones

John Sweeney

Narco-Millions

The Candy Machine: How Cocaine Took Over the World

By Tom Feiling

Archie Bland

Interstellar Kredit

Fun Inc.: Why Games Are the 21st Century’s Most Serious Business

By Tom Chatfield

Michael Burleigh

Sleep Well

Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al-Qaeda

By John Mueller

Frederic Raphael

Hath Not A Jew Eyes…

Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England

By Anthony Julius

Colin Tudge

Some Like It Hot

Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

By Richard Wrangham

Simon Heffer

Our Island Stories

Ultimate Adventures with Britannia: Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain

By Roger Louis (ed)

Frances Wilson

237 Varieties

Why Women Have Sex: Sexual Motivation from Adventure to Revenge – And Everything in Between

By Cindy Meston and David Buss

Nigel Jones

Collective Efforts

The National Gallery: A Short History

By Charles Saumarez Smith

Anne Chisholm

Group Therapy

The Unspoken Truth: A Quartet of Bloomsbury Stories

By Angelica Garnett

Cressida Connolly

Love and Death

Apparition & Late Fictions

By Thomas Lynch

D J Taylor

The Way of All Flesh

The Pregnant Widow

By Martin Amis

Sam Leith

Walk On The Wild Side

The Unnamed

By Joshua Ferris

Kate Saunders

Grandmother’s Footsteps

Isa & May

By Margaret Forster

Rachel Hore

Slaves To Fortune

The Long Song

By Andrea Levy

Gillian Tindall

Silly Young Things

To Bed with Grand Music

By Marghanita Laski

Gill Hornby

They’re Behind You

The Other Family

By Joanna Trollope