Henry Hitchings

Dripping with an Easy Sensuality…

Malise Ruthven

Rebel with A Cause

Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism

By John Calvert

Michael Burleigh

Oh So Social

Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage

By Douglas Waller

Jane Ridley

Where’s Wallis?

Behind Closed Doors: The Tragic, Untold Story of the Duchess of Windsor

By Hugo Vickers

Anne Sebba

Blood, Toil, Tears

The Churchills: A Family at the Heart of History – From the Duke of Marlborough to Winston Churchill

By Mary S Lovell

Peter Marshall

He Made A Splash

Sir Walter Raleigh: In Life and Legend

By Mark Nicholls and Penry Williams

Michael Fathers

Headless In Hawaii

Captain Cook: Master of the Seas

By Frank McLynn

Stephen Amidon

Driven To Succeed

His Father’s Son: Earl and Tiger Woods

By Tom Callahan

Richard Holloway

‘A Defect of the Soul’

Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty

By Simon Baron-Cohen

John Gray

At the Whim of the Gods

Perpetual Euphoria: On the Duty to Be Happy

By Pascal Bruckner

Anthony Daniels

‘I Do Not Find It Easy’

• Barbara Strauch, 
• Marie de Hennezel, 
• Lewis Wolpert, 
• Margaret Morganroth Gullette, 
• Jane Shilling

Richard Holmes

The Whole Five Hundred Million of Us

Britain’s War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War

By David Edgerton

Paul Johnson

Island Hotspots

Red Heat: Conspiracy, Murder and the Cold War in the Caribbean

By Alex von Tunzelmann

Paul Cartledge

The Late Great

Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great's Empire

By Robin Waterfield

Jonathan Beckman

Self-Fashioning

Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe

By Ulinka Rublack

Rachel Polonsky

Sentimental Education

The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them

By Elif Batuman

Mick Brown

Spiritual High

Memoirs of a Dervish: Sufis, Mystics and The Sixties

By Robert Irwin

Jane Thynne

An End to Misery Memoir?

Animal Magic: A Brother’s Story

By Andrew Barrow

Problem Child

By Caradoc King

Henry’s Demons: Living with Schizophrenia – A Father and Son’s Story

By Patrick Cockburn

Oleg Gordievsky

Stingers In The Tale

Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979–89

By Rodric Braithwaite

Norman Stone

On Red Alert

Russia’s Cold War: From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Wall

By Jonathan Haslam

Donald Rayfield

Hell and After

The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin

By Stephen F Cohen

Patrick Marnham

Interview: V S Naipaul

Jake Adelstein

Murder in Tokyo

People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman

By Richard Lloyd Parry

Adrian Tinniswood

Up and Under

London Under

By Peter Ackroyd

The Stones of London: A History in Twelve Buildings

By Leo Hollis

Thomas Marks

Peripheral Visions

Edgelands: Journeys into England’s True Wilderness

By Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts

Robert Chesshyre

Beyond Bristol

Access All Areas: Selected Writings 1990–2010

By Sara Wheeler

Peter Washington

A Large Corpus

G K Chesterton: A Biography

By Ian Ker

Jessie Childs

The Gentleman From Kent

Graven with Diamonds: The Many Lives of Thomas Wyatt – Courtier, Poet, Assassin, Spy

By Nicola Shulman

Annabelle Sreberny

Cyber-Sceptics Unite

The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World

By Evgeny Morozov

David Profumo

Dirty Work in the Memory Palace

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

By Joshua Foer

Daniel Snowman

Design of the Times

The Bauhaus Group: Six Masters of Modernism

By Nicholas Fox Weber

Leo Robson

Cahier Du Cinema

The Faber Book of French Cinema

By Charles Drazin

Charles Shaar Murray

Rebel Rebel

33 Revolutions per Minute: A History of Protest Songs

By Dorian Lynskey

Michael Bywater

Virtue & Virtuality

Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World

By Jane McGonigal

Keith Miller

Tax and Taxing

The Pale King

By David Foster Wallace

Michael Sherborne

Watch the Skies

A Man of Parts

By David Lodge

Jonathan Barnes

Confidence Tricks

• Naomi Wood, 
• Tristan Garcia, 
• Leo Benedictus, 
• Miranda France, 
• Sam Leith

Anthony Cummins

Viennese Waltz

The Free World

By David Bezmozgis

David Annand

Track Records

Spring

By David Szalay

Jake Kerridge

Jungle Book

The Devil’s Garden

By Edward Docx

Lindy Burleigh

The Latin Lover

Last Dance with Valentino

By Daisy Waugh