Frances Wilson

Titanoraks

Frank Dikötter

The Tenacity of Hope

God is Red: The Secret Story of How Christianity Survived and Flourished in Communist China

By Liao Yiwu (Translated by Wenguang Huang)

Christopher Andrew

For Your Eyes Only

Spies and Commissars: Bolshevik Russia and the West

By Robert Service

Brendan Simms

Dire Straits

The Russian Origins of the First World War

By Sean McMeekin

Odd Arne Westad

Cold Hands, Warm Heart

Roosevelt’s Lost Alliances: How Personal Politics Helped Start the Cold War

By Frank Costigliola

Vernon Bogdanor

Lion, Harp & Unicorn

The Two Unions: Ireland, Scotland, and the Survival of the United Kingdom, 1707–2007

By Alvin Jackson

Kwasi Kwarteng

The Brute Facts

Britain’s Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt

By Richard Gott

Bertrand Taithe

Of Arms & Menelik

The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire

By Raymond Jonas

Michael Burleigh

Imperial Insights

Memories of Empire, Volume 1: The White Man’s World

By Bill Schwarz

Robert Irwin

Return of the Mahdi?

Saladin

By Anne-Marie Eddé (Translated by Jane Marie Todd)

Adrian Tinniswood

Vile Bodies

Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion

By Anne Somerset

Claire Harman

Tying the Windsor Knots

The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney, Volume I: 1786 & Volume II: 1787

By Peter Sabor (ed Vol I) & Stewart Cooke (ed Vol II)

Leslie Mitchell

He Loathed the Colour Green

Enigma: A New Life of Charles Stewart Parnell

By Paul Bew

David Cesarani

Frau Führer

Eva Braun: Life with Hitler

By Heike B Görtemaker (Translated by Damion Searls)

John Gray

Arming the Little Platoons

Green Philosophy: How to Think Seriously About the Planet

By Roger Scruton

Malise Ruthven

The End in Sight?

The Rise and Fall of Al-Qaeda

By Fawaz A Gerges

The Black Banners: Inside the Hunt for Al-Qaeda

By Ali H Soufan with Daniel Freedman

John Sweeney

Lawyers, Guns and Money

The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade

By Andrew Feinstein

Adrian Weale

The Case for Intervention

Can Intervention Work?

By Gerald Knaus

A War of Choice: The British in Iraq 2003–9

By Jack Fairweather

Losing Small Wars: British Military Failure in Iraq and Afghanistan

By Frank Ledwidge

D J Taylor

On New Grub Street

The Heroic Life of George Gissing, Part I: 1857-1888

By Pierre Coustillas

The Heroic Life of George Gissing, Part II: 1888-1897

By Pierre Coustillas

Miranda Seymour

No Don Juan

Three Lives: A Biography of Stefan Zweig

By Oliver Matuschek (Translated by Allan Blunden)

Matthew Adams

Experience

Martin Amis: The Biography

By Richard Bradford

Michael Peppiatt

All About Vincent

Van Gogh: The Life

By Steven Naifeh & Gregory White Smith

James Hall

Painting in Marble

Bernini: His Life and His Rome

By Franco Mormando

William Feaver

A Modern Rubens

Hockney: The Biography, Volume 1 – 1937–1975

By Christopher Simon Sykes

A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney

By Martin Gayford

Frederic Raphael

Principle Actors

Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics

By Steven J Ross

Rupert Christiansen

Pointes of View

A Dancer in Wartime: One Girl’s Journey from the Blitz to Sadler’s Wells

By Gillian Lynne

The Everyday Dancer

By Deborah Bull

Frank McLynn

Slick Tracy

Spencer Tracy: A Biography

By James Curtis

Richard Overy

Turning Points?

Kiev 1941: Hitler’s Battle for Supremacy in the East

By David Stahel

The Battle of Midway

By Craig L Symonds

December 1941: Twelve Days that Began a World War

By Evan Mawdsley

Julian Thompson

Butcher’s Bill

All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939–1945

By Max Hastings

Patrick Marnham

Suite Française

A Train in Winter: A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival

By Caroline Moorehead

Eric Ormsby

Stories Told in Bed

Stranger Magic: Charmed States & the Arabian Nights

By Marina Warner

Visions of the Jinn: Illustrators of the Arabian Nights

By Robert Irwin

Peter Washington

Literary Taxonomania

Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives

By John Sutherland

Jeremy Noel–Tod

Dating Games

The Twentieth Century in Poetry

By Michael Hulse & Simon Rae (ed)

Oliver Dennis

New Verse from Seasoned Hands

• Alice Oswald, 
• Bernard O’Donoghue, 
• Lavinia Greenlaw, 
• The Bees

Anthea Bell

Pneumatological Prose

Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964–2001

By W G Sebald (Translated by Iain Galbraith)

David Profumo

Pele’s Excrement

From Elvish to Klingon: Exploring Invented Languages

By Michael Adams (ed)

Sophia Waugh

Food, Glorious Food

• Clarissa Dickson Wright, 
• Tom Mueller, 
• Blandine Vié, 
• Adam Gopnik, 
• Cita Stelzer

Joan Smith

More of Jesus, Less of Me

Calories & Corsets: A History of Dieting over 2000 Years

By Louise Foxcroft

Rachel Polonsky

‘Engineers of Souls’

Moscow, the Fourth Rome: Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Evolution of Soviet Culture, 1931–1941

By Katerina Clark

Donald Rayfield

Chilling Tales

It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway: Russia and the Communist Past

By David Satter

Eric Kaufmann

Peace in Our Time

The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline in Violence in History and Its Causes

By Steven Pinker

Alexander Waugh

Bringing the House Down

The Gentry: Stories of the English

By Adam Nicolson

Diana Athill

‘Everybody has their own London’

Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now – As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It and Long for It

By Craig Taylor

Christopher Lavers

Where is the Bear?

The Bear: History of a Fallen King

By Michel Pastoureau (Translated by George Holoch)

George Gömöri

Hungarian War & Peace?

Parallel Stories

By Péter Nádas (Translated by Imre Goldstein)

Jonathan Beckman

Rough Diamond

The Art of Fielding

By Chad Harbach

Anthony Cummins

War Games

The Third Reich

By Roberto Bolaño (Translated by Natasha Wimmer)

David Annand

Frogs & Flying Carpets

We Others: New and Selected Stories

By Steven Millhauser

Fiction of the Arab Spring

Simon Baker

Head in the Clouds

The Balloonist

By MacDonald Harris

Jonathan Barnes

Letting The Heir Out

The Legacy of Hartlepool Hall

By Paul Torday

Michael Jacobs

Patagonian Adventures

Desolation Island

By Adolfo García Ortega (Translated by Peter Bush)