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f r om the p u l p i t 1 D J Taylor l i f e o f the p e n 5 John Stubbs

Thomas Wyatt: The Heart’s Forest Susan Brigden 6 Sam Leith

Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace D T Max 8 Matthew Green

Ryszard Kapuściński: A Life Artur Domosławski 9 Nick Cohen

Mortality Christopher Hitchens 10 Christopher Bray

Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark Brian Kellow • The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael (Ed) Sanford Schwartz l i f e o f the s word 12 Richard Overy

Stalin’s General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov Geoffrey Roberts 13 Michael Burleigh

In the Shadow of the General: Modern France & the Myth of De Gaulle Sudhir Hazareesingh 14 Jonathan Keates

The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal & the Real Count of Monte Cristo Tom Reiss 16 Alan Judd

A Very English Hero: The Making of Frank Thompson Peter J Conradi 17 Robert Irwin

The Knights Hospitaller in the Levant, c 1070–1309 Jonathan Riley-Smith pax b r i ta n n i c a 18 David Gilmour

Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain John Darwin 19 Andrew Lycett

The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj Anne de Courcy 20 Leslie Mitchell

Macaulay and Son: Architects of Imperial Britain Catherine Hall b i g b u s i n e s s 21 D D Guttenplan

Private Empire: ExxonMobil & American Power Steve Coll 22 Neil Gregor

Krupp: A History of the Legendary German Firm Harold James h i st or y 24 Paul Lay

The History of England, Volume II: Tudors Peter Ackroyd 25 Linda Porter

Blood Sisters: The Hidden Lives of the Women Behind the Wars of the Roses Sarah Gristwood 26 Robert Bickers

Restless Empire: China & the World Since 1750 Odd Arne Westad 28 David Cesarani

Golden Harvest: Events at the Periphery of the Holocaust Jan T Gross with Irena G Gross 29 Vanessa Collingridge

Beyond the Blue Horizon: How the Earliest Mariners Unlocked the Secrets of the Oceans Brian Fagan 30 Anthony Sattin

A History of the World in Twelve Maps Jerry Brotton f i c t i on i 32 D J Taylor

Sweet Tooth Ian McEwan 33 Keith Miller

Zoo Time Howard Jacobson 34 Jonathan Barnes

A Possible Life Sebastian Faulks 35 Toby Lichtig

Mo said she was quirky James Kelman 36 Elspeth Barker

John Saturnall ’s Feast Lawrence Norfolk 37 Guy Stagg

After Brock Paul Binding b l a c k marke t s 38 Joan Smith

Slavery Inc: The Untold Story of International Sex Trafficking Lydia Cacho 39 Jonathan Mirsky

Scattered Sand: The Story of China’s Rural Migrants Hsiao-Hung Pai c o n t e n t s g e n e r a l 41 Frances Wilson

The Pinecone: The Story of Sarah Losh Jenny Uglow 42 Catherine Peters

Victorian Bloomsbury Rosemary Ashton 43 Rupert Christiansen

Discord: The Story of Noise Mike Goldsmith 44 Donald Trelford

Eminent Elizabethans Piers Brendon 46 Frances Spalding

Adrian Heath Jane Rye 47 Michael Prodger

What Are You Looking At? 150 Years of Modern Art in the Blink of an Eye Will Gompertz 48 Anthony Daniels

Legalize: The Only Way to Combat Drugs Max Rendall 49 Harry Mount

Spell it out: the singular story of English spelling David Crystal 50 Paul Levy

Fear of Food Harvey Levenstein 51 Lloyd Shepherd

The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World Nick Harkaway f i c t i on i i 52 Gillian Slovo

Philida André Brink 53 Edmund Gordon

NW Zadie Smith 54 Pamela Norris

The Silver Dark Sea Susan Fletcher 55 Toby Thomas on five historical novels 56 John Dugdale

Train Dreams Denis Johnson 56 Sam Kitchener

Telegraph Avenue Michael Chabon 58 Lucy Beresford

Merivel: A Man of His Time Rose Tremain

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