Paul Lay

A Plea for Polyglots

Jonathan Mirsky

Escape from Entebbe

Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport, the Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission in History

By Saul David

Philip Hoare

The Original Queequeg

The Captain and ‘the Cannibal’: An Epic Story of Exploration, Kidnapping, and the Broadway Stage

By James Fairhead

David Cesarani

Tales of Degradation and Despair

KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps

By Nikolaus Wachsmann

Gillian Tindall

Model Settlements

Dreamstreets: A Journey through Britain’s Village Utopias

By Jacqueline Yallop

Patrick Wilcken

Spirit of the Pampas

Living in the Sound of the Wind: A Personal Quest for W H Hudson – Naturalist & Writer from the River Plate

By Jason Wilson

Jane Ridley

Grand Dame of Downing Street

First Lady: The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill

By Sonia Purnell

Dominic Sandbrook

Juicy QC

Jeremy Hutchinson’s Case Histories

By Thomas Grant

Jonathan Beckman

Raison d’Etre

How the French Think: An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People

By Sudhir Hazareesingh

Allan Massie

Vichy Business

The History of Modern France: From the Revolution to the Present Day

By Jonathan Fenby

Alan Forrest

Napoleon Dynamo

Bonaparte: 1769–1802

By Patrice Gueniffey (Translated by Steven Rendall)

Rory Muir

Tactical Advances

Napoleon on War

By Bruno Colson (Translated by Gregory Elliott)

Tim Stanley

The Odd Couple

Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship that Shaped the Sixties

By Kevin M Schultz

Frederic Raphael

Rich Pickings

Curiosity

By Alberto Manguel

David Bodanis

Lifting Weights

On the Move: A Life

By Oliver Sacks

Samantha Ellis

Problems of Living

The Lights of Pointe-Noire

By Alain Mabanckou (Translated by Helen Stevenson)

The Utopia Experiment

By Dylan Evans

The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

By Sy Montgomery

John Gray

Politics of Pleasure

The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being

By William Davies

Andrew Crumey

Don’t Get Sucked in…

Black Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled on by Hawking Became Loved

By Marcia Bartusiak

Henry Gee

Of Cells & Chutzpah

The Vital Question: Why Is Life the Way It Is?

By Nick Lane

Jonathan Meades

Postmodernism in the USSR

Landscapes of Communism: A History through Buildings

By Owen Hatherley

Isabella Tree

Robes to Enlightenment

The Saffron Road: A Journey with Buddha’s Daughters

By Christine Toomey

Andy Martin

Fighting Talk

Thrown

By Kerry Howley

Alan Judd

Cloak & Data

The New Spymasters: Inside Espionage from the Cold War to Global Terror

By Stephen Grey

Cosmo Landesman

Love in the Time of Sexting

Modern Romance: An Investigation

By Aziz Ansari with Eric Klinenberg

Jacob Silverman

Profound Experiences of Art

Seiobo There Below

By László Krasznahorkai (Translated by Ottilie Mulzet)

James Purdon

Code Read

Book of Numbers

By Joshua Cohen

Yasmine Seale

Roots Manoeuvres

The Bamboo Stalk

By Saud Alsanousi (Translated by Jonathan Wright)

Oscar Rickett

Motown Funk

You Don't Have to Live Like This

By Benjamin Markovits

Miranda France

Range-Rovia to Ngotoland

Something to Hide

By Deborah Moggach

Lindy Burleigh

Gone Girls

The Disappeared

By Roger Scruton

Kaite Welsh

Passage to India

Invisible Threads

By Lucy Beresford

Laura Gallagher

To the Lighthouse

Signs for Lost Children

By Sarah Moss

Luke Maxted

Bricking It

A General Theory of Oblivion

By José Eduardo Agualusa (Translated by Daniel Hahn)

Jonathan Barnes

The Time-Traveller’s Life

Doctor Who: The Drosten’s Curse

By A L Kennedy

The Whispering Swarm

By Michael Moorcock