Frances Wilson

In Praise of Mad Books

Piers Brendon

Never Was So Much Owed…

No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money

By David Lough

Tim Stanley

Natural Leader

Theodore Roosevelt in the Field

By Michael R Canfield

Lucy Moore

Martha, My Dear

George and Martha Washington: A Revolutionary Marriage

By Flora Fraser

Jonathan Keates

Escaping the Vicoli

Genoa, ‘La Superba’: The Rise and Fall of a Merchant Pirate Superpower

By Nicholas Walton

Jan Morris

Of Wind & Water

The Naked Shore: Of the North Sea

By Tom Blass

Christopher Ross

Martial Artistry

Kendo: Culture of the Sword

By Alexander C Bennett

Philip Parker

Mercian Hymns

In the Land of Giants: Journeys through the Dark Ages

By Max Adams

Anne Somerset

How to Poison a King

The Murder of King James I

By Alastair Bellany & Thomas Cogswell

Leslie Mitchell

Persian Persuasion

The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen’s London

By Nile Green

Ben Hutchinson

Loosening the Chains

Light in Germany: Scenes from an Unknown Enlightenment

By T J Reed

Simon Heffer

Annus Horribilis

1916: A Global History

By Keith Jeffery

Elegy: The First Day on the Somme

By Andrew Roberts

Oleg Gordievsky

Power Lines

Near and Distant Neighbours: A New History of Soviet Intelligence

By Jonathan Haslam

John Gray

Identity Checks

Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind

By George Makari

Darrin M McMahon

Esprit de Corpse

The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains

By Thomas W Laqueur

Charles Fernyhough

Lest We Remember

Forgetting: Myths, Perils and Compensations

By Douwe Draaisma (Translated by Liz Waters)

Anil Ananthaswamy

Inner Worlds

NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter about People Who Think Differently

By Steve Silberman

In a Different Key: The Story of Autism

By John Donvan & Caren Zucker

Robert Crawford

Poems, Possum & Pram

The Poems of T S Eliot: Volume I, Collected and Uncollected Poems

By Christopher Ricks & Jim McCue (edd)

The Poems of T S Eliot: Volume II, Practical Cats and Further Verses

By Christopher Ricks & Jim McCue (edd)

John Keay

Hermit of the Himalayas

The Prisoner of Kathmandu: Brian Hodgson in Nepal 1820–43

By Charles Allen

Frederic Raphael

Citizen Vain

Orson Welles: One Man Band

By Simon Callow

Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane

By Patrick McGilligan

Jonathan Mirsky

Dig for Victory

The Cooler King: The True Story of William Ash – Spitfire Pilot, POW and WWII’s Greatest Escaper

By Patrick Bishop

David Ekserdjian

By Any Other Name

Picture Titles: How and Why Western Paintings Acquired Their Names

By Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Will Wiles

Look on My Works, Ye Mighty

Fallen Glory: The Lives and Deaths of Twenty Lost Buildings from the Tower of Babel to the Twin Towers

By James Crawford

Jay Parini

Chasing the Rabbit

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3

By Benjamin Griffin & Harriet Elinor Smith (edd)

Alan Judd

The Guy Who Came in from the Cold

John le Carré: The Biography

By Adam Sisman

Andrew Graham-Yooll

Versions of Borges

Conversations: Volume 2

By Jorge Luis Borges & Osvaldo Ferrari (Translated by Tom Boll)

Allan Massie

This Earth, This Realm, This Poland

Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys around Shakespeare’s Globe

By Andrew Dickson

Peter Washington

Critical Thinking

The Prose Factory: Literary Life in England Since 1918

By D J Taylor

John Sutherland

Fu Man Who?

Lord of Strange Deaths: The Fiendish World of Sax Rohmer

By Phil Baker and Antony Clayton (edd)

Clive James

Modern Dance Certificate

James Hamilton-Paterson

What Lies Beneath

A Monstrous Commotion: The Mysteries of Loch Ness

By Gareth Williams

Patrick Scrivenor

Long Live the King?

Lions in the Balance: Man-Eaters, Manes, and Men with Guns

By Craig Packer

Charles Elliot

Ways of Seeding

The Cabaret of Plants: Botany and the Imagination

By Richard Mabey

Tom Fort

The Axeman Cometh

Norwegian Wood: Chopping, Stacking, and Drying Wood the Scandinavian Way

By Lars Mytting

Henrietta Garnett

Living in the Shade of Suicide

A Woman on the Edge of Time: A Son’s Search for His Mother

By Jeremy Gavron

Richard Davenport-Hines

European Son

Fault Lines

By David Pryce-Jones

Alexander Waugh

Caught in the Spotlight

Playing Scared: My Journey Through Stage Fright

By Sara Solovitch

Kevin Jackson

Bewitched

The Book of Magic: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment

By Brian Copenhaver (ed) Translated by Brian Copenhaver

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

Journey to the End of the Day

The Last of the Light: About Twilight

By Peter Davidson

Eric Kaufmann

Dividing Lines

White Backlash: Immigration, Race, and American Politics

By Marisa Abrajano & Zoltan L Hajnal

Andrew Crumey

In the Shadow of Mercury

The Hunt for Vulcan: How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet and Deciphered the Universe

By Thomas Levenson

Wendy Moore

Drop Dead Gorgeous

Fashion Victims: The Dangers of Dress Past and Present

By Alison Matthews David

Jonathan Rée

Schools of Thought

The Meaning of Science

By Tim Lewens

Jeremy Lewis

Plumped Pages

The New Yorker Book of the 50s: Story of a Decade

By Henry Finder (ed)

James Womack

Georgian Flashman

Kvachi

By Mikheil Javakhishvili (Translated by Donald Rayfield)

David Collard

Keeping Calm & Carrying On

Darkness Falls from the Air

By Nigel Balchin

Kevin Power

Winging It

Gull

By Glenn Patterson

Jude Cook

A Tale of Two Sams

The Age of Reinvention

By Karine Tuil (Translated by Sam Taylor)

Adrian Turpin

Manne about Town

The Reflection

By Hugo Wilcken

James Kidd

Back on Track

A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me

By David Gates

Pacific

By Tom Drury

Malcolm Forbes

On Repulse Bay

The Expatriates

By Janice Y K Lee

Oscar Rickett

Manhattan Murder Mystery

City on Fire

By Garth Risk Hallberg

Stephen Bates

And the Killer is…

They All Love Jack: Busting the Ripper

By Bruce Robinson