Paul Lay

Return of the Narrative

John Brewer

Grin City

The Smile Revolution in Eighteenth Century Paris

By Colin Jones

Leslie Mitchell

The Royal Menagerie

The Strangest Family: The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte and the Hanoverians

By Janice Hadlow

Darrin M McMahon

Faith of the Founders

Nature’s God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic

By Matthew Stewart

Richard Overy

Fragile Mutinies

Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance in the Last Year of WWII

By Randall Hansen

Piers Brendon

Beginning to Swing

Modernity Britain: A Shake of the Dice, 1959–62

By David Kynaston

Rachel Polonsky

It’s Me, Eddie

Limonov: A Novel

By Emmanuel Carrère (Translated by John Lambert)

Richard Canning

Laughter in the Dark

Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh

By John Lahr

Alexander Waugh

Ménage à Quatre

The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother and Me

By Sofka Zinovieff

Andrew Lycett

For the Sake of Dahoum

Young Lawrence: A Portrait of the Legend as a Young Man

By Anthony Sattin

Tom Holland

Ladies First

The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World

By Adrienne Mayor

Linda Porter

Searching for the Stainless Maid

Joan of Arc: A History

By Helen Castor

Caroline Moorehead

Life & Death in the Susa Valley

Partisan Diary: A Woman’s Life in the Italian Resistance

By Ada Gobetti (Translated & edited by Jomarie Alano)

Matthew Parris

Who Runs the Show?

The Establishment – And How They Get Away with It

By Owen Jones

Martin Vander Weyer

How to Spend It

The Rich: From Slaves to Super-Yachts – A 2,000-Year History

By John Kampfner

Alan Forrest

Napoleonic Coda

Napoleon: The End of Glory

By Munro Price

The Longest Afternoon: The Four Hundred Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo

By Brendan Simms

Charles Esdaile

More War than Peace

Napoleon the Great

By Andrew Roberts

Owen Matthews

The City that Never Slept

Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul

By Charles King

Sara Wheeler

The Icemen Cometh

The Crossing of Antarctica: Original Photographs from the Epic Journey that Fulfilled Shackleton’s Dream

By George Lowe & Huw Lewis-Jones

Shackleton: By Endurance We Conquer

By Michael Smith

Malise Ruthven

There Be Vipers

Mecca: The Sacred City

By Ziauddin Sardar

Jan Morris

Song of the Earth

Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place

By Philip Marsden

Diana Athill

All Things Bright & Beautiful

Claxton: Field Notes from a Small Planet

By Mark Cocker

Rupert Christiansen

The Pearl of Paris

Bizet

By Hugh Macdonald

Charles Shaar Murray

Only Connect

The History of Rock ’n’ Roll in Ten Songs

By Greil Marcus

Victoria Glendinning

Where the Hearth Is

The Making of Home

By Judith Flanders

Jonathan Mirsky

Monster with a Moustache

The Yellow Peril: Dr Fu Manchu and the Rise of Chinaphobia

By Christopher Frayling

Cosmo Landesman

The Eagle Spreads Its Wings

How the World Was Won: The Americanization of Everywhere

By Peter Conrad

Emma Christopher

Ship of Tears

The Empire of Necessity: The Untold History of a Slave Rebellion in the Age of Liberty

By Greg Grandin

Vaughan Bell

Head in the Cloud

Mind Change: How Digital Technologies are Leaving Their Mark on Our Brains

By Susan Greenfield

Brian Dillon

Movers & Makers

33 Artists in 3 Acts

By Sarah Thornton

Anne Sebba

Pablo & Paul

My Grandfather’s Gallery: A Legendary Art Dealer’s Escape from Vichy France

By Anne Sinclair (Translated by Shaun Whiteside)

Brian Rotman

X Marks the Spot

Enlightening Symbols: A Short History of Mathematical Notation and its Hidden Powers

By Joseph Mazur

Ruth Scurr

Alternate Histories

The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher

By Hilary Mantel

Thomas Marks

Getting On

Nora Webster

By Colm Tóibín

Joanna Kavenna

Balm for Gilead

Lila

By Marilynne Robinson

James Kidd

Lonely Planets

The Book of Strange New Things

By Michel Faber

David Winters

Fate Train

Zone

By Mathias Enard (Translated by Charlotte Mandell)

Michael Eaude

Beyond Hemingway

Uncertain Glory

By Joan Sales (Translated by Peter Bush)

James Chapman

Nuclear Family

The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

By Jonas Jonasson (Translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles)

Kate Saunders

Secret Lives

The Bone Clocks

By David Mitchell

Anthony Cummins

Father Afield

Us

By David Nicholls

Hannah Rosefield

Humane Conditions

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

By Karen Joy Fowler