John Clay

Women At Sea

The Floating Brothel

By Siân Rees

Kathleen Burk

How Much do We Want to Know?

The First World War, Volume I: To Arms

By Hew Strachan

George Stern

Useful Occupations

Fermat's Last Theorem: The Story of a Riddle that Confounded the World's Greatest Minds for 358 Years

By Simon Singh

Fermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem

By Amir D Aczel

Edward Chaney

Migrating Monoliths

Cleopatra’s Needles: The Lost Obelisks of Egypt

By Bob Brier

Kevin Jackson

Use Your Illusions

Conjuring Asia: Magic, Orientalism, and the Making of the Modern World

By Chris Goto-Jones

Richard Gott

The Lynch Mob

The Empress of South America: The True Story of Eliza Lynch

By Nigel Cawthorne

The Shadows of Eliza Lynch

By Siân Rees

At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: A Riotous Journey into the Heart of Paraguay

By John Gimlette

Jonathan Keates

A Slippery City

Venice: Fragile City 1797-1997

By Margaret Plant

Venices

By Paul Morand, Euan Cameron (trans.)

Against Venice

By Regis Debray

Simon Heffer

A Turbulent Continent

The Struggle for Europe: The History of the Continent since 1945

By William I Hitchcock

Aidan Hartley

How Are the Tyrants Fallen

Talk of the Devil: Encounters with Seven Dictators

By Riccardo Orizio

Eric Ormsby

Eastern Reflections

Persophilia: Persian Culture on the Global Scene

By Hamid Dabashi

Donald Sassoon

iPod Therefore I Am

Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-first

By Frank Trentmann

Will Wiles

Look on My Works, Ye Mighty

Fallen Glory: The Lives and Deaths of Twenty Lost Buildings from the Tower of Babel to the Twin Towers

By James Crawford

Simon Heffer

Annus Horribilis

1916: A Global History

By Keith Jeffery

Elegy: The First Day on the Somme

By Andrew Roberts

Richard Overy

Breaches of Civilisation

The Age of Catastrophe: A History of the West, 1914–1945

By Heinrich August Winkler (Translated by Stewart Spencer)

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

From the Black Sea to Xinjiang

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

By Peter Frankopan

Michael Burleigh

The State We’re In

The West and the Rest: Globalisation and the Terrorist Threat

By Roger Scruton

A C Grayling

Apocalypse Now

Our Final Century: Will The Human Race Survive the Twenty-First Century?

By Martin Rees

Hazhir Teimourian

Was It Every Right?

The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror

By Bernard Lewis

Infidels: The Conflict Between Christendom and Islam, 638-2002

By Andrew Wheatcroft

Tristan Quinn

Capital In Flux

Factory

By Gillian Darley

Tom Pocock

Britannia Rules the Waves

Maritime Power and the Struggle for Freedom: Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World, 1788-1857

By Peter Padfield