Jerry Brotton

What’s in a Title?

D J Taylor

In Defence of the Literary Editor

Carole Angier

The Art of Propaganda

Leni: The Life and Work Of Leni Riefenstahl

By Steven Bach

William Doino

Pontiffs & Prejudice

Were the Popes Against the Jews? Tracking the Myths, Confronting the Ideologues

By Justus George Lawler

Piers Brendon

Beginning the Dissent

From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia

By Pankaj Mishra

Charles Elliott

The Art of Metamorphosis

Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis

By Kim Todd

Pamela Norris

A World in A Life

The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History

By Linda Colley

Leslie Mitchell

Fiery Debates

The Day Parliament Burned Down

By Caroline Shenton

Miri Rubin

How Jesus Became God

Christian Beginnings: From Nazareth to Nicaea, AD 30–325

By Caroline Shenton

Isabel Quigly

The Nordic Maiden and the Latin Lover

Ingrid: A Personal Biography

By Charlotte Chandler

Paul Johnson

America’s Attic

The Lost World of James Smithson: Science, Revolution, and the Birth of the Smithsonian

By Heather Ewing

Jonathan Mirsky

Did the Bomb End the War?

Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and their Aftermath

By Paul Ham

Nagasaki: The Massacre of the Innocent and Unknowing

By Craig Collie

Frank McLynn

Top Drawer

Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination

By Neal Gabler

Richard Sennett

A Higher Class

Mstislav Rostropovich: Cellist, Teacher, Legend

By Elizabeth Wilson

David Gelber

Death of a Parson

Damn His Blood: Being a True and Detailed History of the Most Barbarous and Inhumane Murder at Oddingley and the Quick and Awful Retribution

By Peter Moore

Christopher Ross

Silent but Deadly

Ninja: 1,000 Years of the Shadow Warriors

By John Man

Jane Ridley

Through the Keyhole

The Queen’s Knight

By Martyn Downer

John Cooper

For Queen & Country

The Watchers: A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I

By Stephen Alford

Alexander Waugh

From Soho with Love

Fulfilment and Betrayal

By Naim Attallah

Alan Judd

Old-Fashioned Hero

Man of War: The Secret Life of Captain Alan Hillgarth, Officer, Adventurer, Agent

By Duff Hart-Davis

Derek Mahon

Spice of Life

Collected Poems

By Louis MacNeice (Edited by Peter McDonald)

Roderick Bailey

Femme Fatale

The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville, Britain’s First Female Special Agent of the Second World War

By Clare Mulley

Hugh Bicheno

Spies of the Caribbean

Castro’s Secrets: The CIA and Cuba’s Intelligence Machine

By Brian Latell

Jeremy Lewis

Docile Young Man

The Angry Years: A Literary Chronicle

By Colin Wilson

Sarah Bradford

Merry Monarch

Bertie: A Life of Edward VII

By Jane Ridley

David Collard

A Coat, a Hat, and a Gun

A Mysterious Something in the Light: Raymond Chandler – A Life

By Tom Williams

Peter McDonald

The Purring Poet

Cecil Day-Lewis: A Life

By Peter Stanford

Peter Washington

The Publisher & The Poet

The Letters of John Murray to Lord Byron

By Andrew Nicholson

Alex Goodall

A Fruity Tale

The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King

By Rich Cohen

Richard Overy

Hijacking Marx

Comrades: Communism – A World History

By Robert Service

Charles Grant

Who Gets the Boot?

Good Italy, Bad Italy: Why Italy Must Conquer Its Demons to Face the Future

By Bill Emmott

Richard Cockett

Too Bad to Fail

The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future

By Victor Cha

Donald Rayfield

The Bad Seed

Young Stalin

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

Mark Leonard

Two-Speed Superpower

Tiger Head, Snake Tails: China Today, How It Got There and Where It Is Heading

By Jonathan Fenby

Jonathan Mirsky

Reds Under The Bed

An Un-American Life: The Case of Whittaker Chambers

By Sam Tanenhaus