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The Sense of a Binding

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In My Lady’s Chambers

Elizabeth’s Bedfellows: An Intimate History of the Queen’s Court

By Anna Whitelock

John Adamson

Showing Her Metal

The Iron Princess: Amalia Elisabeth and the Thirty Years War

By Tryntje Helfferich

Dominic Lawson

Lady of the House

Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume One: Not for Turning

By Charles Moore

Not for Turning: The Life of Margaret Thatcher

By Robin Harris

Robin Fox

Twist & Shout

The Dancing Goddesses: Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance

By Elizabeth Wayland Barber

Rupert Christiansen

Dancing on the Edge

Nijinsky

By Lucy Moore

Gulliver Ralston

I’ll Be Bach

Reinventing Bach

By Paul Elie

Patrick Wilcken

Putting Brazil on the Map

The Scramble for the Amazon and the Lost Paradise of Euclides da Cunha

By Susanna B Hecht

Paul Lay

Spearing the Boar

Bosworth: The Birth of the Tudors

By Chris Skidmore

Caroline Moorehead

La Grande Peur

What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France

By Mary Louise Roberts

Richard Bourke

How the West Was Won

The Enlightenment and Why It Still Matters

By Anthony Pagden

Paul Addison

Messy Old Life

Modernity Britain: Opening the Box, 1957–59

By David Kynaston

Alexandra Harris

The Brush & the Set Square

Paul Nash: Landscape and the Life of Objects

By Andrew Causey

Tim Hilton

Stuff Happens

Taxidermy

By Alexis Turner

Mick Brown

Zen & Now

From Stone to Flesh: A Short History of the Buddha

By Donald S Lopez Jr

Diarmaid Macculloch

Confessions & Retractions

Saint Augustine of Hippo: An Intellectual Biography

By Miles Hollingworth

Nigel Jones

Of Love & War

Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill

By Michael Shelden

Churchill’s First War: Young Winston and the Fight Against the Taliban

By Con Coughlin

Robert Chesshyre

Prison Break

Life after Death: Eighteen Years on Death Row

By Damien Echols

Allan Massie

The Queen & the Editor

Alexandria: The Last Nights of Cleopatra

By Peter Stothard

Oliver Bullough

Strongman Act

Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell in and out of Love with Vladimir Putin

By Ben Judah

Paul French

Parallel Lives

Brothers at War: The Unending Conflict in Korea

By Sheila Miyoshi Jager

John Keay

On the Tiger Trail

Golden Parasol: A Daughter’s Memoir of Burma

By Wendy Law-Yone

Michael Holman

Out of Love with Africa

The Last Train to Zona Verde: Overland from Cape Town to Angola

By Paul Theroux

Andrew Brown

Ignoble Savages

Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us About Sex, Diet, and How We Live

By Marlene Zuk

The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates

By Frans de Waal

Jonathan Mirsky

Voice of the People

Lu Xun’s Revolution: Writing in a Time of Violence

By Gloria Davies

Peter Washington

Unlikely Rebel

C S Lewis: A Life – Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet

By Alister McGrath

James Fergusson

Bond between the Sheets

Ian Fleming: The Bibliography

By Jon Gilbert

Jay Parini

How the Party Started

Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby

By Sarah Churchwell

James Purdon

Pen Pals

Here and Now: Letters, 2008–2011

By Paul Auster & J M Coetzee

Phil Baker

How to Sell Paper

Fifty Years in the Fiction Factory: The Working Life of Herbert Allingham

By Julia Jones

Tom Holland

By the Rivers of Nineveh

The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon: An Elusive World Wonder Traced

By Stephanie Dalley

Gillian Tindall

Good Housekeeping

Men from the Ministry: How Britain Saved Its Heritage

By Simon Thurley

Joanna Kavenna

Making It Whole

The Faraway Nearby

By Rebecca Solnit

Alexander Maitland

When They Were Up, They Were Up

Shipton & Tilman: The Great Decade of Himalayan Exploration

By Jim Perrin

Andrew Greig

Swimming Home

The Sea Inside

By Philip Hoare

Eric Kaufmann

Planting the Urban Jungle

A History of Future Cities

By Daniel Brook

Peter Marshall

Leaps of Faith

Before Religion: A History of a Modern Concept

By Brent Nongbri

Elspeth Barker

A Grief Observed

Levels of Life

By Julian Barnes

Charles Shaar Murray

Life of a Ladies’ Man

I’m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen

By Sylvie Simmons

Raymond Sokolov

The Loaves of Others

Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

By Michael Pollan

Pamela Norris

Room Mates

The Woman Upstairs

By Claire Messud

Donald Rayfield

Lost in Translation

The Enchanted Wanderer & Other Stories

By Nikolai Leskov (Translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky)

Simon Baker

Missing Persons

Asylum

By John Harwood

Adrian Turpin

Memory Sticks

Strange Bodies

By Marcel Theroux

Anthony Cummins

Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

All the Birds, Singing

By Evie Wyld

Patrick Skene Catling

Closing Time at the Bar

Last Friends

By Jane Gardam

Francesca Wade

Art Attack

Asunder

By Chloe Aridjis

Kaite Welsh

From Kabul to California

And the Mountains Echoed

By Khaled Hosseini