Ee Bah Gum

On Ilkley Moor: The Story of an English Town

Asa Briggs

The Paradoxes of Progress

The Face of the Past: the Preservation of the Medieval Inheritance in Victorian England

By Charles Dellheim

Caroline Moore

Among the Members of a Quartet

An Equal Music

By Vikram Seth

Jonathan Meades

England’s California?

The Buildings of England: Dorset

By Michael Hill, John Newman & Nikolaus Pevsner

Mark Redhead

Visionary Vales

Land of the Vales

By Melvyn Bragg

Keith Waterhouse

‘Ave a Good Laff

Up North: Travels Beyond the Watford Gap

By Charles Jennings

Blair Worden

A Polite People?

In Pursuit of Civility: Manners and Civilization in Early Modern England

By Keith Thomas

Robert Nye

New Selected Spells by the Royal Witch Doctor

New Selected Poems 1957-1994

By Ted Hughes

Ruth Padel

Why did the Bitch Have to Leave Him?

The Chameleon Poet: A Life of George Barker

By Robert Fraser

Kathryn Hughes

Diana Athill at Home

Mary Keen

Beauty in a Country Garden

The Making of an English Country Garden

By Deborah Kellaway

Robert Colls

Happy Hunting

The Last Wolf: The Hidden Springs of Englishness

By Robert Winder

David Wheatley

He Was Afraid of Cows

The Letters of T S Eliot, Volume 7: 1934–1935

By Valerie Eliot & John Haffenden (edd)

Nigel Andrew

Countryphile

The Village News: The Truth Behind England’s Rural Idyll

By Tom Fort

Thomas Shippey

A Very Modern Viking

Cnut the Great

By Timothy Bolton

Adrian Tinniswood

Charlie’s Angels

Royal Renegades: The Children of Charles I and the English Civil Wars

By Linda Porter

Ted Vallance

Thug Nation

A Fiery & Furious People: A History of Violence in England

By James Sharpe