Carole Angier

Teach Us to Write Well

Piers Brendon

Baiting the Tigers

Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan

By William Dalrymple

Richard Cockett

The Last Days of the Tamil Tigers

Still Counting the Dead: Survivors of Sri Lanka’s Hidden War

By Frances Harrison

Robert Chesshyre

Road to Nowhere

The Last Days of Detroit: Motor Cars, Motown and the Collapse of an Industrial Giant

By Mark Binelli

Ariane Bankes

Front Lines

David Jones in the Great War

By Thomas Dilworth

Simon Heffer

Settling Scores

Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century

By Paul Kildea

Peyton Skipwith

Painter to the Stars

Jacques-Emile Blanche

By Jane Roberts

Bharat Tandon

Material Girl

The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things

By Paula Byrne

Steve Fuller

The First Sociologist

Emile Durkheim: A Biography

By Marcel Fournier (Translated by David Macey)

Rupert Christiansen

White Swan

Tatiana Leskova: A Ballerina at Large (Translated by Donald E Scrimgeour)

By Suzana Braga

Catherine Peters

Carry On Cross-Dressing

Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England

By Neil McKenna

Christopher Howse

Men Behaving Courteously

Sorry! The English and Their Manners

By Henry Hitchings

Paul Lay

English Bullies, Spanish Bullion

Elizabeth’s Sea Dogs: How the English became the Scourge of the Seas

By Hugh Bicheno

Peter Marshall

Come All Ye Faithful

Trent: What Happened at the Council

By John W O’Malley

David Cesarani

Listening In

Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing and Dying – The Secret World War II Tapes of German POWs

By Sönke Neitzel and Harald Welzer (Translated by Jefferson Chase)

Michael Burleigh

At Sixes & Fives

Empire of Secrets: British Intelligence, the Cold War and the Twilight of Empire

By Calder Walton

Norman Stone

Staging the Revolutions

The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe

By Marci Shore

J W M Thompson

Unparliamentary Behaviour

An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo

By Richard Davenport-Hines

Kevin Jackson

Conversations on a Concrete Island

Extreme Metaphors: Interviews with J G Ballard, 1967–2008

By Simon Sellars & Dan O’Hara (ed)

Seamus Perry

James’s Bible

The Fun Stuff and Other Essays

By James Wood

John Sutherland

Nomenculture

Literary Names: Personal Names in English Literature

By Alastair Fowler

Robert Gordon

The Poet-King of Fiume

The Pike: Gabriele d’Annunzio – Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War

By Lucy Hughes-Hallett

John Pollard

The People Have Spoken

Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini’s Italy

By Christopher Duggan

Jonathan Keates

Big Trouble in Little Bronte

Under the Volcano: Revolution in a Sicilian Town

By Lucy Riall

George Walden

A Dog’s Life

The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths

By John Gray

Michael Berkeley

In Black & White

Play It Again: An Amateur Against the Impossible

By Alan Rusbridger

David Gelber

Behind Closed Doors

Family Secrets: Living with Shame from the Victorians to the Present Day

By Deborah Cohen

Jonathan Meades

The Pen & the Spade

Time’s Anvil: England, Archaeology and the Imagination

By Richard Morris

Anthony Daniels

Glucose Intolerant

Fat Chance: The Bitter Truth About Sugar

By Robert Lustig

Lindy Burleigh

Walking It Off

Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found

By Cheryl Strayed

Vernon Bogdanor

Ruling Passions

On Politics: A History of Political Thought from Herodotus to the Present

By Alan Ryan

George Gömöri

Best Friends Forever

The Album Amicorum and the London of Shakespeare’s Time

By June Schlueter

Maya Jaggi

Slaughterhouse Lives

Pow!

By Mo Yan (Translated by Howard Goldblatt)

Oliver Dennis

Before Voss

Happy Valley

By Patrick White

Ursula K Le Guin

Blaze of Glory

Flight Behaviour

By Barbara Kingsolver

Pamela Norris

Love Shack

Heartbreak Hotel

By Deborah Moggach

Kaite Welsh

Agnès Dei

The Cleaner of Chartres

By Salley Vickers

Hannah Rosefield

Sheila’s Friends

How Should a Person Be?

By Sheila Heti

David Annand

Coming to Arabia

A Hologram for the King

By Dave Eggers

Sophie Hughes

Bad-Weather Friends

Raised from the Ground

By José Saramago (Translated by Margaret Jull Costa)

Fleur Macdonald

Australian Gothic

The Engagement

By Chloe Hooper

Tom Williams

Out of Eden Grove

The World Was All Before Them

By Matthew Reynolds