Close to the Bone
The Oxford Book of Parodies by John Gross
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Fading Glitter
Final Demands by Frederic Raphael
It Could Be Worse
Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England by Anthony Julius
Prodigal Brother
The Rage Against God: Why Faith is the Foundation of Civilisation by Peter Hitchens
The Poetical Mollusc
True Friendship: Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell under the Sign of Eliot and Pound by Christopher Ricks
Men From the Ministry
Choose Your Weapons: The British Foreign Secretary — Two Centuries of Conflict and Personalities by Douglas Hurd
A Very Foreign Foreigner
Koestler: The Indispensable Intellectual by Michael Scammell
The Sex Factor
Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism by Natasha Walter
On Being an Essayist
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
A Brain of Two Halves
The Master and his Emissary — The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist
Travels with Tocqueville
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
Seductive Pursuits
Bite the Hand that Feeds You: Essays and Provocations by Henry Fairlie and Best Seat in the House by Frank Johnson