John Bayley

Is this Review to be the End of Foster Bayley?

A Way in the World

By V S Naipaul

Saul David

Admin Nightmare

Burma ’44: The Battle that Turned the War in the Far East

By James Holland

Andrew Roberts

Passages to India

Conservative Politics in National and Imperial Crisis: Letters from Britain to the Viceroy of India 1926–31

By Stuart Ball (ed)

Christopher Hitchens

Chronicles of Revolution

Under the Skin: The Death of White Rhodesia

By David Caute

Jan Morris

It’s the Taking Part that Counts

Heroic Failure and the British

By Stephanie Barczewski

John Keay

Regilding the Pagoda

Blood, Dreams and Gold: The Changing Face of Burma

By Richard Cockett

Tim Heald

The Miscreants’ Metrolpolis

The Birth of Sydney: The Story of Britain's Arrival In The Antipodes

By Tim Flannery (edd, intro)

Paul Johnson

Coffers and Cannibals

Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire

By Hugh Thomas

Aidan Hartley

Man On A Mission

The Dust Diaries

By Owen Sheers

Christopher Ondaatje

Christopher Ondaatje Goes in Search of Leonard Woolf

John Clay

Appreciating Aborigines

Whitefella Jump Up: The Shortest Way To Nationhood

By Germaine Greer

Great Southern Land: A New History of Australia

By Frank Welsh

Tom Stacey

The Mad, The Bad and the Ironclad

Mimi and Toutou Go Forth: The Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika

By Giles Foden

John Hemming

The Tropical King

Empire Adrift: The Portuguese Court in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1821

By Patrick Wilcken

C A R Hills

The Whole World for Their Grave

A History of Portuguese Overseas Expansion 1400-1668

By Malyn Newitt

John Keay

Soft Power

Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism

By Sven Beckert

Piers Brendon

The Fakir and the Bulldog

Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age

By Arthur Herman

Frank McLynn

Spartans of the Plains

The Comanche Empire

By Pekka Hämäläinen

Raymond Seitz

Puritan’s Progress

Pilgrims: New World Settlers and the Call of Home

By Susan Hardman Moore

Jonathan Mirsky

Tropical Fever

Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters: An Outrageous Englishwoman and Her Lost Kingdom

By Philip Eade

Saul David

Better Than The Romans

The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781–1997

By Piers Brendon