| Title | |
| Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest (2012) | |
| Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–1962 (2011) | |
| Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (2010) | |
| Leviathan or, The Whale (2009) | |
| The Suspicions of Mr Whicher Or The Murder at Road Hill House (2008) | |
| Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (2007) | |
| 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare (2006) | |
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| Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of B. S. Johnson (2005) | |
| Stasiland: Oh Wasn't it so Terrible - True Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall (2004) | |
| Pushkin: A Biography (2003) | |
| Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War (2002) | |
| The Third Reich: A New History (2001) | |
| Berlioz: Volume 2 (2000) | |
| Stalingrad (1999) | |
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