Tom Holland

Here Be Griffins

John Gray

Tribune of the People

George Orwell: English Rebel

By Robert Colls

Matthew Sperling

Last of the Modernists

A Strong Song Tows Us: The Life of Basil Bunting

By Richard Burton

Blair Worden

The Sage of Norwich

Sir Thomas Browne: A Life

By Reid Barbour

Duncan Wu

No Scribbling Rivalry

William and Dorothy Wordsworth: ‘All in Each Other’

By Lucy Newlyn

David Cesarani

Partners in Crime

Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields

By Wendy Lower

Mary Kenny

Unsceptring the Isle

Fatal Path: British Government and Irish Revolution 1910–1922

By Ronan Fanning

The Republic: The Fight for Irish Independence 1918–1923

By Charles Townshend

Alan Allport

Among the Ruins

Year Zero: A History of 1945

By Ian Buruma

Sarah Bradford

Two Nations Under God

High Minds: The Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain

By Simon Heffer

Donald Rayfield

View from the Kremlin

Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia’s History

By Catherine Merridale

Alex von Tunzelmann

Last Hours at La Moneda

Story of a Death Foretold: The Coup against Salvador Allende, 11 September 1973

By Oscar Guardiola-Rivera

Lucy Moore

Reach for the Skies

One Summer: America 1927

By Bill Bryson

Lawrence Rosen

Power vs the People

Justice Interrupted: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in the Middle East

By Elizabeth F Thompson

Justin Beplate

Talking Bull

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 2, 1923-1925

By Sandra Spanier, Albert J DeFazio III & Robert W Trogdon (edd)

Jane Ridley

Listen to Mother

Darling Monster: The Letters of Lady Diana Cooper to her Son John Julius Norwich

By John Julius Norwich (ed)

Diana Athill

Signed, Sealed, Delivered

To the Letter: A Journey Through a Vanishing World

By Simon Garfield

Dominic Sandbrook

The Man Who Lost the Peace

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By A Scott Berg

Paul Addison

Speaking for England

The Roar of the Lion: The Untold Story of Churchill’s World War II Speeches

By Richard Toye

Churchill and Empire

By Lawrence James

Tanya Harrod

Arts & Craftiness

Marriage of Inconvenience: John Ruskin and Euphemia Gray

By Robert Brownell

Robert Bickers

Boxing Clever

Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

By Jung Chang

Philip Hoare

What the Celts Did For Us

The Ancient Paths: Discovering the Lost Map of Celtic Europe

By Graham Robb

Miri Rubin

Book of Exile

The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BCE–1492 CE

By Simon Schama

Eric Kaufmann

Too Many People?

10 Billion

By Stephen Emmott

Population 10 Billion

By Danny Dorling

Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth

By Alan Weisman

David Bodanis

Networking Down the Ages

Writing on the Wall: Social Media – The First 2,000 Years

By Tom Standage

Anthony Daniels

After the Iron Lung

Paralysed with Fear: The Story of Polio

By Gareth Williams

Bryan Appleyard

Playing the Advantage

David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants

By Malcolm Gladwell

Joan Smith

That Which Must Not Be Named

The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History

By Emma L E Rees

P L Dickinson

Who Do You Think You Are?

What’s in a Surname? A Journey from Abercrombie to Zwicker

By David McKie

Jonathan Lee

Art Attack

The Goldfinch

By Donna Tartt

D J Taylor

London Calling

Three Brothers

By Peter Ackroyd

Patricia Duncker

All a Blur

Speedboat

By Renata Adler

Pitch Dark

By Renata Adler

Jonathan Barnes

Things That Go Bump in New Zealand

The Luminaries

By Eleanor Catton

Malcolm Forbes

Darling in Paradise

We Need New Names

By NoViolet Bulawayo

David Annand

Sex, Drugs & Anomie

Taipei

By Tao Lin

Adrian Turpin

Dodgy Dossier

An Officer and a Spy

By Robert Harris

Suzi Feay

Three Sisters

Almost English

By Charlotte Mendelson

Sophie Hughes

Tour of Babel

Multiples: An Anthology of Stories in an Assortment of Languages and Literary Styles

By Adam Thirlwell

Ivan Juritz

Taming Gould

Personae

By Sergio De La Pava