Eastern Questions
Crimea: The Last Crusade by Orlando Figes
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Writers of the World, Unite
Politics and the Novel During the Cold War by David Caute
Perplexed of St. John’s Wood
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
Come Back, Trollope
Westminster's current inhabitants are perfect fodder for a great political satirist, if only we had one
The Misfit at No 10
State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974 by Dominic Sandbrook and Edward Heath: The Authorised Biography by Philip Ziegler
Connoisseur of Fraud
Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Biography by Adam Sisman
How the West was Invented
Emperor of the West: Charlemagne and the Carolingian Empire by Hywel Williams
Launching Pad of the Neocons
Running Commentary: The Contentious Magazine that Transformed the Jewish Left into the Neoconservative Right by Benjamin Balint
Old Men Don’t Forget
The Misogynist by Piers Paul Read and Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
The Honorary Ottoman
Faith and Power: Religion and Politics in the Middle East by Bernard Lewis
The Answer Lies in the Soil
The Making of the British Landscape by Francis Pryor
Jottings of a Journeyman
The Lost Books of The Odyssey by Zachary Mason