Richard Canning

Thrust into the Limelight

All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rock Hudson

By Mark Griffin

Richard Davenport-Hines

The Art of the Deal

Mr Five Per Cent: The Many Lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the World’s Richest Man

By Jonathan Conlin

Stuart Isacoff

Life in a Minor Key

Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times

By Alan Walker

Munro Price

The Emperor Unclothed

Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth

By Adam Zamoyski

Brian Dillon

Squares in His Eyes

Josef Albers: Life and Work

By Charles Darwent

Director’s Dreams

Xan Smiley

Orphans of the USSR

The Shoemaker and His Daughter: One Ordinary Family’s Remarkable Journey from Stalin’s Soviet Union to Putin’s Russia

By Conor O’Clery

Stephen Bates

Stock Horror

Ultimate Folly: The Rises and Falls of Whitaker Wright, the World’s Most Shameless Swindler

By Henry Macrory

Philip Womack

Toad Revisited

Eternal Boy: The Life of Kenneth Grahame

By Matthew Dennison

Alan Bell

Unpriestly Behaviour

JP Priestley

By Vincent Brome

Matthew J Reisz

A Trail of Sycophancy

Rothschild: A Story of Wealth and Power

By Derek WIlson

Brian Phillips

Terror of Not Being Heard

Primo Levi: Tragedy of an Optimist

By Myriam Anissimov

John Gribbin

Mad as a Hatter

The Man Who Loved Only Numbers

By Paul Hoffman

Adrian Weale

Death at Wireless Ridge

Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper

By Helen Parr

Jonathan Keates

Zadok Released

Handel in London: The Making of a Genius

By Jane Glover