Patricia Duncker

Sleeping Beauties

John Gray

Last of the Idealists

Michael Oakeshott: Notebooks, 1922–86

By Luke O’Sullivan (ed)

Jane Ridley

Our Woman in Number 10

Margot Asquith’s Great War Diary 1914–1916: The View from Downing Street

By Michael Brock & Eleanor Brock (edd)

Igor Toronyi-Lalic

Deconstructing Harry

Harrison Birtwistle: Wild Tracks

By Fiona Maddocks (a conversation diary)

Karen Armstrong

Josaphat Revealed

In Search of the Christian Buddha: How an Asian Sage Became a Medieval Saint

By Donald S Lopez Jr & Peggy McCracken

Darrin M McMahon

A Godless Bunch

Atheists: The Origin of the Species

By Nick Spencer

Donald Rayfield

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union

By Serhii Plokhy

Adam LeBor

1967 & All That

Cursed Victory: A History of Israel and the Occupied Territories

By Ahron Bregman

Jonathan Mirsky

Hole in Yuan

The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream

By Dan Washburn

Blair Worden

Singing in the Reign

Queen Anne: Patroness of Arts

By James Anderson Winn

Robert Irwin

View from the Minaret

The Race for Paradise: An Islamic History of the Crusades

By Paul M Cobb

Peter Marshall

Winds of Change

Christendom Destroyed: Europe 1517–1648

By Mark Greengrass

John Edwards

In Spanish Steps

World Without End: The Global Empire of Philip II

By Hugh Thomas

Christopher Andrew

Dropped in It

Target: Italy – The Secret War against Mussolini, 1940–1943

By Roderick Bailey

Nigel Jones

Beyond the Trenches

• Margaret MacMillan, 
• Gordon Martel, 
• Douglas Newton, 
• Geoffrey Wawro, 
• Taylor Downing, 
• William Philpott, 
• Jerry White

Jurek Martin

Leading Lady

Hard Choices

By Hillary Rodham Clinton

Jay Parini

‘Taller Than the Trees’

The Adventures of Henry Thoreau: A Young Man’s Unlikely Path to Walden Pond

By Michael Sims

Lucy Moore

Alone in New York

Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Loss of One of the World’s Greatest Fortunes

By Bill Dedman & Paul Clark Newell Jr

Ian Sansom

Thanks for the Memories

Divided Lives: Dreams of a Mother and Daughter

By Lyndall Gordon

I Put a Spell on You

By John Burnside

Little Failure: A Memoir

By Gary Shteyngart

Matthew Parker

Partisan Account

Warsaw Boy: A Memoir of a Wartime Childhood

By Andrew Borowiec

Philip Hoare

What Have We Done?

Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made

By Gaia Vince

Andrew Brown

Collecting Insects in Sweden

The Fly Trap

By Fredrik Sjöberg (Translated by Thomas Teal)

Jonathan Meades

Curator’s Egg

B is for Bauhaus: An A–Z of the Modern World

By Deyan Sudjic

Giles Waterfield

How Do I Look?

The Self-Portrait: A Cultural History

By James Hall

Jeremy Lewis

Soviet Block

The Lawn Road Flats: Spies, Writers and Artists

By David Burke

Leslie Mitchell

Many Rights Make a Wrong

The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: From the Sublime and Beautiful to American Independence

By David Bromwich

Jonathan Rose

Diffusers of Useful Knowledge

Visions of Science: Books and Readers at the Dawn of the Victorian Age

By James A Secord

Helen Tyson

It’s All Me, Me, Me

The Americanization of Narcissism

By Elizabeth Lunbeck

Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love

By Simon Blackburn

Jonathan Rée

Dividing Lines

Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World

By Amir Alexander

Michael Burleigh

Slick Business

The Secret World of Oil

By Ken Silverstein

Justin Beplate

Walking Cure

A Sense of Direction: Pilgrimage for the Restless and the Hopeful

By Gideon Lewis-Kraus

Peter Scupham

Dancing in the Dark

I Knew the Bride

By Hugo Williams

All One Breath

By John Burnside

Orphan Hours

By Stanley Plumly

D J Taylor

Cult Fiction

The Emperor Waltz

By Philip Hensher

Elspeth Barker

What the Parrot Saw

The Stories

By Jane Gardam

Miranda France

Big Trouble in Little Gerona

Outlaws

By Javier Cercas (Translated by Anne McLean)

A S H Smyth

End of the Line

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

By Richard Flanagan

Suzi Feay

State of the Reunion

Upstairs at the Party

By Linda Grant

Thomas Marks

Murder, He Curated

Painting Death

By Tim Parks

Martin Vander Weyer

Vichy Business

Cold Winter in Bordeaux

By Allan Massie

Jake Kerridge

Florence Calling

In Love and War

By Alex Preston

Anthony Cummins

Ile de Rey

Vulgar Things

By Lee Rourke