Frances Wilson

Best of Frenemies

The Virago Book of Friendship

By Rachel Cooke (ed)

Jessica Mann

Affairs of the Hearth

Home: The Story of Everyone Who Ever Lived In Our House

By Julie Myerson

Kerry Brown

War & Peace

The City of Heavenly Tranquillity: Beijing in the History of China

By Jasper Becker

China: A History

By John Keay

Paul Addison

Are We Declining?

From Anger to Apathy: The British Experience since 1975

By Mark Garnett

Caroline Moorehead

Brutal Truths

Rape: A History from 1860 to the Present Day

By Joanna Bourke

Brendan Simms

Lives Go On

The War is Dead, Long Live the War: Bosnia – The Reckoning

By Ed Vulliamy