Sam Leith

Desperately Seeking Puttenham

Jan Morris

In Potemkin’s Steps

Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams

By Charles King

Lesley Downer

East Meets West

Pacific Cosmopolitans: A Cultural History of US–Japan Relations

By Michael R Auslin

Jonathan Keates

High Tide to Low Ebb

City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire

By Roger Crowley

William Blacker

Shambling Through the Balkans

On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe

By Andrzej Stasiuk (Translated by Michael Kandel)

John Keay

The Road to Mandalay

Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia

By Thant Myint-U

Daniel Matlin

Across 110th Street

Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America

By Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

Edna Fernandes

Queen of the Nightclub

Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars

By Sonia Faleiro

Richard Overy

To The Death

The End: Hitler’s Germany, 1944–45

By Ian Kershaw

Saul David

Tough on Crime…

A Merciless Place: The Lost Story of Britain’s Convict Disaster in Africa

By Emma Christopher

Nigel Jones

Britannia Rules the Waves

Citizen Sailors: The Royal Navy in the Second World War

By Glyn Prysor

Sea Wolves: The Extraordinary Story of Britain's WW2 Submarines

By Tim Clayton

Kenneth O Morgan

Holy Orders

Freedom and Order: History, Politics and the English Bible

By Nick Spencer

William Doyle

Boom and Beast

Monsters of the Gévaudan: The Making of a Beast

By Jay M Smith

Jonathan Sumption

Fingering the Evidence

Holy Bones, Holy Dust: How Relics Shaped the History of Medieval Europe

By Charles Freeman

Leanda de Lisle

Heresy & Hearsay

Mary I: England’s Catholic Queen

By John Edwards

Josh Glancy

The Great Emancipator

The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

By Eric Foner

Piers Brendon

Looking Back

The Future of History

By John Lukacs

Steve Fuller

Man’s Best Friend

Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity

By Raymond Tallis

Marek Kohn

Arguments Ad Hominin

The Origin of Our Species

By Chris Stringer

Mark Bostridge

‘Ecstatic Walker’

Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas

By Matthew Hollis

Edward Thomas: Prose Writings, A Selected Edition. Volume I: Autobiographies

By Guy Cuthbertson (ed)

Blair Worden

Epiphany on Trumpington Street

The Life and Thought of Herbert Butterfield: History, Science and God

By Michael Bentley

Leslie Mitchell

An Awkward Autodidact

Dare to Stand Alone: The Story of Charles Bradlaugh, Atheist and Republican

By Bryan Niblett

Simon Heffer

Buildingsroman

Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life

By Susie Harries

Jonathan Mirsky

Sales of the Century

Leon Uris: Life of a Best Seller

By Ira B Nadel

Edward Dolnick

Suspects in the Frame

Art Theft and the Case of the Stolen Turners

By Sandy Nairne

Kevin Jackson

Paint and Spirits

Austin Osman Spare: The Life and Legend of London’s Lost Artist

By Phil Baker

William Palmer

When the Levee Breaks

I Feel So Good: The Life and Times of Big Bill Broonzy

By Bob Riesman

Oliver Dennis

Oliver Dennis on Three Recent Releases

Pearl

By Jane Draycott

Taller When Prone

By Les Murray

A Hundred Doors

By Michael Longley

Dava Sobel

The World’s Waistband

Measure of the Earth: The Enlightenment Expedition that Reshaped our World

By Larrie D Ferreiro

James Le Fanu

The Topography of Infection

Disease Maps: Epidemics on the Ground

By Tom Koch

Fred Inglis

Green & Pleasant Land

Visions of England

By Roy Strong

Alex Renton

Out To Lunch

Dishing it Out: In Search of the Restaurant Experience

By Robert Appelbaum

Iain Marshall

Iain Marshall on Four Books About Bicycles

• John Foot, 
• Michael Embacher, 
• Bella Bathurst, 
• David Millar

Matthew Adams

Battle Acts

Complete Stories

By Kingsley Amis

Adrian Turpin

Time To Grow Up

The Sense of an Ending

By Julian Barnes

John Thieme

Rites of Passage

The Cat’s Table

By Michael Ondaatje

Edmund Gordon

Tears for Beers

On Canaan’s Side

By Sebastian Barry

Anthony Cummins

The Shipping News

The Blue Book

By A L Kennedy

Michael Sherborne

A Mirage Up to Nature

Gods Without Men

By Hari Kunzru

Jonathan Barnes

Jonathan Barnes on a Cosmopolitan Quintet of Debut Novels

• George Makana Clark, 
• Haley Tanner, 
• Rahul Bhattacharya, 
• Jamil Ahmad, 
• Dori Ostermiller

Rachel Hore

Davey Davies’s Locker

Blow on a Dead Man’s Embers

By Mari Strachan

Joanna Hines

Joanna Hines on the Latest Historical Novels

• Sarah Gristwood, 
• Stella Tillyard, 
• Stuart Clark, 
• Patrick Mercer, 
• Jean Teulé, 
• Maeve Haran

David Annand

All Together Now

Wild Abandon

By Joe Dunthorne