Kathryn Hughes

Can You Drop a Kindle in the Bath?

Andrew Roberts

Time For Ofhist

Leslie Mitchell

Our Man in Naples

The Hamilton Letters: The Naples Dispatches of William Hamilton

By John A Davis and Giovanni Capuano

Roger Crowley

Taking on the Turk

The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe

By Andrew Wheatcroft

John Adamson

A Tale of Two Houses

The Long Parliament of Charles II

By Annabel Patterson

Toby Barnard

Brewing Troubles

God’s Executioner: Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland

By Micheál O’Siochrú

Christopher Coker

A Sour War

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

By David Halberstam

Peter Jones

He Drank His Enemies Under the Table

Philip II of Macedonia

By Ian Worthington

Donald Rayfield

The Monster Hedgehog

Yezhov: The Rise of Stalin’s ‘Iron Fist’

By J Arch Getty & Oleg V Naumov

Allan Massie

A Bellicose Bibliophile

The Raven King: Matthias Corvinus and the Fate of his Lost Library

By Marcus Tanner

Lucy Wooding

For Queen and Country

Burghley: William Cecil at the Court of Elizabeth I

By Stephen Alford

John Gray

Negative Capability

Between the Monster and the Saint: Reflections on the Human Condition

By Richard Holloway

Dominic Sandbrook

Pizza Politics

Alpha Dogs: How Political Spin Became a Global Business

By James Harding

Adrian Weale

Murkywater

War PLC: The Rise of the New Corporate Mercenary

By Stephen Armstrong

Simon Heffer

Serious Money

What They Teach You at Harvard Business School: My Two Years Inside the Cauldron of Capitalism

By Philip Delves Broughton

Peter Washington

Literary Legacies

The Seven Lives of John Murray: The Story of a Publishing Dynasty

By Humphrey Carpenter

Francis King

Late Flowering

So I Have Thought of You: The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald

By Terence Dooley (ed) (With a preface by A S Byatt)

Jane Ridley

Woman in Black

Ettie: The Intimate Life and Dauntless Spirit of Lady Desborough

By Richard Davenport-Hines

Valerie Grove

The Voice of Everywoman

Memoirs of a Not So Dutiful Daughter

By Jenni Murray

Andrew Lycett

Queen of the East

Star of the Morning: The Extraordinary Life of Lady Hester Stanhope

By Kirsten Ellis

John Martin Robinson

Of Arms and Architecture

Sir John Vanbrugh: Storyteller in Stonev

By Vaughan Hart

Sara Wheeler

A Maori in Massachussetts

Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: An Unlikely Love Story

By Christina Thompson

John Clay

Da Nova’s Footsteps

Luca Antara

By Martin Edmond

Adam LeBor

Touching the Void

Ararat

By Frank Westerman (Translated by Sam Garrett)

Kerry Brown

War & Peace

The City of Heavenly Tranquillity: Beijing in the History of China

By Jasper Becker

China: A History

By John Keay

Jonathan Mirsky

Reforming Opinions

The Battle for China's Past: Mao & the Cultural Revolution

By Mobo Gao

Patrick Hennessey

Pull Up a Sandbag

A Million Bullets: The Real Story of the British Army in Afghanistan

By James Fergusson

Jonathan Sumption

‘Can One Save a King Who is on Trial?’

A History of Political Trials from Charles I to Saddam Hussein

By John Laughland

Melanie Phillips

The ‘Me’ in Media

Look at Me: Celebrating the Self in Modern Britain

By Peter Whittle

Peter Davies

Make Wing to the Rooky Wood

Corvus: A Life With Birds

By Esther Woolfson

David Profumo

Let Them Eat Hake

The Last Fish Tale: The Fate of the Atlantic and Our Disappearing Fisheries

By Mark Kurlansky

Charles Saumarez-Smith

National Trust

Who Owns Antiquity? Museums and the Battle over Our Ancient Heritage

By James Cuno

Alan Rafferty

Brick Vs Brill

Man in the Dark

By Paul Auster

Rachel Hore

Shadows on the Water

A Blessed Child

By Linn Ullmann (Translated by Sarah Death)

Caroline Moorehead

Coming to America

Chicago

By Alaa Al Aswany

Jonathan Beckman

Not Just Cricket

Netherland

By Joseph O’Neill

David Jays

Liquid Lives

Dreams of Rivers and Seas

By Tim Parks

Lucy Beresford

A Sense of Healing

The Idea of Love

By Louise Dean

Matt Thorne

Sex and Vole Blood

Manual

By Daren King

Sebastian Shakespeare

Everyday Tales

Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories

By Tobias Wolff

Martyn Bedford

Tesla’s Tale

The Invention of Everything Else

By Samantha Hunt

Paul Binding

Still-Life

Vilhelm Hammershøi: The Poetry of Silence

By Royal Academy of Arts, London (Sackler Wing)

Hammershøi

By Felix Krämer, Naoki Sato and Anne-Birgitte Fonsmark