David Lough

Immolated on the Altar of Office

Statesman of Europe: A Life of Sir Edward Grey

By T G Otte

Adam Zamoyski

Grand Designs

The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815–1914

By Richard J Evans

Donald Rayfield

Philosophers & Murderers

Black Wind, White Snow: The Rise of Russia’s New Nationalism

By Charles Clover

A Very Expensive Poison: The Definitive Story of the Murder of Litvinenko and Russia’s War with the West

By Luke Harding

Raymond Seitz

E Pluribus Unum

America, Empire of Liberty: A New History

By David Reynolds

Jonathan Sumption

‘Can One Save a King Who is on Trial?’

A History of Political Trials from Charles I to Saddam Hussein

By John Laughland

Leslie Mitchell

A Gentleman In Politics

Balfour: The Last Grandee

By R J Q Adams

Vernon Bogdanor

Lion, Harp & Unicorn

The Two Unions: Ireland, Scotland, and the Survival of the United Kingdom, 1707–2007

By Alvin Jackson