Charles Allen

Rock & Rule

Ashoka in Ancient India

By Nayanjot Lahiri

David Gelber

When Lisbon Ruled the Waves

Conquerors: How Portugal Seized the Indian Ocean and Forged the First Global Empire

By Roger Crowley

Robert Irwin

Onward Christian Administrators

How to Plan a Crusade: Reason and Religious War in the Middle Ages

By Christopher Tyerman

Saul David

Parliamentary Battles

Wellington: Waterloo and the Fortunes of Peace 1814–1852

By Rory Muir

Robert Tombs

Occupation Hazards

Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance

By Robert Gildea

Richard Overy

Blood & Soil

Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning

By Timothy Snyder

Alexander Watson

Self-Inflicted Wounds

To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914–1949

By Ian Kershaw

Ariane Bankes

Otter Spotter

Island of Dreams: A Personal History of a Remarkable Place

By Dan Boothby

Andrew Lycett

Day of the Journalist

The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue

By Frederick Forsyth

Richard Canning

Growing up in Gray’s Inn

Kid Gloves: A Voyage Round My Father

By Adam Mars-Jones

Gulliver Ralston

On the Green Hill

My Life with Wagner

By Christian Thielemann (Translated by Anthea Bell)

Alwyn Turner

Pop Will Eat Itself

Electric Shock: From the Gramophone to the iPhone – 125 Years of Pop Music

By Peter Doggett

Tom Shippey

Under Wychwood

Beda: A Journey Through the Seven Kingdoms in the Age of Bede

By Henrietta Leyser

Robert Colls

Crying Shame

Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears

By Thomas Dixon

Dennis Sewell

Little by Little

The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge

By Matt Ridley

Henry Gee

1953 and All That

Life’s Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code

By Matthew Cobb

Richard Vinen

Maggie Rising

Promised You a Miracle: UK80–82

By Andy Beckett

Thatcher’s Trial: Six Months that Defined a Leader

By Kwasi Kwarteng

Michael Burleigh

Are We Intruding?

Mission Accomplished? The Crisis of International Intervention

By Simon Jenkins

Martin Vander Weyer

Cheques & Balances

Other People’s Money: Masters of the Universe or Servants of the People?

By John Kay

Shane Harris

Is It Safe to Go Online?

Cyberphobia: Identity, Trust, Security and the Internet

By Edward Lucas

Philip Womack

Road to No One

Harry Mount’s Odyssey: Ancient Greece in the Footsteps of Odysseus

By Harry Mount

Alex Hutchinson

Fast Times at Foster High

Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon

By Ed Caesar

The Bolt Supremacy: Inside Jamaica’s Sprint Factory

By Richard Moore

Andreas Campomar

FIFA Fo Fum

The Ugly Game: The Qatari Plot to Buy the World Cup

By Heidi Blake & Jonathan Calvert

Matchdays: The Hidden Story of the Bundesliga

By Ronald Reng (Translated by James Hawes)

Balotelli: The Remarkable Story behind the Sensational Headlines

By Luca Caioli (Translated by Laura Bennett)

Elspeth Barker

Sweet Deception

Love and Lies: And Why You Can’t Have One Without the Other

By Clancy Martin

Christopher Silvester

Waspish Wit

‘It’s the Pictures that Got Small’: Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood’s Golden Age

By Anthony Slide (ed)

Henri Astier

The Veil Descends

Submission

By Michel Houellebecq (Translated by Lorin Stein)

Mark Lawson

Battle of Minds

Where My Heart Used to Beat

By Sebastian Faulks

Keith Miller

Quick Fingers

The Blue Guitar

By John Banville

Pamela Norris

Camera Obscura

Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay

By William Boyd

Francesca Wade

Jinn & Tonic

Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

By Salman Rushdie

Catherine Taylor

Two Women of Naples

The Story of the Lost Child

By Elena Ferrante (Translated by Ann Goldstein)

Susanna Hislop

Remains of the Day

Our Souls at Night

By Kent Haruf