Gillian Tindall

Lost in the Myths of Time

Tim Blanning

‘I have beaten them all! All!’

Bismarck: A Life

By Jonathan Steinberg

Michael Burleigh

Inciter-In-Cheif

Osama bin Laden

By Michael Scheuer

Piers Brendon

For King and Countries

Liberty’s Exiles: The Loss of America and the Remaking of the British Empire

By Maya Jasanoff

David Stafford

Eggheads Go East

The Emperor’s Codes: Bletchley Park’s Role in Breaking Japan’s Secret Ciphers

By Michael Smith

Christopher Andrew

Red Alert

The Dead Hand: Reagan, Gorbachev and the Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race

By David E Hoffman

Michael Jacobs

One Day In February

The Anatomy of a Moment

By Javier Cercas (Translated by Anne McLean)

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

It’s Not Just Kirikiti

Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire

By Nicholas Thomas

Derek Mahon

Nowhere To Go

Joseph Brodsky: A Literary Life

By Lev Loseff (Translated by Jane Ann Miller)

Adrian Tinniswood

Dipping Their Quills

Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War

By John Stubbs

Roger Kimball

Man of Distinctions

Believe in People: The Essential Karel Čapek

By Šárka Tobrmanová-Kühnová

Pamela Norris

A Short Story

Katherine Mansfield: The Story-Teller

By Kathleen Jones

Stanley Mitchell

Self’s Secrecy

Mirror of the Soul: A Life of the Poet Fyodor Tyutchev

By John Dewey

Jason Burke

In the Line of Fire

The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Faultline Between Christianity and Islam

By Eliza Griswold

Sudhir Hazareesingh

Le Petit Livre Rouge

The Wind from the East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s

By Richard Wolin

Donald Rayfield

Lost Nation

I am a Chechen!

By German Sadulaev (Translated by Anna Gunin)

Mick Brown

Sky Ladder

To A Mountain in Tibet

By Colin Thubron

Sara Wheeler

Cowboy Builders

Bird Cloud

By Annie Proulx

John Cornwell

Between Experience & the ‘Wet Stuff’

The Tell-Tale Brain: Unlocking the Mystery of Human Nature

By V S Ramachandran

James Le Fanu

At Knifepoint

Invasion of the Prostate Snatchers

By Ralph H Blum and Mark Scholz

John Keay

Peking In

The Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832–1914

By Robert Bickers

Timothy Brook

The Jesuit Who Didn’t Laugh Much

• Ronnie Po-chia Hsia, 
• Michela Fontana, 
• Mary Laven, 
• An Huo

John McEwen

Portraits of Society

Derek Hill

By Bruce Arnold

Leo McKinstry

Reach For The Sky

The Flight of the Century: Charles Lindbergh and the Rise of American Aviation

By Thomas Kessner

Nigel Jones

To Hell and Back

Unbroken: An Extraordinary True Story of Courage and Survival

By Laura Hillenbrand

Jonathan Mirsky

‘He is a good fellow & only wants careful handling’

The King’s Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy

By Mark Logue and Peter Conradi

Raymond Tallis

Happily Ever After?

The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death

By John Gray

Martin Vander Weyer

Long Gone Silver

Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World

By Nicholas Shaxson

Roger Highfield

They Came from Outer Space

Incoming! Or, Why We Should Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Meteorite

By Ted Nield

Charles Elliott

Pragmatic Plantsmen

The Founding Gardeners: How the Revolutionary Generation Created an American Eden

By Andrea Wulf

John Martin Robinson

Bringing The House Down

Lost Victorian Britain: How the Twentieth Century Destroyed the Nineteenth Century’s Architectural Masterpieces

By Gavin Stamp

Kevin Jackson

Trebles All Around

A Clockwork Counterpoint: The Music and Literature of Anthony Burgess

By Paul Phillips

Dominic Sandbrook

The Beat Goes On

Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture

By Alice Echols

Christopher Hart

Seek and Ye Shall Find

Shapely Ankle Preferr’d: A History of the Lonely Hearts Ad

By Francesca Beauman

James Purdon

Shades of Gray

A Life in Pictures

By Alasdair Gray

Richard Davenport-Hines

Soul Medicines & Secular Sacrements

High Society: Mind-Altering Drugs in History and Culture

By Mike Jay

Toby Lichtig

Bureau of Investigations

Great House

By Nicole Krauss

Tom Williams

Pilgrim’s Progress

The Ballad of John Clare

By Hugh Lupton

John de Falbe

Grave Matters

Samko Tále’s Cemetery Book

By Daniela Kapitáňová (Translated by Julia Sherwood)

Michèle Roberts

An American In Oxford

We Had It So Good

By Linda Grant

Jonathan Beckman

‘Thar She Blows’

The Passages of Herman Melville

By Jay Parini

Philip Womack

Miracle Worker

A Kind Man

By Susan Hill

Jane Charteris

Sudan Impact

Lyrics Alley

By Leila Aboulela