Claire Harman

Margins of Terror

Martin Arnold

Coming to America

The Northmen’s Fury: A History of the Viking World

By Philip Parker

Roger Crowley

Men in Boats

The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World

By Lincoln Paine

John Gray

After the Fire

The Long Shadow: The Great War and the Twentieth Century

By David Reynolds

David Cesarani

The Drowned & the Saved

The Ambiguity of Virtue: Gertrude van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews

By Bernard Wasserstein

Countrymen: The Untold Story of How Denmark’s Jews Escaped the Nazis

By Bo Lidegaard (Translated by Robert Maass)

James Barr

Going Freestyle

America’s Great Game: The CIA’s Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East

By Hugh Wilford

Jonathan Mirsky

Crossing the Net

Ping-Pong Diplomacy: Ivor Montagu and the Astonishing Story Behind the Game That Changed the World

By Nicholas Griffin

Jane Ridley

‘The Eve of Horrible Things’

By Mark Bostridge

Michael Burleigh

In His Defence

Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War

By Robert M Gates

Christopher Coker

Out of Step with History

The Kennan Diaries

By Frank Costigliola (ed)

Christopher Woodward

Putti in His Hands

William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain

By Susan Weber (ed)

Jerry Brotton

The Painter’s Painter

Piero della Francesca: Artist & Man

By James R Banker

Brian Dillon

On the Road with HUO

Ways of Curating

By Hans Ulrich Obrist

Tim Blanning

What Now, Little Man?

Napoleon: Volume 1 – Soldier of Destiny, 1769–1805

By Michael Broers

Philip Mansel

Building a Kingdom

Faisal I of Iraq

By Ali A Allawi

Daniel Matlin

Both Sides of the Tracks

Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism

By Thomas Brothers

Duke: The Life of Duke Ellington

By Terry Teachout

Jeremy Noel-Tod

Modern Family

Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore

By Linda Leavell

Diana Athill

Rustic Fantastic

Dreams of the Good Life: The Life of Flora Thompson and the Creation of Lark Rise to Candleford

By Richard Mabey

Dominic Sandbrook

Latin Fever

Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States

By Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Frederic Raphael

In the Caudillo’s Shadow

Franco’s Crypt: Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936

By Jeremy Treglown

Adam LeBor

Hunting the Stern Group

The Reckoning: Death and Intrigue in the Promised Land

By Patrick Bishop

Roderick Matthews

Subcontinental Drifts

Midnight’s Descendants: South Asia from Partition to the Present Day

By John Keay

Robert Chesshyre

Acts of God

Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital

By Sheri Fink

Gillian Tindall

Soupçons of Bouillon

Other People’s Countries: A Journey into Memory

By Patrick McGuinness

Richard Davenport-Hines

Scenes from a Literary Life

Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris

By Edmund White

Samantha Ellis

Friend of Dorothea

The Road to Middlemarch: My Life with George Eliot

By Rebecca Mead

Eamonn Gearon

Return to Tehran

The Ministry of Guidance Invites You to Not Stay: An American Family in Iran

By Hooman Majd

Diarmaid MacCulloch

Forgive Us, Father

The Dark Box: A Secret History of Confession

By John Cornwell

Colin Tudge

Cereal Misdemeanours

Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat

By Philip Lymbery with Isabel Oakeshott

John Keane

Law of Dithering Democracy

The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present

By David Runciman

Heather Brooke

Stop the Press

The News: A User’s Manual

By Alain de Botton

Jeremy Clarke

Give It Some Lip

A Brief History of Whistling

By John Lucas & Allan Chatburn

Allan Massie

Lava You Than Me

From Pompeii: The Afterlife of a Roman Town

By Ingrid D Rowland

Andrea Wulf

Putting a Girdle Round the Earth

Round About the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit

By Joyce E Chaplin

Catherine Peters

Marriage Plot

Did She Kill Him? A Victorian Tale of Deception, Adultery and Arsenic

By Kate Colquhoun

Tim Martin

Laughter in the Dark

Bark: Stories

By Lorrie Moore

Joanna Kavenna

Reading Rune

The Blazing World

By Siri Hustvedt

Andrew Hussey

Drinking to Forget

On Leave

By Daniel Anselme (Translated by David Bellos)

James Purdon

The Sharp End of Love

All the Rage

By A L Kennedy

Malcolm Forbes

Child in Time

Boyhood Island – My Struggle: 3

By Karl Ove Knausgaard (Translated by Don Bartlett)

Elspeth Barker

Greek Mythologies

The Enlightenment of Nina Findlay

By Andrea Gillies

David Jays

A Romanian in Bohemia

The Prince's Boy

By Paul Bailey

Philip Womack

Breaking the Ice

Everland

By Rebecca Hunt

Richard Greene

Cold Comfort

Road Ends

By Mary Lawson

Suzi Feay

The Ticker Tapes

The Tell-Tale Heart

By Jill Dawson