• Untold Stories by Alan Bennett (Faber/Profile)
  
• The Sale of the Late King's Goods by Jerry Brotton (Pan Macmillan)
  
• Bad Faith by Carmen Callil (Jonathan Cape)
  
• The Ongoing Moment by Geoff Dyer (Abacus)
  
• The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis (Allen Lane)
  
• Mozart's Women by Jane Glover (Pan MacMillan)
  
• The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton by Kathryn Hughes (Fourth Estate)
  
• The Sailor in the Wardrobe by Hugo Hamilton (Fourth Estate)
  
• Post War by Tony Judt (William Heinemann)
  
• The Great Wall by Julia Lovell (Atlantic Books)
  
• Ancient Americans by Charles C Mann (Granta)
  
• Rosebery by Leo McKinstry (John Murray)
  
• Ivan's War by Catherine Merridale (Faber)
  
• Before the Fall-Out by Diana Preston (Doubleday)
  
• The Orientalist by Tom Reiss (Chatto & Windus)
  
• Baghdad Burning by Riverbend (Marion Boyars)
  
• 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro (Faber)
  
• Witnesses of War by Nicholas Stargadt (Jonathan Cape)
  
• After the Victorians by AN Wilson (Hutchinson)
  

The Winner will be announced on 14th June 2006 and the award ceremony will be broadcast live on BBC Four.

Awesome list...

There's some really cool titles on there. Quite a few I've had my eye on and wouldn't mind reading

When I first the thread title I read Samuel L. Jackson! Knew something was wrong. :laugh3: