John Sutherland

Alms for Oblivion

Patrick Wilcken

Three of a Kind

Naturalists in Paradise: Wallace, Bates and Spruce in the Amazon

By John Hemming

Edith Hall

He, the People

Pericles of Athens

By Vincent Azoulay (Translated by Janet Lloyd)

Peter Marshall

Taking the High Road

John Knox

By Jane Dawson

Gillian Tindall

Don’s Delight

The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland

By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

Kevin Jackson

Spellbound

Alfred Hitchcock

By Peter Ackroyd

Tim Stanley

Escape from Neutrality

The Sphinx: Franklin Roosevelt, the Isolationists, and the Road to World War II

By Nicholas Wapshott

David Cesarani

The Eagle & the Prophet

Islam and Nazi Germany’s War

By David Motadel

Paul Addison

Partisans in Whitehall

Ministers at War: Winston Churchill and his War Cabinet

By Jonathan Schneer

Andrew Roberts

On the Front Line

Browned Off and Bloody-Minded: The British Soldier Goes to War, 1939–1945

By Alan Allport

Bearskins, Bayonets & Body Armour: Welsh Guards 1915–2015

By Trevor Royle

Donald Rayfield

Ghosts of Anatolia

‘They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else’: A History of the Armenian Genocide

By Ronald Grigor Suny

Great Catastrophe: Armenians and Turks in the Shadow of Genocide

By Thomas de Waal

Fragments of a Lost Homeland: Remembering Armenia

By Armen T Marsoobian

Andrew J O'Shaughnessy

How the West Was Lost

An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America

By Nick Bunker

Jonathan Mirsky

He Fought the Law

The Barefoot Lawyer: The Remarkable Memoir of China’s Bravest Political Activist

By Chen Guangcheng (Translated by Danica Mills)

Christopher Hart

The Order of the Good Death

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, and Other Lessons from the Crematorium

By Caitlin Doughty

Tom Fort

Sheep Whisperer

The Shepherd’s Life: A Tale of the Lake District

By James Rebanks

Daniel Pick

Minds in Tumult

Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine

By Andrew Scull

Dominic Green

Postcards from the Harem

Benjamin-Constant: Marvels and Mirages of Orientalism

By Nathalie Bondil (ed)

Richard Davenport-Hines

Notes from a Sunset of Culture

My Dear BB: The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Kenneth Clark, 1925–1959

By Robert Cumming (ed)

Rupert Christiansen

Folk Hero

Béla Bartók

By David Cooper

Christopher Bray

Singing for Their Supper

We’ll Have Manhattan: The Early Work of Rodgers & Hart

By Dominic Symonds

Charles Darwent

‘An echo-chamber of human misery’

Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel

By Annie Cohen-Solal

Diana Athill

Fragments of a Life

Threads: The Delicate Life of John Craske

By Julia Blackburn

David Bodanis

A Few Nice Men

The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

By Walter Isaacson

Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader

By Brent Schlender & Rick Tetzeli

Patricia Fara

God in the Machine

To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science

By Steven Weinberg

Steve Fuller

Experimenting in Tongues

Scientific Babel: The Language of Science from the Fall of Latin to the Rise of English

By Michael D Gordin

Michael Burleigh

Grease My Palm

Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security

By Sarah Chayes

Andrew Crumey

Go Forth & Multiply

Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure

By Cédric Villani (Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise)

Andy Martin

Oeufheads

Genius in France: An Idea and Its Uses

By Ann Jefferson

Leo McKinstry

Kingdom in the Clouds

Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot

By Mark Vanhoenacker

Nick Holdstock

In Search of the Willow Palisade

In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China

By Michael Meyer

Frederic Raphael

A Life Well Read

The Novel: A Biography

By Michael Schmidt

Katharine Whitehorn

The Revolution’s Near

Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s

By Virginia Nicholson

K Biswas

Witchhunt.com

So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed

By Jon Ronson

Is Shame Necessary?: New Uses for an Old Tool

By Jennifer Jacquet

Miranda France

Piuran of the Year

The Discreet Hero

By Mario Vargas Llosa (Translated by Edith Grossman)

Samatha Ellis

Entertaining Eliot

Sophie and the Sibyl: A Victorian Romance

By Patricia Duncker

Lucian Robinson

Taxi, Please

A Decent Ride

By Irvine Welsh

Philip Maughan

Bite Marks

The Story of My Teeth

By Valeria Luiselli (Translated by Christina MacSweeney)

Tom Williams

This Blessed Plot

The Field of the Cloth of Gold

By Magnus Mills

Amanda Craig

Seasonal Affairs

At Hawthorn Time

By Melissa Harrison

Madeleine Minson

Wild Things

The Wolf Border

By Sarah Hall

Michael Eaude

Chaotic City

The Seven Madmen

By Roberto Arlt (Translated by Nick Caistor)

Charles Wolford

Looking for God

The Offering

By Grace McCleen

Lucy Beresford

Battlefields of Life

We That Are Left

By Clare Clark

The Iron Necklace

By Giles Waterfield

Deborah Bosley

Unfathomable Acts

This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial

By Helen Garner