Frances Wilson

‘I’d Just Like To Thank…’

Michael Burleigh

Quat, Guns and Jihad

Yemen: Dancing on the Heads of Snakes

By Victoria Clark

Catherine Merridale

The View From Romanov Lsne

Molotov’s Magic Lantern: A Journey in Russian History

By Rachel Polonsky

Jonathan Mirsky

Made In China

Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip

By Peter Hessler

Robert Lacey

Model Failiure

Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City

By Greg Grandin

Anthony Daniels

Thanks Be To God

Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness

By Tracy Kidder

Elaine Showalter

China Girl

Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck’s Life in China

By Hilary Spurling

Donald Rayfield

Prince of Poets

Brief Lives: Alexander Pushkin

By Robert Chandler

Caroline Moorehead

Fire In the Blood

The life of Irène Némirovsky: 1903–1942

By Olivier Philipponnat and Patrick Lienhardt (Translated by Euan Cameron)

John Gray

Limits of Tolerance

Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents

By Ian Buruma

Alan Ryan

Heroes Of Enterprise

The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism

By Joyce Appleby

Joan Smith

The State Of Feminism

Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism

By Natasha Walter

David Pryce-Jones

Off-Target

The Woman Who Shot Mussolini

By Frances Stonor Saunders

Alex Goodall

‘Individualists of the World, Unite!’

Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right

By Jennifer Burns

Robert Chesshyre

Snapping The Depression

Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits

By Linda Gordon

Patrick O’Connor

The Odd Couple

The Last Bohemians: The Two Roberts – Colquhoun and MacBryde

By Roger Bristow

David Cesarani

‘Berlin In Arabic’

Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World

By Jeffrey Herf

Jeremy Lewis

The Man Who Never Was

Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II

By Ben Macintyre

Allan Massie

Japanese Nightmares

The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East

By Alistair Urquhart

Raleigh Trevelyan

Flight From Fontanellato

Where the Hell Have You Been?

By Tom Carver

Jason Goodwin

Thrill of the Chase

Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the 17th-Century Mediterranean

By Adrian Tinniswood

Donald Sassoon

Bombe Surprise

The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Agents

By Alex Butterworth

Piers Brendon

‘Low, Dishonest Decade’

The Thirties: An Intimate History

By Juliet Gardiner

Paul Cartledge

Delenda Est Carthago

Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization

By Richard Miles

William Doyle

The Western Front

The Unseen Terror: The French Revolution in the Provinces

By Richard Ballard

Timothy Brook

Cancel the Dragon-Boat Races!

1492: The Year Our World Began

By Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Mary Kenny

‘Ireland Sober Is Ireland Free!’

The Rising – Ireland: Easter 1916

By Fearghal McGarry

Michael Jacobs

Letter From Colombia

Michael Holman

Testing Times

Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir

By Ngugi wa Thiong’o

J W M Thompson

The Writing Gene

Did You Really Shoot The Television? A Family Fable

By Max Hastings

Kenan Malik

Pigs Won’t Fly

What Darwin Got Wrong

By Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini

Jonathan Beckman

All That Glitters

Brilliant Effects: A Cultural History of Gem Stones & Jewellery

By Marcia Pointon

Tom Fort

Meat Is Murder

Eating Animals

By Jonathan Safran Foer

John Gribbin

Is There Anybody Out There?

The Eerie Silence: Are We Alone in the Universe?

By Paul Davies

John Sutherland

Biblomania

The Oxford Companion to the Book

By Michael F Suarez, S J and H R Woudhuysen

Gillian Tindall

Dolourism

Lost London at Kenwood House

By Kenwood House (23 January–5 April)

Lost London: 1870–1945

By Philip Davies

John Dugdale

Room With A Viewing

Point Omega

By Don DeLillo

Pamela Norris

Dearly Beloveds

Trespass

By Rose Tremain

Jay Parini

New World Orders

Parrot and Olivier in America

By Peter Carey

Sarah A Smith

Cult Fiction

The Strange Case of the Composer and his Judge

By Patricia Duncker

Susan Hill

London’s Lost

At the Chime of a City Clock

By D J Taylor

Simon Baker

All’s Fair

Cold Snap

By Francis King

Lindy Burleigh

Lindy Burleigh on a covey of first novels

• Alex Preston, 
• Ruth Padel, 
• Aatish Taseer, 
• Simon Robson

Kate Saunders

In Sickness And In Health

So Much for That

By Lionel Shriver