Rupert Christiansen

Sounds of Sehnsucht

The Complete Songs of Hugo Wolf: Life, Letters, Lieder

By Richard Stokes

Susan Elizabeth Sweeney

Reaching for the Stars

The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science

By John Tresch

Claudia FitzHerbert

It Was a Bleak Time

The Turning Point: A Year That Changed Dickens and the World

By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

Donald Rayfield

Disinterring Anton Chekhov

Old rumours & new finds

Alberto Manguel

Strange Case of Dr Nabos & Mr Reis

Pessoa: An Experimental Life

By Richard Zenith

Mary Kenny

Blood in the Park

The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge, and the Murders That Stunned an Empire

By Julie Kavanagh

Rupert Christiansen

Changing the Tune

Arthur Sullivan: A Life of Divine Emollient

By Ian Bradley

Maurice Frank

High Prussia Environment

Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918

By Katja Hoyer

Blood and Diamonds: Germany’s Imperial Ambitions in Africa

By Steven Press

Dan Richards

On the Rocks

Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica’s Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night

By Julian Sancton

Max Norman

Hunger, Thirst & Anti-Rash Underwear

The Hero’s Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna

By Tim Parks

Michael Taylor

Send Them Down Under

Condemned: The Transported Men, Women and Children Who Built Britain’s Empire

By Graham Seal

Piers Brendon

Assault on the Nile

The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan

By Winston Spencer Churchill (Edited by James W Muller)

Andrew Gailey

Six Degrees of Separation

The Partition: Ireland Divided, 1885–1925

By Charles Townshend

Bijan Omrani

Our Man in Kabul

Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City

By Edmund Richardson

Caroline Moorehead

Green-Fingered Emperor

Napoleon: A Life in Gardens and Shadows

By Ruth Scurr

Zareer Masani

Boiling with Raj

Time’s Monster: History, Conscience and Britain’s Empire

By Priya Satia

Sean O'Brien

Drunk on Birdsong

Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph

By Lucasta Miller

Jonathan Rée

Falsely, Madly, Deeply

Heinrich Heine: Writing the Revolution

By George Prochnik