Tom Holland

Islam & Influence

Simon Heffer

In Fagin’s Footsteps

The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens’ London

By Judith Flanders

Sarah Bradford

At Home with Mrs Brown

Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household

By Kate Hubbard

Gillian Tindall

The Alleged Lunatics’ Friend Society

Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England

By Sarah Wise

Seamus Perry

Truth, Beauty and Enfield

John Keats: A New Life

By Nicholas Roe

Claire Harman

How They Roared

Mr Foote’s Other Leg: Comedy, Tragedy and Murder in Georgian London

By Ian Kelly

Catherine Peters

Feminist Fatale

The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton

By Diane Atkinson

Anne Sebba

Sitting Pretty

Wives and Stunners: The Pre-Raphaelites and Their Muses

By Henrietta Garnett

John Sutherland

No Smoke without Fire?

The Great Charles Dickens Scandal

By Michael Slater

Dickens and the Workhouse: Oliver Twist and the London Poor

By Ruth Richardson

Adam Zamoyski

All Together Now

Governing the World: The History of an Idea

By Mark Mazower

Michael Burleigh

The Universal Scapegoat

Interventions: A Life in War and Peace

By Kofi Annan with Nader Mousavizadeh

Simon J V Malloch

Sub Specie Aeternitatis

And Man Created God: Kings, Cults, and Conquests at the Time of Jesus

By Selina O’Grady

Norman Stone

The Hour of Their Death

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

By Christopher Clark

Caroline Moorehead

Intellectuals-at-Arms

I am Spain: The Spanish Civil War and the Men & Women Who Went to Fight Fascism

By David Boyd Haycock

Unlikely Warriors: The British in the Spanish Civil War and the Struggle Against Fascism

By Richard Baxell

Keith Lowe

Revenge & Repercussions

Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War

By R M Douglas

Victor Sebestyen

Stalin Supreme

Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944–1956

By Anne Applebaum

Rory Miller

Defensive Positions

Fortress Israel: The Inside Story of the Military Elite Who Run the Country – and Why They Can’t Make Peace

By Patrick Tyler

Richard Cockett

Many Hills to Climb

Burma: A Nation at the Crossroads

By Benedict Rogers

Michael Holman

Independence Days

There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra

By Chinua Achebe

Oliver Bullough

Crude Developments

The Oil Road: Journeys from the Caspian Sea to the City of London

By James Marriott & Mika Minio-Paluello

Tim Hilton

Art for Books’ Sake

Cézanne: A Life

By Alex Danchev

Bryan Appleyard

Some Capital Painters

The Company of Artists: The Origins of the Royal Academy of Arts in London

By Charles Saumarez Smith

Gulliver Ralston

Key Players

A Natural History of the Piano: The Instrument, the Music, the Musicians – from Mozart to Modern Jazz, and Everything in Between

By Stuart Isacoff

Irving Wardle

They Laughed, They Cried

My Old Man: A Personal History of Music Hall

By John Major

Charles Shaar Murray

Purple Reign

Prince

By Matt Thorne

Jay Parini

The Inheritance of Isabel Archer

Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece

By Michael Gorra

David Collard

Thoroughly Modern Milieu

Constellation of Genius – 1922: Modernism Year One

By Kevin Jackson

Jeremy Noel–Tod

To Swell a Progress

On Poetry

By Glyn Maxwell

Beyond the Lyric: A Map of Contemporary British Poetry

By Fiona Sampson

Leo Robson

Typecasting

The Voice is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac

By Joyce Johnson

On the Road

By Walter Salles (Director)

Philip Hoare

Wild Things

The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary

By Caspar Henderson

Diana Athill

Stick to the Script

The Missing Ink: The Lost Art of Handwriting, and Why it Still Matters

By Philip Hensher

James Le Fanu

Teach Them to Sit Still

Hyperactive: The Controversial History of ADHD

By Matthew Smith

David Bodanis

Discovery Channels

Prize Fight: The Race and the Rivalry to be the First in Science

By Morton A Meyers

Raymond Sokolov

Back to the Chopping Board

Consider the Fork: A History of Invention in the Kitchen

By Bee Wilson

Ronald Blythe

A Year in the Life

Wild Hares and Hummingbirds: The Natural History of an English Village

By Stephen Moss

Maya Jaggi

Between East & West

Silent House

By Orhan Pamuk (Translated by Robert Finn)

Joanna Kavenna

Death of a Salesman

May We Be Forgiven

By A M Homes

Tom Fleming

Yunior School

This Is How You Lose Her

By Junot Díaz

Laura Marsh

Five Debut Novels

• Alison Moore, 
• Rachel Joyce, 
• Ben Fountain, 
• Jeet Thayil, 
• Natasha Soobramanien

Simon Hammond

Workplace Solutions

Lightning Rods

By Helen DeWitt

Ivan Juritz

Occupational Therapy

The Garden of Evening Mists

By Tan Twan Eng

Richard O'Brien

Come Dine with Me

The Dinner

By Herman Koch (Translated by Sam Garrett)

Patrick Skene Catling

Old China Hands

The Potter’s Hand

By A N Wilson

Christena Appleyard

A Marked Man

The Story of My Assassins

By Tarun J Tejpal