Catherine Brown

Reader, I Married Him

Raymond Seitz

Escalating Concerns

Kissinger: 1923–1968 – The Idealist

By Niall Ferguson

Seamus Deane

Civilising Influence

Empire & Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke

By Richard Bourke

Patrick Marnham

Acting Heroically

Lucie Aubrac: The French Resistance Heroine who Defied the Gestapo

By Siân Rees

William Doino

The Good Shepherd

Francis: Pope of Good Promise

By Jimmy Burns

Wendy Moore

Hostess with the Mostess

Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of a Whore

By Julie Peakman

Leanda de Lisle

Married to the Mob

The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox

By Alison Weir

Christopher Bray

‘Sober people, they’re not for me’

Peter O’Toole: The Definitive Biography

By Robert Sellers

R I Moore

Doubting Thomas

The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe

By E M Rose

Peter Sarris

Beware of Latins Chasing Debts

The Lost World of Byzantium

By Jonathan Harris

Leo McKinstry

Challenging the Reich

The War in the West: Volume I – Germany Ascendant 1939–1941

By James Holland

Christopher Andrew

Intelligence Tests

The End of the Cold War 1985–1991

By Robert Service

Nikolai Tolstoy

Eastern Approaches

Beware the Rugged Russian Bear: British Adventurers Exposing the Bolsheviks

By John Ure

Richard Overy

Breaches of Civilisation

The Age of Catastrophe: A History of the West, 1914–1945

By Heinrich August Winkler (Translated by Stewart Spencer)

Naomi Wood

Falling for Pfife

Hemingway in Love: His Own Story

By A E Hotchner

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 3 – 1926–1929

By Rena Sanderson, Sandra Spanier & Robert W Trogdon (edd)

Katherine Duncan-Jones

Of Plagues & Players

1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of 'Lear'

By James Shapiro

Charles Elliott

Prime Mover

The Millionaire and the Bard: Henry Folger’s Obsessive Hunt for Shakespeare’s First Folio

By Andrea Mays

Victoria Glendinning

Fifty Shades of White

The White Road: A Pilgrimage of Sorts

By Edmund de Waal

James Hall

Striking Poses

The Face of Britain: The Nation through Its Portraits

By Simon Schama

Charles Saumarez Smith

Art for Everyone

The People’s Galleries: Art Museums & Exhibitions in Britain, 1800–1914

By Giles Waterfield

Thomas Marks

Painting with Words

Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art

By Julian Barnes

Robert Mayhew

Engineering the Skies

The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World

By Oliver Morton

Sara Wheeler

Water, Water, Everywhere

Pacific: The Ocean of the Future

By Simon Winchester

Donald Rayfield

The Cook’s Grandson

The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin

By Steven Lee Myers

The Invention of Russia: The Journey from Gorbachev’s Freedom to Putin’s War

By Arkady Ostrovsky

Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped

By Garry Kasparov

Michael Burleigh

Tales from Tahrir

Circling the Square: Stories from the Egyptian Revolution

By Wendell Steavenson

Anne Sebba

Return to Glienicke

The House by the Lake: A Story of Germany

By Thomas Harding

Patrick Wilcken

Rogue of Rocinha

Nemesis: One Man and the Battle for Rio

By Misha Glenny

Jonathan Mirsky

Dining at Lizard’s Thicket

Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads

By Paul Theroux

Joe Moran

Culture Clubs

The Great British Dream Factory: The Strange History of Our National Imagination

By Dominic Sandbrook

Adrian Weale

Fighting Trauma

Aftershock: The Untold Story of Surviving Peace

By Matthew Green

Joan Smith

Dangerous Minds

The Strange Case of Thomas Quick: The Swedish Serial Killer and the Psychoanalyst Who Created Him

By Dan Josefsson (Translated by Anna Paterson)

Frances Wilson

Oh What a Feeling

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

By Tiffany Watt Smith

Patricia Fara

What Tycho Brahe Saw

The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution

By David Wootton

David Bodanis

Social Scientist

Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science

By Richard Dawkins

Andy Martin

Liquid Cathedrals

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

By William Finnegan

Pete Clark

By Hook or by Crook

The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory

By John Seabrook

Joanna Kavenna

Life Studies

A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

By Lucia Berlin (Edited by Stephen Emerson)

Claire Lowdon

‘A Meaningful Life’

The Heart Goes Last

By Margaret Atwood

Tom Williams

All You Need Is an Island

Beatlebone

By Kevin Barry

Jonathan Barnes

Soul Tenancies

Slade House

By David Mitchell

Matthew Adams

Grand Designs

High Dive

By Jonathan Lee

Lucy Daniel

Second Chances

The Gap of Time: The Winter’s Tale Retold

By Jeanette Winterson

Laura Gallagher

Trouble in Zimbabwe

The Book of Memory

By Petina Gappah

The Death of Rex Nhongo

By C B George

Ophelia Field

Stages of Life

The Past

By Tessa Hadley