Maurice Keen

Oh My Chevalier

For Honour and Fame: Chivalry in England, 1066–1500

By Nigel Saul

Michael Burleigh

Setting of the Blood-Dimmed Sun

Imperial Endgame: Britain’s Dirty Wars and the End of Empire

By Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon

Leanda de Lisle

A Catholic Icon

The Trials of Margaret Clitherow: Persecution, Martyrdom and the Politics of Sanctity in Elizabethan England

By Peter Lake and Michael Questier

Gillian Tindall

Kirkcaldy to Calcutta

The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History

By Emma Rothschild

Peter Jones

Subject or Object

The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 1, The Ancient Mediterranean World

By Keith Bradley and Paul Cartledge

Miranda France

Blood, Sweat and Tears

Into the Arena: The World of the Spanish Bullfight

By Alexander Fiske-Harrison

Fergus Fleming

Peake’s Progress

By Mervyn Peake

Claire Harman

Island Records

Crusoe: Daniel Defoe, Robert Knox and the Creation of a Myth

By Katherine Frank

Daniel Swift

Anthem For Doomed Youth

Strange Meetings: The Poets of the Great War

By Harry Ricketts

William St Clair

William St Clair welcomes the publication of William Godwin’s Letters and Diary

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume 1: 1778–1797

By Pamela Clemit (ed)

William Godwin’s Diary: Reconstructing a Social and Political Culture 1788–1836

By David O’Shaughnessy, Mark Philp, Victoria Myers, James Cummings (eds)

Claire Clairmont, Mary Jane’s Daughter: New Correspondence with Claire’s Father

By Vicki Parslow

Frederic Raphael

Secrets and Lyres

Orpheus: The Song of Life

By Ann Wroe

Daniel Snowman

Pas De Deux

Gustav Mahler

By Jens Malte Fischer (Translated by Stewart Spencer)

Richard Strauss: A Musical Life

By Raymond Holden

Paul Bailey

The Player King

John Gielgud: Matinee Idol to Movie Star

By Jonathan Croall

Kevin Jackson

Don’t Look Now

Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen since the 1960s

By Kim Newman

Leo McKinstry

The Runway’s End

The Age of Airpower

By Martin Van Creveld

Patrick Porter

Fingers Crossed

The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times

By Mohamed ElBaradei

How the End Begins: The Road to Nuclear World War III

By Ron Rosenbaum

Sarah Bradford

What A Woman!

As Good as God, as Clever as the Devil: The Impossible Life of Mary Benson

By Rodney Bolt

Donald Trelford

Mad On Paper

First Lady of Fleet Street: The Life, Fortune and Tragedy of Rachel Beer

By Eilat Negev and Yehuda Koren

Catherine Peters

A Constant Companion

Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs Oscar Wilde

By Franny Moyle

Alex Goodall

‘His Own Pygmalion’

American Radical: The Life and Times of I F Stone

By D D Guttenplan

Eric Kaufmann

Loosening the Bible Belt

American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us

By Robert D Putnam and David E Campbell

Aatish Taseer

The Quiet American

Undercover Muslim: A Journey into Yemen

By Theo Padnos

David Gilmour

Song of the South

Street Fight in Naples: A City’s Unseen History

By Peter Robb

Patrick Marnham

The Horror

Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa

By Jason K Stearns

Anna Reid

Grim Up North?

White Fever: A Journey to the Frozen Heart of Siberia

By Jacek Hugo-Bader (Translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones)

Jeremy Lewis

The Hills Are Alive

Thin Paths: Journey in and around an Italian Mountain Village

By Julia Blackburn

Simon Akam

Letter From Sierra Leone

Michael Collins

‘My Blood Your Blood’

Hood Rat

By Gavin Knight

Peter Marshall

When Darkness Falls

Evening’s Empire: A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe

By Craig Koslofsky

Steve Fuller

Hit That Perfect Beat

The Tribal Imagination: Civilization and the Savage Mind

By Robin Fox

J Mordaunt Crook

Goths V Classicists

The Battle of the Styles: George Gilbert Scott and the FCO

By Bernard Porter

Tim Richardson

Stag Parties

Gardens of Earthly Delight: The History of Deer Parks

By John Fletcher

Jonathan Mirsky

Four Legs Good

In Defence of Dogs: Why Dogs Need Our Understanding

By John Bradshaw

Carole Angier

Dark Nights of the Soul

Scenes from Village Life

By Amos Oz

John Thieme

‘What Do You Want?’

Last Man in Tower

By Aravind Adiga

Jonathan Beckman

Decline and Fall

The Stranger's Child

By Alan Hollinghurst

Tim Martin

Staying the Course

There but for the

By Ali Smith

Olivia Laing

Unkempt Eden

You

By Joanna Briscoe

Andreas Campomar

Unhappy Families

The Rest is Silence

By Carla Guelfenbein (Translated by Katherine Silver)

Keith Miller

Mission Improbable

Embassytown

By China Miéville

Simon Willis

I’ll Take the Low Road

Waterline

By Ross Raisin

David Annand

The Long and Short of It

Telescope

By Jonathan Buckley