2008
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher:
or The Murder at Road Hill House
by Kate Summerscale (Bloomsbury)
2007
Imperial Life in the Emerald City
by Rajiv Chandrasekaran (Bloomsbury)
2006
1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
by James Shapiro (Faber & Faber)
2005
Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of BS Johnson
by Jonathan Coe (Picador)
2004
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
by Anna Funder (Granta)
2003
Pushkin: A Biography
by TJ Binyon (HarperCollins)
2002
Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919
by Margaret MacMillan (John Murray)
2001
The Third Reich: A New History
by Michael Burleigh (Macmillan)
2000
Berlioz Volume 2: Servitude and Greatness
by David Cairns (Penguin)
1999
Stalingrad
by Antony Beevor (Penguin)
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