D J Taylor

Our Island Stories

John Coldstream

Fantastic Mr Foxy

Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl

By Donald Sturrock

Richard Davenport-Hines

Roving Correspondent

Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin

By Elizabeth Chatwin and Nicholas Shakespeare (eds)

John Stubbs

Coy Poet

Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon

By Nigel Smith

Mark Glanville

‘A Step Together’

Correspondence

By Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan (Translated by Wieland Hoban)

Donald Rayfield

Killing Fields

Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin

By Timothy Snyder

Stalin’s Genocides: Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity

By Norman M Naimark

Jonathan Mirsky

‘Livelihood Issues’

Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–62

By Frank Dikötter

Richard Overy

What The Thunder Said

The Blitz: The British Under Attack

By Juliet Gardiner

Frederick Taylor

City At War

Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler’s Capital, 1939–45

By Roger Moorhouse

Simon Heffer

Era of Brown

State of Emergency: The Way We Were – Britain, 1970–1974

By Dominic Sandbrook

Jonathan Sumption

Counsel And Consent

The Origins of the English Parliament, 924–1327

By J R Maddicott

Matthew Bell

Turf Wars

Gentlemen and Blackguards: Gambling Mania and the Plot to Steal the Derby of 1844 – The Gambling Craze of the 1840s

By Nick Foulkes

Allan Massie

Frankishly, My Dear

Emperor of the West: Charlemagne and the Carolingian Empire

By Hywel Williams

Paul Johnson

Landscape Without Figures

John Brett: Pre-Raphaelite Landscape Painter

By Christiana Payne

Elspeth Barker

Artist Of The Portrait

Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud

By Martin Gayford

William St Clair

With Feeling

The Romantic Revolution

By Tim Blanning

Christopher Bray

Folk Hero

Bob Dylan in America

By Sean Wilentz

Andrew Lycett

The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief

The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief

By V S Naipaul

Paul Addison

After Eden

Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan

By D R Thorpe

Jane Ridley

Welfare & Warfare

David Lloyd George: The Great Outsider

By Roy Hattersley

Victor Sebestyen

Not So Secret Agent

The Nine Lives of Otto Katz

By Jonathan Miles

Pamela Norris

‘A Baton In The Dark’

What to Look for in Winter: A Memoir in Blindness

By Candia McWilliam

Jeremy Lewis

Record Business

The Arvon Book of Life Writing: Writing Biography, Autobiography and Memoir

By Sally Cline and Carole Angier

Anthony Daniels

Following the Greenes

Chasing the Devil: The Search for Africa’s Fighting Spirit

By Tim Butcher

Anthony Sattin

Sahara To Silk Road

Landfalls: On the Edge of Islam with Ibn Battutah

By Tim Mackintosh-Smith

Colin Smith

Aphrodite’s Isle

Sweet and Bitter Island: A History of the British in Cyprus

By Tabitha Morgan

Eric Kaufmann

Slumming It

Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History is Reshaping our World

By Doug Saunders

Christopher Hart

The Drunken Member

City of Sin: London and Its Vices

By Catharine Arnold

Martin Bright

My Enemy’s Enemy

Secret Affairs: Britain’s Collusion with Radical Islam

By Mark Curtis

Caroline Moorehead

The Second Sex

Half the Sky: How to Change the World

By Nicholas D Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

Susan Greenfield

Attention, Please

The Shallows: How the Internet is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember

By Nicholas Carr

James Hall

A Few Pointers

Michelangelo’s Finger: An Exploration of Everyday Transcendence

By Raymond Tallis

The Finger: A Handbook

By Angus Trumble

Philip Davis

Novel Ideas

Why Do We Care About Literary Characters?

By Blakey Vermeule

Sarah A Smith

Children Of War

To the End of the Land

By David Grossman (Translated by Jessica Cohen)

Patrick Hennessey

Law of the Jungle

Matterhorn

By Karl Marlantes

James Purdon

Roaming Holiday

Walking to Hollywood

By Will Self

Simon Baker

Shoot Me Now

Lights Out in Wonderland

By DBC Pierre

David Jays

Food For Thought

Nourishment

By Gerard Woodward

Rachel Hore

Book

Room

By Emma Donoghue

Philip Womack

ÄPPÄRÄT CHICKS

Super Sad True Love Story

By Gary Shteyngart

Anthony Cummins

Jean Therapy

Zero History

By William Gibson

Rosalind Porter

Nation In Waiting

And the Land Lay Still

By James Robertson

Ann Morgan

Hit and Run

Whatever You Love

By Louise Doughty