Thomas Marks

The Writings on the Wall

Dominic Sandbrook

Twilight in the West

Time to Start Thinking: America and the Spectre of Decline

By Edward Luce

Michael Burleigh

Going Green

After the Arab Spring: How Islamists Hijacked the Middle East Revolts

By John R Bradley

George Walden

One Big Unhappy Family

The Tree That Bleeds: A Uighur Town on the Edge

By Nick Holdstock

Brendan Simms

Lives Go On

The War is Dead, Long Live the War: Bosnia – The Reckoning

By Ed Vulliamy

Roderick Matthews

Hostages to Fortune

The Meadow: Kashmir 1995 – Where the Terror Began

By Adrian Levy & Cathy Scott-Clark

Jonathan Mirsky

Copycats & Bamboozles

China in Ten Words

By Yu Hua (Translated by Allan H Barr)

Miranda Seymour

Stuck in the Mittel

Keeping Up with the Germans: A History of Anglo-German Encounters

By Philip Oltermann

David Collard

Spinach & Ice Cream

Exorcism: A Play in One Act

By Eugene O’Neill

Andrew Hussey

Oulipotastic

Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature

By Daniel Levin Becker

John Sutherland

Regarding Henry

Monopolizing the Master: Henry James and the Politics of Modern Literary Scholarship

By Michael Anesko

Frank McLynn

Just William?

The Norman Conquest

By Marc Morris

Christopher Kelly

Europe’s Growing Pains

Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500–700

By Peter Sarris

Piers Brendon

Never the Twain Shall Meet

A Dance with the Dragon: The Vanished World of Peking’s Foreign Colony

By Julia Boyd

Norman Stone

Timetables May Change

The Lost History of 1914: Why the Great War Was Not Inevitable

By Jack Beatty

Alan Allport

Days of Vengeance

Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II

By Keith Lowe

Michael Prodger

Brushes with Mortality

The Healing Presence of Art: A History of Western Art in Hospitals

By Richard Cork

Alexandra Harris

Slow Release of Light

Prunella Clough: Regions Unmapped

By Frances Spalding

David Satter

Vlad the Enforcer

The Strongman: Vladimir Putin and the Struggle for Russia

By Angus Roxburgh

The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

By Masha Gessen

Edward Norman

King Takes Bishop

Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel, Victim – A 900-Year-Old Story Retold

By John Guy

Irving Wardle

Mr Julie

Strindberg: A Life

By Sue Prideaux

Peter Jones

Land of Swamps & Sorties

The Romans Who Shaped Britain

By Sam Moorhead & David Stuttard

Leslie Mitchell

Capital Gains

London in the Eighteenth Century: A Great and Monstrous Thing

By Jerry White

Harry Mount

Keeping Out the Joneses

Cheek by Jowl: A History of Neighbours

By Emily Cockayne

Eric Kaufman

Coercion Doesn’t Pay

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

By Daron Acemoglu & James A Robinson

Michael Evans

Spies Like Us

Intel Wars: The Secret History of the Fight Against Terror

By Matthew M Aid

Sonia Purnell

The Truth Won’t Out

You Can’t Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom

By Nick Cohen

Kevin Jackson

The Art of Dying Well

Until Further Notice, I Am Alive

By Tom Lubbock

Great Works: 50 Paintings Explained

By Tom Lubbock

Diana Athill

The Wave Cry, the Wind Cry

Sightlines

By Kathleen Jamie

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Reality Entertainment

Peoples on Parade: Exhibitions, Empire, and Anthropology in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By Sadiah Qureshi

Christopher Hart

Halfway There

Middle Age: A Natural History

By David Bainbridge

Jonathan Beckman

Peradventurers

Threads and Traces: True False Fictive

By Carlo Ginzburg (Translated by Anne C Tedeschi and John Tedeschi)

Traces Remain: Essays and Explorations

By Charles Nicholl

Caroline Moorehead

‘Ambassador to Hell’

All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals

By David Scheffer

John Cornwell

Turbulent Priest

Leaving Alexandria: A Memoir of Faith and Doubt

By Richard Holloway

Jonathan Derbyshire

Say What You Mean

Iris Murdoch, Philosopher: A Collection of Essays

By Justin Broackes (ed)

Pamela Norris

Ghost Writing

The Beginner’s Goodbye

By Anne Tyler

Hannah Rosefield

A Clockwork Beehive

Angelmaker

By Nick Harkaway

Keith Miller

If It Honks like a Swan

The Chemistry of Tears

By Peter Carey

Sarah A Smith

From Kurdistan to Hackney

Honour

By Elif Shafak

Edmund Gordon

What Was Left Behind

Scenes from Early Life

By Philip Hensher

Sam Kitchener

Teenage Baroque

Stonemouth

By Iain Banks

Rowland Manthorpe

Keep Hanging On

The Leftovers

By Tom Perrotta

George Gömöri

1,001 Nights to Remember

The Adventures of Sindbad

By Gyula Krúdy (Translated and with an introduction by George Szirtes)

Philip Womack

A Rum Affair

Silver: Return to Treasure Island

By Andrew Motion

Andrew Barrow

Swinging Soho

Secondhand Daylight

By D J Taylor

Jonathan Barnes

Five First Novels

• Alexandra Shulman, 
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• Andrea Gillies, 
• Justin Torres, 
• Greg Baxter