 | Ingrid: A Personal Biography Charlotte Chandler   A new life of Ingrid Bergman hbk £18.99 |
 | Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill To Power In 1940 And Helped To Save Britain Lynne Olson   Macmillan, Amery, Cartland & Boothby hbk £20 |
 | C Day Lewis: A Life Peter Stanford   The first authorised biography of the poet (and detective novelist, under the name Nicholas Blake), written with the cooperation of his widow Jill Balcon and his celebrated children hbk £25 |
 | You Cannot Live As I Have Lived And Not End Up Like This: The Thoroughly Disgraceful Life & Times Of Willie Donaldson Terence Blacker   The colourful life of the author of 'The Henry Root Letters' hbk £12.99 |
 | From Winchester To This William Donaldson   …And his own autobiography, now reprinted hbk £18.95 |
 | Black Diamonds: The Rise & Fall Of An English Dynasty Catherine Bailey   The rise and fall of the Fitzwilliams, England's richest mining dynasty, and their palace, Wentworth pbk £8.99 |
 | Michael Foot Kenneth O Morgan   A fine biography of one of Labour's most interesting - if not successful - leaders hbk £25 |
 | Garibaldi: Invention Of A Hero Lucy Riall   An account of the life, and also the cult of this very modern political hero hbk £25 |
 | The Last Leopard David Gilmour   Reprint of a biography that brilliantly evokes the furniture of the rarefied mind of Giuseppe di Lampedusa pbk £12.99 |
 | Peeling The Onion Gunter Grass   At last translated into English, this is a controversial memoir by the author of 'The Tin Drum' (pbk, £5.99) of his time in the Waffen SS, aged 17, fighting the Russians hbk £17.99 |
 | A Girl In Paris: A Persian Encounter With The West Shusha Guppy   A reprint of her memoir of Fifties Paris, against the backdrop of her Persian childhood pbk £9.99 |
 | Frank Hurley: A Photographer's Life Alasdair McGregor   A life of the photographer of Shackleton's expedition hbk £30 |
 | George Kennan: A Study Of Character John Lukacs   A valuable study of an important figure, by a shrewd and stimulating historian hbk £16.99 |
 | The Perfect Hostage: A Life Of Aung San Suu Kyi Justin Wintle   hbk £18.99 |
 | Family Romance: A Memoir John Lanchester   Brilliantly joins the dots of his parents' mysterious history through secrets and lies hbk £16.99 |
 | Napoleon: The Path To Power, 1769-1799 Philip Dwyer   The first volume of a major new study hbk £20 |
 | Haven't We Been Here Before? Afghanistan To The Falklands: A Personal Connection John Nott   Examines British involvement in wars over the last 150 years pbk £14.99 |
 | Robert Peel: A Biography Douglas Hurd   hbk £20 |
 | A Russian Diary Anna Politkovskaya   This is the book that the courageous journalist completed just before she was murdered last year. It covers the period from the Russian elections of 2003 to the aftermath of the Beslan school siege two years later hbk £17.99 |
 | Leni: The Life And Work Of Leni Riefenstahl Steven Bach   The controversial figure revealed hbk £25 |
 | The Lost World Of James Smithson: The Science Revolution And The Birth Of The Smithsonian Heather Ewing   A biography of the Englishman who left his fortune for the foundation of an institution in Washington 'for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men' - despite never setting foot in America hbk £20 |
 | The Young Stalin: The Adventurous Early Life Of The Dictator 1878-1917 Simon Sebag Montefiore   A prequel illuminating Stalin's hitherto obscure origins hbk £25 |
 | Friendship And Betrayal: Ambition And The Limits Of Loyalty Graham Stewart   A thought-provoking book on the role of friendship among those at the top: Sarah Churchill & Queen Anne; Franklin & Joseph Galloway; Asquith & Haldane (but luckily the book does not cover Tony Blair and Lord Cashpoint) hbk £25 |
 | Talleyrand: Betrayer And Saviour Of France Robin Harris   And, suddenly, another new biography of this slippery genius hbk £30 |
 | Clever Girl: A Sentimental Education Brian Thompson   From the author of the excellent 'Keeping Mum' (pbk, £7.99), an engaging sequel hbk £14.99 |
 | William Wilberforce William Hague   After his hugely successful book on Pitt The Younger, here is the Shadow Foreign Secretary's life of one of Pitt's key friends and allies hbk £25 |