Frances Wilson

Thinking Inside the Box

Jerry Brotton

The Mad Prophet and Mach the Knife

Savonarola: The Rise and Fall of a Renaissance Prophet

By Donald Weinstein

Machiavelli: A Life Beyond Ideology

By Paul Oppenheimer

Paul Johnson

Star-Crossed Allies

Reagan & Thatcher: The Difficult Relationship

By Richard Aldous

Damian Thompson

Now I’m a Believer

The Red Dean of Canterbury: The Public and Private Faces of Hewlett Johnson

By John Butler

Patrick Wilcken

Vowels of Anguish

Saussure

By John E Joseph

Catherine Peters

Plots Have I Laid

Wilkie Collins

By Peter Ackroyd

Adrian Tinniswood

The Work He Is About

God’s Instruments: Political Conduct in the England of Oliver Cromwell

By Blair Worden

Michael Jacobs

The Sleep of Reason

The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain

By Paul Preston

Norma Clarke

Some Years before 1963

The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution

By Faramerz Dabhoiwala

Timothy Brook

Made in Taiwan

Lost Colony: The Untold Story of China’s First Great Victory over the West

By Tonio Andrade

Andrew Lambert

All at Sea

Blue-Water Empire: The British in the Mediterranean since 1800

By Robert Holland

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Hemispheres of Influence

The Great Divide: History and Human Nature in the Old World and the New

By Peter Watson

Michael Burleigh

His Marvellous Medicine

George F Kennan: An American Life

By John Lewis Gaddis

Richard Overy

Damaged Lives

Blitz Kids: The Children’s War against Hitler

By Sean Longden

Nicholas Rankin

Big Bad Boat

Target Tirpitz: X-Craft, Agents and Dambusters – The Epic Quest to Destroy Hitler’s Mightiest Warship

By Patrick Bishop

Jonathan Mirsky

The Worst Place on Earth

Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

By Blaine Harden

David Profumo

Wobbegong Days

Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks

By Juliet Eilperin

Richard Cockett

Another Fine Mess

Apocalyptic Realm: Jihadists in South Asia

By Dilip Hiro

Dominic Sandbrook

Feds under the Bed

Enemies: A History of the FBI

By Tim Weiner

Steve Fuller

The Spotless Mind

Memory: Fragments of a Modern History

By Alison Winter

Iain Mcgilchrist

Analyse This

What is Madness?

By Darian Leader

Michael Eisen

Modern Bedlam

The Locked Ward: Memoirs of a Psychiatric Orderly

By Dennis O’Donnell

Tom Fort

Eeler’s Choice

Moonlighting: Tales and Misadventures of a Working Life with Eels

By Michael Brown

Sadakat Kadri

Judgment Days

Justice and the Enemy: Nuremberg, 9/11, and the Trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

By William Shawcross

Douglas Murray

Votes of Confidence

Of the People, By the People: A New History of Democracy

By Roger Osborne

Ross Anderson

Going Viral

Worm: The First Digital World War

By Mark Bowden

Manjit Kumar

Particle Crasher

Higgs Force: The Symmetry-Breaking Force that Makes the World an Interesting Place

By Nicholas Mee

Frank McLynn

How the West Was Lost

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanche Tribe

By S C Gwynne

Joan Smith

Divorced from Reality

Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation

By Rachel Cusk

Amol Rajan

The Tortoise & the Hare-Brained

Thinking, Fast and Slow

By Daniel Kahneman

Adrian Turpin

Disease of the Learned

The Missing Shade of Blue: A Philosophical Adventure

By Jennie Erdal

Joanna Kavenna

Khartoum Network

An Honourable Man

By Gillian Slovo

Tom Fleming

On the Street Where They Live

Capital

By John Lanchester

Remember, Remember

The Street Sweeper

By Elliot Perlman

Christena Appleyard

Trouble on the Home Front

The Soldier’s Wife

By Joanna Trollope

Elspeth Barker

The Cutlery Strikes Back

The Knife Drawer

By Padrika Tarrant

Hannah Rosefield

A Passage to Sterne

The Uninvited Guests

By Sadie Jones

Jake Kerridge

Four Debut Short Story Collections

• Roshi Fernando, 
• Krys Lee, 
• Lucy Wood, 
• Alistair MacLeod

Kate Saunders

Solidarity Hall

Various Pets Alive and Dead

By Marina Lewycka

Frank Brinkley

Out of Eden

In the Orchard, the Swallows

By Peter Hobbs

Sammy Jay

In The Deep End

Swimming Home

By Deborah Levy