Henry Jeffreys

Blowing My Own Trumpet

Ian Sansom

Rabbit Revealed

Updike

By Adam Begley

Brian Dillon

Radical Will

Susan Sontag

By Jerome Boyd Maunsell

Patrick Marnham

Road to Nowhere

Congo: The Epic History of a People

By David Van Reybrouck (Translated by Sam Garrett)

Stringer: A Reporter’s Journey in the Congo

By Anjan Sundaram

Adam LeBor

Report from Sarajevo

The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War

By Tim Butcher

Sudhir Hazareesingh

Liberty, Equality, Enmity

The French Intifada: The Long War between France and Its Arabs

By Andrew Hussey

Daniel Beer

Surrounded Sound

Leningrad: Siege and Symphony

By Brian Moynahan

St Petersburg: Shadows of the Past

By Catriona Kelly

Norman Stone

Another Fine Mess

Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East

By Scott Anderson

Neil Gregor

To the Victor, the Spoils

The Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of Global Order, 1916–1931

By Adam Tooze

David Cesarani

Men in Black

The Gestapo: Power and Terror in the Third Reich

By Carsten Dams & Michael Stolle (Translated by Charlotte Ryland)

Kathleen Burk

Follow the Money

War and Gold: A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures and Debt

By Kwasi Kwarteng

Leanda de Lisle

Mice, Locusts & Sodomy

Defending the City of God: A Medieval Queen, the First Crusades, and the Quest for Peace in Jerusalem

By Sharan Newman

Allan Massie

Over the Wine-Dark Sea

The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters

By Adam Nicolson

Peter Jones

Omphalocracy

Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World

By Michael Scott

Sibyls: Prophecy and Power in the Ancient World

By Jorge Guillermo

Paul Cartledge

Corinth in Flames

Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece

By Robin Waterfield

Wendy Moore

Decisions & Incisions

Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

By Henry Marsh

Richard Fortey

Wipeout

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

By Elizabeth Kolbert

Jan Morris

Seeking His Quarry

Underlands: A Journey through Britain’s Lost Landscape

By Ted Nield

Alexandra Harris

It Was a Dark and Stormy Night…

Tambora: The Eruption that Changed the World

By Gillen D’Arcy Wood

Tom Fort

Amphibidextrous

Cold Blood: Adventures with Reptiles and Amphibians

By Richard Kerridge

Anthony Kenny

Sorting Right from Wrong

The Quest for a Moral Compass: A Global History of Ethics

By Kenan Malik

John Gray

Welfare State to Unfair State

Mammon’s Kingdom: An Essay on Britain, Now

By David Marquand

Caroline Moorehead

Poor Relations

Women of the World: The Rise of the Female Diplomat

By Helen McCarthy

John Sutherland

Pulp Non-Fiction

The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History of the World’s Greatest Invention

By Alexander Monro

Frances Wilson

Vice Squad

Trials of Passion: Crimes in the Name of Love and Madness

By Lisa Appignanesi

Frederic Raphael

Escape to Liberty

Emancipation: How Liberating Europe’s Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance

By Michael Goldfarb

John Gribbin

Matters of Gravity

The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity

By Pedro G Ferreira

David Bodanis

I Will Survive (Perhaps)

The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch

By Lewis Dartnell

Mira Bar-Hillel

Unsafe as Houses

All that Is Solid: The Great Housing Disaster

By Danny Dorling

Alex Preston

Pain & Abel

The Erl-King

By Michel Tournier (Translated by Barbara Bray)

Jonathan Beckman

None Shall Have Prizes

Lost for Words

By Edward St Aubyn

Malcolm Forbes

Flying the Nest

Eyrie

By Tim Winton

Jonathan Miles

Cursed Are the Meeks

The Snow Queen

By Michael Cunningham

Oliver Dennis

Work of Mourning

Falling out of Time

By David Grossman (Translated by Jessica Cohen)

Nick Hayes

Lady of the Dance

Polina

By Bastien Vivès (Translated by Polly McLean)

Toby Lichtig

Burmese Daze

Glow

By Ned Beauman

Frank Brinkley

Superdad

Tigerman

By Nick Harkaway

A S H Smyth

Iraq & Back

Redeployment

By Phil Klay

Suzi Feay

Noises Off

Fallout

By Sadie Jones

Ted Hodgkinson

What Goes on Tour

At Night We Walk in Circles

By Daniel Alarcón

Ophelia Field

Ghosh Story

The Lives of Others

By Neel Mukherjee