Jerry Brotton

What’s in a Title?

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

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

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

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

John Cooper

For Queen & Country

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

By Stephen Alford

Alan Judd

Old-Fashioned Hero

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

By Duff Hart-Davis

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

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

Alex Goodall

A Fruity Tale

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

By Rich Cohen

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

Mark Leonard

Two-Speed Superpower

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

By Jonathan Fenby