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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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