Allan Massie

History in the Making

John Gray

Life’s Greatest Achievement?

The Social Conquest of Earth

By Edward O Wilson

Adam Zeman

Only Connect

Connectome: How the Brain’s Wiring Makes Us Who We Are

By Sebastian Seung

Colin Tudge

Selectioneering

Darwin’s Ghosts: In Search of the First Evolutionists

By Rebecca Stott

Patrick Wilcken

Words to the Wise

Language: The Cultural Tool

By Daniel L Everett

Colin Burrow

Prince of Poets

Edmund Spenser: A Life

By Andrew Hadfield

Paul Johnson

Worshipper of Women

Raphael: A Passionate Life

By Antonio Forcellino (Translated by Lucinda Byatt)

Andrew Hussey

Slugging It Out

The Boxer and the Goalkeeper: Sartre Vs Camus

By Andy Martin

Jonathan Keates

Wolfgang’s World

Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune: Serving the Emperor, 1788–1791

By Christoph Wolff

Matthew Parker

Back to Barbados

Sugar in the Blood: A Family’s Story of Slavery and Empire

By Andrea Stuart

Anne Sebba

Monky Business

The Baroness: The Search for Nica, the Rebellious Rothschild

By Hannah Rothschild

Norman Stone

World on Fire

The Second World War

By Antony Beevor

Richard Overy

The Mind of Evil

The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind: Hitler, Hess, and the Analysts

By Daniel Pick

Catherine Peters

Court in the Act

Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady

By Kate Summerscale

Simon J V Malloch

Barbarians at the Gate

Rome: An Empire’s Story

By Greg Woolf

Christopher Andrew

Colder War

Deception: Spies, Lies and How Russia Dupes the West

By Edward Lucas

Matthew Green

In Kony’s Shadow

The Night Wanderers: Uganda’s Children and the Lord’s Resistance Army

By Wojciech Jagielski (Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones)

James Le Fanu

Bitter Pills to Swallow

Pharmageddon

By David Healy

Charles Clover

Up To Our Necks

Ocean of Life: How Our Seas Are Changing

By Callum Roberts

The World’s Beaches: A Global Guide to the Science of the Shoreline

By Orrin H Pilkey, William J Neal, Joseph T Kelley and J Andrew G Cooper

Adrian Weale

All We Ever Do Is Fight

Useful Enemies: When Waging Wars Is More Important Than Winning Them

By David Keen

Malise Ruthven

Reason & Religion

Islamism and Islam

By Bassam Tibi

Christopher Caldwell

Value for Money

What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets

By Michael J Sandel

Geordie Kidston

Splitting Atoms

Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade

By Gabrielle Hecht

Andrew Greig

Paths to Enlightenment

The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

By Robert Macfarlane

Tim Richardson

Our Island Story

How England Made the English: From Hedgerows to Heathrow

By Harry Mount

Frances Spalding

What Lies Beneath

Three Houses, Many Lives

By Gillian Tindall

Oliver Dennis

Three New Collections

Love’s Bonfire

By Tom Paulin

Voluntary

By Adam Thorpe

The Dark Film

By Paul Farley

Jonathan Mirsky

Interview: Yang Lian

John Sutherland

Paper Promises

How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain

By Leah Price

David Bodanis

Conductors of Progress

The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

By Jon Gertner

Stephen Amidon

The Spirit of Grim Grin

The Man Within My Head: Graham Greene, My Father and Me

By Pico Iyer

Patricia Fara

Planetspotting

Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens

By Andrea Wulf

Adam Mars-Jones

The Silent Type

The Anatomy of Harpo Marx

By Wayne Koestenbaum

David Collard

Lost Kids on the Concourse

Living Life the Essex Way: TOWIE & Me

By Sam Faiers

Robert Chesshyre

Tearing Up the Boundary

Cricket at the Crossroads: Class, Colour and Controversy from 1967 to 1977

By Guy Fraser-Sampson

Jonathan Miles

On the Boarders

Canada

By Richard Ford

Jonathan Beckman

The King & I

Bring Up the Bodies

By Hilary Mantel

Paul Bailey

From the Black Diaries

The Dream of the Celt

By Mario Vargas Llosa (Translated by Edith Grossman)

Hannah Rosefield

‘Self-curate or disappear’

Stone Arabia

By Dana Spiotta

James Purdon

The Adventures of Snooky

Pure

By Timothy Mo

James Kidd

Into the Heart of Darkness

The Lower River

By Paul Theroux

Toby Lichtig

Search for Serenity

The Server

By Tim Parks

Rowland Manthorpe

Highland Games

The Deadman’s Pedal

By Alan Warner