Richard Overy

His Master’s Voice

Goebbels: A Biography

By Peter Longerich (Translated by Alan Bance, Jeremy Noakes & Lesley Sharpe)

Jonathan Keates

Treason at the Tower

The Audacious Crimes of Colonel Blood: The Spy Who Stole the Crown Jewels & Became the King’s Secret Agent

By Robert Hutchinson

Freya Johnston

The Son He Never Had

The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir

By Michael Bundock

Jeremy Noel-Tod

For Love & Money

The Complete Works of W H Auden: Prose – Volume V, 1963–1968

By Edward Mendelson (ed)

The Complete Works of W H Auden: Prose – Volume VI, 1969–1973

By Edward Mendelson (ed)

Seamus Perry

Read or Dead

Those Who Write for Immortality: Romantic Reputations and the Dream of Lasting Fame

By H J Jackson

Mark Bostridge

Jane’s Hair

The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects

By Deborah Lutz

Robert Service

Battle for Europe’s Breadbasket

Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia

By Dominic Lieven

Gavin Jacobson

Talking Shop

The World of the Salons: Sociability and Worldliness in Eighteenth-Century Paris

By Antoine Lilti (Translated by Lydia G Cochrane)

Adam Zamoyski

Five Shades of Red

For God and Kaiser: The Imperial Austrian Army from 1619 to 1918

By Richard Bassett

Paul Bew

Independence Days

A Nation and Not a Rabble: The Irish Revolution 1913–1923

By Diarmaid Ferriter

Bitter Freedom: Ireland in a Revolutionary World 1918–1923

By Maurice Walsh

Jon Day

The Violent Moment

The Great Explosion: Gunpowder, the Great War, and a Disaster on the Kent Marshes

By Brian Dillon

Geoff Nicholson

Making Tracks

London Overground: A Day’s Walk around the Ginger Line

By Iain Sinclair

Walking Away: Further Travels with a Troubadour on the South West Coast Path

By Simon Armitage

Charles Elliott

Sunken Swallows

A Natural History of English Gardening 1650–1800

By Mark Laird

Jonathan Mirsky

Wild West

China’s Forgotten People: Xinjiang, Terror and the Chinese State

By Nick Holdstock

Stephen Cave

No Choice in the Matter

The Free Will Delusion: How We Settled for the Illusion of Morality

By James B Miles

Freedom Regained: The Possibility of Free Will

By Julian Baggini

Josh Cohen

Unreliable Narrators

The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy

By J M Coetzee & Arabella Kurtz

Peyton Skipwith

Dirt & Glory

The Street of Wonderful Possibilities: Whistler, Wilde & Sargent in Tite Street

By Devon Cox

Miri Rubin

Conversations with the Dead

The Ransom of the Soul: Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity

By Peter Brown

Joanna Kavenna

Germs of Thought

On Immunity: An Inoculation

By Eula Biss

Daniel Matlin

Lady Sings the Blues

Billie Holiday: The Musician & the Myth

By John Szwed

Scott Timberg

Dire Straits

How Music Got Free: What Happens When an Entire Generation Commits the Same Crime?

By Stephen Witt

Gordon Marsden

Give Us a Wave

Channel Shore: From the White Cliffs to Land’s End

By Tom Fort

Hannah Dawson

Like a Camel’s Fart

The Hidden Pleasures of Life: A New Way of Remembering the Past and Imagining the Future

By Theodore Zeldin

W N Herbert

On the Cusp

Deep Lane

By Mark Doty

Disinformation

By Frances Leviston

The Curiosities

By Christopher Reid

Roger Scruton

Un Ange Passe

The Festival of Insignificance

By Milan Kundera (Translated by Linda Asher)

Francesca Wade

Tails of the Unexpected

The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales

By Franz Xaver von Schönwerth (Edited by Maria Tatar & Erika Eichenseer)

Sam Kitchener

Four debuts

Left of the Bang

By Claire Lowdon

The Wallcreeper & Mislaid

By Nell Zink

The Fat of Fed Beasts

By Guy Ware

Adrian Turpin

Love among the Drones

I Saw a Man

By Owen Sheers

Philip Maughan

Rich Man, Poor Man

The Year of the Runaways

By Sunjeev Sahota

Lucy Daniel

Life after Life after Life

A God in Ruins

By Kate Atkinson

Michael Eaude

Hunger Artists

The Boy Who Stole Attila's Horse

By Iván Repila (Translated by Sophie Hughes)

Out in the Open

By Jesús Carrasco (Translated by Margaret Jull Costa)

Paul Bailey

Postwar Blues

Tightrope

By Simon Mawer

Charles Wolford

Sten’s Guns

The Harder They Come

By T C Boyle

Imogen Russell Williams

Seeking Selenus

The King's Shadow

By Philip Womack

Jonathan Barnes

Dr Finlay’s Casebook

Devotion

By Ros Barber