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‘Have You Got Their Letters?”

John Gray

The Privilege of Absurdity

Talking to the Enemy: Violent Extremism, Sacred Values, and What It Means to Be Human

By Scott Atran

Christopher Coker

Do The Right Thing

Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq

By John Dower

Adrian Weale

Horror in Iraq

Black Hearts: One Platoon’s Descent Into Madness in Iraq’s Triangle of Death

By Jim Frederick

Oleg Gordievsky

Spooked Out

The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia’s Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB

By Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan

John R Bradley

Pyramid Schemes

Egypt on the Brink: From Nasser to Mubarak

By Tarek Osman

John Keay

Lore of the Jungle

Where Hornbills Fly: A Journey with the Headhunters of Borneo

By Erik Jensen

David Profumo

From Oh Dear To Oh Homo

Atlas of Remote Islands

By Judith Schalansky

Michael Burleigh

The Sins of Seoul

The Korean War: A History

By Bruce Cumings

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Hell Frozen Over

Gulag Boss: A Soviet Memoir

By Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky (Translated and edited by Deborah Kaple)

David Cesarani

Out Of The Mud

Hitler’s First War: Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War

By Thomas Weber

Richard Overy

War of Nutrition

The Taste of War: World War Two and the Battle for Food

By Lizzie Collingham

Norman Stone

Off The Mark

When Money Dies: The Nightmare of the Weimar Hyper-Inflation

By Adam Fergusson

Lesley Downer

Flower & Willow

Butterfly’s Sisters: The Geisha in Western Culture

By Yoko Kawaguchi

Theodore K Rabb

New World Orders

The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V

By Hugh Thomas

David Armitage

Maps Vs Chaps

Why the West Rules – For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal about the Future

By Ian Morris

Jonathan Keates

A Duke Abroad

Letters from London and Europe

By Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (Translated by J G Nichols)

Kevin Jackson

In For A Penny

Ezra Pound to His Parents: Letters 1895–1929

By Mary de Rachewiltz, A David Moody and Joanna Moody

Jay Parini

‘I Am in My Element And I Defy You…’

Saul Bellow: Letters

By Benjamin Taylor

Diana Athill

Ars Memoria

The Memory Chalet

By Tony Judt

Paul Johnson

Man of Stature

Washington: A Life

By Ron Chernow

Stephen Amidon

Chinese Whispers

Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History

By Yunte Huang

Daniel Snowman

Clockmaker & Pirate

Ravel

By Roger Nichols

Rupert Christiansen

Heavenly Movement

Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet

By Jennifer Homans

Daniel Matlin

Folk Hero

The Man Who Recorded the World: A Biography of Alan Lomax

By John Szwed

Humphrey Burton

Perfect Pitch

Cardus: Celebrant of Beauty

By Robin Daniels

Patricia Duncker

Romain A Clef

Romain Gary: A Tall Story

By David Bellos

William H Pritchard

Diary Of A Somebody

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume I

By Harriet Elinor Smith

Andrew Hussey

En Garde

Public Enemies

By Bernard-Henri Lévy and Michel Houellebecq

John Hopkins

Sweltering Skies

Travels: Collected writings, 1950-93

By Paul Bowles

Andrew Lycett

Inspector Bucket Calls

The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime

By Judith Flanders

Sarah Wise

Living The Low Life

London Labour and the London Poor: A Selected Edition

By Henry Mayhew, Edited by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

Michael Holman

Mandela, Inc

Conversations with Myself

By Nelson Mandela

David Crane

The Icemen Cometh

Race for the South Pole: The Expedition Diaries of Scott and Amundsen

By Roland Huntford

Alexander Waugh

A History of Helios

Chasing the Sun: The Epic Story of the Star that Gives Us Life

By Richard Cohen

Frances Wilson

Sister Act

Nuns Behaving Badly: Tales of Music, Magic, Art & Arson in the Convents of Italy

By Craig A Monson

Simon Hoggart

Do I Smell Roses?

Liquid Memory: Why Wine Matters

By Jonathan Nossiter

Ruth Padel

Shaggy Cat Story

The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

By John Vaillant

Tim Richardson

Beauty And The Beasts

Weeds: How Vagabond Plants Gatecrashed Civilisation and Changed the Way We Think About Nature

By Richard Mabey

The Rose: A True History

By Jennifer Potter

John Gribbin

Small Is Beautiful

Neutrino

By Frank Close

Keith Miller

There Hangs A Tale

Cedilla

By Adam Mars-Jones

Sarah A Smith

Love, Marriage and Ethnic Ovens

Pulse

By Julian Barnes

Anthony Cummins

‘The Girl Wrote A Story’

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

By Lydia Davis

Madame Bovary

By Gustave Flaubert (Translated by Lydia Davis)

Rachel Hore

Sliding Doors

The London Train

By Tessa Hadley

Jonathan Barnes

Jonathan Barnes on Four Tantalising Debut Novels

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