D J Taylor

In Defence of the Literary Editor

Jerry Brotton

What’s in a Title?

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

Charles Elliott

The Art of Metamorphosis

Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis

By Kim Todd

Piers Brendon

Beginning the Dissent

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

By Pankaj Mishra

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

Isabel Quigly

The Nordic Maiden and the Latin Lover

Ingrid: A Personal Biography

By Charlotte Chandler

Miri Rubin

How Jesus Became God

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

By Caroline Shenton

Paul Johnson

America’s Attic

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

By Heather Ewing

Frank McLynn

Top Drawer

Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination

By Neal Gabler

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

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

Jane Ridley

Through the Keyhole

The Queen’s Knight

By Martyn Downer

Christopher Ross

Silent but Deadly

Ninja: 1,000 Years of the Shadow Warriors

By John Man

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