Miranda Seymour

The Marriage Plot

The Trials of the King of Hampshire: Madness, Secrecy and Betrayal in Georgian England

By Elizabeth Foyster

Elias Bredsdorff

Letter from Denmark

Nadira Naipaul

Shadow of the Gallows

Trials: On Death Row in Pakistan

By Isabel Buchanan

Caroline Moorehead

Justice Defined

East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity

By Philippe Sands

Dominic Sandbrook

Juicy QC

Jeremy Hutchinson’s Case Histories

By Thomas Grant

Thomas Hodgkinson

A Handcuff?

Irish Peacock & Scarlet Marquess: The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde

By Merlin Holland (ed)

Nick Broomfield

Hang ‘Em High

Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty

By Scott Turow

Tom Feiling

Looking for a Fix

Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

By Johann Hari

Marcel Berlins

Words From the Bench

Ashes and Sparks: Essays on Law and Justice

By Stephen Sedley

Michael O’Brien

Class Action

In Reckless Hands: Skinner v Oklahoma and the Near-Triumph of American Eugenics

By Victoria F Nourse

Frances Wilson

Criminal Conversation

Lady Worsley’s Whim: An Eighteenth-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal and Divorce

By Hallie Rubenhold

Kenneth O Morgan

Unelected & Underrated

Downing Street Diary: Volume Two – With James Callaghan in No 10

By Bernard Donoughue

Robert Nye

Love’s Lodgings Lost

The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street

By Charles Nicholl

Caroline Moorehead

‘Ambassador to Hell’

All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals

By David Scheffer

Robert Chesshyre

Crime & Punishment

Injustice: Life and Death in the Courtrooms of America

By Clive Stafford Smith

Jonathan Sumption

Trial by Sword

The Verdict of Battle: The Law of Victory and the Making of Modern War

By James Q Whitman

Conor Gearty

In the Chains of Command

The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay

By Jess Bravin

The General: The Ordinary Man Who Challenged Guantanamo

By Ahmed Errachidi with Gillian Slovo

Marcel Berlins

Aye for an Eye for an Eye

Payback: The Case for Revenge

By Thane Rosenbaum

Peter Marshall

Live by the Sword

The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honour and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century

By Joel F Harrington

Lawrence Rosen

Power vs the People

Justice Interrupted: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in the Middle East

By Elizabeth F Thompson