History

Simon Heffer

Messy Break-Ups

Small Wars, Far Away Places: The Genesis of the Modern World – 1945–65

By Michael Burleigh

LR

Alan Allport

Escape to Infamy

Deserter: The Last Untold Story of the Second World War

By Charles Glass

LR

Donald Rayfield

How the West Won

Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present

By Brendan Simms

LR

Leanda de Lisle

Kill Your Darlings

The Children of Henry VIII

By John Guy

LR

Paul Lay

Altered States

Leviathan: The Rise of Britain as a World Power

By David Scott

LR

Paul Johnson

Talk of the Town

Holland House: A History of London’s Most Celebrated Salon

By Linda Kelly

Nigel Jones

Prison Break

The Real Great Escape

By Guy Walters

LR

Donald Trelford

Lady in Blue

Bang! A History of Britain in the 1980s

By Graham Stewart

LR

Literary biography

Justin Beplate

Bravo Yankee Oscar

Declaring His Genius: Oscar Wilde in North America

By Roy Morris Jr

The Marquess of Queensberry: Wilde’s Nemesis

By Linda Stratmann

Ceremonies of Bravery: Oscar Wilde, Carlos Blacker, and the Dreyfus Affair

By J Robert Maguire

Piers Brendon

The Road from Carlyle

James Anthony Froude: An Intellectual Biography of a Victorian Prophet

By Ciaran Brady

LR

Elspeth Barker

Growing Pains

Mad Girl’s Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted

By Andrew Wilson

Ted and I: A Brother’s Memoir

By Gerald Hughes

LR

Caroline Moorehead

More Falcon than Lamb

West’s World: The Extraordinary Life of Dame Rebecca West

By Lorna Gibb

Home & Abroad

A D Miller

The Shrinking Drinkers

The Last Man in Russia and the Struggle to Save a Dying Nation

By Oliver Bullough

LR

John Keay

Paribartan Now

Calcutta: Two Years in the City

By Amit Chaudhuri

LR

Alec Russell

Post-Apartheid Bling

An Inconvenient Youth: Julius Malema and the ‘new’ ANC

By Fiona Forde

LR

Frank McLynn

Jekyll & Clyde

On Glasgow and Edinburgh

By Robert Crawford

Art & Architecture

James Hall

Larger than Life

The Colossal: From Ancient Greece to Giacometti

By Peter Mason

LR

Adrian Tinniswood

What a Carve Up!

The Lost Carving: A Journey to the Heart of Making

By David Esterly

Jerry Brotton

Cameo Appearances

Medusa’s Gaze: The Extraordinary Journey of the Tazza Farnese

By Marina Belozerskaya

LR

Gillian Darley

After Pugin

William Burges and the High Victorian Dream

By J Mordaunt Crook

LR

Allan Massie

Invisible Ink

Lost, Stolen or Shredded: Stories of Missing Works of Art and Literature

By Rick Gekoski

LR

Man & Beast

Christopher Hart

The Ways of All Flesh

Anatomies: The Human Body, Its Parts and the Stories They Tell

By Hugh Aldersey-Williams

David Profumo

Dances with Swords

Swordfish: A Biography of the Ocean Gladiator

By Richard Ellis

LR

Letters & Memoirs

John Sutherland

Signed, Sealed, Delivered

Dear Mark Twain: Letters from His Readers

By R Kent Rasmussen

David Collard

A Fine Bromance

Distant Intimacy: A Friendship in the Age of the Internet

By Frederic Raphael & Joseph Epstein

LR

Christena Appleyard

Retrospective Glances

General

Karen Armstrong

Louder than Words

Silence: A Christian History

By Diarmaid MacCulloch

LR

Marek Kohn

The Evolution of a Theory

Darwin Deleted: Imagining a World without Darwin

By Peter J Bowler

LR

Stephen Mulhall

Immoral Science?

Hitler’s Philosophers

By Yvonne Sherratt

LR

Gillian Tindall

Decent Exposures

Capturing the Light

By Roger Watson & Helen Rappaport

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Among the Daiperologists

Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War

By Peter Mandler

LR

Adrian Weale

The Drone Delusion

Warrior Geeks: How 21st-Century Technology is Changing the Way We Fight and Think About War

By Christopher Coker

LR

Fiction

Adrian Turpin

Riddle of the Sands

The Forgiven 

By Lawrence Osborne

LR

Toby Lichtig

Rupee Cushion

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

By Mohsin Hamid

Malcolm Forbes

US & Them

Americanah

By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

LR

Frank Brinkley

Short Stories

Suzi Feay

Band on the Run

Schroder

By Amity Gaige

LR

Matthew Adams

First Fruit

Thea Lenarduzzi

Enduring Love

The Hired Man

By Aminatta Forna

LR

Jake Kerridge

A Wing & a Prayer

The Crane Wife

By Patrick Ness

LR

Kaite Welsh

Summer Lovin’

The Art of Leaving

By Anna Stothard

Instructions for a Heatwave

By Maggie O’Farrell

Crime

Jessica Mann

April 2013 Crime Round-up

Imogen Robertson,
Pierre Lemaitre,
Liza Marklund,
Alex Gray,
Gordon Ferris,
Lindsey Davis,
Henry Sutton

Silenced Voices

Lucy Popescu

Martínez Arias

Apr 2013

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