Eric Ormsby

The Imaged Word

Aisha’s Cushion: Religious Art, Perception, and Practice in Islam

By Jamal J Elias

Lisa Jardine

Tricks of the Eye

Mr Collier’s Letter Racks: A Tale of Art & Illusion at the Threshold of the Modern Information Age

By Dror Wahrman

Edmund de Waal

Feat of Clay

The Last Sane Man: Michael Cardew – Modern Pots, Colonialism and the Counterculture

By Tanya Harrod

Matthew Parker

Artists of the Archipelago

Caribbean: Art at the Crossroads of the World

By Edited by Deborah Cullen & Elvis Fuentes

Paul Johnson

Painting for Pleasure

John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1900–1907 – Complete Paintings, Volume VII

By Richard Ormond & Elaine Kilmurray

Richard Davenport-Hines

A Refined Palette

In Search of Rex Whistler: His Life & His Work

By Hugh & Mirabel Cecil

John Gray

Rent in the Fabric

Is God Happy? Selected Essays

By Leszek Kołakowski

Blair Worden

Authority Figure

The Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes – Leviathan Vol 1: Introduction; Vols 2 & 3: The English & Latin Texts

By Edited by Noel Malcolm

Peter Frankopan

Cities of God

The Crusader States

By Malcolm Barber

Jonathan Sumption

Trial by Sword

The Verdict of Battle: The Law of Victory and the Making of Modern War

By James Q Whitman

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Liquid Assets

Thirst: Water & Power in the Ancient World

By Steven Mithen

Peter Heather

Charity Begins in Rome

Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350–550 AD

By Peter Brown

Peter Marshall

The Godless Edition

The Atheist’s Bible: The Most Dangerous Book That Never Existed

By Georges Minois

Piers Brendon

Lords of the Prairie 24

Prairie Fever: How British Aristocrats Staked a Claim to the American West

By Peter Pagnamenta

Donald Rayfield

Blood on the Streets

Moscow, 1937

By Karl Schlögel (Translated by Rodney Livingstone)

James Holland

Masters of Disguise

The Phantom Army of Alamein: How Operation Bertram and the Camouflage Unit Hoodwinked Rommel

By Rick Stroud

Frederic Raphael

Culture Vultures

Inhumanities: Nazi Interpretations of Western Culture

By David B Dennis

Frank Dikötter

New Trade Revolution

China’s Silent Army: The Pioneers, Traders, Fixers and Workers Who Are Remaking the World in Beijing’s Image

By Juan Pablo Cardenal & Heriberto Araújo (Translated by Catherine Mansfield)

Max Egremont

Duchy Originals

A Journey to Nowhere: Detours and Riddles in the Lands and History of Courland

By Jean-Paul Kauffmann (Translated by Euan Cameron)

Katherine Macinnes

Land of Ice & Snow

• David Day, 
• Gabrielle Walker, 
• Chris Turney, 
• Gavin Francis, 
• James McClintock

Seamus Perry

Laureate of Melancholy

Tennyson: To Strive, To Seek, To Find

By John Batchelor

Dominic Sandbrook

Did She Or Didn’t She?

‘The Most Remarkable Woman in England’: Poison, Celebrity and the Trials of Beatrice Pace

By John Carter Wood

Elspeth Barker

‘Led Away by Paper’

With the Hunted: Selected Writings

By Sylvia Townsend Warner (Edited by Peter Tolhurst)

D J Taylor

The Squire & the Schoolmaster

Selected Letters of Siegfried Sassoon and Edmund Blunden, 1919–1967 Vol 1: 1919–1931; Vol 2: 1932–1947; Vol 3: 1951–1967

By Carol Z Rothkopf (Ed)

Francis Wheen

Scourge of Obscenity

Ban This Filth! Letters from the Mary Whitehouse Archive

By Ben Thompson (Ed)

Sarah Bradford

Bertie, Lillibet, Margaret & Me

Counting One’s Blessings: The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

By William Shawcross (Ed)

John Harwood

Favourite Haunts

A Natural History of Ghosts: 500 Years of Hunting for Proof

By Roger Clarke

Kevin Jackson

Revenge of the Pharaonic Cobra

The Mummy’s Curse: The True History of a Dark Fantasy

By Roger Luckhurst

Michael Burleigh

Power Adapters

The Dictator’s Learning Curve: Inside the Global Battle for Democracy

By William J Dobson

Maya Jaggi

Picture Posts

Journalism

By Joe Sacco

Martin Vander Weyer

Future Perfect

The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction

By Nate Silver

David Bodanis

The Shocking Truth

Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don’t Understand

By Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Christopher Caldwell

Model Thinkers

The Assumptions Economists Make

By Jonathan Schlefer

John Sweeney

‘As British as Suet Pudding’

Cruel Britannia: A Secret History of Torture

By Ian Cobain

Colin Tudge

Shake Your Tail Feathers

Drawn from Paradise: The Discovery, Art and Natural History of the Birds of Paradise

By David Attenborough & Errol Fuller

David Profumo

Nature’s Jukebox

The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World’s Wild Places

By Bernie Krause

Frank McLynn

Who’s Afraid of Elizabeth Taylor?

The Richard Burton Diaries

By Chris Williams (Ed)

Richard Canning

Art Attack

Outsider: Always Almost, Never Quite – Volumes I & II

By Brian Sewell

Naked Emperors: Criticisms of English Contemporary Art

By Brian Sewell

Pete Clark

The Rest is Noise

Who I Am

By Pete Townshend

Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream

By Neil Young

How Music Works

By David Byrne

Patrick Wilcken

Native Wisdom

The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

By Jared Diamond

David Collard

Inner Visions

Hallucinations

By Oliver Sacks

Druin Burch

Physic, Heal Thyself

Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients

By Ben Goldacre

Gillian Tindall

Through the Keyhole

The Meaning of Home

By Edwin Heathcote

Tom Fort

No More Black Holes

On the Map: Why the world looks the way it does

By Simon Garfield

Alan Judd

On the Road

On Wheels: Five Easy Pieces

By Michael Holroyd

Carscapes: The Motor Car, Architecture and Landscape in England

By Kathryn A Morrison and John Minnis

Duncan White

Thinking Inside the Box

The Outsider: A History of the Goalkeeper

By Jonathan Wilson

Does Your Rabbi Know You’re Here? The Story of English Football’s Forgotten Tribe

By Anthony Clavane

I Am the Secret Footballer: Lifting the Lid on the Beautiful Game

By Anonymous

Patricia Fara

You Do the Math

Poor Robin’s Prophecies: A curious Almanac, and the everyday mathematics of Georgian Britain

By Benjamin Wardhaugh

Tim Richardson

Well Constructed Polemics

Museum Without Walls

By Jonathan Meades