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26 Diarmaid MacCulloch

St Augustine of Hippo Miles Hollingworth 27 Nigel Jones

Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill Michael Shelden • Churchill ’s First War Con Coughlin 29 Robert Chesshyre

Life after Death: Eighteen Years On Death Row Damien Echols 30 Allan Massie

Alexandria: The Last Nights of Cleopatra Peter Stothard f or e i g n pa rts 31 Oliver Bullough

Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell in and out of Love with Vladimir Putin Ben Judah 32 Paul French

Brothers at War: The Unending Conflict in Korea Sheila Miyoshi Jager 34 John Keay

Golden Parasol: A Daughter’s Memoir of Burma Wendy Law-Yone 35 Michael Holman

The Last Train to Zona Verde: Overland from Cape Town to Angola Paul Theroux b a s i c i n st i n c t s 36 Oliver James

The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime Adrian Raine 38 Andrew Brown

Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us About Sex, Diet, and How We Live Marlene Zuk • The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates Frans de Waal l i t e r a r y l i v e s 40 Jonathan Mirsky

Lu Xun’s Revolution: Writing in a Time of Violence Gloria Davies 41 Peter Washington

C S Lewis: A Life Alister McGrath 43 James Fergusson

Ian Fleming: The Bibliography Jon Gilbert 44 Jay Parini

Careless People: Murder, Mayhem & the Invention of ‘ The Great Gatsby’ Sarah Churchill 45 James Purdon

Here and Now: Letters, 2008–2011 Paul Auster & J M Coetzee 46 Phil Baker

Fifty Years in the Fiction Factory: The Working Life of Herbert Allingham Julia Jones g e n e r a l 47 Tom Holland

The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon Stephanie Dalley 48 Gillian Tindall

Men from the Ministry: How Britain Saved Its Heritage Simon Thurley 49 Joanna Kavenna

The Faraway Nearby Rebecca Solnit 50 Alexander Maitland

Shipton & Tilman: The Great Decade of Himalayan Exploration Jim Perrin 51 Andrew Greig

The Sea Inside Philip Hoare 53 Eric Kaufmann

A History of Future Cities Daniel Brook 54 Peter Marshall

Before Religion: A History of a Modern Concept Brent Nongbri 56 Elspeth Barker

Levels of Life Julian Barnes 57 Charles Shaar Murray

I’m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen Sylvie Simmons 58 Raymond Sokolov

Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation Michael Pollan f i c t i on 59 Pamela Norris The Woman Upstairs Claire Messud 60 Donald Rayfield

The Enchanted Wanderer & Other Stories Nikolai Leskov 61 Simon Baker The Asylum John Harwood 62 Adrian Turpin Strange Bodies Marcel Theroux 62 Malcolm Forbes A Thousand Pardons Jonathan Dee 64 Anthony Cummins All the Birds, Singing Evie Wyld 64 Patrick Skene Catling Last Friends Jane Gardam 65 Francesca Wade Asunder Chloe Aridjis 66 Kaite Welsh And the Mountains Echoed Khaled Hosseini 67 Philip Womack on eight children’s books

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