Simon Heffer

Messy Break-Ups

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

By Michael Burleigh

Alan Allport

Escape to Infamy

Deserter: The Last Untold Story of the Second World War

By Charles Glass

Donald Rayfield

How the West Won

Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present

By Brendan Simms

Leanda de Lisle

Kill Your Darlings

The Children of Henry VIII

By John Guy

Paul Lay

Altered States

Leviathan: The Rise of Britain as a World Power

By David Scott

Nigel Jones

Prison Break

The Real Great Escape

By Guy Walters

Donald Trelford

Lady in Blue

Bang! A History of Britain in the 1980s

By Graham Stewart

Piers Brendon

The Road from Carlyle

James Anthony Froude: An Intellectual Biography of a Victorian Prophet

By Ciaran Brady

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

A D Miller

The Shrinking Drinkers

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

By Oliver Bullough

John Keay

Paribartan Now

Calcutta: Two Years in the City

By Amit Chaudhuri

Alec Russell

Post-Apartheid Bling

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

By Fiona Forde

James Hall

Larger than Life

The Colossal: From Ancient Greece to Giacometti

By Peter Mason

Jerry Brotton

Cameo Appearances

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

By Marina Belozerskaya

Gillian Darley

After Pugin

William Burges and the High Victorian Dream

By J Mordaunt Crook

Allan Massie

Invisible Ink

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

By Rick Gekoski

David Profumo

Dances with Swords

Swordfish: A Biography of the Ocean Gladiator

By Richard Ellis

David Collard

A Fine Bromance

Distant Intimacy: A Friendship in the Age of the Internet

By Frederic Raphael & Joseph Epstein

Karen Armstrong

Louder than Words

Silence: A Christian History

By Diarmaid MacCulloch

Marek Kohn

The Evolution of a Theory

Darwin Deleted: Imagining a World without Darwin

By Peter J Bowler

Stephen Mulhall

Immoral Science?

Hitler’s Philosophers

By Yvonne Sherratt

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

Adrian Weale

The Drone Delusion

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

By Christopher Coker

Adrian Turpin

Riddle of the Sands

The Forgiven


By Lawrence Osborne

Suzi Feay

Band on the Run

Schroder

By Amity Gaige

Thea Lenarduzzi

Enduring Love

The Hired Man

By Aminatta Forna

Jake Kerridge

A Wing & a Prayer

The Crane Wife

By Patrick Ness