D J Taylor

In Defence of Parody

John Stubbs

Politics & Poetry

Thomas Wyatt: The Heart’s Forest

By Susan Brigden

Sam Leith

Bandanna on the Run

Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace

By D T Max

Matthew Green

Man of Parts

Ryszard Kapuściński: A Life

By Artur Domosławski (Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones)

Nick Cohen

Extinction’s Alp

Mortality

By Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Bray

Moralist of the Silver Screed

Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark

By Brian Kellow

The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael

By Sanford Schwartz (ed)

Richard Overy

Saviour of Moscow

Stalin’s General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov

By Geoffrey Roberts

Michael Burleigh

Keeping the Flame Alive

In the Shadow of the General: Modern France and the Myth of De Gaulle

By Sudhir Hazareesingh

Jonathan Keates

Mon Père, ce héros

The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal and the Real Count of Monte Cristo

By Tom Reiss

Alan Judd

From Iris to Sofia

A Very English Hero: The Making of Frank Thompson

By Peter J Conradi

Robert Irwin

Church Militant

The Knights Hospitaller in the Levant, c 1070–1309

By Jonathan Riley-Smith

David Gilmour

For Better, For Worse

Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain

By John Darwin

Andrew Lycett

Maiden Voyages

The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj

By Anne de Courcy

Leslie Mitchell

Men of Their Time

Macaulay and Son: Architects of Imperial Britain

By Catherine Hall

D D Guttenplan

Oil & Trouble

Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power

By Steve Coll

Neil Gregor

Buddenbrooks on the Ruhr

Krupp: A History of the Legendary German Firm

By Harold James

Paul Lay

Games of Thrones

The History of England, Volume II: Tudors

By Peter Ackroyd

Linda Porter

Wearing the Breeches

Blood Sisters: The Hidden Lives of the Women Behind the Wars of the Roses

By Sarah Gristwood

Robert Bickers

Beyond the Great Wall

Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750

By Odd Arne Westad

David Cesarani

Spoils of Persecution

Golden Harvest: Events at the Periphery of the Holocaust

By Jan Tomasz Gross with Irena Grudzińska Gross

Vanessa Collingridge

Breaking the Waves

Beyond the Blue Horizon: How the Earliest Mariners Unlocked the Secrets of the Oceans

By Brian Fagan

Anthony Sattin

All the World’s a Page

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

By Jerry Brotton

D J Taylor

Been There, Done That

Sweet Tooth

By Ian McEwan

Keith Miller

Guy & Dolls

Zoo Time

By Howard Jacobson

Jonathan Barnes

Life’s a Blur

A Possible Life

By Sebastian Faulks

Toby Lichtig

All in the Mind

Mo said she was quirky

By James Kelman

Elspeth Barker

Grub Will Tear Us Apart

John Saturnall’s Feast

By Lawrence Norfolk

Guy Stagg

High Flyers

After Brock

By Paul Binding

Joan Smith

Profits of Sin

Slavery Inc: The Untold Story of International Sex Trafficking

By Lydia Cacho (Translated by Elizabeth Boburg)

Jonathan Mirsky

Behind the Miracle

Scattered Sand: The Story of China’s Rural Migrants

By Hsiao-Hung Pai

Frances Wilson

Evergreen Architecture

The Pinecone: The Story of Sarah Losh, forgotten Romantic heroine – antiquarian, architect and visionary

By Jenny Uglow

Catherine Peters

Experiments in Benevolence

Victorian Bloomsbury

By Rosemary Ashton

Rupert Christiansen

Quiet, Please

Discord: The Story of Noise

By Mike Goldsmith

Donald Trelford

All the Queen’s Men

Eminent Elizabethans

By Piers Brendon

Frances Spalding

In Pursuit of Good Form

Adrian Heath

By Jane Rye

Michael Prodger

From Marcel to Damien

What Are You Looking At? 150 Years of Modern Art in the Blink of an Eye

By Will Gompertz

Anthony Daniels

No Magic Pills

Legalize: The Only Way to Combat Drugs

By Max Rendall

Harry Mount

Alphabet Soup

Spell it out: the singular story of English spelling

By David Crystal

Paul Levy

Stomach Bugs

Fear of Food: A History of Why We Worry about What We Eat

By Harvey Levenstein

Lloyd Shepherd

Monitoring the Changes

The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World

By Nick Harkaway

Gillian Slovo

A Voice Unchained

Philida

By André Brink

Edmund Gordon

Kilburn Calling

NW

By Zadie Smith

Pamela Norris

All Washed Up

The Silver Dark Sea

By Susan Fletcher

Toby Thomas

Period Pieces

• Bernard Cornwell, 
• Stella Duffy, 
• Clare Clark, 
• Lesley Downer, 
• Alan Monaghan

John Dugdale

The Time Traveller’s Late Wife

Train Dreams

By Denis Johnson

Sam Kitchener

Child’s Play

Telegraph Avenue

By Michael Chabon

Lucy Beresford

Physician, Heal Thyself

Merivel: A Man of His Time

By Rose Tremain