Jeremy Lewis

Judging by the Cover

Anne Somerset

Man in the Know

The Queen’s Agent: Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I

By John Cooper

Peter Marshall

Dynasty

Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England

By Thomas Penn

Sudhir Hazareesingh

Free Radicals

Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights 1750–1790

By Jonathan I Israel

Richard Overy

Forbidden City

Tankograd – The Formation of a Soviet Company Town: Cheliabinsk

By Lennart Samuelson

David Gilmour

A Dyer Order

The Amritsar Massacre: The Untold Story of One Fateful Day

By Nick Lloyd

John Sutherland

A Tale of Two Dickens

Charles Dickens: A Life

By Claire Tomalin

Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist

By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

Sam Leith

The Adman Cometh

The Inner Man: The Life of J G Ballard

By John Baxter

John Stubbs

Exit, Pursued by the Law

Ben Jonson: A Life

By Ian Donaldson

Claire Harman

Kidnapped

Arthur Ransome’s Long-lost Study of Robert Louis Stevenson

By Kirsty Nichol Findlay

Jeffrey Meyers

The Failure of Success

Yossarian Slept Here: When Joseph Heller Was Dad, the Apthorp Was Home and Life Was a Catch-22

By Erica Heller

Just One Catch: The Passionate Life of Joseph Heller

By Tracy Daugherty

John Gray

Made in Heaven

Humanity 2.0: What it Means to be Human Past, Present and Future

By Steve Fuller

Steven Connor

String Theories

Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life

By Kenneth Gross

David Cesarani

‘Poster Boy of the Third Reich’

Hitler’s Hangman: The Life and Death of Reinhard Heydrich

By Robert Gerwarth

Jonathan Sumption

Hammer of the French

Edward III

By W Mark Ormrod

Helen Castor

A Stormin’ Norman

Matilda: Queen of the Conqueror

By Tracy Borman

Frederic Raphael

A Scapegoat’s Tale

Jew Süss: Life, Legend, Fiction, Film

By Susan Tegel

Robert Irwin

The Second Coming

Adventures in the Orgasmotron: Wilhelm Reich and the Invention of Sex

By Christopher Turner

Christopher Andrew

Spies Like Us

Greek Memories

By Compton Mackenzie

Roderick Bailey

The Egregious Fleming

Ian Fleming’s Commandos: The Story of 30 Assault Unit in WWII

By Nicholas Rankin

Tim Blanning

Clash of the Titans

Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries

By Peter Conrad

Rupert Christiansen

Voice of Authority

A Singer’s Notebook

By Ian Bostridge

Gillian Tindall

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

Girl in a Green Gown: The History and Mystery of the Arnolfini Portrait

By Carola Hicks

Donald Sassoon

Making a Splash

Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon

By Martin Kemp

John Keay

The White Leviathan

Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest

By Wade Davis

Raymond Seitz

Seine & Sensibility

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris

By David McCullough

Mary Kenny

The Wild West

Connemara: A Little Gaelic Kingdom

By Tim Robinson

Harry Mount

Lava Palaver

Vesuvius: The Most Famous Volcano in the World

By Gillian Darley

John Sweeney

The Shipping News

Outlaws Inc. Flying with the World’s Most Dangerous Smugglers

By Matt Potter

John Montague

Beyond Howth Head

New Collected Poems

By Derek Mahon

Patricia Duncker

From Hollywood to Bollywood

A Lovesong for India: Tales from East and West

By Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Clare Clark

Slaves to Fortune

The Quality of Mercy

By Barry Unsworth

James Purdon

Unideal Husband

The Marriage Plot

By Jeffrey Eugenides

Philip Womack

Jaffy Abroad

Jamrach’s Menagerie

By Carol Birch

Joanna Kavenna

In Memoriam

New Finnish Grammar

By Diego Marani (Translated by Judith Landry)

John de Falbe

Snapshots

The Foxes Come at Night

By Cees Nooteboom (Translated by Ina Rilke)

Frank Brinkley

Karachi Casualties

Our Lady of Alice Bhatti

By Mohammed Hanif