A Walk-On Part by Chris Mullin £25

This third and final volume of Chris Mullin's acclaimed diaries begins on the night John Smith died in May 1994, and continues until the moment of Mullin's assumption into government in July 1999. Together with the bestselling "A View from the Foothills" and "Decline and Fall", the complete trilogy covers the rise and fall of New Labour from start to finish.

Mary 1 by John Edwards £25

This original and deeply researched biography paints a very detailed portrait of Mary and offers a fresh understanding of her religious faith and policies as well as her historical significance in England and beyond. The author, a leading scholar of English and Spanish history, is the first to make full use of Continental archives in this context, especially Spanish ones, to demonstrate how Mary's culture, Catholic faith, and politics were thoroughly Spanish.

 The End by Ian Kershaw £30

The last months of the Second World War were a nightmarish time to be alive. Unimaginable levels of violence destroyed entire cities. Millions died or were dispossessed. In his gripping, revelatory new book, the author describes these final months, from the failed attempt to assassinate Hitler in July 1944 to the German surrender in May 1945. The major question that Kershaw attempts to answer is: what made Germany keep on fighting?

Sub by Danny Danziger £17.99

At any given time, any number of the Royal Navy's 15 nuclear submarines lurk undetected in the world's oceans. Totally self-sufficient for months at a time, they lie in readiness to be deployed to listen, intercept, or attack wherever they may be needed. Award-winning journalist Danny Danziger has been allowed unprecedented access to one of them. Unrestricted and uncompromising, this book paints a vivid picture of this enigmatic branch of our armed forces.

How to Survive the Titanic by Frances Wilson - £18.99

Despite the many books on this subject, this one has an interesting and unusual angle: when the ship hit the iceberg on 14 April 1912 and a thousand men prepared to die, J Bruce Ismay, the ship's owner jumped into a lifeboat with the women and children and rowed away to safety. Accused of cowardice, Ismay became, according to one headline, 'The Most Talked-of Man in the World'. The author explores the reasons behind his jump, his desperate need to make sense of the horror of it all, and to find a way of living with lost honour.