Elspeth Barker

Fowler Power

Peter Marshall

The Pretenders

The Last White Rose: Dynasty, Rebellion and Treason – The Secret War against the Tudors

By Desmond Seward

Saul David

Lyon’s Share

A World on Fire: An Epic History of Two Nations Divided

By Amanda Foreman

Nigel Jones

Fighting Words

• John Lewis-Stempel, 
• Edwin Campion Vaughan, 
• Roderick Bailey, 
• Christian Wolmar

Alex Danchev

The Road To War

The Triumph of the Dark: European International History 1933–1939

By Zara Steiner

Leanda de Lisle

Courting Disaster

Catherine of Aragon: Henry’s Spanish Queen

By Giles Tremlett

Tim Blanning

Going Deutsch

The German Genius: Europe’s Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century

By Peter Watson

Blair Worden

Royal and Ancient

John Aubrey and the Advancement of Learning

By William Poole

The Life of Anthony Wood in His Own Words

By Nicolas K Kiessling (ed)

A Dodo at Oxford: The Unreliable Account of a Student and His Pet Dodo

By Philip Atkins and Michael Johnson (ed)

Donald Rayfield

Farmer, Novelist, Guru, Ascetic

Tolstoy: A Russian Life

By Rosamund Bartlett

Peter Mandler

Binary Père

Claude Lévi-Strauss: The Poet in the Laboratory

By Patrick Wilcken

D J Taylor

Up At The Villa

A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers

By Michael Holroyd

George Gömöri

Prisoner of Peredelkino

Boris Pasternak: Family Correspondence, 1921–1960

By Maya Slater (ed) (Translated by Nicolas Pasternak Slater)

David Gilmour

Sunset Over Samothrace

Patrick Shaw Stewart: An Edwardian Meteor

By Miles Jebb

Daniel Matlin

Roll With The Punches

Joe Louis: Hard Times Man

By Randy Roberts

Virginia Ironside

A Hairdresser & A Gentleman

Vidal: The Autobiography

By Vidal Sassoon

Giles Milton

Rise and Fall

Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean

By Philip Mansel

Jonathan Mirsky

Qin Up

History of Imperial China

By Timothy Brook (General Editor), Mark Edward Lewis, Dieter Kuhn & William T Rowe

Justin Marozzi

Eastern Promise

Late for Tea at the Deer Palace: The Lost Dreams of my Iraqi Family

By Tamara Chalabi

When God Made Hell: The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq 1914–1921

By Charles Townshend

D D Guttenplan

Bottoms-Up History

A Renegade History of the United States: From the Founding Fathers to the Present Day

By Thaddeus Russell

Bryan Appleyard

Look Hear

The Mind’s Eye

By Oliver Sacks

Simon Blackburn

In A Nutshell

Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain

By Antonio Damasio

Paul Johnson

Let’s Face The Music

Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper

By Alexandra Harris

Hugh Bicheno

Official Secrets

MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909–1949

By Keith Jeffery

Six: A History of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, Part 1– Murder and Mayhem 1909–1939

By Michael Smith

Mark Rowlands

Of Rhinos and Lizards

What I Don’t Know About Animals

By Jenny Diski

Jeremy Lewis

‘The Uncelebrated Hardware of Our Language’

Just My Type: A Book about Fonts

By Simon Garfield

John Sutherland

In A Bind

Phantoms on the Bookshelves

By Jacques Bonnet (Translated by Siân Reynolds with an introduction by James Salter)

Proust’s Overcoat

By Lorenza Foschini (Translated by Eric Karpeles)

Iain McGilchrist

God Bother

Conceiving God: The Cognitive Origin and Evolution of Religion

By David Lewis-Williams

Richard Greene

The Holy Muse

The Pen and the Cross: Catholicism and English Literature 1850–2000

By Richard Griffiths

Sara Wheeler

Jacks On A Table

Driving Home: An American Scrapbook

By Jonathan Raban

Dan Jones

Baby Boom & Bust

The Jilted Generation: How Britain Has Bankrupted Its Youth

By Ed Howker and Shiv Malik

Michael Hulse

Rags of Whimsy

The Box

By Günter Grass (Translated from the German by Krishna Winston)

Andreas Campomar

Spanish Practices

All Men Are Liars

By Alberto Manguel (Translated by Miranda France)

Simon Baker

In Search of a Stolen Child

Hand Me Down World

By Lloyd Jones

Edmund Gordon

Suffer The Children

The Murderess

By Alexandros Papadiamantis

Anthony Cummins

Exquisite Corpse

The Poetry Lesson

By Andrei Codrescu

Kate Saunders

Home From Home

Foster

By Claire Keegan

Samantha Ellis

Guilt Edged

The Weekend

By Bernhard Schlink

Patrick Skene Catling

Brooklyn Dodger

Sunset Park

By Paul Auster

Ronald Blythe

Fate & Flight

The Peregrine, The Hill of Summer & Diaries: The Complete Works of J A Baker

By John Fanshawe

Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay

By George Ewart Evans