D J Taylor

Take Note

Timothy Brook

Raise the Holy Sail

Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem

By Carol Delaney

The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages of Vasco da Gama

By Nigel Cliff

Jonathan Sumption

The Alexiad Revisited

The First Crusade: The Call from the East

By Peter Frankopan

Thomas Asbridge

Onward Muslim Soldiers

In the Shadow of the Sword: The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World

By Tom Holland

Leslie Mitchell

Killer in the Commons

Why Spencer Perceval Had to Die: The Assassination of a British Prime Minister

By Andro Linklater

Leanda De Lisle

Broom for Improvement

The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England

By Dan Jones

Nicholas Vincent

Devil’s Advocates

The War on Heresy: Faith and Power in Medieval Europe

By R I Moore

John Guy

Great Matter, Small Fry

Our Man in Rome: Henry VIII & His Italian Ambassador

By Catherine Fletcher

Leo Mckinstry

Raid over Troubled Water

The Dam Busters: The True Story of the Legendary Raid on the Ruhr

By James Holland

Anna Reid

Lev’s Letters

Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag

By Orlando Figes

Donald Trelford

Stayin’ Alive

Seasons in the Sun: The Battle for Britain, 1974–1979

By Dominic Sandbrook

Hugh Bicheno

The Falklands at First-Hand

Scram! The Gripping First-Hand Account of the Helicopter War in the Falklands

By Harry Benson

Down South: A Falklands War Diary

By Chris Parry

The Yompers: With 45 Commando in the Falklands War

By Ian Gardiner

Joan Smith

Venice, Tequila, Sunsets…

As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Diaries 1964–1980

By Susan Sontag (Edited by David Rieff)

Richard Overy

Networker-in-Chief

Witness to History: The Life of John Wheeler-Bennett

By Victoria Schofield

Frances Spalding

Viennese Whirls

Lucie Rie: Modernist Potter

By Emmanuel Cooper

Allan Massie

Taking the Low Road

The Last Highlander: Scotland’s Most Notorious Clan Chief, Rebel & Double Agent

By Sarah Fraser

Christopher Andrew

Team of His Own

Snow: The Double Life of a World War II Spy

By Nigel West & Madoc Roberts

Frank Close

Joint Efforts

How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival

By David Kaiser

Manjit Kumar

The Exclusion Principle

The Quantum Exodus: Jewish Fugitives, the Atomic Bomb, and the Holocaust

By Gordon Fraser

David Collard

Poetry in Motion

Nick Cohen

The Haves and the Have-Some-Mores

The New Few, or A Very British Oligarchy: Power and Inequality in Britain Now

By Ferdinand Mount

Shiraz Maher

Disenchanted or Disenfranchised?

Europe’s Angry Muslims: The Revolt of the Second Generation

By Robert S Leiken

Martin Vander Weyer

How to Spend It

Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics

By Nicholas Wapshott

Simon Thurley

Bringing the Houses Down

Felling the Ancient Oaks: How England Lost Its Great Country Estates

By John Martin Robinson

Gillian Tindall

Green & Pleasant Patches

The London Square: Gardens in the Midst of Town

By Todd Longstaffe-Gowan

Tom Fort

Privet Passions

Hedge Britannia: A Curious History of a British Obsession

By Hugh Barker

Jonathan Mirsky

Death beneath Fox Tower

Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China

By Paul French

Caroline Moorehead

Judgement Day in Cambodia

Facing the Torturer: Inside the Mind of a War Criminal

By François Bizot (Translated by Charlotte Mandell & Antoine Audouard)

Jerry Brotton

What Killed the Cat?

Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything

By Philip Ball

Steve Fuller

Surviving Darwin

Wired for Culture: The Natural History of Human Cooperation

By Mark Pagel

John Gribbin

OK Computer

Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe

By George Dyson

Rupert Christiansen

Hitting the High Notes

A History of Singing

By John Potter & Neil Sorrell

Theodore Dalrymple

Pressing the Self-Destruct Button

The Fix: How Addiction Is Invading Our Lives and Taking over Your World

By Damian Thompson

Katharine Whitehorn

Escaping the Mad Men

The Fifties Mystique

By Jessica Mann

John Sutherland

Down Under the Table

My Name Is Ross: An Alcoholic’s Journey

By Ross Fitzgerald

Frederic Raphael

The True History of the Heydrich Plan

HHhH

By Laurent Binet (Translated by Sam Taylor)

Sam Leith

Greecing the Plot

Skios

By Michael Frayn

Lyndall Gordon

Unweaving the Rainbow Nation

No Time Like the Present

By Nadine Gordimer

Absolution

By Patrick Flanery

David Annand

Having a Wales of a Time

The Red House

By Mark Haddon

Sam Kitchener

Queer Theorising

In One Person

By John Irving

Leyla Sanai

Where Did the Love Go?

Seven Years

By Peter Stamm (Translated by Michael Hofmann)

Patrick Skene Catling

Bird on a Wire

Flight

By Adam Thorpe

Anthony Cummins

Off the Rails

Skagboys

By Irvine Welsh

Patrick McGuinness

Pictures of Poiana

Painter of Silence

By Georgina Harding

Ophelia Field

A Tale of Two Villages

Ignorance

By Michèle Roberts

Lindy Burleigh

Ladies Who Punch

The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

By Simon Mawer

Wendy Brandmark

Return to Lotus

Home

By Toni Morrison

Sophia Waugh

Village People

Peaches for Monsieur le Curé

By Joanne Harris