John Gross

Falling Stars

Leanda de Lisle

Body in the Stairwell

Death and the Virgin: Elizabeth, Dudley and the Mysterious Fate of Amy Robsart

By Chris Skidmore

Richard Carwardine

The Eagle Has Taken Off

Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815

By Gordon S Wood

Sarah Bradford

From The Sidelines

Courtiers: The Secret History of Kensington Palace

By Lucy Worsley

Leslie Mitchell

We The People

When London was Capital of America

By Julie Flavell

Dominic Sandbrook

All Change, Please

No Turning Back: The Peacetime Revolutions of Post-War Britain

By Paul Addison

Richard Overy

Taking Sides

The Atlantic and Its Enemies: A Personal History of the Cold War

By Norman Stone

Geoffrey Wall

Before They Were Famous

A Winter on the Nile: Florence Nightingale, Gustave Flaubert and the Temptations of Egypt

By Anthony Sattin

Bryan Appleyard

Hitting The Wall

The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness

By Oren Harman

Judy Taylor Hough

Young At Heart

So Much to Tell

By Valerie Grove

Puffin by Design: 70 Years of Imagination – 1940–2010

By Phil Baines

Alexander Waugh

Prankster’s Progress

The Sultan of Zanzibar: The Bizarre World and Spectacular Hoaxes of Horace de Vere Cole

By Martyn Downer

Roderick Matthews

Broken India

Jinnah: India – Partition – Independence

By Jaswant Singh

Nadira Naipaul

Was It All Worth It?

Songs of Blood and Sword

By Fatima Bhutto

Christopher Coker

Force For The Good

Moral Combat: A History of World War II

By Michael Burleigh

Julian Thompson

We Shall Fight On The Tennis Courts

Road of Bones: The Siege of Kohima 1944 – The Epic Story of the Last Great Stand of Empire

By Fergal Keane

Keith Lowe

Five Fateful Months

The Battle of Britain: Five Months that Changed History, May–October 1940

By James Holland

Listening to Britain: Home Intelligence Reports on Britain’s Finest Hour, May–September 1940

By Paul Addison and Jeremy A Crang

William St Clair

Taking Care Of Keats

Joseph Severn, A Life: The Rewards of Friendship

By Sue Brown

Catherine Peters

Experiments In Living

Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives

By Daisy Hay

Michael Tanner

Once More, With Feeling

Music and Sentiment

By Charles Rosen

Leo Robson

Brodsky Before Brodsky

A Room and a Half

By Andrey Khrzhanovskiy (Director)

Daniel Matlin

A Kind Of Blues

Jazz

By Gary Giddins and Scott DeVeaux

Duke Ellington’s America

By Harvey G Cohen

Christopher Bray

Still Making Our Day

Clint: A Retrospective

By Richard Schickel

Michael Holman

Home Security

The Last Resort: A Zimbabwe Memoir

By Douglas Rogers

Jonathan Randal

Burning Cedars

Beware of Small States: Lebanon, Battleground of the Middle East

By David Hirst

Miranda France

Humboldt’s Gifts

Andes

By Michael Jacobs

Zachary Mason

Bacchae

John Gray

Hastening Ills

Ill Fares the Land: A Treatise on Our Present Discontents

By Tony Judt

Jeremy Warner

Passing The Bucks

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

By Michael Lewis

John Stubbs

All For Love

Shakespeare, Sex, and Love

By Stanley Wells

Miranda Seymour

Coming Into Bloom

Gardening Women: Their Stories 1600 to the Present

By Catherine Horwood

Stephen Amidon

Superdad

Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father and Son

By Michael Chabon

Simon Heffer

Going Viral

Globish: How the English Language Became the World's Language

By Robert McCrum

David Profumo

Caught and Released

At the Loch of the Green Corrie

By Andrew Greig

Tom Fort

Using The Arlesey Bomb

Blood Knots: Of Fathers, Friendship & Fishing

By Luke Jennings

Tim Martin

What The Dog Saw

The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog and of his Friend Marilyn Monroe

By Andrew O’Hagan

Patricia Duncker

Les Hommes Bleus

Desert

By J M G Le Clézio, Translated from the French by C Dickson

Simon Baker

Blarney & Baloney

The Dead Republic

By Roddy Doyle

Jane Charteris

Mixed Mailbag

Burley Cross Postbox Theft

By Nicola Barker

Adrian Turpin

Girl Power

The Stars in the Bright Sky

By Alan Warner

Ophelia Field

Hanging On A Star

Private Life

By Jane Smiley

Lesley Downer

Dejima Days

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

By David Mitchell