Linda Porter

Tending the White Rose

Elizabeth of York: The First Tudor Queen

By Alison Weir

Stephen Bates

Arnold’s Boy

Excellent Dr Stanley: The Life of Dean Stanley of Westminster

By John Witheridge

John Sweeney

Snakes in the Jungle

Che Wants to See You: The Untold Story of Che in Bolivia

By Ciro Bustos (Translated by Ann Wright)

Jane Ridley

At Their Last Post

Empires of the Dead: How One Man’s Vision Led to the Creation of WWI’s War Graves

By David Crane

Andrew Lycett

Burmese Days

Uncle Bill: The Authorised Biography of Field Marshal Viscount Slim

By Russell Miller

Miranda Seymour

Tributary Offerings

The Danube: A Journey Upriver from the Black Sea to the Black Forest

By Nick Thorpe

Kevin Jackson

Black Mountain Song

American Smoke: Journeys to the End of the Light

By Iain Sinclair

Philip Parker

Whither Whiteblade?

The King in the North: The Life and Times of Oswald of Northumbria

By Max Adams

Frances Wilson

Debt to Pleasure

The Profligate Son: Or, A True Story of Family Conflict, Fashionable Vice, and Financial Ruin in Regency England

By Nicola Phillips

Donald Rayfield

Access All Areas

A Spy in the Archives: A Memoir of Cold War Russia

By Sheila Fitzpatrick

Henrietta Garnett

A Glorious Age

Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A Life in Time

By Penelope Lively

Jeremy Lewis

Observation Posts

There and Then: Personal Terms 6

By Frederic Raphael

Gulliver Ralston

Passion Plays

Music in the Castle of Heaven: A Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach

By John Eliot Gardiner

Michael Tanner

Notes for Living

Richard Wagner: A Life in Music

By Martin Geck (Translated by Stewart Spencer)

Rupert Christiansen

West Side Glory

The Leonard Bernstein Letters

By Nigel Simeone (ed)

Charles Shaar Murray

Man in Black

Johnny Cash: The Life

By Robert Hilburn

James Hall

Painter & Decorator

Michelangelo: His Epic Life

By Martin Gayford

Aaron Rosen

Lines in the Sand

A Century of Israeli Art

By Yigal Zalmona

Ian Sansom

Catch Him If You Can

Salinger

By David Shields & Shane Salerno

David Collard

Chekhov in the Rhondda

Rhys Davies: A Writer’s Life

By Meic Stephens

Matthew Green

Bomb Voyage

Snake Dance: Journeys Beneath a Nuclear Sky

By Patrick Marnham

Jonathan Mirsky

Fooling with Feinstein

No Joke: Making Jewish Humor

By Ruth R Wisse

Anne Sebba

Housewives & Heroines

Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties

By Rachel Cooke

Jonathan Keates

It’s Raining Frogs

A History of the French in London: Liberty, Equality, Opportunity

By Debra Kelly & Martyn Cornick (edd)

Adrian Tinniswood

More than Hooks and Parrots

Treasure Neverland: Real and Imaginary Pirates

By Neil Rennie

Jonathan Meades

Telling Storeys

The Building of England: How the History of England Has Shaped Our Buildings

By Simon Thurley

Robert Irwin

Virgil among the Ottomans

Homer’s Turk: How Classics Shaped Ideas of the East

By Jerry Toner

William Doino

Altared States

Can We Save the Catholic Church?

By Hans Küng

Sumit Paul-Choudhury

One Processor to Rule Them All

Computing with Quantum Cats: From Colossus to Qubits

By John Gribbin

Maya Jaggi

Looking for Darwish

David Gelber

Peer Review

Charles I and the Aristocracy, 1625–1642

By Richard Cust

Jerry Brotton

Sale of the Century

The King’s Pictures

By Francis Haskell

Tim Harris

Picturing Power

Rebranding Rule: The Restoration and Revolution Monarchy, 1660–1714

By Kevin Sharpe

Peter Scupham

Diverse Forms

Michael Arditti

Dalliance in Lisbon

The Two Hotel Francforts

By David Leavitt

Joan Smith

After Darcy

Bridget Jones: Mad about The Boy

By Helen Fielding

James Kidd

Friends with Benefits

Subtle Bodies

By Norman Rush

John Dugdale

Knowing Mae, Knowing You

The Circle

By Dave Eggers

Philip Womack

Devil Take ‘Em

Hello and Goodbye

By Patrick McCabe

Malcolm Forbes

Lives of Others

Back to Back

By Julia Franck & translated by Anthea Bell

Nick Hayes

There Be Dragons

The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil

By Stephen Collins

Hamid Ismailov

Doomed Empire of Love

Avelum

By Otar Chiladze (Translated by Donald Rayfield)

Christena Appleyard

Letting the Light In

Someone

By Alice McDermott