Simon Singh

Libel Reform

Diarmaid MacCulloch

A Different Cloth

Newman’s Unquiet Grave: The Reluctant Saint

By John Cornwell

Donald Rayfield

A Model For All Men

Pavel Florensky: A Quiet Genius – The Tragic and Extraordinary Life of Russia’s Unknown da Vinci

By Avril Pyman

Leslie Mitchell

Uniting The Diaspora

Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero

By Abigail Green

Jonathan Beckman

Political Pornography

A King’s Ransom: The Life of Charles Théveneau de Morande, Blackmailer, Scandalmonger and Master-Spy

By Simon Burrows

Jurek Martin

Insistent Reasonableness

The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama

By David Remnick

Lawrence James

‘Deutschland Über Allah’

The Berlin–Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany’s Bid for World Power, 1898–1918

By Sean McMeekin

Brian MacArthur

Four Musketeers

The Burma Campaign: Disaster into Triumph

By Frank McLynn

Raymond Seitz

Riding Into The Sky

The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull and the Battle of the Little Big Horn

By Nathaniel Philbrick

Paul Cartledge

View from the Rowing Bench

Lords of the Sea: The Triumph and Tragedy of Ancient Athens

By John R Hale

Richard Davenport-Hines

No Mere Pageant

History and the Enlightenment

By Hugh Trevor-Roper

John Sutherland

Coarser Connections

E M Forster: A New Life

By Wendy Moffat

Concerning E M Forster

By Frank Kermode

Richard Gray

The Lycanthorpe

Wolf: The Lives of Jack London

By James L Haley

Michael Bywater

Happy Now?

How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like

By Paul Bloom

David Profumo

Bathroom Safari

What’s Eating You? People and Parasites

By Eugene H Kaplan

John Keay

A People Apart

Curfewed Night: A Frontline Memoir of Life, Love and War in Kashmir

By Basharat Peer

Catherine Merridale

The Broken Shore

Engineers of the Soul: In the Footsteps of Stalin’s Writers

By Frank Westerman (Translated by Sam Garrett)

Patrick Williams

European Son

The Escorial: Art and Power in the Renaissance

By Henry Kamen

Diana Athill

Following The Netsuke

The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance

By Edmund de Waal

Christopher Silvester

Eminent Vaudevillian

Hitch-22: A Memoir

By Christopher Hitchens

William Palmer

Why Are You Telling Me This?

• Maggie Gee, 
• Rupert Thomson, 
• Craig Sherborne, 
• Jackie Kay

Patrick Hennessey

Band of Brothers

War

By Sebastian Junger

Andrew Lycett

Who’s Listening In?

GCHQ: The Uncensored Story of Britain's Most Secret Intelligence Agency

By Richard J Aldrich

Nigel Jones

Blown Away

Hurricane: Victor of the Battle of Britain

By Leo McKinstry

Richard Holloway

Hell On Earth

On Evil

By Terry Eagleton

Alan Ryan

‘What is to be Done?’

The Enigma of Capital: And the Crises of Capitalism

By David Harvey

Michael Burleigh

Voice of Wisdom

The Uses of Pessimism and the Danger of False Hope

By Roger Scruton

Douglas Murray

Tears Of The White Man

The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism

By Pascal Bruckner

Peter Jones

What Did They Do For Us?

Full Circle: How the Classical World Came Back to Us

By Ferdinand Mount

Andrew Brown

In Eastern Waters

Against the Flow

By Tom Fort

Harry Mount

Making Yourself At Home

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

By Bill Bryson

Giles Murray

The Return of Goro

The Changeling

By Kenzaburō Ōe

Pamela Norris

Off The Radar

The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim

By Jonathan Coe

Sam Leith

The Donkey & the Howler-Monkey

Beatrice and Virgil

By Yann Martel

Elspeth Barker

Stitcher of Songs

The Lost Books of the Odyssey

By Zachary Mason

Rosalind Porter

Rosalind Porter enjoys a selection of First Novels

• Neel Mukherjee, 
• Tom Rachman, 
• Mischa Hiller, 
• Anjali Joseph, 
• Adam Ross

Edmund Gordon

‘Massacre of Mothers’

The Birth of Love

By Joanna Kavenna

Jonathan Mirsky

Korea Moves

The Surrendered

By Chang-rae Lee

Caroline Moorehead

Mayhem All Around

A Different Sky

By Meira Chand

Daniel Metcalfe

Sultan Blue

The Pindar Diamond

By Katie Hickman