Nick Coleman's account of how he struggled to overcome losing his hearing in one ear
The Train in the Night: A Story of Music and Loss homepage
Marcus Berkmann's despatches from the frontline of male midlife. Read by Toby Longworth
Marcus Berkmann - A Shed of One's Own: Midlife Without the Crisis homepage
By Ioan Grillo. Exploration of Mexico's drug-fuelled criminal insurgency
El Narco homepage
Figures from the world of publishing argue for the importance of books and reading
Stop What You're Doing and Read This homepage
Noo Saro-Wiwa embarks on a journey round Nigeria in an attempt to understand her heritage
Looking for Transwonderland homepage
David and Caroline Stafford's biography of composer Lionel Bart. Read by Alistair McGowan
Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be: The Lionel Bart Story homepage
By Mark Forsyth. A stroll through the fascinating connections of the English language
The Etymologicon homepage
A portrait of London told through the voices of those who live there
Craig Taylor - Londoners homepage
Simon Garfield explores the history of fonts and the people who brought them into being
Simon Garfield - Just My Type homepage
Colin Clark's memoir of his fleeting friendship with Marilyn Monroe
Colin Clark - My Week With Marilyn homepage
Matthew Sweet's dark history of life in London's grand hotels during WWII
Matthew Sweet - The West End Front homepage
Binyavanga Wainaina's impressionistic memoir of growing up in modern-day Kenya
Binyavanga Wainaina - One Day I Will Write About This Place homepage
Jeanette Winterson's new memoir charts the grim truth and surreal comedy of her life
Jeanette Winterson - Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? homepage
Five prominent thinkers from five EU countries offer personal reflections on Europe
State of the Union homepage
Carmen Aguirre's memoir of her time as a teenage revolutionary in 1980s Chile
Carmen Aguirre - Something Fierce homepage
A selection of the polemical journalist's essays. Read by Roger Allam
Christopher Hitchens - Arguably homepage
Helen Berry's portrait of celebrated 18th-century castrato Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci
The Castrato and His Wife homepage
A story of secret agents, set in a turbulent period of England's history
John Cooper - The Queen's Agent: Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I homepage
Series of historic encounters, each sparking off the other and linked by happenstance
One on One homepage
Tim Jeal tells the story of the mid-19th century African explorations
Tim Jeal - Explorers of the Nile homepage
Author Janice Galloway remembers her adolescence in a small Scottish town in the 1970s
All Made Up homepage
Philip Connors' enchanting notes from a wilderness lookout as he watches for wildfires
Fire Season homepage
An account of the momentous final years of poet Edward Thomas, read by Tobias Menzies
Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France homepage
Jasper Rees travels around Wales in order to discover his 'inner Welshness'
Bred of Heaven homepage
Lynn Knight's memoir tells how three generations of her family were adopted
Lemon Sherbet and Dolly Blue homepage
Gavin Knight reports from the frontline of Britain's ganglands. Read by Siobhan Redmond
Hood Rat homepage
A young reporter's unique relationship with George Best, two years before his death
Let Not the Waves of the Sea homepage
Memoir by the war correspondent Janine di Giovanni. Read by Emma Fielding
Ghosts by Daylight homepage
Franny Moyle's moving biography of Constance Wilde. Read by Rachel Atkins
Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs Oscar Wilde homepage
By Gully Wells. Entertaining childhood memoir, read by Rosalind Ayres
The House in France homepage
