Robert Macfarlane

The Tree & the Bird

Robert Bickers

Foreign Fantasies

Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War

By Stephen Platt

Michael Burleigh

Cornpone in Camelot

The Years of Lyndon Johnson Volume 4: The Passage of Power

By Robert A Caro

Paul Addison

Prime Scribbler

Mr Churchill’s Profession: Statesman, Orator, Writer

By Peter Clarke

David Cesarani

Dear Führer…

Letters to Hitler

By Henrik Eberle (ed) (Translated by Steven Rendall; English edition edited &introduced by Victoria Harris)

Peter Marshall

Reformation Blues

The Late Medieval English Church: Vitality and Vulnerability before the Break with Rome

By G W Bernard

Edward Vallance

The Revolution Will Not Be Realised

The Road Not Taken: How Britain Narrowly Missed a Revolution

By Frank McLynn

Max Egremont

Alnwick Calling

As They Really Were: The Citizens of Alnwick 1831

By Keith Middlemas

David Collard

Possum Agonistes

The Letters of T S Eliot, Volume 3: 1926–1927

By Valerie Eliot & John Haffenden (ed)

Jeremy Lewis

In Pursuit of His Talent

Stephen Spender: New Selected Journals 1939–1995

By Lara Feigel & John Sutherland (ed)

Catherine Peters

Amuthement Arcade

The Dickens Dictionary: An A–Z of England’s Greatest Novelist

By John Sutherland

Charles Dickens and ‘Boz’: The Birth of the Industrial-Age Author

By Robert L Patten

Charles Dickens’s Networks: Public Transport and the Novel

By Jonathan H Grossman

John Keay

Shine & Squalor

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum

By Katherine Boo

India Rising: Tales from a Changing Nation

By Oliver Balch

Following Fish: Travels around the Indian Coast

By Samanth Subramanian

Joanna Kavenna

Moon Country

Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland

By Sarah Moss

Richard Cockett

How Bad Can It Get?

Pakistan on the Brink: The Future of Pakistan, Afghanistan and the West

By Ahmed Rashid

Donald Rayfield

Making of an Empress

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

By Robert K Massie

Justin Marozzi

The Heinrich Manoeuvres

A Labyrinth of Kingdoms: 10,000 Miles through Islamic Africa

By Steve Kemper

Toby Thomas

Prurient Puritan

Muckraker: The Scandalous Life and Times of W T Stead

By W Sydney Robinson

Patrick Marnham

Shadow of the Bomb

Keeper of the Nuclear Conscience: The Life and Work of Joseph Rotblat

By Andrew Brown

Tim Hilton

Bodies of Evidence

Turner’s Secret Sketches

By Ian Warrell

Jonathan Keates

Lines of Beauty

Titian: His Life

By Sheila Hale

Lesley Downer

Artists of the Floating World

Obtaining Images: Art, Production and Display in Edo Japan

By Timon Screech

Tom Stammers

Light Fantastic

Speculating Daguerre: Art and Enterprise in the Work of L J M Daguerre

By Stephen C Pinson

Peyton Skipwith

Wearing Warhol

Textile Design: Artists’ Textiles 1940–1976

By Geoffrey Rayner, Richard Chamberlain & Annamarie Stapleton

Charlotte Faircloth

A Well-Rounded Account

Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History

By Florence Williams

Lewis Wolpert

Jolt to the System

The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body

By Frances Ashcroft

Thomas Levenson

Hearts and Minds

Circulation: William Harvey’s Revolutionary Idea

By Thomas Wright

Christopher De Bellaigue

Following the Faith

Encounters with Islam: On Religion, Politics and Modernity

By Malise Ruthven

Jonathan Meades

Bland Nightmares

A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys Through Urban Britain

By Owen Hatherley

Rupert Christiansen

‘Play Better!’

Music as Alchemy: Journeys with Great Conductors and their Orchestras

By Tom Service

Robert Chesshyre

Crime & Punishment

Injustice: Life and Death in the Courtrooms of America

By Clive Stafford Smith

Jon Swaine

‘Invisible, Unseen, Unverifiable’

Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Shadow of a Secret Nuclear Facility

By Kristen Iversen

Charles Shaar Murray

Sympathy for the Devils

The Rolling Stones: Fifty Years

By Christopher Sandford

Kevin Jackson

The Horror, the Horror

Gothicka: Vampire Heroes, Human Gods, and the New Supernatural

By Victoria Nelson

David Profumo

Moby Yuck

Floating Gold: A Natural (and Unnatural) History of Ambergris

By Christopher Kemp

Caroline Jackson

The Oldest Road?

The A303: Highway to the Sun

By Tom Fort

Elspeth Barker

O! Pull Aside the Veil

The Life of Rebecca Jones

By Angharad Price (Translated by Lloyd Jones)

David Jays

Shades of Gray

Ancient Light

By John Banville

Matthew Adams

Dissing Diston

Lionel Asbo: State of England

By Martin Amis

Tom Williams

After the Fall

Joy

By Jonathan Lee

David Annand

The Ecstatic Truth

The Flame Alphabet

By Ben Marcus

John Dugdale

Prophet & Loss

Dirt

By David Vann

Simon Hammond

Bloomsday Blues

Dublinesque

By Enrique Vila-Matas (Translated by Rosalind Harvey & Anne McLean)

Frank Brinkley

Great Undertakings

A Trick I Learned from Dead Men

By Kitty Aldridge

James Kidd

‘Every Day of my Life is Like a Page’

A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel

By Tom Phillips