Paul Lay

The Past Is Another Channel

John Gray

Bright Shining Splinters

Inside the Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer

By Ray Monk

Andy Martin

Text Messenger

Derrida: A Biography

By Benoît Peeters (Translated by Andrew Brown)

Jane Ridley

Father of Singapore

Raffles and the Golden Opportunity 1781–1826

By Victoria Glendinning

Allan Massie

The Good, the Bad & the Ugly

The Twelve Caesars

By Matthew Dennison

David Astor

An American in Parliament

Nancy: The Story of Lady Astor

By Adrian Fort

William Anthony Hay

Laying Down Crossfire

The Crusader: The Life and Tumultuous Times of Pat Buchanan

By Timothy Stanley

Rupert Christiansen

The Sopranos

A History of Opera: The Last Four Hundred Years

By Carolyn Abbate & Roger Parker

Martin Gayford

Canvassing Opinions

In My View: Personal Reflections on Art by Today’s Leading Artists

By Simon Grant (ed)

Jonathan Keates

Key Changes

Music in 1853: The Biography of a Year

By Hugh Macdonald

Peyton Skipwith

Cast Master

The Sculpture of F E McWilliam

By Denise Ferran & Valerie Holman

Jeremy Lewis

A Latter-Day Byron

Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure

By Artemis Cooper

John Sutherland

Rowed to Success

Below the Fairy City: A Life of Jerome K Jerome

By Carolyn W de la L Oulton

Freya Johnston

Two Inches of Ivory

What Matters in Jane Austen? Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved

By John Mullan

Jane Austen’s Cults and Cultures

By Claudia L Johnson

Katherine Duncan-Jones

Too Much of a Good Thing?

Shakespeare’s Restless World

By Neil MacGregor

Nikolai Tolstoy

White Blood

Former People: The Last Days of the Russian Aristocracy

By Douglas Smith

Charles Esdaile

Against the Odds

The Savage Storm: Britain on the Brink in the Age of Napoleon

By David Andress

Peter Marshall

Occult Following

The Arch-Conjuror of England: John Dee

By Glyn Parry

Robert Irwin

Shared Values

Europe and the Islamic World: A History

By John Tolan, Gilles Veinstein & Henry Laurens (Translated by Jane Marie Todd)

Paul Bew

North and South

Ambiguous Republic: Ireland in the 1970s

By Diarmaid Ferriter

Francis Pryor

Where to Start

Britain Begins

By Barry Cunliffe

Steve Tsang

Great Leap Backward

Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao’s Great Famine

By Yang Jisheng (Translated by Stacy Mosher & Guo Jian)

Carole Angier

Post-Wall Angst

From Germany to Germany: Journal of the Year 1990

By Günter Grass (Translated by Krishna Winston)

Roads to Berlin: Detours and Riddles in the Lands and History of Germany

By Cees Nooteboom (Translated by Laura Watkinson)

Daniel Beer

Imperial Battleground

Edge of Empires: A History of Georgia

By Donald Rayfield

Joan Smith

Banned, on the Run

Joseph Anton: A Memoir

By Salman Rushdie

Aidan Hartley

Life at One Remove

In the House of the Interpreter: A Memoir

By Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

Mary Kenny

Farewell to County Clare

Country Girl: A Memoir

By Edna O’Brien

Gillian Tindall

Charting the Capital

London: A History in Maps

By Peter Barber

Harry Mount

Sublime to the Ridiculous

Greater London: The Story of the Suburbs

By Nick Barratt

Great Houses of London

By James Stourton (Photographs by Fritz von der Schulenburg)

Alex Goodall

Shooting Stars

Age of Assassins: A History of Conspiracy and Political Violence, 1865–1981

By Michael Newton

Tom Fort

A Prehistoric Lourdes?

Stonehenge: Exploring the Greatest Stone Age Mystery

By Mike Parker Pearson

Gillian Darley

Unfinished Business

James Wyatt: Architect to George III

By John Martin Robinson

David Gelber

Belvoir Noir

The Secret Rooms: A True Gothic Mystery

By Catherine Bailey

Esther Woolfson

Nature Notes

Otter Country: In Search of the Wild Otter

By Miriam Darlington

Nightwalk: A Journey to the Heart of Nature

By Chris Yates

Colin Mcswiggen

Water under the Bridge

To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure

By Henry Petroski

Frank McLynn

What’s Your Take?

The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies and What They Did to Us

By David Thomson

Patricia Duncker

Offstage Drama

Dear Life

By Alice Munro

John Dugdale

Miami Splice

Back to Blood

By Tom Wolfe

Suzi Feay

After the Crush

Carry the One

By Carol Anshaw

Amanda Craig

Nursing Wounds

The Small Hours

By Susie Boyt

Paul Bailey

His Mother’s Son

The Testament of Mary

By Colm Tóibín

James Purdon

Albanian Nights

The Fall of the Stone City

By Ismail Kadare (Translated by John Hodgson)

Kate Saunders

Big Trouble in Little Pagford

The Casual Vacancy

By J K Rowling

Sam Kitchener

Paper Trails

Hawthorn & Child

By Keith Ridgway