Paul Lay

Do Mention the War

Jonathan Mirsky

Mao’s Willing Executioners

The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945–57

By Frank Dikötter

Oleg Gordievsky

Moscow Mole

Dead Drop: The True Story of Oleg Penkovsky and the Cold War’s Most Dangerous Operation

By Jeremy Duns

Linda Porter

The Queen and the Welshman

Tudor: The Family Story

By Leanda de Lisle

Nick Bunker

Puritan Persuasions

The Rainborowes: Pirates, Puritans and a Family’s Quest for the Promised Land

By Adrian Tinniswood

Norma Clarke

London with the Many Sins

The First Bohemians: Life and Art in London’s Golden Age

By Vic Gatrell

The Beau Monde: Fashionable Society in Georgian London

By Hannah Greig

Adam Fergusson

A Fistful of Marks

The Downfall of Money: Germany’s Hyperinflation and the Destruction of the Middle Class

By Frederick Taylor

James Holland

Under Dark Skies

The Bombing War: Europe 1939–1945

By Richard Overy

Jeremy Lewis

The Final Leg

The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos

By Patrick Leigh Fermor (Edited by Colin Thubron & Artemis Cooper)

Allan Massie

Hodge-Podge Empire

Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe

By Simon Winder

John Keay

High Altitude, Low Profile

Everest: The First Ascent – The Untold Story of Griffith Pugh, the Man who Made It Possible

By Harriet Tuckey

Michael Holman

Oil Be Damned

Blue Dahlia, Black Gold: A Journey into Angola

By Daniel Metcalfe

Joanna Kavenna

Ecosopher-King

Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin in the Middle Taiga

By Sylvain Tesson (Translated by Linda Coverdale)

Caspar Henderson

Fly Like a Bananaquit

Birds and People

By Mark Cocker (Photographs by David Tipling)

Charles Elliott

Beautiful Monster

The Flower of Empire: An Amazonian Water Lily, the Quest to Make It Bloom, and the World It Created

By Tatiana Holway

Tim Richardson

What Larks

Four Fields

By Tim Dee

John Stubbs

Songs of Praise

Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert

By John Drury

Daisy Hay

Government by Epigram

Disraeli or, The Two Lives

By Douglas Hurd & Edward Young

The Great Rivalry: Gladstone & Disraeli

By Dick Leonard

Caroline Moorehead

Buckmaster’s Girls

She Landed by Moonlight: The Story of Secret Agent Pearl Witherington

By Carole Seymour-Jones

The Secret Ministry of Ag. & Fish: My Life in Churchill’s School for Spies

By Noreen Riols

Catherine Peters

A Tale of Two Mistresses

Wilkie Collins: A Life of Sensation

By Andrew Lycett

Raymond Seitz

Steadying the Ship

Foreign Policy Begins at Home

By Richard N Haass

Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era

By Joseph S Nye Jr

D D Guttenplan

New Deal to Raw Deal

The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America

By George Packer

Rob Turner

At the Flickering Edge

Seven American Deaths and Disasters

By Kenneth Goldsmith

Francis Wheen

Unfit to Rule

The Blunders of our Governments

By Anthony King & Ivor Crewe

Martin Vander Weyer

Goodbye to All That

Broke: Who Killed the Middle Classes?

By David Boyle

When the Money Runs Out: The End of Western Affluence

By Stephen D King

Douglas Murray

Votes of No Confidence

The Last Vote: The Threats to Western Democracy

By Philip Coggan

Michael Burleigh

Matters of Import

Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry that Brings You 90% of Everything

By Rose George

Adam LeBor

If These Pages Could Talk

The Aleppo Codex: In Pursuit of One of the World’s Most Coveted, Sacred, and Mysterious Books

By Matti Friedman

Jane Ridley

From Prussia with Love

Noble Endeavours: The Life of Two Countries, England and Germany, in Many Stories

By Miranda Seymour

Simon Hoggart

Box of Delights

Armchair Nation: An Intimate History of Britain in Front of the TV

By Joe Moran

Gillian Tindall

Furnishing the Past

The Memory Palace: A Book of Lost Interiors

By Edward Hollis

Katharine Whitehorn

Heavy Petting & All That

The English in Love: The Intimate Story of an Emotional Revolution

By Claire Langhamer

Philip Womack

Fascinating Stuff

Veni, Vidi, Vici: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Romans but Were Afraid to Ask

By Peter Jones

Keith Miller

Maxine of the Mean Streets

Bleeding Edge

By Thomas Pynchon

Jonathan Lee

Maker of Dismal Days

Enon

By Paul Harding

Memphis Barker

Message in a Lunchbox

A Tale for the Time Being

By Ruth Ozeki

Oliver Bullough

The Crayfish Conundrum

Captain of the Steppe

By Oleg Pavlov (Translated by Ian Appleby)

The Spectre of Alexander Wolf

By Gaito Gazdanov (Translated by Bryan Karetnyk)

Malcolm Forbes

Traitors in Clubland

The Windsor Faction

By D J Taylor

Sarah A Smith

All’s Fair in Love & War

Expo 58

By Jonathan Coe

Pamela Norris

Among the Naxalites

The Lowland

By Jhumpa Lahiri

Jonathan Barnes

Get Cathar

Lion Heart

By Justin Cartwright

Kaite Welsh

Fleming’s Choice

Fair Helen

By Andrew Greig

Thea Lenarduzzi

The Sex Complex

The Victoria System

By Eric Reinhardt (Translated by Sam Taylor)