Kathryn Hughes

What Life Held for a Clergyman’s Daughter

A Governess in the Age of Jane Austen: The Journals and Letters of Agnes Porter

By Joanna Martin (ed)

Nicholas Rankin

Tuning Out

Auntie’s War: The BBC during the Second World War

By Edward Stourton

Ed Potten

Shelf Indulgence

Andrew Barrow

A Time for Wassailing

Christmas: A Biography

By Judith Flanders

James Sharpe

Knowledge and Truth

Reading Witchcraft: Stories of Early English Witches

By Marion Gibson

Kenneth O Morgan

On Benefits

Bread for All: The Origins of the Welfare State

By Chris Renwick

Hugh Massingberd

Owners Move Back

The Fall and Rise of the Stately Homes

By Peter Mandler

Damian Thompson

Party Tricks

Who's Afraid of Freemasons? The Phenomenon of Freemasonry

By Alexander Piatigorsky

James Bloodworth

Rebels with a Cause

Radicals: Outsiders Changing the World

By Jamie Bartlett

Anne Sebba

Rank & Style

The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York

By Anne de Courcy

Tom Fort

Busman’s Holiday

Riding Route 94: An Accidental Journey through the Story of Britain

By David McKie

Lucy Moore

Jewel Identitites

Koh-i-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond

By William Dalrymple & Anita Anand

Mona Siddiqui

Koran & Country

Al-Britannia, My Country: A Journey through Muslim Britain

By James Fergusson

Paul Addison

Picking up the Pieces

The Fear and Freedom: How the Second World War Changed us

By Keith Lowe

David Cesarani

Reading with Primo

The Search for Roots: A Personal Anthology

By Primo Levi, Peter Forbes (trans.)

Duncan Minshull

Walk On By

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

By Rebecca Solnit

Jonathan Mirsky

What’s Behind the Blue Door?

Inside Notting Hill

By Miranda Davies and Sarah Anderson

Joan Smith

Oprah, Di and Hillary

Inventing Herself: Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage

By Elaine Showalter