D J Taylor

Lives Less Ordinary

John Gray

Destination Unknown

The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

By Francis Fukuyama

Martin Vander Weyer

Inside the Squid

Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World

By William D Cohan

Frank Dikötter

It Takes A Village…

Collective Killings in Rural China during the Cultural Revolution

By Yang Su

Max Egremont

General Incompetence

With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918

By David Stevenson

Michael Burleigh

Fully Cocked

15 Minutes: General Curtis LeMay and the Countdown to Nuclear Annihilation

By L Douglas Keeney

Kenneth O Morgan

Speaking Out

To End All Wars: How the First World War Divided Britain

By Adam Hochschild

Juliet Gardiner

Whirlwind Affairs

Millions Like Us: Women’s Lives in War and Peace 1939–1949

By Virginia Nicholson

Juliet Gardiner

White Gold

Millions Like Us: Women’s Lives in War and Peace 1939–1949

By Virginia Nicholson

Lawrence James

Painting the Map Red

Running the Show: Governors of the British Empire 1857–1912

By Stephanie Williams

Linda Porter

The Forgotten Queen of Tudor England

Katherine Parr: Complete Works and Correspondence

By Janel Mueller (ed)

Frederic Raphael

Mann’s Inhumanity to Mann

House of Exile: War, Love and Literature, from Berlin to Los Angeles

By Evelyn Juers

John Montague

True Minds

W B Yeats and George Yeats: The Letters

By Ann Saddlemyer (ed)

Alexander Waugh

Rites of Passage

The Children of Lovers: A Memoir of William Golding by His Daughter

By Judy Golding

Daisy Hay

Holiday of a Lifetime

Byron in Geneva: That Summer of 1816

By David Ellis

Eric Ormsby

Late Bloom

The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life

By Harold Bloom

Laetitia Rutherford

Love on the Front

Letters to Madeleine

By Guillaume Apollinaire (Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith)

Donald Rayfield

Eminent Tsarist Statesman

Tales of Imperial Russia: The Life and Times of Sergei Witte, 1849–1915

By Francis W Wcislo

Daniel Matlin

Nation Building

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention

By Manning Marable

Guy Walters

Guy Walters on Three Wartime Tales

Wolfram: The Boy Who Went to War

By Giles Milton

Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World

By Jan Karski

Lost in Shangri-La: Escape from a Hidden World – A True Story

Edward Norman

Losing Faith

Souls in Torment: Victorian Faith in Crisis

By Giles St Aubyn

The Age of Doubt: Tracing the Roots of Our Religious Uncertainty

By Christopher Lane

Andrew Lycett

Making A Killing

Mr Briggs’ Hat: A Sensational Account of Britain’s First Railway Murder

By Kate Colquhoun

The Unreliable Life of Harry the Valet: The Great Victorian Jewel Thief

By Duncan Hamilton

Frances Wilson

Strange Rumblings in the Cannibal Club

Pleasure Bound: Victorian Sex Rebels and the New Eroticism

By Deborah Lutz

Will Robinson

Napoleon of Engineers

The Intemperate Engineer: Isambard Kingdom Brunel in His Own Words

By Adrian Vaughan

Paul Johnson

Power of the Real

William Bouguereau

By Damien Bartoli and Frederick C Ross

Johan Zoffany

By Mary Webster

Diana Athill

Shoot For the Moon

Nocturne: A Journey in Search of Moonlight

By James Attlee

Mark Bostridge

On the Slab

The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray’s Anatomy

By Bill Hayes

Andrew Greig

Flashes in the Murk

Outside

By Chris McCully

Chris McCully: Selected Poems

By Chris McCully

Robert Chesshyre

The Whole 22 Yards

Jack Hobbs: England’s Greatest Cricketer

By Leo McKinstry

Twirlymen: The Unlikely History of Cricket’s Greatest Spin Bowlers

By Amol Rajan

John Martin Robinson

Keeping Up Appearances

The English Castle 1066–1650

By John Goodall

Jonathan Mirsky

Naga Saga

Nagaland: A Journey to India’s Forgotten Frontier

By Jonathan Glancey

Christopher Bray

Dylan at Seventy

• Mark Epstein, 
• Elizabeth Thomson and Patrick Humphries, 
• Clinton Heylin, 
• Clinton Heylin, 
• Howard Sounes, 
• Greil Marcus, 
• David Yaffe

John McEwen

Colouring Pens

Painting: Mysteries & Confessions

By Tess Jaray

Almanac

By Jeffery Camp

Jonathan Derbyshire

Hypothetically Speaking

The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform the World

By David Deutsch

Simon Baker

‘Of all the days not to have a funeral…’

At Last

By Edward St Aubyn

David Annand

Bright Lights, Big Ulcer

The Illumination

By Kevin Brockmeier

Jake Kerridge

Fairytale of New York

The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

By James Frey

David Jays

Feather Men on Muddy Ground

The Absolutist

By John Boyne

Amanda Craig

The Glasgow Boy

Gillespie and I

By Jane Harris

Edward Behrens

Wild Life

The Hunger Trace

By Edward Hogan