Simon Heffer

In Camera

Fergus Fleming

Best Foot Forward

Flaws in the Ice: In Search of Douglas Mawson

By David Day

Seamus Perry

Eat, Drink & Be Merry

The Immortal Evening: A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb

By Stanley Plumly

Justin Beplate

‘Hammer hammer adamantine words’

The Letters of Samuel Beckett, Volume III: 1957–1965

By George Craig, Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Dan Gunn and Lois More Overbeck (edd)

Jane Ridley

Knole Me Tangere

Behind the Mask: The Life of Vita Sackville-West

By Matthew Dennison

John Sutherland

Nibs Drawn

Literary Rivals: Feuds and Antagonisms in the World of Books

By Richard Bradford

Michael Burleigh

Fifty-Year War?

The Jihadis Return: ISIS and the New Sunni Uprising

By Patrick Cockburn

Robert Mayhew

Green Shoots

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate

By Naomi Klein

Martin Vander Weyer

The Great Sell-Off

Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else

By James Meek

Boyd Hilton

In Fear of the French

In These Times: Living in Britain through Napoleon’s Wars, 1793–1815

By Jenny Uglow

Dominic Sandbrook

The Curtain Falls

1946: The Making of the Modern World

By Victor Sebestyen

John Bew

Chaos Theories

Phantom Terror: The Threat of Revolution and the Repression of Liberty 1789–1848

By Adam Zamoyski

Mary Kenny

Rising Stars

Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland 1890–1923

By R F Foster

Robert Colls

Our Island Stories

The English and Their History

By Robert Tombs

Donald Rayfield

A Georgian Caliban

Stalin, Vol 1: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928

By Stephen Kotkin

David Cesarani

The Argentine Connection

Eichmann before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer

By Bettina Stangneth (Translated by Ruth Martin)

Jonathan Keates

A Composer & a Gentleman

George Frideric Handel: A Life with Friends

By Ellen T Harris

Richard Davenport-Hines

Socialists & Socialites

The Red Earl: The Extraordinary Life of the 16th Earl of Huntingdon

By Selina Hastings

Peyton Skipwith

Lines of Beauty

George Frederick Bodley and the Later Gothic Revival in Britain and America

By Michael Hall

Philip Parker

Making Waves

The Edge of the World: How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are

By Michael Pye

John Keay

Ruling Passions

Makers of Modern Asia

By Ramachandra Guha (ed)

Alexander Maitland

Blood, Gold & Ivory

The Fortunes of Africa: A 5,000-Year History of Wealth, Greed and Endeavour

By Martin Meredith

Matthew Parker

Right Royal Revenge

Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I

By Charles Spencer

Linda Porter

In Royal Company

The King’s Irishmen: The Irish in the Exiled Court of Charles II, 1649–1660

By Mark R F Williams

Wendy Moore

Final Words

Being Mortal: Ageing, Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End

By Atul Gawande

Miranda Seymour

Tales of the Workhouse

Common People: The History of an English Family

By Alison Light

Allan Massie

Old Masters

Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome: Ancient Ideas for Modern Times

By Christopher Pelling & Maria Wyke

Daniel Hannan

No Place like Home

How to Be a Conservative

By Roger Scruton

Joanna Bourke

Surrender Junkies

Cowardice: A Brief History

By Chris Walsh

A S H Smyth

Flak Jacket to Dust Jacket

Men at War: What Fiction Tells Us about Conflict, from The Iliad to Catch-22

By Christopher Coker

My Life as a Foreign Country

By Brian Turner

Kristen Treen

Voice of the Beehive

A Buzz in the Meadow

By Dave Goulson

Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive

By Mark L Winston

Frank Brinkley

Consider the Paperclip

Adventures in Stationery: A Journey Through Your Pencil Case

By James Ward

Elaine Showalter

One from the Heartland

Some Luck

By Jane Smiley

James Purdon

Tape Measures

Amnesia

By Peter Carey

Tancred Newbury

The Gramps Shuffle

Let Me Be Frank with You

By Richard Ford

Sarah A Smith

Lives on the Edge

The American Lover: And Other Stories

By Rose Tremain

David Winters

Death Comes at the Beginning

The End of Days

By Jenny Erpenbeck (Translated by Susan Bernofsky)

Jonathan Barnes

Wheel of Fortune

Funny Girl

By Nick Hornby

Philip Womack

Travels with My Elephant

The Architect's Apprentice

By Elif Shafak

Amanda Craig

Nobble Concerns

The Murdstone Trilogy

By Mal Peet

Ruth Dudley Edwards

Getting Down to the Bare Bones

Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime

By Val McDermid