Dominic Sandbrook

Teddy & Taft

The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt and the Golden Age of Journalism

By Doris Kearns Goodwin

Piers Brendon

‘Kill the Bolshie. Kiss the Hun’

Operation Unthinkable: The Third World War – British Plans to Attack the Soviet Empire, 1945

By Jonathan Walker

Andrea Stuart

Trading Places

Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture

By Gaiutra Bahadur

Odd Arne Westad

Road to Pearl Harbor

China’s War with Japan, 1937–1945: The Struggle for Survival

By Rana Mitter

Alan Allport

Battle Basics

Monty’s Men: The British Army and the Liberation of Europe, 1944–5

By John Buckley

Jay Parini

Wire Power

The Men Who United the States: The Amazing Stories of the Explorers, Inventors and Mavericks Who Made America

By Simon Winchester

Bill Emmott

The Sun Also Rises

Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival

By David Pilling

Adam LeBor

What a State to Be In

Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel

By Max Blumenthal

John Keay

Baywatch

Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants

By Sunil S Amrith

Sara Wheeler

In the Duke We Trust

Man Belong Mrs Queen: Adventures with the Philip Worshippers

By Matthew Baylis

David Cesarani

Reel Deals

The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler

By Ben Urwand

Frank McLynn

All the World Was His Stage

Olivier

By Philip Ziegler

John Gray

Last of the Haute Bourgeoisie

Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life

By Howard Eiland & Michael W Jennings

Leanda de Lisle

A Woman for All Seasons

The Creation of Anne Boleyn: In Search of the Tudors’ Most Notorious Queen

By Susan Bordo

David Abulafia

Seeder of Lebanon

Renaissance Emir: A Druze Warlord at the Court of the Medici

By T J Gorton

Jonathan Keates

Saint & Sinner

Raven: The Turbulent World of Baron Corvo

By Robert Scoble

Caroline Moorehead

Secrets of the Mexican Suitcase

Gerda Taro: Inventing Robert Capa

By Jane Rogoyska

Jeremy Lewis

Socialites on Parade

Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France

By Nicholas Shakespeare

The Girl from Station X: My Mother’s Unknown Life

By Elisa Segrave

Andrew Brown

Instructions for Living

Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life

By J Craig Venter

Rupert Christiansen

The Mighty Little Heap

Musorgsky and His Circle: A Russian Musical Adventure

By Stephen Walsh

Charles Shaar Murray

Before They Were Famous

The Beatles: All These Years, Volume 1 – Tune In

By Mark Lewisohn

Tim Hilton

Agony & Ecstasy

El Greco: Life and Work – A New History

By Fernando Marías

James Stourton

In the Frame

Bernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade

By Rachel Cohen

Frances Spalding

Upsetting the Apple Cart

The Letters of Paul Cézanne

By Alex Danchev (editor & translator)

Philip Hensher

Smith & Moans

Autobiography

By Morrissey

Tom Fleming

Painting by Letters

Breakfast at Sotheby’s: An A–Z of the Art World

By Philip Hook

Eric Kaufmann

Entrance Strategies

The British Dream: Successes and Failures of Post-war Immigration

By David Goodhart

Exodus: Immigration and Multiculturalism in the 21st Century

By Paul Collier

Colin Tudge

Small Is Beautiful

Feeding Frenzy: The New Politics of Food

By Paul McMahon

Mark Maslin

Planting Plastic Trees

Earthmasters: The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering

By Clive Hamilton

Daniel Pick

Complex Relations

Correspondence 1904–1938: Sigmund Freud and Anna Freud

By Ingeborg Meyer-Palmedo & translated by Nick Somers

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Med Men

The Making of the Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean from the Beginning to the Emergence of the Classical World

By Cyprian Broodbank

Edward N Luttwak

Among the Himyarites

The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam

By G W Bowersock

Saul David

Leading from the Front

Wellington: The Path to Victory, 1769–1814

By Rory Muir

Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power, 1799–1815

By Philip Dwyer

Lucy Moore

Martinique to Malmaison

Josephine: Desire, Ambition, Napoleon

By Kate Williams

Leslie Mitchell

Fighting Nine to Five

Britain Against Napoleon: The Organization of Victory 1793–1815

By Roger Knight

Paul Addison

Don’t Mention the Tube Alloys

Churchill’s Bomb: A Hidden History of Science, War and Politics

By Graham Farmelo

John Gribbin

Science for Sale

Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler

By Philip Ball

Alex Goodall

Dropping the Screwdriver

Command and Control

By Eric Schlosser

Maya Jaggi

Back to the Ottomans

John Banville

An Inspector Calls

Pietr the Latvian

By Georges Simenon & translated by David Bellos

The Late Monsieur Gallet

By Georges Simenon & translated by Anthea Bell

The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien

By Georges Simenon & translated by Linda Coverdale

Elif Shafak

Lifting the Headscarf

Do Muslim Women Need Saving?

By Lila Abu-Lughod

Alan Judd

Va Va Voom

The Life of the Automobile: A New History of the Motor Car

By Steven Parissien

Joan Smith

Amazing Greys

Out of Time: The Pleasures and the Perils of Ageing

By Lynne Segal

Allan Massie

Dionysus Another Day

The Gods of Olympus: A History

By Barbara Graziosi

Peter Raby

Tiger Beetles on Ternate

Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters from the Malay Archipelago

By John van Wyhe & Kees Rookmaaker (edd)

Samuel Moyn

Apocalypse Now

The Endtimes of Human Rights

By Stephen Hopgood

Christopher Hart

Rise and Shine

Daily Rituals: How Great Minds Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Get to Work

By Mason Currey

Frances Wilson

The School of Hardbacks

How to Be a Heroine: Or, What I’ve Learned from Reading Too Much

By Samantha Ellis

Frank Brinkley

Point Made

Shady Characters: Ampersands, Interrobangs and Other Typographical Curiosities

By Keith Houston

Malcolm Beith

Supply & Remand

Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their Godfathers

By Anabel Hernández & translated by Iain Bruce

Tom Fort

Anglers & Demons

The Salmon

By Michael Wigan

G.E.M. Skues: The Man of the Nymph

By Tony Hayter

Sam Leith

Pussies Galore

Cat Sense: The Feline Enigma Revealed

By John Bradshaw

The Big New Yorker Book of Cats

By Anthony Lane (foreword)

Justin Cartwright

Pictures of Jo’burg

Double Negative

By Ivan Vladislavic

Elspeth Barker

Bleak Houses

Collected Stories

By Bernard MacLaverty

Malcolm Forbes

Keeping It in the Family

& Sons

By David Gilbert

Lucian Robinson

‘Butchery Unnatural’

The Dig

By Cynan Jones

John Sutherland

The Show Goes On

Jeeves and the Wedding Bells

By Sebastian Faulks

Solo

By William Boyd

Simon Baker

A Long Crawl

Barracuda

By Christos Tsiolkas

James Kidd

What on Earth Is Going on?

The Kills

By Richard House

Jonathan Barnes

Four Historical Novels

• Charles Palliser, 
• Maria McCann, 
• Lori Baker, 
• Katharine Grant

Charles Bailey

Triangle Love

Equilateral

By Ken Kalfus

Kate Saunders

The Finsbury Park Novel

The Pure Gold Baby

By Margaret Drabble

Hannah Rosefield

On Your Bike

The Flamethrowers

By Rachel Kushner

Rachel Hore

Glorious Mud

At Break of Day

By Elizabeth Speller

The Lie

By Helen Dunmore

Sarah A Smith

Fading Glory

All Change

By Elizabeth Jane Howard