Frances Wilson

From Aristotle to Amazon

Praveen Swami

A Failed State?

Pakistan: A Hard Country

By Anatol Lieven

Jason Burke

The End of Violence

The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers

By Gordon Weiss

John Keay

The Bengali Pimpernel

His Majesty’s Opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose and India’s Struggle against Empire

By Sugata Bose

Subhas Chandra Bose in Nazi Germany: Politics, Intelligence and Propaganda 1941–43

By Romain Hayes

Roderick Matthews

‘The Collateral Damage of Progress’

Makers of Modern India

By Ramachandra Guha

The Beautiful and the Damned: Life in the New India

By Siddhartha Deb

Jane Ridley

Building Jerusalem in the Home Countries

Octavia, Daughter of God: The Story of a Female Messiah and her Followers

By Jane Shaw

Paul Johnson

‘O! This Grinding World’

Mysterious Wisdom: The Life and Work of Samuel Palmer

By Rachel Campbell-Johnston

Charles Esdaile

The Greatest General of All Time?

Radetzky: Imperial Victor and Military Genius

By Alan Sked

Frederic Raphael

Ship of Fools

Treason of the Heart: From Thomas Paine to Kim Philby

By David Pryce-Jones

Justin Marozzi

The Cruel Sea

Deadly Waters: Inside the Hidden World of Somalia’s Pirates

By Jay Bahadur

Christopher Hart

Plebs on Parade

Invisible Romans: Prostitutes, Outlaws, Slaves, Gladiators and Others

By Robert C Knapp

Andrew Lycett

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Carte Blanche

By Jeffery Deaver

Jonathan Keates

All Road Lead to Rome

• Robert Hughes, 
• R J B Bosworth, 
• Matthew Sturgis

David Cesarani

‘Living Crematorium’

The Death Marches: The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide

By Daniel Blatman (Translated by Chaya Galai)

Richard Davenport-Hines

Curiouser & Curiouser

Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves: How the Victorians Collected the World

By Jacqueline Yallop

Dominic Sandbrook

In Congress

One Nation Under Sex: How the Private Lives of Presidents, First Ladies and Their Lovers Changed the Course of American History

By Larry Flynt and David Eisenbach, PhD

Allan Massie

Monks’ Mackerel

A Hermit’s Cookbook: Monks, Food and Fasting in the Middle Ages

By Andrew Jotischky

Jonathan Mirsky

What Henry Saw

On China

By Henry Kissinger

Richard Overy

Footsteps in the Corridor

Forgotten Land: Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia

By Max Egremont

Andrew Mango

Cosmopolitans

Atatürk: An Intellectual Biography

By M Şükrü Hanioglu

Turkey: A Short History

By Norman Stone

Daniel Beer

The Great Bear

Russia: A 1,000-Year Chronicle of the Wild East

By Martin Sixsmith

Michael Goldfarb

The Price of Black Gold

Fuel on the Fire: Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq

By Greg Muttitt

Andrew Hussey

Aux Armes!

Time for Outrage!

By Stéphane Hessel (Translated by Damion Searls with Alba Arrikha)

Kevin Jackson

A Late Bloomer

James Joyce: A Biography

By Gordon Bowker

John Stubbs

What The Bailiff Saw

Shakespeare: Upstart Crow to Sweet Swan, 1592–1623

By Katherine Duncan-Jones

Robert Gordon

To Hell and Back

Dante in Love

By A N Wilson

Francis Wheen

Crystal Balls-Up

Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Fail and Why We Believe Them Anyway

By Dan Gardner

Amelia Gentleman

Classed Off

Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

By Owen Jones

Andrew Roberts

His Waterloo

Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon: The Greatest Movie Never Made

By Alison Castle

Alexandra Harris

Everything Flows

To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface

By Olivia Laing

Tom Shakespeare

Graceful Living

A Theological Diagnosis: A New Direction on Genetic Therapy, ‘Disability’ and the Ethic of Healing

By Matt Edmonds

John Sweeney

One Goat Too Many?

The Psychopath Test: A Journey through the Madness Industry

By Jon Ronson

Marcel Berlins

Words From the Bench

Ashes and Sparks: Essays on Law and Justice

By Stephen Sedley

Jonathan Beckman

House of Bones

Pure

By Andrew Miller

Francis King

Dressed To Kill

The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress

By Beryl Bainbridge

Wendy Brandmark

Americans in Paris

Foreign Bodies

By Cynthia Ozick

William Palmer

Red Gold

Rising Blood

By James Fleming

John Thieme

Wordy-Wallah

River of Smoke

By Amitav Ghosh

Suzi Feay

Death on the Amazon

State of Wonder

By Ann Patchett

Toby Lichtig

Everything Is Broken

Wish You Were Here

By Graham Swift

Tom Williams

A Day At The Races

Derby Day

By D J Taylor

Thomas Marks

Liv and Let Die

A Summer of Drowning

By John Burnside

Anthony Cummins

What the Puck?

The Great Night

By Chris Adrian