Elif Shafak

In the Turkish Tunnel

Donald Sassoon

Only Half Marx

Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life

By Stephen Parker

Anne Somerset

Out, Damned Nightspot

Shakespeare and the Countess: The Battle that Gave Birth to the Globe

By Chris Laoutaris

Douglas Smith

The 23 Steps

Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses

By Helen Rappaport

Nicholas Rankin

Pujoling a Fast One

The Spy with 29 Names: The Story of the Second World War’s Most Audacious Double Agent

By Jason Webster

Amanda Craig

No Fairy-Tale Ending

Hans Christian Andersen: European Witness

By Paul Binding

Jane Ridley

The Marriage Plot

The Disinherited: A Story of Love, Family and Betrayal

By Robert Sackville-West

Nicholas Vincent

Up, Up and Away

Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things? Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation

By Robert Bartlett

John Cooper

Vaux A-Mercy

God’s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England

By Jessie Childs

Darrin M McMahon

Fighting Philosophers

Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre

By Jonathan Israel

Martin Evans

Changing of the Guard

Fight or Flight: Britain, France, and their Roads from Empire

By Martin Thomas

Miranda Seymour

Flowers in the Smog

The Gardens of the British Working Class

By Margaret Willes

Jonathan Keates

Citron Impressé

The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and Its Citrus Fruit

By Helena Attlee

Simon Heffer

More Claret than Red

Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life

By John Campbell

Piers Brendon

Was His Pen Mightier Than His Sword?

The Literary Churchill: Author, Reader, Actor

By Jonathan Rose

Richard Overy

Strength by Numbers

The Myth of the Strong Leader: Political Leadership in the Modern Age

By Archie Brown

Frank McLynn

Lights, Camera, Action

Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War

By Mark Harris

Rupert Christiansen

Ladies and the Tramp

Charlie Chaplin

By Peter Ackroyd

Eric Kaufmann

What’s in a Name?

The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility

By Gregory Clark

Robert Colls

Toil & Trouble

The Valley: A Hundred Years in the Life of a Family

By Richard Benson

The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class, 1910–2010

By Selina Todd

Andy McSmith

Politics for Sale

A Quiet Word: Lobbying, Crony Capitalism and Broken Politics in Britain

By Tamasin Cave & Andy Rowell

Democracy Ltd: How Money and Donations Corrupted British Politics

By Bobby Friedman

Seamus Perry

Stylish Mind

Essays and Reviews 1959–2002

By Bernard Williams

Robert Gordon

Hell of a Poem

Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity

By Prue Shaw

David Profumo

Oral Fixations

Odd Job Man: Some Confessions of a Slang Lexicographer

By Jonathon Green

Christopher Woodward

Rubble with a Cause

Maya Jaggi

Letter from Seoul

Jonathan Mirsky

One Kim after Another

North Korea Undercover: Inside the World’s Most Secret State

By John Sweeney

Colin Tudge

Hotting Up

A Rough Ride to the Future: The Next Evolution of Gaia

By James Lovelock

Adrian Tinniswood

Read All About It

The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself

By Andrew Pettegree

Jeremy Lewis

Reviewing the Situation

The Unexpected Professor: An Oxford Life in Books

By John Carey

Seamus Deane

Belacqua Returns

Echo’s Bones

By Samuel Beckett

Lindsay Duguid

Detachment Theory

Can't and Won't

By Lydia Davis

Adrian Turpin

Smelling a Baccarat

The Ballad of a Small Player

By Lawrence Osborne

Neel Mukherjee

Acts of Forgetting

Diary of the Fall

By Michel Laub (Translated by Margaret Jull Costa)

Simon Baker

Galaxy Girl

The Temporary Gentleman

By Sebastian Barry

Sarah A Smith

Glasgow Rangers

The Walk Home

By Rachel Seiffert

John Dugdale

Music in the Blood

Orfeo

By Richard Powers

Ophelia Field

After Tiananmen

Kinder Than Solitude

By Yiyun Li

Fleur Macdonald

Losing It

The Virgins

By Pamela Erens

Laura Gallagher

When She Croaked

Frog Music

By Emma Donoghue

Jonathan Barnes

Ageing Gracelessly

Viper Wine

By Hermione Eyre